Using the alias Booty Blockers, Isaac Meier went 57-25-3 ATS (69.5 percent) to top a field of 1,875 in the Circa Sports Million Pro Football Contest.
Betting
It Ain’t Breezy finished 58-25-2 ATS (69.9 percent) to top a record field of 3,328 entries who paid $1,500 apiece and made five weekly picks ATS.
The victory by Miami (5-11) cost an MGM Resorts bettor two $100,000 five-team money line parlays that would’ve paid a total of $200,000. The gambler won the other four legs.
Final scores, opening and closing lines, totals and point-spread highlights for every NFL Sunday game.
Handicapper Ted Sevransky breaks down Week 17 of the NFL season.
Tuco (52-25-3, 53½ points) trails leader It Ain’t Breezy (55-23-2, 56) by 2½ points entering the final week of the Westgate SuperContest.
Jay Kornegay (46-32-2 ATS, 47 points) leads Hank Goldberg (45-32-3) by a half point and Doug Fitz (45-33-2) by a point with one week left in the contest.
Illinois, which beat Wisconsin and Michigan State, is looking for its first bowl win since 2011, so I think we’ll see their best effort.
The 49ers are 6-1 straight up and ATS on the road this season. Seattle is 2-5 ATS at home.
Sharp bettors have backed Clemson, a 2-point favorite over Ohio State after the line opened at pick, and LSU, a 13½-point favorite over Oklahoma after the line opened at 10.
Enter Texans coach Bill O’Brien. His team is currently the No. 4 seed, and its only chance of moving up is for the Chargers to upset the Chiefs.
For the sheer amount of pain and suffering it caused in Las Vegas, the Knights’ bitter defeat to the Sharks is No. 1 on our list of the top seven betting bad beats of 2019.
Clemson is 9-1 against the spread in its last 10 bowl/playoff games, including two wins and covers against Ohio State.
Despite the decision to postpone the traditional opening day from Thursday to Saturday over a rainy forecast, the track will still race when the weather isn’t fair.
The Saints, Packers and Rams each improved to 10-5 against the spread this season, best among NFL teams.