Keeping Up With the Future

I made several futures bets before the season started on a variety of propositions from how many touchdowns Reggie Bush will score as opposed to Ronnie Brown to how many games the Wisconsin Badgers will win this season.  Let's see how we're doing at the end of Week 2 of College and Week 1 of the NFL

1. Wisconsin Badgers Over 9.5 Wins (+100) - With Michigan looking like a second tier team here in the first two weeks of the season, it sure looks like the Badgers have 10 wins well within their sights.  I have the utmost confidence in Wisky's ability to take care of Michigan at home, leaving only @ Penn State and @ Ohio State as games where they may not be the favorite.  I put the chances of the Badgers losing three games this season at roughly 15%, mainly because they are the superior team in all three of the above mentioned games.

2. Oregon Ducks Over 7 Wins (-110) - How good does this bet look after they went into Ann Arbor and shellacked Michigan?  I know beating Michigan is increasingly something you can't really brag about, but we're 1/4 of the way to our total after two weeks.  If the Ducks don't suffer a let down this week against Fresno State at home, I'll feel very confident about this bet. 

3. Virginia Tech Under 10 Wins (-125) - The game against LSU was one of the VaTech games I had penciled in for a loss.  But, I am feeling a little shaky on this one simply because it doesn't appear that the ACC is as strong as I thought it would be.  I still have a nice shot at this one with the Hokies having to travel to Clemson and to Georgia Tech for conference games, but I don't think we can expect much out of Florida State or Miami at this point.  If Va Tech wins either the Clemson or Georgia Tech game, we may be rooting for a push.

4. Detroit Lions Over 6 Wins (-140) - They won one of the games they need to get to 6. 

5. San Francisco 49ers Over 8 Wins (+110) - They play tonight.  Taking care of winnable games is what they have to do to get to 8 wins.  Arizona is a winnable game.

6. Cincinnati Bengals to make the playoffs (+120) - Of course, beating last year's division champion to open the season will only help in this quest.

7. Touchdowns Scored - Reggie Bush (-2 @ -150) vs Ronnie Brown- Neither scored this weekend

8. Touchdown Passes - Jay Cutler (-2.5 @ -110) vs Chad Pennington - Pennington leads 2-1 in this race, but Kellen Clemons threw about 10 passes yesterday.  This may end up as the best of both worlds as this bet has the stipulation that both players must start in Week 1 (which they did) but has no stipulations thereafter.  Pennington getting benched would just be fantastic.