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[Goofyguy1]

It doesnt really matter.

Ultimately, the reason 'its hard to beat a team 3 times' is that even if you have 70% odds to win, over 3 times, odds say you'll probably lose one. However, each time, the odds individually are still 70% that you'll win. So looking at it at the beginning of the season and having 70% odds, you'd probably say 'yeah, we probably wont win 3/3', but if you've already won 2/3, your odds on the remaining one are still 70% (same for 60% or 50%)

Previous results do not impact the odds of a single future event. So you are correct.

 

[bosco]

West Virginia is my "avoid at all costs" team unless we get an officiating crew that calls proper fouls. There is a reason that we have won so many in a row against OSU...good matchups.

I would love a rematch.

 

[CycloneErik]

Osu is the #1 team I didn't want to play. It's hard to beat a good team 3 times let alone when they are getting hot

They're hot against the bottom-feeding portion of the league. Check that post above that notes they lost twice each to us, Baylor, and Kansas with a split against West Virginia.

They're only hot on a purely superficial evaluation based on beating bad teams. They aren't hot against the teams above them.

Okie State competes hard today and leaves disappointed again.

 

[alenz95]

Surprised the line hasn't flipped back to us -1, or -2. As even as we have played them this year I figured our fan support might factor in.

 

[ClonesFTW]

My book is up to Okie State -1.5 right now. GO CLONES!

 

[chuckd4735]

Vegas consensus right now is OSU-2, however, 55% of bets coming in on ISU, and 53% of the money.

 

[mitten1975]

Time to start proving the experts wrong, Monte and company.

 

[CYCLNST8]

Bump bumpity bump bump.

 

[VeloClone]

Previous results do not impact the odds of a single future event. So you are correct.

Or Dice have no memory.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

It's pretty clear the gap between the two isn't much. In Mr. Blum's stat a good portion of the Game 3's are against teams with a much wider gap.

Oh yeah?

 

[FinalFourCy]

Oh yeah?

Absolutely. You probably think tomorrow's game with KU is a toss up.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Absolutely. You probably think tomorrow's game with KU is a toss up.

Why would I think that? Kansas finished 4 games ahead of us in the conference standings.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Absolutely. You probably think tomorrow's game with KU is a toss up.

Hey, I have it on good authority that when two teams that split the first two games meet a third time, they only win 50% of the time.

 

[Fanatic1973]

Someone missed the spread. How much money could have been won?