Oregon State Team Total Bet and Heisman Receiver Debate

One team who's not ranked that made your card, and they're in the receiving votes category, so they would be technically right now 26th, 7th, 8th, 29th in the country. And look, they probably don't deserve to be ranked. They lost their first two games of the year in fine fashion, but they're the better teams that they faced. But they're obviously an exciting team, and every week people are checking in on what Oregon State are doing. Looks like you're going to be more than checking in here for a late-night trip to Fresno State. Yeah, I like the spot with Oregon State, and they're scoring. Obviously, they're scoring a lot of points, but what I like about this one, I think you're getting a buy-low number on Oregon State at 32-and-a-half because Fresno State's defensive numbers don't look good. Why don't they look bad? Because they played Sacramento State and Washington State, two horrific teams. So this is a step up in class for Fresno State. You're talking about an Oregon State offense that can put up tons of points and tons of yards. And when we saw Fresno State play USC, they gave up 39 points and 500 yards. When we saw Fresno State play Boise, they gave up 38 points and 500 yards. The Beavers have scored 33 or more points in each of the last five games, winning all five of them, which is why people love betting them. The only one that they failed to break 30 in is when they played ranked Houston and ranked Texas Tech. Let me tell you something. Fresno State is not Houston, and they're not Texas Tech. I have the Beavers to score often tonight. We're going to isolate the team total over 32.5. I see them putting up 40 or more in this one. I want to ask you a question about LaGree. Jeremiah Smith is currently the Heisman Trophy favorite When I said earlier today that LaGree is going to push him for the Biletnikoff, I was not kidding. Jesse LaGree plays for a 5-2 Oregon State, and he's 30-1 to win the Heisman Trophy. Okay, it's there for a reason. For anyone who's unaware, Legree has had 100 receiving yards in every single game. He's scored a touchdown in every single game. He has the country's lead right now in 14 touchdowns. Jeremiah Smith is at 12, and he has lead in yards at 1,040 compared to Jeremiah Smith's second place right now, 984. So he's about 60 or so, a little bit under 60 yards ahead of him. Could Jesse Legree's season, Kurt Smith's Heisman campaign because we end up debating Smith versus Legree and if Smith isn't even the best receiver then or do you think that'll have no bearing on If the Heisman Trophy Award was given out to the guy with the best statistics, then you'd have a point, and it could potentially hurt Jeremiah Smith. I was writing a Heisman column for PrizePicks last week, and I was looking at it, and I used to have Jeremiah Smith setting records in number one in every category. And I realized he's not number one in every category, and he's not on pace to break the same records that Jesse Legree, who's on pace to break. But the short answer is no, because this is not a stats award, totally. It is a popularity contest for the media, and Jeremiah Smith is the favorite for a reason. And if it doesn't go to Jeremiah Smith, it's going to go to a quarterback. It's not going to go to a guy who has better stats than Jeremiah Smith because he's playing inferior opponents. I just went through some of the opponents Oregon State has played this year. Jesse Legree has not had 100 yards and two touchdowns. against Texas. He hasn't had it against Indiana. He's not going to have it against Michigan. He's not going to have it against Oregon. He's not having it against the same caliber of games that Jeremiah Smith had. And to me, that matters. And that's what the voters see. The voters have seen Jeremiah Smith every week make ridiculous plays, make game-changing plays every week. If you lined up the Heisman Trophy voters and told them to pick Jesse Legree out of a lineup, they probably couldn't do it. And that's why it'll have no impact.