Bad Betting Advice, Week 3

Mike Carter-USA TODAY SportsLast week I may have given out some advice in this space on which teams may or may not cover the spread. As it turns out, I just went 0.500. If I was a baseball hitter, that would have been a fantastic average, and I am just going to hold onto that thought for now. Since I don’t know when to quit, how some more bad betting advice for Week 3?

Starting off with MSU, the Spartans opened as an 11-point favorite, based on the source that I use. That was pretty much dead-on the line of 10.9 that my spreadsheet predicted. That translates to a 78% chance that MSU survives this week’s attempted Exorcism of the Sun Devils without a scratch. Since it opened, the spread now…