Ralph Michaels
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OVERALL FOOTBALL RUN IS 6-1 (86%) & 21-11 (66%)!
#1 FOOTBALL 5% SINCE OCT 2024.....24-10 (71%)!
NFL TEASERS ARE AN AMAZING 32-14 (70%)
COLLEGE BASKETBALL TOTALS 12-5 (71%)!
FB BEST BETS (4% & 5%) ARE 59-31 (65.6%)!
BOWLS #1 LY (12-3, 80%)! BOWL RUN TY NOW 10-2 (63%)!
Last updated Jan 12, 9:42 AM EST
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80% RUN - CBB O/U GOW - ONLY $5!
RARE CBB BEST BET TOTAL! BEST BET HOOPS TOTALS 4-1 (80%)! ONLY FOURTH CBB BEST BET TOTAL SINCE MARCH (67%)!
•• Ralph is 12-6 (67%) on CBB over/unders and his overall CBB run is 61-42 (59%)!
•• Get Ralph's customer appreciation $5 Tuesday 4% Best Bet here or watch WagerTalk Today at Noon ET and receive it for free!
•• All Basketball totals are on a 17-9 (65.4%) run with all Basketball Best Bet totals going 4-1 (80%) and College basketball Best Bet total going 2-1 (67%) since least March!
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THE PLAY: Iowa State -3.5 (-115)
(649) Iowa State at (650) Kansas: Spread
Iowa State -3.5 (-115)
I will be talking about this game on WagerTalk today at Noon ET.
Kansas is now 11-5, and while they have played the #2 schedule, they have been upset twice in their last 3 games, failing to cover all 3.
Jayhawks are coming off a WV road game in which they led 48-41 and were outscored 45-27!
Despite the very strong schedule Kansas has played only 4 top 30 D’s going 1-3 ATS with the cover in a Nov tourney.
Iowa St has the #2 D and is one of 5 undefeated teams.
While the Cyclones are 2-5 ATS their L7 games the 5 ATS losses were all a DD Fav with the avg line -29.5!
Iowa St is 5-1 ATS with 4 straight covers excl games a DD Fav of +11+ with the only ATS loss in a one point win laying 2.5 pts to St Johns’s in November.
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Ralph was raised in the home of handicappers in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in the industry as a key member of Phil Steele's early team, which expanded Northcoast Sports during the mid-90s. Ralph's personal following grew fast, allowing him to strike out on his own as the founder of California Sports. Over the next dozen years as General Manager of Phil Steele Publications and lead handicapper of Northcoast Sports, Ralph managed the creation of some of the most popular sports betting content ever, including Phil Steele's College Football Preview Magazine and Northcoast's Power Sweep Newsletter. Content displaying expertise so elite that Ralph was invited into college football's most exclusive club: Heisman Trophy Voter
Ralph Michaels has a math mind, steadily searching for a value in the numbers in addition to matchup edges, situational advantages, and hidden gems of information. Ralph finds more big bets in the college versions of football and basketball, but his handicapping approach also uncovers selective winners in the professional leagues like MLB. Small conferences are particularly profitable due to mispriced injuries and his profiling of exploitable coaching tendencies.
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