Week One Proposition Bets for the College Football Junkie

Prop Bets for the College Football Junkie is a weekly post that cares not for you're silly point spreads. If you have the money and the gumption, we'll lay down a weekly gauntlet of propositions that'll take you from the penthouse to the outhouse faster than you can guess the number of times Lee Corso will say, "not so fast my friend." As always, this is for entertainment purposes only.

-Being a West Virginia fan, one of the things I am sure is going to be mentioned over and over on every broadcast of Mountaineer games this year is that Rich Rodriguez is coaching at Michigan now. Likewise for Michigan games I expect a healthy mention of his time at West Virginia. And as the quality of the announcing crew goes down, the chances of each being mentioned goes up. Since the West Virginia game is on the Ocho (ESPN 8), and the Michigan game is on ABC I'll throw out these over/under numbers: West Virginia game +/- 30, Michigan game +/- 20. The nice thing about this prop bet is that it also lends itself well to a drinking game. Not that I'm encouraging that.

-North Carolina State is expected to finish near the bottom of the ACC this year, and Steve Spurrier knows this. Since Spurrier handed over play calling duties to his son this year it will be interesting to see the amount of frustration he shows toward junior if things don't go well against the Wolfpack Thursday night. Because in Spurrier's world, when things don't go well, a sun visor gets slammed to the ground. We'll put the over/under at five for this game. But if Spurrier takes the field sans visor, +/- 10 on lip smacking exhales. So fill out your cards accordingly.

-Whether you love him or hate him, the Lou Holtz Pep Talk is a thing of beauty and you can take it in any direction you want. The only real question is, who is he going to give the pep talk to this weekend? He normally chooses one of the teams playing Saturday night on ESPN. The Saturday night game this week is between Missouri and Illinois. Both are probably equally hard to pronounce for the coach. And that's when the spit flies. So your prop bet is how many times they switch camera angles to clean the lens on the other camera. We're going with a +/- 5. Sure it's a short segment, but just watch. House gets the push by the way.

Quick Hitters:

-Number of handlers injured in the running of the Buffalo at the Colorado-Colorado State game +/-2.

-Flashbacks to the Appalachian State upset of Michigan last year during the LSU game +/-3.

-Uncomfortable moments during the Maryland-Delaware game when the announcers try to describe Ralph Friedgen without using the word large +/- 10.

-Number of times during the Arkansas-Western Illinois game the announcers call Bobby Petrino a job shopper, but in a nice way like, "he likes new environments" "there's a clause in his contract...." "I heard a story that a hat company has his size in every color" +/- 15.