Jim Feist

Utah State is the crown jewel of the Mountain West Conference as they continue to just blowout teams. Utah State has the 10th ranked offense in the country and is coming off a 62-24 win over San Jose State, covering the 31-point line. In fact, the Aggies are now 9-1 ATS on the season, their lone loss a 24-16 win over Wyoming as 15-point favorites. Colorado State is in for a long day today. The Rams routinely give up points in bunches (49 last week to Nevada) and have given up over 40 points five times this season. The Rams are 0-3 ATS their last three games and 3-7 ATS on the year. This is not going to be pretty for CSU, lay whatever you need to today with Utah State. 

Arizona plays a late Saturday game at Washington State. The Wildcats are 4-1 ATS in their last five games. The Cats beat Colorado two weeks ago 42-34 as 4-point favorites. It was the team's third cover in a row. Arizona had last week off to prepare for this game. Washington State beat Colorado last week on the road, 31-7. Arizona still has a shot to win the PAC-12 South under first year coach Kevin Sumlin. They have to get through No 8 Washington State first here tonight. The Cats need to win their final two games. Washington State is 9-1 S/U on the season. Arizona getting double digits here is too good to pass on. Play Arizona.

Northwestern pulled the big upset last week with a road win at Iowa, 14-10 as 10-point dogs. Just two games left in the regular season with today's game at Minnesota and then closing out at home vs Illinois. At 6-4 the team is Bowl eligible. Minnesota also pulled an upset last week with a blowout win over Purdue, 41-10 as 11.5-point dogs. The Golden Gophers are now 5-5 and need at least one more win to be bowl eligible. They have games at home this week vs Northwestern and then close out at Wisconsin. Assuming a loss next week, that makes today's game imperative to win. Good news for the Gophers is that they have been a good November team, going 24-9-2 ATS their last 35 games. The club is also 5-1 ATS in their last six home games. The Gophers are 9-4 ATS in their last 13 meetings with the Wildcats and I'm taking them here today. Play Minnesota.

 What a huge loss for San Diego State last week losing at UNLV, 24-27 as 22-point favorites. The Aztecs have now failed to cover the spread in their last five games and are just 2-8 ATS on the season. Fresno also had a setback last week at Boise, 17-24. The Bulldogs led 17-7, but were outscored by 17-0 down the stretch. It was their first cover loss in the last eight games. And unlike San Diego State, the Bulldogs are now 8-2 ATS on the season. Fresno is the 50th ranked offensive team in the country and San Diego State is the 108th offense. Fresno has one of the best defenses, ranked 17th while San Diego State is 11th. Two good defenses here, but the big edge goes to the Fresno offense. And when we look at the two teams covering, a huge edge to the Bulldogs. Play Fresno.

St Joe's brings a 3-1 S/U and 2-2 ATS record into today's finals of the Myrtle Beach Invitational. St Joe's won its first three games before losing las time out against Central Florida, 57-77. West Virginia is 1-2 S/U and 0-3 ATS to start the season. The bad news for the Mountaineers is that they lost to Buffalo in OT and Western Kentucky. Their lone win coming against Monmouth. Yet, West Virginia is a 8-point favorite here today. My personal power lines have the Mountaineers closer to 4-points. That makes this a play for me on St Joes.

he first place Houston Texans look to extend their AFC South lead as they play an inter-conference game here today at Washington. The Redskins are also in first place at 6-3 in the NFC East. The Texans had last week off to prepare for this game. Houston has also been red-hot, winning six straight games after starting the season 0-3. The Redskins are 4-1 in their last five games. However, they are winless against the AFC. The problem here is that the Redkins have lots of injury problems. They have already lost both starting Offensive guards for the season. In addition OT Trent Williams is out and Morgan Moses is playing through an injury. Add to that RB Chris Thompson and WR Paul Richardson and there are lots of missing pieces for the Redskins. Have to lay three here with Houston, but with all the injuries on the Washington side and Houston coming off a bye week, I don't mind. Play Houston.

These are two NFL teams that would like to forget 2018. The Raiders have just one win, that coming over the Browns, which they could have easily lost. The Raiders will be without Marshawn Lynch who is out for the rest of the year. They traded away Amari Cooper to the Cowboys and gave their best defensive player to the Bears. The Cardinals have just two wins. They did cover their last two games including playing the Chiefs close last week, 14-26. The problem has been with the offense that has not score more than 18 points in any of their last four games. The Raiders look to be stockpiling draft picks to rebuild. They lost last week to the Chargers, 6-20. That makes nine points the Raiders have score the last two weeks combined. The Raiders are just 7-18-2 ATS their last 27 games overall. The Cardinals are 5-1 ATS their last six. I'll lay the points here with the home team.