Best Bets: Week 14

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Folks, it seems we are simply destined to be mid this season. Mizzou is mid, our picks our mid. 2025 has just been a mid football year for Tigers fans. Best Bets went 1-2 again with our overall picks going 3-3. This drops Best Bets to 18-21, and our total picks to 39-39. We still have a few more weeks to climb out of the hole, but we’re gonna have to chalk this season of picks up to a sophomore slump at this point. I’m aiming to finish strong to get you folks back to even. But if you’ve been fading me this last half of the season, then you’re welcome. I’m not necessarily going to tell you to stop doing that with any conviction.

Best Bets

Missouri (-2.5) @ Arkansas

The bottom line here is Arkansas almost exclusively loses games and they do so almost exclusively by three points. So knowing those two facts, picking anything but Mizzou to win by at least three points would be dumb. Arkansas’s defense is really bad and the Mizzou offense is good at one thing: running the ball like crazy against bad defenses. Arkansas may finally decide to quit as well, so that’s on the table. All that stewed together makes me think the Tigers will cover here.

Wyoming @ Hawaii (-8.5)

Wyoming has perhaps the most boring, stagnant offense in the country while Tommy Chang’s resurgent Hawaii team has momentum going into their first bowl-eligible season since the COVID year. Wyoming has nothing to play for and will just enjoy a trip to Honolulu in November. I think the Rainbow Warriors run away with it.

SMU (-13.5) @ Cal

Folks, we’re back on the ‘Tang Train as it has treated us well all year. Cal just fired Justin Wilcox and the Golden Bears already have six wins and thus are bowl eligible. What that surmounts to is an unmotivated Cal team who isn’t playing for anything against an SMU team that clinches a second straight ACC championship birth with a win. This should be a route.

Worth a look

Navy (+4.5) @ Memphis

Navy is still very much alive in the AAC championship race (and thus an outside shot at a playoff bid) while Memphis has dropped two straight games. The Tigers’ conference championship and playoff bid hopes have been dashed and they also may well lose their coach to the carousel this offseason. I’m taking Navy to cover the 4.5 points here on Thanksgiving Day’s lone college matchup. I think they may well win the game outright to preserve their shot at a conference title.

Clemson @ South Carolina (-2.5)

Both of these teams are coming of remarkably disappointing seasons as Clemson started the year as a national championship favorite while many picked South Carolina to make the playoffs. Well, Clemson is 6-5 and South Carolina is 4-7. Neither team is good, but South Carolina did have to play five straight teams ranked in the top 15 at the time they played. They lost all those games, but that’s just silly. Clemson’s record has been much easier and yet they haven’t fared much better. This game is in Columbia East so I’m gonna take the Cocks to beat the Tigers for the second straight year.

Utah (-12.5) @ kansas

Utah still thinks they have a shot at a playoff birth, even though I think that’s a ridiculous notion. Either way, they are playing like they still have a chance, while kansas is trying to just make a bowl game. The jayhawks suck so I think Utah runs away with this one in what might be a really high-scoring game.

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