Well, you have one of these every once in a while. When it was all said and done, I'm where I started out for the weekend. I went 5-5-1 in the colleges and 3-3 in the pros, for an 8-8-1 effort overall. I thought I would give quick thoughts on the weekend. As always, the losses stay with a man more than the wins, so I'll dwell on negatives here.

My two biggest disappointments of the weekend were the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.

When I saw OU up 21-0 five minutes into the game, I thought taking them as 13 point favorites was a cinch. The Aggies and McNeil in particular showed me a lot in their comeback attempt. Though they came up short in a 36-30 loss, A&M was able to foul up that bet for me.

The Texas Tech score was completely mystifying. It came out of nowhere. The OSU Cowboys had been blown out by several Big 12 schools, including a 35 point loss to A&M earlier this year. So with the Red Raiders (who specialize in blowing out bad teams) coming to town, this had all the makings of an easy bet. Sure enough, the Red Raiders lose STRAIGHT UP to the Cowboys. Go figure.

The game I was disappointed I didn't choose was the South Carolina-Florida game. As an emotional game, I should have known Spurrier would have his kids ready for the Florida showdown of all games. I almost picked the Gamecocks. Unfortunately, after his NFL screwups, I told myself I would never depend on Spurrier again with money on the line. So I passed on a classic bet for the college game. I'm may have to reevaluate my whole Steve Spurrier stance, now that he's back in the college ranks where he belongs.

I've had a sea change so far as the Denver Broncos go. I have bet against them for a month, believing they would be exposed as NFL frauds no better than the last 2-3 Bronco teams. Their blowout of the Raiders in Oakland finally broke me of that thinking. I still don't quite trust a team led by Jake Plummer to cover bets, so I may just stay away from the Denver games for awhile, at least this weekend. I'll include one caveat, though; I'll be tempted to lay a bet on next week's matchup versus Dallas, because I like a little action on Thanksgiving.

The Kansas City Chiefs completely disappointed me this weekend. I thought they were a good underdog against the Bills, because I thought they were simply a better team. It looked that way through most of the first quarter Sunday. The Chiefs were up 3-0 and driving, when a Trent Green fumble went 60 yards the other way. After that, nothing went right for the Chiefs. Green, with three interceptions on the season coming into Sunday, threw three costly interceptions. Vermeil's went on to lose 14-3, with their worst offensive showing in a long long time.

Otherwise, have I mentioned that I love the Cowboys? Their late game heroics last night won me two bets, by covering as 3-pt. underdogs AND by covering the 39.5 over/under bet. How 'bout them Cowboys!!!

Looking forward to this weekend's bets. With bad weather expected around the country, let me remind all of you gamblers out there to check the weather reports before you start betting heavy favorites this weekend.

More to come later this week...