as great as that is i remember that game at new england rested most of its starters, im confident we can shock some people this weekend, but that game isn't a very fair comparison.
I love how Villanova over Georgetown always makes lists like that. A whopping 8.5 point underdog. That was my first year in Las Vegas and none of the locals really considered it much of an upset. I remember Gene Mayday of Little Caesar's casino (biggest limits in town) intentionally lowering the money line to try to induce large bets on Georgetown to win. In fact, there was actually a much larger upset on the same night. The San Antonio Gunslingers won a USFL game on the road, I believe against Portland. It was something like a 16 point spread and the money line on that game was more than twice the basketball game. San Antonio won easily. I knew a huge bettor from Tennessee who was going to bet $10,000 on a money line parlay of Villanova and San Antonio, but his friend from Oklahoma talked him out of it an hour before the tipoff. It would have paid hundreds of thousands. You should have heard the cursing later that night. Excluding Stanford over USC is absurd. That was a 41 point spread, bet down to 39, but still the highest recorded upset ever. An offshore site had a money line and it was 120/1 to bet USC to win. In other words, nearly 3 times the Tyson/Douglas odds. It cracks me up when fans want to suggest Appalachian St was the bigger upset. Talk about clueless. It was name recognition, and little else. Go to Jeff Sagarin's ratings right now on USA Today. You know what the power ratings gap between Michigan and Appalachian State is? Barely over a touchdown. That's right. It's an 8.41 point difference in power ratings. USC and Stanford are still 20 points apart.