There is going to be an energy to game time decisions that you will feel night in and night out. We're going to go through every single thing and I've got a great team behind me that's going to help me get the job done. I want this to be the place that people come to. We are going to hit every single one of those markets that you need to know about. There is not going to be a better place, I promise you, than game time decisions. We will have everything at our disposal and we will use that to our advantage. I'm Kevin Walsh, tune in to game time decisions from 6 to 8 p.m. eastern on Sports Grid. You know what? What can one of these quarterbacks or wide receivers do for me this year to make a wager? It's got to be the running conditions there for Jayden Daniels. In regards to Jayden Daniels. You know I was on him in regards to the Heisman Trophy. I actually think he's going to do it on the ground through the air. 40 touchdowns, four interceptions. Playing in Kliff Kingsbury's offense where he wants to spread it and throw it. I think he's going to put up dynamic numbers. Pro football today only on sports Grid. The only streaming sports betting network. Tips, info and insights to up your IQ. It's smarter to be on sports grid. New to the live golf Plus app? Watch live golf any way you want it. Follow any group. Replay any shot anytime, anywhere. Any questions? Watch live golf, live and on demand. And for grabs in the first half for just over 30 yards. Was injured. Came back in briefly and then had to be carted off. We were pessimistic on Puka Nacua injury to that same right knee of that being a nothin, just a Bursa. And that's it. As for Sean McVay, we felt there could be a small PCL component. The early line only on sports grid. Welcome to our number two live on this Tuesday on the early line on sports Grid. He is Joe Ranieri. I am Ben Stevens. Outside of week number one of this NFL season. There's still a lot more happening across the sports landscape. Really. The home stretch of this major League Baseball season, with each and every day, each and every game for teams in the hunt for October having ramifications on that playoff race, whether it's a divisional title chase or a spot in the wild card standings, we start with Major League Baseball. It's the fall series on the PGA tour. At least that's what they tell me. Keith Stewart joins us up next for some PGA tour plays. We'll take an early look at week number two around the National Football League here on the early line. And of course some college football conversations entering the week. Three Saturday slate. And really the best game of the weekend coming Friday night as well. All of that journey over these next two hours up until 11 a.m. eastern. Yeah. And I mean, it's you think about it, Ben. We're a week and a half in to September. And really, the next two months, total pandemonium, especially with the postseason coming up for Major League Baseball. We actually have meaningful games at the end of a long regular season, which is exactly what Manfred and Company wanted. And here we are. We got it. Everybody involved. It would seem now. And let's start with what we saw yesterday. Just a nine game slate on a Monday around MLB. Every team less than 20 games remains over these next two and a half weeks or so down the home stretch of the MLB season for the New York Yankees, they're going to be a playoff team for the Kansas City Royals. Casey is also more than likely going to be a playoff team in the American League. But what we have to figure out is the divisional race in the American League East, the Yanks and the O's entered Monday separated by just a half game for that top spot. The pinstripes in front of the Orioles thanks to double digit runs yesterday and a victory to open up the midweek set inside Yankee Stadium. New York extends that advantage. Booked as a -184 home moneyline favorite, a total of eight and a half. Skies over the pinstripes a big victory. Ten runs yesterday four RBIs accounted for by Austin Wells, including what was a three run home run midway through the game. That gave the Yanks the lead for good. Four RBIs off the bat of Austin Wells, Jason Dominguez, the young star, at least the young promising prospect for New York, called up yesterday one for four, scoring a run as well. The Yanks open up their series this week against Kansas City with a ten four win. Yeah And that home run by Wells, 404 405ft was an absolute bomb. That seven I believe seven home runs in his last 37, games here. So yeah, that's always been the problem with the Yankees. Right? We know Soto. We know judge. Good to go. Can anybody else step up? Hello. Anybody else give us enough production in order to carry it? The good news is the Yankees, with that win last night been actually surpassed their win total from a year ago. Is that success or is anything short of a World Series championship just utter failure for the Yankees? I think it's going to be fascinating as Baltimore seems to run out of steam here a little bit. And why not? With that pitching staff? But it's going to be interesting to see if the Yankees can keep this rolling over the final two and a half weeks of the season into the postseason. Make that 83 wins for the New York Yankees, 83 and 61. Also not just a game and a half in front of Baltimore as the O's got trounced yesterday in Fenway. It's been a struggle for the young rookie left hander Cade Povich, who probably would not be starting games if Baltimore starting staff was healthier than it has been. Grayson Rodriguez, Zach Eflin still on the shelf right now for the Orioles, but Rob Refsnyder and Tyler O'Neill both hitting two home runs last night in Fenway for Boston. The Red Sox win 12 to 3. The O's backed by a game and a half but still the top spot in the American League wild card chase. How about the other New York team? That would be the Mets rallying up in the six against the Blue Jays, a road favorite was New York at -130, a total of eight and a half stays well under. The Mets had their nine game win streak snapped on Sunday against Cincinnati, but make it ten victories in the last 11 for the Amazins. A couple of pitching woes for Toronto in the eighth. That'll allow a couple of runs to score off a wild pitch and a passed ball. The Mets come back to win 3 to 2 over the Jays. And they did it with, you know what? Spot starter with Tyler McGill. Retired his last 16. I think he struck out nine in that game. You know that is a huge effort. With the Mets who could easily have, you know, lost 3 or 4 after such a big win streak. Man, we've seen that a million times. I mean, these aren't frontline starters. The Mets are rolling out and winning, whit. But you know what? They're stepping up when it matters the most. And that unfortunately for other teams is the. And we've seen Arizona do it. We saw Philadelphia ride it right through. We've seen Atlanta. Could the Mets be that team that is playing its best baseball at the right time? The Mets were bad in the first two plus months of this major League Baseball season, but the proud organization responds in June. The grimmest Mets, they were 16 and eight, 17 and ten. In July, but got off to a sluggish start in August, just four and seven. But since August 13th, Joe with a victory yesterday, the Mets are now 18 and seven and they've got ten wins in their last 11 games. So New York comes back to beat Toronto in a one game makeup yesterday in Atlanta. Between the Braves and the Reds, the Braves shut out at home. One nothing. Ty France hit an RBI double in the second. That's all Atlanta or that's all Cincinnati would need in Atlanta did not need as they only had two hits yesterday offensively. So the Braves shut out by the Reds. The Mets win up in the six. The New York Mets now a one game lead for the third and final National League wild card spot for the first time in a long time, the Braves fall out of a playoff picture in the National League. And it would be if this if it ended. And that's the way it goes. And that's the order. That would be the first time we've seen have not had the Braves in the postseason since, what, seven 2017. It's been we don't realize it, Ben, but it's been forever since Atlanta wasn't a postseason staple. And yet here we are. I mean, listen, you get shut out by Nick Martinez. Shame on you. Just absolutely at home. Shame on you. Atlanta. Yep. Absolutely. So, Nick Martinez, great two hit, shutout baseball, seven innings of work for Cincinnati. So just a one game makeup for Atlanta and Cincy who also play in Cincinnati next week. So wondering why they scheduled this one here at the end of July. But really that National League wild card race and that third and final spot could come down to a series that starts exactly two weeks from today in the ATL. That's the Braves and the Mets. They've already played ten games this year. Their final series against one another is two weeks. It's the second to last series for both clubs, and they have split the ten games. Five wins for the Mets, five wins for the Braves as of right now. New York maintains that one game lead for the third and final spot in the National League Wild Card Chase, and with both the D-backs and the Padres cooling off a little bit, as was to be expected, the Mets aren't even all that far back now of Arizona for the second wild card spot around the NL. The Pittsburgh Pirates, unfortunately, are not going to contend for a National League wild card spot, and that's why Skeen's days in the history of Major League Baseball lack a little bit of luster. But yesterday, historic the 20th Skene's day in the history of MLB Skene's day x x buck goes nearly a $3 favorite at home against the Miami Marlins. And Paul Skenes great. Once again six innings of work, only allowing a single earned run and striking out nine. He is now ten and two this year. Joe with A210 E.R.A. But the Pirates, just 13 and 23 since the start of August, PGA tour plays even in the fall. Up next on the Arizon. Anyone that's been to a sporting event, the atmosphere before a game, I think game time decisions has that same exact atmosphere. This is our arena. This is what we do. There is going to be an energy to game time decision that you will feel night in and night out. The excitement you get when you when you lock your bets in, when you're figuring out what you want to do. We can zone in on the biggest games each night. I want this to be the place that people come to before the game starts, so they feel as ready as possible to lock in their cards. We are going to hit every single one of those markets that you need to know about. We're going to go through every single thing, and I've got a great team behind me that's going to help me get the job done. There is not going to be a better place. I promise you, than game time decisions to get that new information, react to it and be able to then bet accordingly. We will have everything at our disposal and we will use that to our advantage. I'm Kevin Walsh. Tune in to game time decisions from 6 to 8 p.m. eastern on Sports Grid. It's a new era in CFB to start off this year. Put on full display. Take on this game is simple. I know some people will be upset about it. Good riddance to the Pac 12. Can you do it in terms of the week to week to week? I don't see a pathway for this team to miss the college football playoffs. We want to make sure you have those best bets and the entirety of our betting cards. But he had that every year only on Sports Grid. Let's go. Welcome to the Liv Golf Team Championship. The golf has been mesmerizing. They are the Liv golf team champions. Team golf is bac. Oh, yes. Are you ready? Let's go. That's what champions do. The PGA Tour Fall series starts this week in wine country up in Northern California Napa, California. So Keith Stewart joins us here on this Tuesday on the Early line on sports Grid. Keith, we appreciate the time. Thank you for being here as always on tell Ben. Joe good morning. Hey, Joe. Congratulations. The Louisville police just called. They called me and they said, thank God that the Miami-Dade police have done such a good job, because now they're suddenly off the hook. As far as arresting superstars in the sports world. Always a confusing time when that happens. So, Keith, let's look at where things are before we dive into the fall series with what we saw at the end of the Fedex Cup playoffs. Scottie Scheffler, unlike the previous two seasons, does triumph at East Lake. 30 under par, of course, with the starting strokes included as the Fedex Cup champion this year. In 2020 for a green jacket, seven PGA tour victories. We discussed Keith, of course, how things would be in the competition for the PGA Tour Golfer of the year between Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele. You add in a gold medal for Scottie as well. Is Scottie Scheffler the PGA Tour Player of the year in 2024? Well Ben there's without a doubt that he has earned that right this year. He's had a historic year and I think that becomes now part of the conversation after winning the Fedex Cup and taking home the $25 million prize and basically cementing himself as the golfer of 2024. It's like, okay, well, where does this year compare to the great years of Tiger Woods that we saw in the early 2000? And that's more of the conversation that I think that we're going to be having this fall. Once Scottie is actually designated the PGA Tour Player of the year and the players get their votes in. But it's an exciting time for the PGA tour because the fall becomes part of limbo. The top 50in the Fedex Cup points that made it all the way to Denver when I was back out there. Those guys are set. Their numbers are set in stone, but the rest of the top 125 have eight events this fall with which to gain a spot and their 2025 card, and we start this week out in Napa at the Pro Corps Championship. And we know Keith in this. In years past, we were talking that you've got a couple of Wyndham Clark. You've got the guy I think is the favorite but or Max Homa as well as another, another name who obviously has not been playing. Well, let me t with this. What under wins this tournament because this feels like a birdie fest. USA no. Oh, there's no doubt about that, Joe. Par 72 scorecard measuring just a little over 7100 yards with four par fives, the average winning score over the last five years is 19 under par. The last ten winners have averaged somewhere in the ballpark of 24 sub par scores over 72 holes. So, you know, a third of the holes that they're going to play. They're going to make birdie or better on. So and at the length that these guys are going to play we have nine par fours of the ten. They're under 435 yards. These guys drive the ball 300 yards in the air. That's a wedge to attack all of these holes. And if you look historically at the guys that have played well here, not just the Heath Theegala who's defending champion, but then the two years before that, Max Homa, when Max was in the prime of his playing ability. Right, he was driving the ball in play all the time. And he is a super good putter, very opportunistic. So he hits it close with a wedge and he makes a ton of birdies. And that's why he was such a good fit here. Now Max has got a lot on his plate right now. He's the last captain selection for this Presidents Cup team. And those matches happen in two weeks. There's six guys here that are in the matches that are competing in the Pro Corps championship, and Theegala, Wyndham Clark, Max Homa, these guys at the top of the board, Corey Conners I get the feeling that as we talk about, you know, the favorites and everything, I'm going to look past those guys because overall I think they have to be especially Theegala even as the defending champ, he it's his first time going to one of these matches. It's his first Presidents Cup for Wyndham Clark. Yes. He went to Rome last year for the Ryder Cup. You know Max Homa has got a lot on his plate. He just switched coaches. I mean these guys I'm going to skip past the presidents Cup guys. When I look at the pro corps, you know, kind of early liens. And I'm definitely going to be looking further down the board when we get to that point. Just over two weeks away, the 2024 Presidents Cup up in Montreal between team USA and the international team, as well. We'll talk about that in a few weeks time. So, Keith, you mentioned looking deeper down. The board can always be a time during the fall series on the PGA tour to find some big plus money prices. Who gets your attention? Well, you know what? Over the last ten years, the average pre-tournament odds of the winners have been somewhere around 90 to 1 or plus 9000. So we got to look a little bit deeper down the board. Oh yeah. So there's one guy that we've been talking about a couple times off and on, whether it was Golf Wednesday or with you guys on Tuesday morning. And that's J.J. Spaun back in Minnesota at the 3 a.m. top ten ninth. He was on nobody's radar and we were playing him at Read the Line a week later, he goes to the Wyndham and he comes in third. Now he didn't make the playoffs because he had a nice run toward the end of his season, but he's still hitting the ball great over his last five starts. He's gaining over seven strokes against the field and he sits right at that 40 to 1 mark. That plus 4000. Now as we start talking about him here on Sports Grid that number is going to drop. So I would jump after him early. He's definitely one of my early leans on the early line. The other guy. Speaking of fours fourth place last year here at the Pro Tour Championship Eric Cole. And he's been a little hot lately. Now his big peccadillo is getting the ball in play off the tee. You don't have to hit driver everywhere here at the Silverado Resort on the North Course, which they play this tournament and have since 2014. So it definitely favors Cole, who's an excellent wedge player and an unbelievable putter and scorer. Guy makes a ton of sub par scores and that's why he was fourth here last year. He's sitting at plus 4500. So those two are very good early liens on the early line. I got to ask you why I always say about the old guys. Right. The old guys have been showing up over the last couple of tournaments here. So does Kuchar. Does Webb Simpson. How far can we go with the old guys in this one? I mean you can go as far as you want. The captain of the International Presidents Cup team, Mike Weir he's even here teeing it up I mean this guy doesn't have something to do in two weeks. I mean, it's crazy, but you know what? When it comes to the fall, these guys, if they slide, if you know, if they pull off a couple top tens and they slide into that top 125, they get their status for 2025. I know a lot of this doesn't amongst football and everything else. You know what's going on. But those guys that sit between 50 and 150 on the points list, this is this is a big deal for the next three months. And you know what? We're going to see some great golf along the way Keith Stewart we appreciate the time. Thank you for being here on this Tuesday on the Early Line on Sports Grid. We'll talk in a few weeks getting ready for the presidents Cup as well. Divisional races, playoff races and MLB next. Anyone that's been to a sporting event, the atmosphere before a game I think game time decisions has that same exact atmosphere. This is our arena. This is what we do. There is going to be an energy to game time decision that you will feel night in and night out. The excitement you get when you when you lock your bets in, when you're figuring out what you want to do. We can zone in on the biggest games each night. I want this to be the place that people come to before the game starts, so they feel as ready as possible to lock in their cards. We are going to hit every single one of those markets that you need to know about. We're going to go through every single thing and I've got a great team behind me that's going to help me get the job done. There is not going to be a better place, I promise you, than game time decisions to get that new information, react to it and be able to then bet accordingly. We will have everything at our disposal and we will use that to our advantage. I'm Kevin Walsh, tune in to game time decisions from 6 to 8 p.m. eastern on Sports Grid. It's a new era in CFB to start off this year. Put on full display. Take on this game is simple. I know some people will be upset about it. Good riddance to the Pac 12. Can you do it in terms of the week to week to week? I don't see a pathway for this team to miss the college football playoffs. We want to make sure you have those best bets and the entirety of our betting cards. But he had the only on sports grid. Let's go. Welcome to the live golf team championship. The golf has been mesmerizing. They are the Liv golf team champions. Team golf is bac. Oh, yes. Are you ready? Let's go. That's what champions do. For. The playoff picture around Major League Baseball. Outside of the National Football League. It is our focus. The October stretch run here to end out September again. Less than 20 games remain for every club around major League Baseball. About 1718 games left for most teams. We start Joe in the National League and what the postseason outlook is as of this moment. Now, the Dodgers have the best record alongside the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phils walking it off yesterday. Thank you. Cody Clemens. The Dodgers actually got beat at home by the Chicago Cubs 10 to 4, despite Shohei Ohtani stealing another base. So that's the battle for the top spot in the National League that we'll look at in just a moment. But we expect both LA and Philadelphia to earn the opening round bye into the Division Series. That was not always the case, but Milwaukee has trailed off a little bit. Both LA and Philadelphia, three and a half games clear of the Brew Crew. The most compelling component, though, of the National League playoff picture, not the division races, where every divisional leader is up substantially. It's that wild card chase the Padres and the D-backs in front, and now the Mets, a four game up on the Atlanta Bravs for that third and final spot. But the Mets not all that far behind either San Diego or Arizona. The three teams that occupy the three wild card positions at this moment rarely separated all by just a game and a half. It's kind of crazy, and I will remind everyone what we watched a year ago. Then with Arizona, where, hey, none of us were talking about the Diamondbacks, and then slowly but surely in the August and September they were the hottest team in Major League Baseball, and they rode that right to a National League championship here. While other teams kind of ran out of gas. And the injuries started to catch up with them. It feels like the Padres, the Diamondbacks and the Mets are doing just that. And it feels like the teams that are already at the top of the their division leaderboards, they might be worried about injuries or even better yet, maybe slowing out of steam and played their best baseball. Then already they they played it back in in May and June and July and not now. So I think it's going to be absolutely wild. So what's really fascinating, the Padres and the Diamondbacks by far the two hottest teams following the all star break up until August 25th. Arizona was 26 and eight from the all star break in August. Up until August 27th. The Padres were 26 and nine since the all star break back in Arlington. Now they've cooled off just a little bit at least by those relative standards. The Padres in their last 11 games are five and six. Oh man, they're a game below 500 in the last 11 games for Arizona, they're four and seven. Again. They are going to be playoff teams more than likely. But with Atlanta behind New York by only a game for the third and final spot. And now with the Mets and the D-backs and the Padres separated by only a game and a half, all fourf those teams just a two and a half game distinction for the three wild card positions. There was a thought earlier this summer, or at least before we got to September, that we would see the Padres and the D-backs well clear of whoever won that third and final National League wild card spot. Now, they're not separated by all that much. Yeah, it's all it's a coin flip down the stretch, isn't it? Here. But I as good as you mentioned it after the all star break, the Padres and Arizona have been, the Mets team might just have them beat by the time we get to the end of the regular season. I don't particularly think it's going to be close. I think the Mets could very well. The way the schedule lines up, is it hard to think that they're the number one wild card team, when it's all said and done? Because I don't think that is I don't think the Cubs are done as far as I'm concerned. So it's a matter of who wins the top wild card spot. I would not be shocked if it's the Mets. Yeah, the cubbies still five games back of New York for what would be that third and final spot. All of the division prices around the National League are off the FanDuel sports book. Because of the substantial advantages the Dodgers, the Brewers and the Phillies. Have you mentioned the Braves who have made the postseason every year since 2017? In MLB, every year has been via winning the National League East, more than likely, their six season streak of winning the division comes to a close. What is really interesting as well is the top spot in the National League. The Dodgers, a -220 favorite despite having the same exact record as the Phillies right now. But in the season series, six matchups between these two teams, it was all Philadelphia. They won five of six. The tiebreaker could lead to home field advantage throughout the NL playoff picture. More around the American League comes your way next here on the early line. And for anyone that's been to a sporting event, the atmosphere before a game, I think game time decisions has that same exact atmosphere. This is our arena. This is what we do. There is going to be an energy to game time decision that you will feel night in and night out. The excitement you get when you when you lock your bets in, when you're figuring out what you want to do. We can zone in on the biggest games each night. I want this to be the place that people come to before the game start, so they feel as ready as possible to lock in their cards. We are going to hit every single one of those markets that you need to know about. We're going to go through every single thing, and I've got a great team behind me that's going to help me get the job done. There is not going to be a better place, I promise you, than game time decisions to get that new information, react to it and be able to then bet accordingly. We will have everything at our disposal and we will use that to our advantage. I'm Kevin Walsh. Tune in to game time decisions from 6 to 8 p.m. eastern on Sports Grid. It's a new era in CFB to start off this year. Put on full display. Take on this game is simple. I know some people will be upset about it. Good riddance to the Pac 12. Can you do it in terms of the week to week to week? I don't see a pathway for this team to miss the college football playoffs. We want to make sure you have those best bets and the entirety of our betting cards. But he had that only on Sports Grid. Let's go. Welcome to the Liv Golf Team Championship. The golf has been mesmerizing. They are the Liv golf team champions. Team golf is back. Oh, yes. Are you ready? Let's go. That's what champions do. From the National League to the Al. The playoff picture in the American League live right here on this Tuesday on the early line on sports grid. All season long. All summer long, all September long. It would seem Joe Ranieri the most fascinating battle in terms of playoff positioning in the Al. Who's going to win the American League East when the Yankees started to stumble? The Orioles never took advantage. And that's still where things are for Baltimore. They trail the Yankees by a game and a half. Now for that top spot in the American League East division. The Yankees winning yesterday 10 to 4 at home over Kansas City. Baltimore getting blown out in Boston by the Red Sox. The Sox winning 12 to 3 final in Fenway. So now a game and a half lead for the Yankees atop the American League East and a full game in front of the Guardians for the Yankees for what ise best record in the a l the Yankees, a game and a half lead in the American League East, the Guardians up by three and a half in the American League Central, and the Astros, still a four game lead in the American League West. The Mariners not necessarily out of it at this moment, as we are only three games back for Seattle and Detroit and Boston, who's not on that list of the third and final American League wild card spot, as the twins are in a little bit of a slide right now riding a four game skid. Yeah, and this is going to be kind of the best of the rest, right? I mean, the Guardians had such a great first half, Ben. And we've seen teams do this before where they've had Philadelphia did it in the National League here. They had such a successful first half. Took advantage of easy schedule. And they're kind of riding that to the end. The Guardians have not been good since the All star break either here. But you mentioned it. The twins didn't start great. They seem to have figured it out, but injuries continue to be a concern there. The Royals quite honestly, have been the most consistent team of any of them in that division, which is kind of laughable. I think. Baltimore two things have happened. The injuries with the pitching staff, and they have somewhere along the line morphed into a home run or bust type team that never wins in the postseason. And I think that very young, very inexperienced Baltimore is going to be around over the next couple of years, like it or not. But this year I think it's the Yankees to lose the American League East as well as the American League pennant. When you look at the odds right now in the American League East Division -264, New York plus 200 for Baltimore. The two will end the season, at least in their second to last set against one another. And that could also decide who earns the top overall seed in the American League as well. Because the Yankees are a -190 favorite to be the number one seed in the Al. The Guardians Plus 310. But Baltimore still has life in that market. Joe at plus 390. Yeah Listen, anything that we it's so funny for the Yankees being in first place, having one of the best records right in in Major League Baseball, doesn't it feel like they have been the most up and down, inconsistent team that we have? And I think all of that stems from which Aaron Judge and which Soto show up. And do they show up together because you're not beating the Yankees. But if they don't, the Yankees are very beatable with that pitching staff, unfortunately. So when you look at the season series between these two teams, it was all Baltimore to start. They won five of the first seven. Recently. They played right before the all star break when the O's could have ran away. It seemed with the American League East against a slumping New York team, and the Yankees rallied to win two of those three games. So the Orioles still have the season series advantage at this moment, they've won six of ten, and again, the second to last set of the year between these two sides in the Bronx. Inside Yankee Stadium to end out their second to last series of this season. How critical will that set be? There is no doubt, though, Joe. The team that loses the American League East is going to factor into the postseason race. The Orioles three games in front of the Royals, who are now two and a half games in front of Minnesota. The twins on a four game slide. Again. They still have a the game cushion in front of the Mariners in front of the Red Sox, who have not been great since the all star break. But how about that? Those Detroit Tigers? If you want some optimism for a team that is under year number two of the management of A.J. Hinch, with a guy who is going to run away with the American League, Cy Young Award in Tarik Skubal in some exciting young bats. Riley Green, Matt Vierling some others there for Detroit. This Tigers team Joe they've won 18 of their last 26 games 18 and eight since August 10th because on August the 10th suffering yet another loss, Detroit was eight games below 500 at 55 and 63. Now two games north of that winning mark at 73 and 71. Is there any chance the Tigers, the Mariners, the Red Sox could rally here with less than 20 games remaining in this MLB campaign to storm all the way back and earn a playoff bid. Listen, you got to give them credit. They go back even further. Since July 1st, they're 35 and 25. That's the best record in the American League. Alongside the Houston Astros. Now the Astros had helped the Astros in that division obviously to claw their way to the top here. But it's put Detroit what three games out now of that wild card spot. And if that's going to keep happening if they're going to make this push then their team era over this. Since August 1st, Ben has been the best in major league Baseball. The pitching has been over the top, led by Tarik Skubal, the bullpen has been absolutely outstanding. If you get great pitching down the stretch and you still have those young hitters being able to drive in runs like they have been doing, and this isn't an anomaly, Ben. It's not like they've gone over in a nice seven game stretch here. They've been doing it since July 1st and nobody seems to have noticed. If the pitching holds up, the Tigers are very much in play for a wild card spot. It would be crazy to see that rally out of Detroit. It would be a very fun thing. The Astros, by the way, a hefty favorite to win the American League West. They have a four and a half game lead in front of the Mariners. Seattle has won four of its last five to make it respectable, but Houston since the all star break 27 and 20, they have just kept pace in front of the M's -3000. The price on the Astros. So Joe let's go. Big picture. We compared the two top teams in the American League East that for most of this MLB season had the two best prices to win the American League pennant. But now the Astros have moved in front of the O's by $0.20. They're a dollar behind the pinstripes. The Yankees plus 220. The Astros plus 320. The Orioles plus 340. The Yankees, of course, have failed to win an American League pennant since their last World Series in 2009. The Astros a very different story. They have at least played in the American League Championship Series seven consecutive seasons. Even after the cheating scandal came to a close. You said the Yankees are atop the American League. Who is that team you think would rival the Yankees for the pennant? Right now? Well, you have to go, Houston. Not because I think this is an exceptional Houston team. I think Houston, it has a little bit of luck rolling in them that they're stuck in a division in which everyone else, they're the best of the rest is really how I put Houston here. They're winning despite of themselves here. And but that experience matters Ben. This time of year they understand what it takes. Just get into the playoffs, right. And then anything can happen. They know how to win a short series. They know what this is all about. So from an experience standpoint, yeah I would favor them over the Orioles here. And then would we all be shocked if it came down to Houston and the Yankees? I don't think we'd be shocked at all. Wouldn't that be a very fun time? A rematch of the American League Championship Series from a few years back in the ALCS? Once again between the Astros and the Yankees? Quickly here and Arie, any of the three teams more than likely from the Al central that will get into the postseason. You could see making a run, or if you had to pick one of them, I don't see any. The only one would be the Guardians because of the bullpen. I don't trust either of the other two. They don't have the pitching. Listen, I love the Royals. They've already gone over their preseason win total that I bet at 73.5. So they have my heart. But I kind of agree with you. College football conversations. Next. Anyone that's been to a sporting event, the atmosphere before a game I think game time decisions has that same exact atmosphere. This is our arena. This is what we do. There is going to be an energy to game time decision that you will feel night in and night out. The excitement you get when you when you lock your bets in, when you're figuring out what you want to do. We can zone in on the biggest games each night. I want this to be the place that people come to before the game start, so they feel as ready as possible to lock in their cards. We are going to hit every single one of those markets that you need to know about. We're going to go through every single thing, and I've got a great team behind me that's going to help me get the job done. There is not going to be a better place, I promise you, than game time decisions to get that new information, react to it and be able to then bet accordingly. We will have everything at our disposal and we will use that to our advantage. I'm Kevin Walsh. Tune in to game time decisions from 6 to 8 p.m. eastern on Sports Grid. It's a new era in CFB to start off this year. Put on full display. Take on this game is simple. I know some people will be upset about it. Good riddance to the Pac 12. Can you do it in terms of the week to week to week? I don't see a pathway for this team to miss the college football playoffs. We want to make sure you have those best bets and the entirety of our betting cards. But he had that problem only on Sports Grid. Let's go. Welcome to the Live Golf team championship. The golf has been mesmerizing. They are the Liv golf team champions. Team golf is back. Oh, yes. Are you ready? Let's go. That's what champions do. Three weeks down in the college football season in 2024, including week zero two full Saturdays of the entire country. Getting involved also in the book. So now that we enter week number three midway through September, where are the odds in college football? In the Chase for a national championship? Georgia. The preseason favorite. They've seen their price shorten exactly by $0.10 plus 280 before the year got startedw plus 270. Ohio State had the second best price. Still the same case at plus 350. But Texas has moved forward at a plus 550 number third best number around the country. Part of that is the Longhorns dominance in Ann Arbor on Saturday afternoon. Part of it is Oregon struggling to start this year. The ducks now tied for the fourth best price alongside Alabama at 11 to 1. Joe will look at Georgia and Ohio State, whoe been pretty good this year. Georgia a test on paper against Clemson and ran them out of the building in Atlanta week number one. But let's start with the two biggest movers Texas moving forward, Oregon moving back. How much are you buying into Texas after what they did to the reigning national champs in Michigan on Saturday in the big house? Well, I mean, listen, there's we knew the talent was there offensively. I think what we're underestimating with Texas and what people need to realize is that's a real defense, Ben, that to go there and to do what they did and I don't care that it's rebuild. You can make up whatever excuses you want for the offense of Michigan. It is never easy going on the road. You know what wins on the road? Great defenses. And that defense showed up. And showed out. And I don't think we give them enough ct because of who the coach is and Sark and what they do offensively with Quinn Ewers and others. But the reality is if Texas is going to make a run at this, it's going to be the defense that's going to be a much bigger, catalyst in it than it's necessarily going to be the offense, because that defense is going to have to win them some games, tough games coming up on this schedule, and I think they can. When you really look at what Texas did on Saturday, what impressed me the most was not Quinn Ewers in the offense with all the tools at his disposal. It was that defense for the Longhorns fourth best rushing defense in the country, allowing less than 81 yards per game. A season ago. But part of that was the two NFL draft picks they had in the middle. Byron Murphy, De'vondre sweat, and both of those guys gone to the National Football League. How would they replicate that success in the interior against a Michigan team that the entire handicap for a lot of people, Joe was. Could Michigan slow down the game, keep it under 41.5, use that downhill rushing attack that had been the staple of Sharon more offenses because he is now the head coach. We almost forget he was the offensive coordinator under Jim Harbaugh and the o line coach that put together great and dominant offensive lines that over the past three years that resulted in three consecutive Big Ten titles, College Football Playoff berths and of course, last year a national championship took it to teams bullied teams. The idea was could Texas answer the call? Not only did they answer, they brought the fight to Michigan. They held the Wolverines to 3.6 yards per carry, only 82 yards on the ground. That Texas defense is the difference. So now that brings us to Oregon. The ducks on paper, should have got this year started in flying colors. FCS foe in Idaho inside Autzen Stadium. Score 70. They score 24, winning by ten. Only having a three point lead early in the fourth quarter, coming nowhere close to covering as a seven touchdown favorite. All right. Oddsmakers expected the resilience of Dan Lanning in the ducks week number two in Eugene against the reigning Mountain West champs in Boise State, a Boise State team that allowed a lot of points against Georgia Southern in the opener. Could they even keep it closer than three touchdowns? The oddsmakers in the betting public expected Oregon to win comfortably. Oregon needed a walk off field goal as time expired to win 3734, and Ashton Gent is still running up and down the sidelines inside Autzen Joe, what is your concern level for this Oregon team that entered the Big Ten with the second best price to win the conference, and had the third best number to reach the College Football Playoff, only behind the Buckeyes and the Georgia Bulldogs. So where e were wrong with Oregon was not from a talent perspective, righ? I think what we did not see coming was how not good they are in the trenches here. Ben. Yeah, we're talking they're not good on third down. They're not good in the red zone. Dillon Gabriel has been pressured on almost 30% of his drop backs. And when you look at who they've played, you better fix that in a hurry before you get to Big Ten play. But I'll tell you this, the schedule is favorable to them because they don't play USC. They don't play Penn State. They will be double digit favorites in just about every game except for Ohio State. And at Michigan. But quite honestly, I don't think Michigan can score on any quality team, including Oregon here. So they are going to be double digit favorites throughout the way, except for that Ohio State game. They have to figure out what's going on on the offensive line. They better figure that out in a hurry. Otherwise they're going to get caught in Big Ten play. Oregon in 2023 allowed five sacks. It was the fewest amount, unsurprisingly, at the FBS level. Only Liberty, who allowed nine sacks. Those were the two programs that allowed less than double digits. Oregon allowed five sacks in all of 2023. That includes the Pac 12 title game that includes the New Year's Six Bowl, when they ran the Liberty out of the ballpark, of course, as wel, they have given up seven sacks already in their first two games of 2024, three to Idaho, four last week against Boise State, and they've been getting gashed on the ground. Ashton Jeanty over 200 yards and three touchdowns against Oregon on Saturday. Where you thought the Michigan State transfer Derrick Harmon Mateo. Uiagalelei yeah, that's DJ whose younger brother would anchor that D line. It has been anything but. So how about a road trip to Corvallis to figure it out in the renewal of the Civil War against the spurned Oregon State Beavers, the ducks, a 16.5 point favorite up in Corvallis, which is a house of horrors for many a team trying to win a football game outright. Plenty more in college football, including the Heisman Trophy race next. Anyone that's been to a sporting event, the atmosphere before a game, I think game time decisions has that same exact atmosphere. This is our arena. This is what we do. There is going to be an energy to game time decision that you will feel night in and night out. The excitement you get when you when you lock your bets in, when you're figuring out what you want to do. We can zone in on the biggest games each night. I want this to be the place that people come to before the game start. So they feel as ready as possible to lock in their cards. We are going to hit every single one of those markets that you need to know about. We're going to go through every single thing, and I've got a great team behind me that's going to help me get the job done. There is not going to be a better place, I promise you, than game time decisions to get that new information, react to it and be able to then bet accordingly. We will have everything at our disposal and we will use that to our advantage. I'm Kevin Walsh, tune in to game time decisions from 6 to 8 p.m. eastern on Sports Grid. It's a new era in CFB to start off this year. Put on full display. Take on this game is simple. I know some people will be upset about it. Good riddance to the Pac 12. Can you do it in terms of the week to week to week? I don't see a pathway for this team to miss the college football playoffs. We want to make sure you have those best bets and the entirety of our betting cards. But he had that one every year only on sports Grid. Let's go. Welcome to the live golf team championship. The golf has been mesmerizing. They are the Liv golf team champions. Team golf is back. Oh, yes. Are you ready? Let's go. That's what champions do. Let's continue to look at the national championship odds. The tier of three at the top, and everybody else that rounds out the top ten. Our reactions from the first three weeks. But the first two full weeks in college football again Joe, the tier of three at the top, we've got three teams with a three digit price at less than 11 to 1 in Texas is half the next closest teams in Alabama and Oregon at 11 to 1 price. You see Texas now in the AP poll has vaulted past Ohio State based on the impressive performance in Ann Arbor. But the Buckeyes still a better national championship price in the best price of all three of these teams to reach the College Football Playoff, all three at least a $6 odds on favorite to get to the CFP. Will all three be in the College Football Playoff at the end of the season? Yeah, it's going to be very hard not to see at least those three at the top end outside of, maybe somebody playing spoiler in there. But we all know what happens with Ohio State, right. And ultimately it always comes down to Michigan. And I don't think they have to worry about beating Michigan this year. The only wild card in that Big Ten to me, Ben, is and I, I'm shocked that nobody paid attention to him early, but they're paying attention to him nowd it's that little team on the bottom that you may call U.S.C. and Lincoln Riley, all of a sudden now, people are paying attention to Lincoln, Riley and USC kind of absolutely crazy, isn't it, that it took this long, for people to realize that Lincoln Riley's offenses can beat anybody, anywhere, anytime, in any conference? We're going to see if they're as good as we think they are. Soon Eight years for Lincoln Riley as a head coach at the FBS level six in Oklahoma, two now at USC completed. This is year number three. But all eight seasons his his offenses have been top ten in the country. Six of the eight years inside the top five. And they pitched their first shutout against Utah State late on Saturday night inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the first time since 2011. That's the key for me when it comes to USC. Now let's go to the individual race that is the Heisman Trophy odds. We have a new favorite, Quinn Ewers. His price slashed in half and then some 11 to 1 entering week number two. Now 5 to 1 246 yards three touchdown tosses against the maze in blue. He has stepped up in every significant game that Texas has played last year. Joe five ranked opponents Quinn Ewers faced four. Texas threw for at least 317 yards, averaging 352. In those games, ten touchdowns to four interceptions, not 315 plus against Michigan, but against the really good secondary. Getting close to 250 is a testament and did not turn the football over. Clean football three touchdowns. Is Quinn Ewers deserving in your estimation, to be in the Heisman Trophy frontrunner? Oh yes, he can. But he's not going to win it, you know, but he can certainly go up there, if you want to make money in the Heisman market, get your money on cam Ward now, before it's too late, before it's not going to be worth betting him any time. I mean, listen, Quinn. Yards. Outstanding stuff, but we always seem to know t a Sark team in Texas. Something is going to go wrong at some point. It usually does. But cam Ward there in second spot. To me is the guy that should be your frontrunner there. Given the fact that the state of the ACC and how this lines up for Miami and the schedule and what they've got going, this this is going to be a top 3 or 4 seed in the college Football Playoff, provided they understand clock management and Mario Cristobal doesn't get in the way. Otherwise cam Ward, is going to cement himself, I think in a couple of weeks as the favorite to win the Heisman. Always a difficult thing for Mario Cristobal for this hurricanes program. That was 12 and 13 in his first two years. But now with how the ACC is playing out and how impressive they looked in the swamp, they are the favorites at plus 115 to win the ACC. Cam Ward did back up his 385 and three touchdown performance against Florida with more than 300 yards, three touchdowns in his first rushing score of the year for four total TDs against the best team from Tallahassee. That's Florida A and M on Saturday. Quinn Ewers has been really good. The statistical numbers are not overwhelming so far. Didn't have to do much against Colorado State. Texas has played two FBS foes to start this year, but he has been good in terms of those numbers. And what stands out to me is the 5 to 1 price to win the Heisman Trophy is actually shorter than Texas's number to win the national championship at plus 550. The name to know, though of the Heisman Trophy odds. It's Ashton Jeanty 28 to 1. The Heisman Trophy winner. Through two weeks of this college football seaso. Our three our third and final comes your way up nex.