Thursday's BEST BETS: Fiesta Bowl Picks: Ole Miss vs Miami
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It's time for the CFP Semis! Join Sia Nejad, Eric Cohen, Mike McClure, Chip Patterson, and Tom Casale giving out their BEST BETS the Ole Miss-Miami Fiesta Bowl!
(0:00) Intro
(5:45) Mike's Fiesta Bowl Bet
(7:58) Tom's Fiesta Bowl Bet and Prop
(13:15) EC's CFB Parlay and CBB Bet
(15:23) Chip's Fiesta Bowl Bet
(21:50) Fiesta Bowl Total Bets
(23:49) Sia's NFL Wild Card Prop
(30:33) Indiana-Oregon Early Thoughts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.1 | We are brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:15.5 | My name is Cianajan. |
| 0:16.6 | We've got all of you in the chat, Farsat. |
| 0:18.5 | I see a young fam. |
| 0:20.2 | We've even got EC in the chat. |
| 0:21.6 | I wonder if he's on the show. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello, Fantasy Life. Let's see how we did on the recap screen. As I see all the names and all the participation in the chat. Smash the like button if you could. We go four and three. Bucket splits, Martin Green splits, Mikey B splits. But we get that fourth win, courtesy of Larry Hartstein, who hits another college basketball play. |
| 0:40.0 | St. Louis plus two and a half cashes. splits, Mikey B splits. But we get that fourth win, courtesy of Larry Hartstein, who hits another |
| 0:38.3 | college basketball play, St. Louis plus two and a half caches to get us to that four mark. |
| 0:43.3 | Four and three. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's a decent result. Let's try to improve upon it |
| 0:47.8 | with a great Thursday cast. This is amazing. We've got Mike McClure. We've got Tom Casale. We've got Eric Cohen, and we've got Chip Patterson. Chip, I do want to start with you. I have a bit of a bone to pick with you. Oh, this Fiesta Bowl Thursday? You have a loan to pick with me? We've got college football to talk about. We've got NFL, college, we've got NHL picks, so much to talk about. But if I may, |
| 1:12.2 | I got a text from you last week and it read as follows. Happy New Year, Sia. Just thought you'd |
| 1:17.6 | want to start your 2026 with a fun fact. Trevor Lawrence is just one of four quarterbacks with |
| 1:22.2 | 25 plus passing touchdowns and nine plus rushing touchdowns in a season, only being with |
| 1:27.0 | Cam, Kyler, and Josh Allen. |
| 1:29.5 | Why would you send such a text to me? |
| 1:32.3 | I just, you know, I think that it's so important as I move about my life that, you know, |
| 1:37.5 | when you find some joy, when you find that fruit, that you share it with other people, |
| 1:42.3 | and considering how much of a main character |
| 1:44.6 | Trevor Lawrence had become deep into the football season here on the early edge. I just, |
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