Temple SMU

[Redding Husky]

Temple is good. SMU is bad. But the score was 45-40 with a couple minutes left in the game. The gap between the teams is smaller than most people think it is.

 

[champs99and04]

Temple is good. SMU is bad. But the score was 45-40 with a couple minutes left in the game. The gap between the teams is smaller than most people think it is.

I would agree with you but that game pretty much mirrored a lot of SMU games from this season. Is the gap between SMU and TCU also smaller than people think? I mean, the spread last night was only 11.

 

[Redding Husky]

The common perception is that Temple is currently "elite" (they're #22), whereas SMU "absolutely sucks" because Sagarin has them at #128 (or whatever). I'm just saying the gap between them is smaller than what the casual football fan assumes.

But you're right; that point spread wasn't far off. Temple scored two TD's in the last couple minutes to make it look worse than it was. I guess the people that bet aren't fooled by the immense gap in the rankings.