Missouri at Texas Pick and Preview
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College Football Betting Preview
Missouri (5-1) at Texas (6-0)
Saturday, 8:00 pm Eastern – ABC
SBG Global Opening Line: Texas - 7 , Total 68
The Texas Longhorns are in the spotlight for the second consecutive week. Last week they beat #1 Oklahoma and took over the top spot in the polls this week. Now they have to face #11 Missouri who was upset by Oklahoma State last week. If Texas is able to stay at the top of the rankings no one can say they did it by facing an easy schedule like USC has done in previous seasons. The Longhorns played #1 Oklahoma last week, face #11 Missouri this week, and have #7 Texas Tech and #8 Oklahoma State after the Tigers. Saturday’s game won’t be easy for the Longhorns. They have to find a way to slow down Heisman Trophy candidate Chase Daniel and a powerful Missouri offense. Daniel did not play well last week and it cost the Tigers the game against Oklahoma State. “Put it all on me,” said Daniel, “I should have made all three of those throws. It seemed like we were a little bit off all night. For the reason, I have no idea.”
SBG Global reports that early College Football betting has the public taking Texas at Home.
Texas has a Heisman Trophy candidate of their own in quarterback Colt McCoy. He has completed 79.4 percent of his passes with 17 touchdowns and just three interceptions this season. “He’s just making those plays, and he knows when something’s not working why it’s not working,” said Texas head coach Mack Brown, “Last year, we thought he got frustrated some and tried to move probably a little bit faster than he should at times because he was trying to make plays on his own.”
Texas has defeated Missouri the last four times the teams have played and won by an average of 23 points per game. Here are more College Football betting stats for Saturday’s game. The Tigers are 6-0 ATS in their last 6 road games vs. a team with a winning home record. The Tigers are 8-0 ATS in their last 8 road games. The Tigers are 15-5 ATS in their last 20 games overall.
SBG Global Current Line: Texas - 4 , Total 67
The Longhorns are 5-0 ATS vs. a team with a winning record. The Longhorns are 7-0 ATS in their last 7 games overall. The Longhorns are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 home games. The Longhorns are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 conference games. The Longhorns are 12-5 ATS in their last 17 games in October.
The Over is 7-1 in the Tigers last 8 road games. The Over is 5-0 in the Longhorns last 5 conference games. The Over is 7-3 in the Longhorns last 10 games overall.
Pick: Missouri 3 out of 5 units
Business Digest
The Washington Post September 19, 2009 REGULATORS Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said an emergency program that had guaranteed as much as $3 trillion in assets in money- market mutual funds was being allowed to expire Friday.
“As the risk of catastrophic failure of the financial system has receded, the need for some of the emergency programs put in place during the most acute phase of the crisis has receded as well,’ ” Geithner said in a statement.
Geithner had said last week that the financial system was healthy enough to begin unwinding some of the programs put in place a year ago after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the worst financial crisis in seven decades. The program to guarantee assets in money-market mutual funds had originally been established in September 2008 to last for three months but was then extended through Sept. 18 of this year.
– Associated Press TECHNOLOGY Google said Apple’s top marketing executive personally told the company that its Google Voice application had been rejected because it duplicates the telephone dialer on the iPhone and could be used as a replacement. go to web site google voice app
The newly disclosed discussion, revealed in a regulatory filing made fully public Friday, contrasts with Apple’s own denial that it rejected the program. Apple said Friday that the two Silicon Valley companies are still discussing the application.
The Federal Communications Commission is looking at Apple’s block on the Google Voice app as part of a bigger investigation into how wireless industry practices affect consumers.
Google Voice lets people pick a new phone number, then route incoming calls to cell, office or home phones.
In a section of a letter that had originally been redacted, Google said Phil Schiller of Apple told Google’s Alan Eustace, a senior vice president, during a July 7 phone call that Apple was rejecting the program.
Shares of Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple gained 47 cents, or 0.25 percent, to close at $185.02. Shares of Mountain View, Calif.-based Google were down 26 cents, or 0.05 percent, to $491.46.
– Associated Press BANKING The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says she is “considering all options, including borrowing from Treasury,” to replenish the dwindling fund that insures bank deposits.
“I never say never,” FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair told an audience at Georgetown University Friday.
Bair’s remarks go beyond what she said just three weeks ago when asked about tapping the Treasury after the fund that insures regular bank deposit accounts up to $250,000 hit its lowest point since 1992, at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis. “Not at this point in time,” she said on Aug. 27. website google voice app
The FDIC estimates bank failures will cost the fund around $70 billion through 2013. Ninety-two banks have failed so far this year. Hundreds more are expected to fail in coming years largely because of souring loans for commercial real estate.
The FDIC’s fund has slipped to 0.22 percent of insured deposits, below a congressionally mandated minimum of 1.15 percent. The $10.4 billion in the fund at the end of June is down from $13 billion at the end of March, and $45.2 billion in the second quarter of 2008.
– Associated Press LEGAL The Internal Revenue Service is moving to bolster enforcement of a 2004 law that bars companies from avoiding U.S. taxes by moving their headquarters offshore.
The tax agency said in a notice that it has “become aware” of transactions designed to subvert a test that determines whether a company’s move offshore was for legitimate business reasons or just to avoid U.S. taxes. “These transactions are inconsistent with the purposes” of the 2004 law, according to the IRS notice, which banned them starting Sept. 17.
The action is the IRS’s latest effort to stop practices that let U.S. companies avoid taxes by establishing nominal headquarters in low-tax countries such Bermuda and the Cayman Islands while keeping their operational headquarters in the United States.
– Bloomberg News
