Posted on 01/01/2026 7:08:58 AM PST by C19fan
More than 20 years after it was on the other end of one of the biggest upsets in BCS history, Miami pulled off the biggest upset of the College Football Playoff era on New Year’s Eve.
The No. 10 Hurricanes beat No. 2 Ohio State 24-14 in the Cotton Bowl to advance to the semifinal round of the playoff. Miami was a 9.5-point underdog at kickoff. Before Wednesday night, the biggest upset in playoff history — in either the four-team playoff or the current 12-team format — was Ohio State’s win over Alabama as a 7.5-point underdog on Jan. 1, 2015.
After Ohio State’s offense showed signs of life in the second half, Miami put the Buckeyes away much like they did Texas A&M — with a power run game. The Hurricanes gave the ball to Mark Fletcher and CharMar Brown five times over the course of six plays before a wide receiver screen to CJ Daniels got Miami inside the Ohio State 10-yard line with less than two minutes to go.
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“They’re always going to get bets close enough to balanced to be OK. “
Not always. See my previous posts.
I saw your previous posts. There’s nothing in them, other than stomping your feet and insisting reality isn’t reality.
Meanwhile, in reality, the guys who control ALL THE MATH ALWAYS WIN.
“which puts the house ahead 990,000.”
LOL! For 3 days you have been insisting the house ALWAYS balance the bets!
That is balanced. Bother to read the whole thing. Bother to read at all.
The consensus in sports betting has long revolved around the phrase, “the house always wins.” However, there have been numerous occasions where underdogs cause massive upsets and sportsbooks publicly claim expensive losses.
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/25725300251387173
I already told you about that. Whenever somebody says the house doesn’t always win you can bet they work for the house, and they’re just trying to get you to bet more. Meanwhile their “publicly claimed expensive losses” ignore all the other bets on the game where they came out ahead and in the end won the day. When the house tells you they don’t always win, that’s them winning some more.
AI Overview
In September 2023, FanDuel experienced an estimated $20 million loss due to a popular, house-made parlay promotion where all 12 afternoon NFL teams in the Week 2 Sunday slate successfully kicked at least one field goal. The bet was a rare occurrence, with one report noting it had only hit once in the previous 54 years.
Great, a one shot deal involving a high payout parlay that only hit once every 50 years hit. And they still made plenty of money on other bets that didn’t involve the parlay, and still turned a profit. Honestly that proves my point. Those once in a lifetime parlays make for the occasional “house doesn’t win” headline, but how much money did they make on similar parlays leading up to that, and the next week once everybody saw that headline and bunch of people who would normally not touch those parlays bet on them?
The house ALWAYS wins. If something goofy happens and they don’t win on THAT bet THAT week, they still win on everything else and are fine.
“The house ALWAYS wins.”
Earlier in your post you admitted they don’t ALWAYS win.
No, earlier in my posts I pointed out that even when they say they don’t win they still ALWAYS WIN. Because they ALWAYS WIN. You really need to learn to read the WHOLE DAMNED THING.
“Because they ALWAYS WIN.”
Except when they lose as you noted in an earlier post.
But they still win. Which I noted multiple times. And one of these days you might actually pay attention. But clearly not today. Today you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing. You’re wrong. You know you’re wrong. But you’ll never admit it. Buh bye
“But they still win.”
Yes. Over the long haul. They take the spread.
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