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The Football GoldSheet NFL Week #7, CFB Week #8 Oct 20, 2026

Issued Oct 20 · 17 sections
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Issued Oct 26 · 7 sections

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CFB · (207) Washington State at (208) San Diego State: Spread · 7:00pm EDT - Oct 31/2026

THE PLAY: Washington State +2.5 (-104)

It’s purely accidental that San Diego State got involved with a scoreline last week at Fort Collins that looks pulled from the basketball game between Brian Dutcher's Aztec hoopsters and Ali Farokhmanesh's Colorado State. Rather, that eye-popping 56-49 loss to the Rams was more down to the oddities of this particular CSU edition team that plays games more resembling video football, and not suggesting some return to the Air Coryell roots of the SDSU program back to the glorious 60s and early 70s. Unfortunately for Aztec QB Jayden Denegal, an ankle injury prevented him from gaining some confidence and padding his stats last week against the Rams, instead allowing freshman Stone Saunders to pretend he was Don Horn, Dennis Shaw or Brian Sipe for 60 minutes against CSU’s non-defense and pass for a whopping 369 yards and a couple of TDs. As Denegal has only passed for as many as 200 yards five times the past two seasons, with 256 the high, head coach Sean Lewis has already made the call to stick with Saunders at least for this week as the 3-5 Aztecs are running out of time to secure bowl eligibility. That carrot has already been removed from 1-7 Washington State, but the Cougs really haven’t played that badly in recent weeks, hanging within earshot of possible playoff contenders like Arizona, Oregon State, and Boise State, and actually level with the Pac-12 frontrunner Broncos at 10 apiece into the fourth quarter last week at Pullman before Boise broke loose for three late TDs in a deceiving 31-10 final. After hiding freshman QB Owen Eshelman for the first half of the season, first-year head coach Kirby Moore has turned him loose the past two weeks. Eshelman passed for 480 yards as the Cougs have at least been displaying a sharper edge than when UC Davis transfer Caden Pinnick was glad to dink-and-dunk to his heart’s content without really throwing the ball downfield the first month of the campaign. Wazzu has also been facing some better teams than San Diego State and making a fist of it in recent weeks; against the Aztecs, that sort of effort can possibly get rewarded at Snapdragon. Play Washington State

NFL · (261) New England Patriots at (262) Miami Dolphins: Spread · 4:25pm EST - Nov 1/2026

THE PLAY: New England Patriots -7.0 (-107)

New England won-and-covered both meetings last season with both of those contests going over the total. Prior to last year's sweep, the Dolphins had won seven of the previous eight meetings in this AFC East matchup. The Patriots had a couple extra days to prep for this one after falling in Chicago last Thursday. That 30-24 defeat snapped a three-game winning streak. New England's last four games have all gone over the total. Miami snapped its six-game losing streak with a 28-25 win over the Jets last week. The Dolphins were coming off their bye week, and first-year head coach Jeff Hafley had to like what he saw from his struggling squad coming out of the break. After averaging 4.75 rushing attempts through the Dolphins' first four games, Miami is letting Malik Willis run a bit more. Willis has generated eight rushing attempts in each of the last two games, averaging 55.5 yards on the ground against the Bengals and Jets with a rushing touchdown in each game. With this game being at 4:25pm ET on Sunday afternoon, it offers a little bit of a unique look on Miami's win over the Jets last week. New York hosts the Raiders at 1pm ET with Las Vegas on a four-game losing streak. The Raiders have gotten crushed in their last four trips to the Eastern Time Zone. If the Jets beat the Raiders, then yeah, Miami can puff its chest out a little bit for that win last week and it gives them a little bit of legitimacy. If the Jets lose to the Raiders, then unfortunately for the Dolphins, that win last week is largely going to be forgotten because New York is going to be widely viewed as a bottom-5 (probably lower) team in the league. We fall on that side of the divide, and while Miami deserves props for breaking its winless streak, it probably came against the worst-coached team in the league. We have this game lined closer to double digits and we are comfortable laying the points with New England on the road. Play New England Patriots

DateSportPickResult
Oct 27 CFB (103) Sam Houston St at (104) Missouri St: Total Total Over 50.5 (-110)
(Analysis)
pending
Oct 27 NBA (535) Detroit Pistons at (536) New York Knicks: Total Total Under 219.5 (-112)
(Analysis)
pending
Oct 26 NFL (475) Dallas Cowboys at (476) Philadelphia Eagles: Total Total Over 43.5 (-112)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 26 NBA Washington Wizards +2.5 (-118)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 25 NFL (451) Pittsburgh Steelers at (452) New Orleans Saints: 1H Total 1H Total Over 21.5 (-115)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 25 NFL Detroit Lions -3.0 (-110)
(Analysis)
Push
Oct 25 NFL Minnesota Vikings -6.5 (-108)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 25 NBA (511) Detroit Pistons at (512) Philadelphia 76ers: Total Total Over 226.5 (-115)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 24 CFB Arizona -9.5 (-112)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 24 CFB Miami Florida -19.5 (-115)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 24 NBA (557) Miami Heat at (558) Charlotte Hornets: Total Total Under 230.5 (-110)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 23 NBA (537) Dallas Mavericks at (538) Indiana Pacers: Total Total Over 236.5 (-110)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 23 CFB Air Force -4.5 (-113)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 22 NFL Chicago Bears -3.0 (-102)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 22 CFB Appalachian State +11.0 (-114)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 22 NBA Denver Nuggets +9.5 (-112)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 21 NBA Toronto Raptors -9.5 (-115)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 21 CFB (309) New Mexico State at (310) Sam Houston St: Total Total Under 45.5 (-115)
(Analysis)
Loss
Oct 20 CFB (305) South Alabama at (306) Marshall: Total Total Under 65.5 (-110)
(Analysis)
Win
Oct 20 NBA New York Knicks -5.0 (-110)
(Analysis)
Loss
Net last 20 · +0.47 units

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