Vegas handicapper gives thoughts on 'Canes heading into season
Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast
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4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Miami's season opener is almost here. Andrew Ivins and David Lake are joined by Sportsline analyst Allan Bell. He shares some betting trends to follow in 2020 and dives into Miami's chances of winning the ACC in Year 2 under Manny Diaz. Bell also explains why he would put some money on D'Eriq King to win the Heisman and breaks down his theory that teams with a good ground game and solid defense could be very profitable over the next few months.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back to Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Andrew Ivins, joined as always by my man, David Lake. Today, we got a special guest joining us, |
| 0:30.6 | and I think if you're a betting man, you're going to like this man a lot. Alan Bell with Sportsline. |
| 0:36.5 | Alan is an analyst, handicapper, kind of a do-it-all for |
| 0:41.5 | sports line. Alan, how you doing? And I'm doing good. Doing well, ready for some football right |
| 0:45.9 | around the corner. I know Andrew's probably going to be taking notes down during this podcast, |
| 0:52.4 | everything you say. |
| 0:55.5 | I'd be careful with that. |
| 1:02.6 | He's definitely more of a betting man than I am, but it's definitely, it's, it is interesting analytics to follow and know just as a writer because very rarely is, is Vegas or |
| 1:09.9 | betting lines, are they wrong? There's a reason why it's a business so |
| 1:13.2 | you know I think my perspective is a homer perspective and on Miami and you can bring kind of the |
| 1:20.5 | cold hard facts analyst perspective to the fan base that's listed into this podcast so I'm excited |
| 1:26.5 | to dig in yeah I am too man i it's a |
| 1:29.9 | pleasure to work with you guys man i'm excited i guess alan why don't you kind of intro explain |
| 1:35.3 | what you do what sports line is um i mean you used to work for 24-7 sports so uh just kind of |
| 1:43.9 | i guess detail ever give us the spark notes or I mean, you used to work for 24-7 sports. So just kind of, I guess, detail. |
| 1:45.9 | Give us the Spark Notes or Wikipedia bio on what you do. |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:51.2 | So work with Sportsline. |
| 1:52.8 | Sportsline is the gambling data information kind of arm for CBS, CBS Sports, |
| 1:58.3 | CBS Sports, you know, our entire Viacom family, you know, about six, six and a half years ago, |
| 2:04.6 | came to 24-7 sports, started the NFL, you know, organization there. |
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