This weekend was exactly what I needed from both the square and sharp players. If you have been following this column during the past few weeks, you know that the square or public players have been getting killed on Saturdays and Sundays. As a bookmaker, it does you no good to have the majority of your clients broke before the regular season ends, so I was hoping that they would have a little success soon.

This week, I got my wish. The public was on its usual favorites this week, and they came through for the most part on Saturday and Sunday. To make things even better, the sharp players turned in losing cards on both days as well. Saturday saw the squares line up on Notre Dame and Penn State heavily. Almost everyone had these two winners on his card, and BYU and Ohio State were also common winners. Losers for the squares were on Arkansas and Iowa on Saturday.

The sharps helped out with the Notre Dame game, as they we solidly on the other side of the game, taking Tennessee at +9. Many of them also had Penn State in their victroy against Wisconsin. Other sharp winners on Saturday included Purdue, Kansas, Colorado and NC State. Their biggest loss was on Washington State against Arizona State, another play that I liked a lot. Other losers were Texas A&M, Air Force, Arkansas State and Tulane. Overall on the day, I had the sharps 5-6 with their most common plays.

On Sunday, the squares kept up the momentum, hitting three of four plays, and coming very close to going perfect. The Jets' late touchdown that prevented a San Diego cover was the loser of the day for the squares, with winners on Seattle, NY Giants and the Sunday night winner on Washington. The sharps only had two winners on the day, hammering Minnesota and hitting Tennessee UNDER. They had four outright losers and a push on Oakland. The losers were on Tennessee, Green Bay, Miami and Kansas City OVER. Overall, the big winner on Minnesota was balanced by the big action on Green Bay.

Also starting last week was the NBA season, and I mostly had light action on the hoops, with the squares sitting out for the most part. The action from sharps will pick up as soon as college hoops gets underway.

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