Friday's BEST BETS: College Basketball Picks + UFC 325 + NBA Bets
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Sia Nejad is joined by Chip Patterson, Buckets, Danny Brasco, and Mike Barner as they hand out their BEST BETS for college basketball, NBA, UFC 325, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:53) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(8:02) Chip's Michigan-MSU Bet
(9:50) Mikey B's NBA Parlay
(11:44) Michigan-Michigan St. Total/Spread Pick
(17:15) Danny's UFC 325 Picks
(22:20) Sia's Golf Prop
(24:00) Mikey B's NBA Props
(25:15) Bonus Bets (NBA, CBB)!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.1 | We are brought to you by Bed-MGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.6 | My name is Cianajad, otherwise known as the counselor of cash. |
| 0:17.8 | We've got a great show for you today, but let's look to see how we did yesterday on the recap screen. We needed a bit of a bounce back. We kind of got it. We go four and three. I hit my golf play. Mikey B. Two for two. Larry Hartstein hits his college basketball play. Four and three overall. A decent bounce back. But ladies and gentlemen, it's Friday. |
| 0:38.2 | So we bounce back with the vibes |
| 0:39.4 | and we bounce back with the recap screens. |
| 0:41.6 | It's BPE Friday. |
| 0:47.4 | Woo! |
| 0:51.2 | Oh, yeah! |
| 0:52.7 | Oh, look at this. |
| 0:53.8 | Look at this guy with the push-ups, engaging the biceps, the triceps, the criceps, look at this. Look at this guy with the push-ups engaging the biceps, the triceps, the core, the big muscle. |
| 1:00.0 | He's getting on the pump guys. |
| 1:02.9 | Let's go. |
| 1:03.9 | Let's go. |
| 1:03.9 | Wind it out 10, no problem in like five seconds. |
| 1:07.0 | That was 100. |
| 1:08.1 | You didn't catch it? |
| 1:09.0 | I should have shouted out the 100. |
| 1:10.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to BP Friday. We're doing push-ups. We're wearing winter coats. We got Mikey B doing the Hans and Franz, and we got Brasco showing off the muscles. But most important, we've got Chip Patterson with your chip me up. Good morning. See you. Good morning. Bucket good morning, Daddy, good morning, Mikey, come, morning, Ben. |
| 1:29.3 | Good morning, Hurley, Hedge, fam, here to warm ya, |
| 1:33.3 | because we know that don't matter where you are, |
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