Live Bet Saturday | August 1, 2026 | Hour 1

**Ben Stevens** (0:01)
This is Live Bet Saturday Off.

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:02)
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August the 1st be with you on a Saturday afternoon. Dustin Swedelson alongside Ben Stevens. We got you covered right here on Live Bet Saturday. VSiN, the Sports Betting Network. A lot to get to on the program today. A plentiful slate in Major League Baseball. We are officially on Tarek Scubal Watch. We will let you know how that market moves throughout the program. Maybe he gets dealt today, tomorrow, should get dealt before Monday, we think. Ben's thoughts on that, my thoughts on that, where we want him to land, and maybe some implications in the futures market. We will hit the golf with Gary Williams, SiriusXM, the Golf Channel. He's coming up in about 90 minutes on the program. The Rocket Classic currently ongoing right now in Detroit, Michigan. And Rasmus Hosegard is your leader at the top of the board, tied with Michael Brennan right now. Ryan McIntyre will be with us at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time to look at college football. Our college football betting guide at VSiN, it drops this week. Ben and I, with some write-ups on there, we have to talk a little win totals. Maybe see if there's a Heisman bet we can actually agree on as a group here. And then bottom of this hour, you know him, you'll love him. He's probably running somewhere right now in Las Vegas. It's Greg Hoops Peterson, MLB analyst at unit underscore 81 He will break down the card with us as well. We've got a game about to get going in just a few minutes. We'll touch on that in a moment. But first, hello to my partner, Ben Stevens. What's up, buddy? How are we feeling on a Saturday?

**Ben Stevens** (1:35)
It's not just a Saturday, Dustin Swedelson. It is the first Saturday in the month of August. In fact, it is the first day in this month of August. And August means football. Football games will be played here in this month of August. Four weeks from right now, we will be looking at a game in the Dublin debut between North Carolina and TCU to kick off week zero of college football and the entirety of the 2026 campaign. So I cannot wait to break down our college football betting guide, some of our CFB futures for this upcoming season. We can talk some NFL as training camp is fully underway, basically 40 week for all 32 NFL clubs. And of course, the biggest storylines that have emerged from the first few days of practice. And we've got five games in our window for Major League Baseball, a little quieter than we normally have for our Saturday slate. But at least the first game of the day in the big starts in just a matter of moments for us here up in the six.

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:33)
Let's talk about it. We go north of the border, Kevin Gausman making what is likely his final start as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. Blue Jays are a big favorite, minus 175
That's because the Cardinals, the Major League debut of Quinn Matthews, the left-hander, if you go back and look at the minor league stats, they're pretty good, Ben, and he's plus 144 The total in this matchup is eight.
I'll tell you this, I'm looking at that plus 144 It looks kind of juicy because Toronto's got nothing to play for. We got guys on borrowed time up and down the line up in the rotation in the bullpen. They're going to be sellers in this market. Toronto did win Friday three to one. They're on a four to run. St. Louis has lost five or six. I ultimately am not going to get there with St. Louis, but I might consider something in game. Instead, Ben, because Kevin Gausman is making his final start, well, it's like you're trying to sell a used car if you're Toronto.
You can't have anything major happen to the engine while you got the for sale sign up in the front yard when it's listed on cars.com. I think Kevin Gausman goes under his strikeouts. We're going to go under five and a half today.
You combine that with the fact that St. Louis has the fourth lowest K-Rate Major League Baseball, vsin.com/mlbprops, where you can see the Opti AI Player Prop projections. They have it minus 3.7% to the under. They haven't projected at 5.38. I do think that's correct. I think we stay under the five and a half today because Toronto has got to be very, very careful with Gausman, who they are shopping on the block. You like to play in this game as well, I believe.