What is the biggest point spread you remember?

It's great when you make a Kevin post!

 

I can't find it documented anywhere but I recall Houston being favored by more than 60 against SMU leading up to UH's 95-21 win that year.

 

I imagine Fullerton at Florida got up there back in the day.

I remember betting Kansas to cover a 40-something line against Nebraska on a parlay - they didn't.

 

Late L.A. Times great Mal Florence used to tell the story about USC playing at Washington State as a 50-point favorite in 1974. He made a bet with Jeff Prugh or Dwight Chapin (I can't remember which one) getting 100-to-1 odds. If Wazzu beat the spread, Prugh/Chapin got a dollar. If USC beat the spread, Prugh/Chapin, had to give Mal $100.
USC was leading, 54-0, halfway through the fourth quarter. Wazzu managed to get a touchdown, thus beating the spread, 54-7. But Mal said it the best bet he ever lost because it was hilarious watching Prugh/Chapin sweating it out the entire fourth quarter.

 

Wasn't the NFL record set back when the Pats started out 18-0? I think it might have been the Philly game that year when the Pats were something like 25-point favorites.

 

I think it was one of the Dolphins games. Want to say it was 18 or 19 pts.

 

One got up into the mid 20s, though. I remember betting it. And probably losing.

Then again, I'm not intelligent enough to remember back that far, so...

 

I left that fucker wide open for you, and you slammed it home.

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/item_Ec48UI5AoYKSjsG8TYPXbK

22-point favorites against the Eagles that year, according to this story.

Not sure if that was the highest that year, but for some reason I remember that one.

Edit: It went up to 23.5, the largest NFL line not involving expansion teams.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3120882

Pats won that game 31-28. I'm sure I bet the Pats. Only becuase I wasn't intelligent enough to take the points.

 

I remember pretty clearly that there was a 63 point spread when I was a kid, I believe it was Houston (can't remember the other team) and they covered. My early days of the tip sheets and it cost me.

 

Yeah, and they lost to Stanford.