Ready Set Bet | September 5, 2026 | Hour 1

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And it's Ready Set Bet here on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network. Matt Brown here for the next three hours, and it is back, baby. I know you feel it. We've been feeling it for about two weeks here in Las Vegas, going through the casino out here behind us. The energy was starting to rise and it is finally here. We have football back officially. I know there was week zero. Week zero to me doesn't exist. It's called week zero. We move on here. This is week number one. We have real games, real teams, everybody getting after it. And boy, are we excited to have it back in our lives. Cannot wait until right, you know, in about three minutes some actual real kickoffs get going out there. Some housekeeping. We will have an awesome show with some guests here. Jimmy Ott going to join us. My guy from down there in Baton Rouge. See what's going on as LSU gets ready to host Clemson, the fake Tigers in my opinion. Wes Reynolds going to join us. He will always have a handful of bets for you today. If you want to tell Wes on the college football side of things, Jeff Erickson will come in. We'll talk some baseball with him. Of course, he's big into the fantasy side of things. Can we get some last minute fantasy advice? I'm sure you guys are still waiting on a draft or two out there in that one. Jennifer Viachinti will join us as well. We'll get her thoughts on not only what's going on in the fantasy world, but remember, she was also the host of a gigantic $100,000 buy-in. Yes, $100K, $100,000 buy-in draft that took place last week up at Circus Swim. We'll get the recap of that and see how that all went down. Were there some sharp people in there or was it a bunch of rich people? We'll see what she has to say about that. Again, we have kick-offs that are coming right now. If you want to get in on any of these, you got about two or three minutes in all these. West Virginia is a 21-point favorite over Coastal Carolina, 54.5. The total there in that one. Houston is a 21-point favorite over Oregon State. 50.5 is your total there in that one. Indiana, kick things off there, trying to go back to back for Indiana. They are 39.5-point favorites over North Texas. 56.5, your total there in that one.

Nebraska is a 23.5-point favorite over Ohio. 47.5 is our total in that one. Bowling Green and Tarleton State, I know you were ready to bet this one. I know this was the first bet that you put in your account. Only a point and a half, though, in favor of Bowling Green over Tarleton State. 49.5, the total there in that one. UConn and Lafayette, UConn a 21.5-point favorite. 51.5 is your total there in that one. Army and Bryant, Army a 37.5-point favorite. 51.5 is your total there in that one. Alabama gets going. Is Alabama a real threat this year, or is Alabama gonna finally come back down to earth a couple years in a row? We saw that for this Alabama program now in the NIL. Certainly the transfer portal era. Can Alabama keep up with everybody else? Again, it's just a spinning race, arms race here. No longer the Nick Saban magic down there in Tuscaloosa. 27.5, your spread in that one over East Carolina. 52.5 is Alabama, again, tries to prove that they have not fallen off. James Madison and James Madison in Liberty. James Madison is six point favorite over Liberty. Fifty and a half is your total. Sixteen and a half point favorites are Pittsburgh over Miami of Ohio. But that one does not get going here for about about 20 minutes or so. But that's going to get all of these early kickoffs out of the way as far as the spread and the totals there. And that one is College Game Day. Sitting here picking who's going to win between LSU and Clemson.

So far, a clean sweep for LSU. Let's see what Pat McAfee has to say. LSU down in Baton Rouge, about a ten point favorite. Call me a homer if you want to. This did get to nine and a half. And I took the Tigers and the real Tigers, the LSU version of the Tigers there as favorites in this one to cover at home. I do believe Lane Kiffin is going to go out there and if it's all possible, he's going to run the score up. I mean, listen, you guys know what's been going on. We'll talk to Jimmy Ott, like I said, here in about 45 minutes as to what the vibe is down there in Baton Rouge after not only just a weird off season in the first place, right? I mean, Lane Kiffin getting all the headlines, ditching social media, no longer doing that. You get the Vanity Fair article come out and talk about Nick Saban saying he had to keep him away from the co-eds and all the things that are going on with that. And now, are the guys that we're on, you know, were the guys that were on pro teams in camp, allowed to play, which by the way, they will not today at least. And we'll see how that all plays out over the course of the next couple of weeks, but tons and tons of off-field stuff. But what about this on-field team? This is a team that went out and destroyed the transfer portal. We are talking, getting everybody basically that they went after. Every good player in the transfer portal basically ended up in Baton Rouge. And can the sum of the parts equal a team that can get it on the field? And that's the thing. We have seen very talented teams before, but that does not necessarily mean that it's going to transfer to wins over on the field. So we'll talk to Jimmy about that. And of course, kind of the game everybody is talking about today is that LSU and Clemson game. We did have some games go off yesterday.