another article in Tulsa World today... will post contents sometime after the Tulsa Univ vs. OU tonight at Skelly Stadium... I'm taking the Cows to beat the 72 point spread... umm... I mean the Golden Hurricane to beat the 72 point spread (yeah, I think that's tonight's points...) anyway, hoping this article has info on Thursday's meetings with Hunt... LATER.
72 point spread? That's the largest spread I've ever seen, except for Sigi's private postgame buffet. Sachin
NACIONAL...it's how people bet on football. If the spread is 72 points, then in order for someone betting on Oklahoma to win the bet, OK has to win by more than 72 points. For someone betting on Tulsa to win the bet, Tulsa has to lose by less than 72 points. Or win the game. It's about betting. It's not really a measured guess as to what the final margin of the game will be. The purpose of the point spread is to get half the people on each side of the bet. Then the bookie can't lose; he collects the vig and goes home happy.
Las Vegas oddsmakers have "the spread" which is traditionally published in newspapers to say which team is favored and by how many points... I lied. The actual point spread was 36 1/2... meaning if Okla. Univ. (a pre-season #1 college football team in some magazines) beats Univ of Tulsa (a team that hasn't had a winning record in over a decade) by 37 points they have "beaten the spread." The game was 3-0 at halftime but ended, strangely enough, at 37-0... anybody betting $$$ on Okla to "beat the spread" won some $$$... I got back late and slept late so the I'll start another thread on Friday's Tulsa World article... I looked in the sports section first but it turned out to be FRONT PAGE NEWS... That'll work.