Tag: Bad Beats

ACC team featured in incredible ‘Bad Beats’ segment with Scott Van Pelt

An ACC team won a non-conference game this week in blowout fashion but it’s how the last 90 seconds went that has the sports world talking.

One of the best things going on in sports-television these days is Scott Van Pelt’s weekly “Bad Beats” segment on SportsCenter each Monday night.

In the segment, he and Stanford Steve go over the worst beats from a gambling perspective over the weekend.

Sometimes it’s a freakish lateral play that gets fumbled and returned for a back-door cover, other times you’ll see a ridiculous catch or bizarre call by an official change who ultimately covered the game.

On a weekend that saw plenty of them, the ACC’s Virginia Cavaliers pulled off perhaps the greatest backdoor cover one will ever against Abilene Christian.

No, not just because of the last play, but because of the last 90 seconds of the unimaginable that led to an even crazier final outcome.  Take a look for yourself:

I know we’ll focus on the pick six to end it and give Virginia the ultimate cover but what in the name of Mary and Joseph is with the Cavaliers play-call on 2nd and 12 with 41 seconds remaining, while up 36?

The pick-six to end it is the icing on the cake but the ride to set that play up only blows my mind more each time I go back and rewatch it.

He who gambles lives in shambles.

Thoughts and prayers if you lost money because of that, but more thoughts and prayers your way seeing as you actually bet on Virginia/Abilene Christian.

Yikes.

A meaningless late Chiefs field goal turned into a horrible bad beat for bettors

OOF this hurts.

We’re just one game into the 2020 NFL season, but there’s already been a horrifically bad beat that lost some bettors money.

With the Kansas City Chiefs up 31-20 on the Houston Texans and with 2:38 left on the clock, the Texans tried an onside kick and the Chiefs returned it into field goal territory. Kansas City ran the clock all the way down to 30 seconds, and Harrison Butker nailed a 19-yard field goal to make it 34-20.

What’s significant about that? The over/under on the point total for some bettors was exactly 53.5. The field goal pushed it over, something that wasn’t lost on NBC’s Al Michaels.

Per Yahoo Sports, someone bet a whopping $100,000 with BetMGM on the under. And that bettor must be tearing his or her hair out:

Yikes. That’s so so so bad.

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XFL opener provides double bad beats for bettors

Taking points off the board led to bad beats for bettors in the Seattle-DC XFL game.

The XFL is back. And somehow, without a single game having been played, Vegas was spot on with its line and over/under. Those two numbers created bad beats for anyone who had Seattle and the under in the opener against the DC Defenders.

For a minute or so in the fourth quarter Saturday, it appeared as if the Dragons were on the verge of covering the 9.5-point spread and the game would go over the 51.5 number of points in the over/under.

Seattle had kicked a field goal to cut the deficit to 31-22. That would have made the point spread nine and the total of points 53. However, and this is a huge however, a penalty flag was thrown on the successful field goal. Running into the kicker was called and Seattle coach Jim Zorn opted to take the points off the board leaving his team with the ball deep in DC territory.

The decision backfired on Zorn and anyone who had Seattle and the over. The Dragons fumbled, DC recovered and neither team scored the rest of the way.

And that’s the way to welcome people who wager into a new league: with a couple of bad beats or miraculous wins.

The betting lines were prominent on ESPN graphics and were mentioned frequently in its broadcast.

The Eagles’ meaningless, last-second touchdown made for a crazy beat

They covered the spread on THAT.

The box score will show that the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Washington Redskins, 37-27, with an easy cover of the 6.5-point spread.

What actually unfolded during the game, though, told a far different story.

With less than a minute left to play, the Eagles were actually trailing Washington by three points. It took a touchdown by Greg Ward Jr. with 26 seconds to go to give Philadelphia a four-point lead. But still, the spread appeared safe. The Redskins were going to cover.

Nigel Bradham had other ideas.

As the Redskins looked to run one Hail Mary attempt at the end zone, the Eagles’ pressure got to Dwayne Haskins, forcing the Washington quarterback to fumble as time expired. Bradham picked up the ball and could have gone down to end the game. He didn’t do that.

Instead, Bradham kept running and scored a 46-yard touchdown to give Philadelphia a 10-point win. The Eagles somehow covered a spread that just minutes earlier appeared out of reach.

Let’s just say that some bettors weren’t too thrilled with that bad beat.

Gambling can be so cruel.

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