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College football betting trends: Edges for playoff, bowl games

CBS Sportsline handicapper Bruce Marshall provides college football notes and trends for College Football Playoff and bowl games for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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UNLV upsets No. 16 Louisville 76-71

LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV nearly let a big lead fritter away against Louisville. Oscar Bellfield scored 17 points, Tre’Von Willis added 16 and the Runnin’ Rebels held on for a 76-71 win over the No. 16 Cardinals today, a game the Mountain West upstarts led by 19 points in the second half.

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Bellfield, Rebels hope for repeat against Louisville

After an aggressive dribble drive, UNLV guard Oscar Bellfield floated down the right side of the lane and banked in a shot that was the highlight of his freshman year.

Locos face familiar hurdle

In between coach Jim Fassel’s intermittent profanity-laced tirades, there was whooping and hollering coming from the players on the field Wednesday morning at Sam Boyd Stadium.

Illini hope to replicate formula

Illinois played in Las Vegas as the nation’s No. 1 team on New Year’s Eve 2004. It was one step on a journey that ended in the NCAA championship game.

Southern Cal’s meager purses can’t compete

The Daily Racing Form last month ran a small news item about top trainer Doug O’Neill sending 11 horses to Philadelphia Park to race. Jockey Saul Arias was moving his tack there to ride first call for O’Neill.

Longtime Rebels aides on job market

Football coaches are itinerant, moving from job to job, with few becoming attached to one city for the long term.

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