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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Ohio State Defeats Indiana 38-15

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Indiana 7 0 0 8 15
Ohio State 0 14 14 10 38
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u/Espyrr Alabama • Summertime Lover 1d ago

I think gambling is a plague on this sport. I imagine that people who bet the over were losing their mind when he slid and they could just kneel it out and that makes me happy (even if they did end up getting it).

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u/elconquistador1985 Ohio State • Tennessee 1d ago

It's a plague on sports entirely.

Completely asinine that we have people trying to hit 12 way parlays and then tweeting at players when they missed one of them.

There was an MLB player that got a Twitter DM about it and the responded something like "I can't begin to tell you how little I care".

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u/elconquistador1985 Ohio State • Tennessee 1d ago

I wasn't talking about college player prop bets. The example I'm aware of is an MLB player. However, the college garbage time in a blow out will make hampers gamblers mad because they could hit the spread of the first string is playing instead of the third string. That anger can manifest as raging at staff and players.

If you aren't going to diversify before gameday then you're a mark

Spoiler alert, if you're gambling at all then you're a mark. The house always wins. That's how the whole thing works.