# Lee Sterling w/ Paramount Sports Shares Best Bets of Football Weekend

An episode of [Softy & Dick Interviews](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1245866571), 24 Oct 2026, 9:28.

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Lee Sterling with Paramount Sports joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to share his professional gambling experience to give his best bets for the football weekend ahead including a top-20 game between Texas and Ole Miss plus Seattle hosting Kansas City. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[0:06] Speaker 2: Want to make a little extra pocket change for this weekend? Yes,
[0:09] Speaker 2: I do indeed. Well, look no further than Paramount Sports'
[0:12] Speaker 2: Lee Sterling to tell you how.
[0:14] Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
[0:15] Speaker 2: Three out of four winning weeks. The man's on a roll.
[0:17] Speaker 2: He's finally catching fire, so jump on the bus.
[0:20] Speaker 3: Our friend Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports with us every
[0:23] Speaker 3: Friday at 345. Unless we have a Husky game like
[0:25] Speaker 3: we did last Saturday or last Friday from West Lafayette.
[0:28] Speaker 2: Then he goes to Thursday. How are you, man?
[0:30] Speaker 1: I'm good.
[0:33] Speaker 4: I'm going to go to the University of Miami football
[0:35] Speaker 4: game tomorrow, see the number one-ranked Miami Hurricanes. And if
[0:39] Speaker 4: you want, I can get you a couple autographs from
[0:41] Speaker 4: the 2001 National Championship team.
[0:44] Speaker 3: Yeah, I just want to know, is it more Coke
[0:46] Speaker 3: or more strippers after.
[0:48] Speaker 2: The game for those players, you think?
[0:49] Speaker 4: Oh, come on.
[0:50] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[0:51] Speaker 2: Coke 25 years ago. Oh, that was 25.
[0:53] Speaker 3: It's strippers now. Nobody's doing Coke anymore? Is that the
[0:56] Speaker 3: thing on South Beach down there?
[0:57] Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha.
[0:58] Speaker 1: All right.
[0:59] Speaker 3: Maybe you're moving on to rubber cement or something. But
[1:01] Speaker 3: let's get to some games this week. Texas, man, this
[1:04] Speaker 3: is a big one at home for Sark. A lot
[1:06] Speaker 3: of people starting to criticize Sark and Arch Manning, giving
[1:09] Speaker 3: three against Ole Miss.
[1:12] Speaker 4: They lose this game. Sark, those well-heeled alumni, he could
[1:18] Speaker 4: be gone very, very soon. So, Arch, I think he's
[1:22] Speaker 4: got a short leash here. If Texas falls behind by
[1:25] Speaker 4: double digits, he.
[1:26] Speaker 1: Could be in trouble.
[1:28] Speaker 4: And I think they're up against it. They're going to
[1:30] Speaker 4: be without maybe the best defensive player in college football.
[1:34] Speaker 4: Their edge rusher, Colin Simmons. And how good is he?
[1:37] Speaker 4: Only 30 sacks in his career. Eight and a half
[1:40] Speaker 4: sacks over the last three weeks.
[1:41] Speaker 1: And Ole Miss, since the bye week, they have caught
[1:45] Speaker 1: in fire.
[1:46] Speaker 4: Blew out Vandy, up 42-3 at the half.
[1:49] Speaker 1: Shut down Missouri.
[1:51] Speaker 4: Kiwan Lacy, their star running back, is back now here.
[1:55] Speaker 4: And they might have the best quarterback in the country.
[1:57] Speaker 4: If he's two inches taller, he goes top two, top
[2:00] Speaker 4: three in the draft. Wrong team favorite here.
[2:03] Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
[2:03] Speaker 1: 26-20.
[2:06] Speaker 5: All right, Indiana's going to the big house after their could-have-been,
[2:10] Speaker 5: should-have-been game against Ohio State, but the receiver couldn't figure
[2:14] Speaker 5: out where the end zone was. They are giving 7.5
[2:16] Speaker 5: at Michigan.
[2:19] Speaker 4: That and the pass wasn't great, let's be honest. When
[2:23] Speaker 4: you've got a guy that open, just throw it up.
[2:25] Speaker 4: Let him call for a fair catch. Josh Hoover, just
[2:28] Speaker 4: not real accurate.
[2:30] Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
[2:31] Speaker 4: There's four or five other passes that Fernando Mendoza last
[2:35] Speaker 4: year makes– in his sleep. So you got two defensive
[2:39] Speaker 4: teams here. I mean, all of a sudden, Lloyd Carr's
[2:42] Speaker 4: grandson is playing. You saw in the kids' eyes there
[2:46] Speaker 4: that were playing with him on offense. It's like they're rejuvenated.
[2:49] Speaker 4: The fans are ready to go. Getting seven points with
[2:53] Speaker 4: two defensive teams, I'll take it any day of the
[2:56] Speaker 4: week and Saturday.
[2:58] Speaker 1: Give me Michigan.
[2:58] Speaker 4: I think Indiana escapes 20-17.
[3:00] Speaker 3: All right, take the Wolverines and the points, though. Air
[3:03] Speaker 3: Force and Wyoming. This is kind of a random one.
[3:05] Speaker 3: I like it because when I think of Air Force football,
[3:08] Speaker 3: I think of two things.
[3:09] Speaker 2: I think of getting whipped in the 19, was it 98?
[3:11] Speaker 1: Oahu Bowl.
[3:14] Speaker 3: And then I think of Air Force coming here the
[3:16] Speaker 3: next year in 99 and beating the Huskies in game two.
[3:20] Speaker 3: And I swear to God, I saw Fisher DeBerry in
[3:22] Speaker 3: the parking lot after the game.
[3:24] Speaker 2: And I walked by him and said, you.
[3:25] Speaker 3: Just beat the worst Husky team of all time.
[3:29] Speaker 2: And I felt better about that.
[3:30] Speaker 1: What, by the way?
[3:31] Speaker 3: He just stared at me like I was an idiot,
[3:33] Speaker 3: which I was, by the way. So Air Force has
[3:35] Speaker 3: given six at Wyoming this weekend.
[3:37] Speaker 2: What do you think?
[3:39] Speaker 4: Air Force, this is my lock of the week here.
[3:42] Speaker 4: And the reason I chose this game... They lost their quarterback,
[3:45] Speaker 4: Liam Zarka, and people are thinking, oh, well, now they
[3:49] Speaker 4: have no backup. They've got plenty of five guys that
[3:53] Speaker 4: are 5'11, 190, and it might be a Wally Pipp moment.
[3:57] Speaker 4: They've got this kid, Evan Meadors, that is really good.
[4:01] Speaker 4: I think he's just going to step in there and
[4:04] Speaker 4: run away with the job here.
[4:06] Speaker 1: I think they win big over Wyoming. Lay the five
[4:08] Speaker 1: and a half. Blowout special. Lock of the week. Air
[4:13] Speaker 1: Force 35-14.
[4:13] Speaker 5: Jackson, I would have bet a lot of money that
[4:15] Speaker 5: we weren't going to have a Fisher to Berry reference
[4:16] Speaker 5: on the show, and I went wrong.
[4:18] Speaker 2: How about an Air Force lock of the week, too?
[4:19] Speaker 2: How about that? I love it. Let's go to the NFL.
[4:24] Speaker 6: Is Lamar playing?
[4:25] Speaker 2: Is he not playing? Is he playing?
[4:26] Speaker 6: Is he not playing? Minus two and a half against
[4:29] Speaker 6: the Bengals.
[4:31] Speaker 4: So I think he's going to play. And, yeah, they're
[4:33] Speaker 4: following him around.
[4:34] Speaker 1: He's going to 7-11.
[4:36] Speaker 4: They're grading his limp on a scale of 1-10.
[4:39] Speaker 1: But I think he's going to go here.
[4:41] Speaker 4: And I just think Cincinnati's turned the corner. Their defense
[4:44] Speaker 4: is getting takeaways now. They just need to run the
[4:47] Speaker 4: ball a little bit better. Except for the last two
[4:51] Speaker 4: games that were played last year without Joe Burrow, every
[4:53] Speaker 4: game is close, comes down right down to the last minute.
[4:57] Speaker 4: I think it's Cincinnati's time here. Cincinnati pulls the upset here.
[5:00] Speaker 4: 30-27 over Baltimore.
[5:02] Speaker 2: Take the Bengals. Bengals are favored, though, in that game.
[5:06] Speaker 2: Is that right?
[5:07] Speaker 4: Ravens.
[5:07] Speaker 1: Oh, they are? No, no, no. So it's, yeah.
[5:09] Speaker 4: Yeah, it started Ravens 2.5, went to Bengals being the favorite,
[5:14] Speaker 4: and now it's Ravens 1.5.
[5:16] Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha.
[5:17] Speaker 3: All right, well, I'm looking at ESPN.com, and they got
[5:19] Speaker 3: the Bengals giving a point and a half, by the way,
[5:21] Speaker 3: so whatever.
[5:22] Speaker 1: Maybe late news.
[5:24] Speaker 3: Well, first of all, we got to figure this out.
[5:27] Speaker 3: Which line are we going with here?
[5:29] Speaker 4: We're going to go with the Bengals, minus one and
[5:31] Speaker 4: a half.
[5:32] Speaker 3: Bengals, gotcha. Bengals, minus one and a half. So take
[5:36] Speaker 3: the Bengals and they win the game outright.
[5:38] Speaker 5: Because we would have given the Bengals with points and
[5:40] Speaker 5: he doesn't even want them right now.
[5:41] Speaker 2: I mean, am I blind, Dick? Look at that right there. Cincinnati,
[5:44] Speaker 2: minus a point and a half. I got to appreciate that.
[5:46] Speaker 2: Appreciate Lee's fortitude here on this.
[5:48] Speaker 1: Good.
[5:48] Speaker 2: I like it. Take the Bengals is the point. Now
[5:51] Speaker 2: we can move on.
[5:52] Speaker 3: Seahawks on Sunday night giving two and a half against
[5:55] Speaker 3: Kansas City. They're not even getting the obligatory three at home.
[5:58] Speaker 3: What do you think happens on Sunday night football?
[6:02] Speaker 4: Must win game for Seattle.
[6:03] Speaker 1: They lose this game.
[6:04] Speaker 4: It's going to be really tough to catch the 49ers
[6:06] Speaker 4: in Kansas City. sitting at 5-0. Their big game is
[6:11] Speaker 4: next week against Denver, so I think the home field
[6:15] Speaker 4: advantage is going to be huge here. Kenneth Walker, we
[6:18] Speaker 4: also do player props here. I'm taking Kenneth Walker, even
[6:22] Speaker 4: though he has 665 yards, and every week he's lined up,
[6:26] Speaker 4: he's finished top four as far as running backs and
[6:29] Speaker 4: fantasy points. I'm going under 84.5 rushing yards. The 12s
[6:34] Speaker 4: are going to shut them down here, keep them under
[6:37] Speaker 4: 70 yards. They're going to win the game.
[6:39] Speaker 1: Kansas City, the receivers, they're lining up most of them.
[6:43] Speaker 4: They wouldn't be on most teams' practice squad.
[6:46] Speaker 1: Seattle, 23-13. All right, take the Hawks.
[6:50] Speaker 3: Yeah, the Seahawks have the number one rushing defense based
[6:53] Speaker 3: on yards per carry in the National Football League, and
[6:56] Speaker 3: they also have the number one pass defense based on
[6:58] Speaker 3: yards per attempt in the NFL.
[7:00] Speaker 2: So I like it.
[7:01] Speaker 3: All right, game of the week. You got something up
[7:03] Speaker 3: your sleeve on this Rams game.
[7:05] Speaker 2: Is that right?
[7:06] Speaker 1: Yep, love it.
[7:08] Speaker 4: Rams, are they going to roll here? Or can the
[7:11] Speaker 4: Raiders pull off the upset and help you guys out
[7:13] Speaker 4: and dig the hole a little bit deeper for the Rams?
[7:16] Speaker 1: So I don't like this game.
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[8:10] Speaker 3: All right, first of all, you've got to pull the
[8:12] Speaker 3: phone out of your mouth. I don't know what's going on,
[8:14] Speaker 3: but it sounded like... I thought you said you're giving
[8:18] Speaker 3: away everything free this weekend. Is that right, if they
[8:20] Speaker 3: give you a call? Is that what you said?
[8:21] Speaker 6: No.
[8:22] Speaker 2: The free play. Yeah, I got you. All right, Lee,
[8:25] Speaker 2: you're the best. We'll talk in a week.
[8:26] Speaker 1: See you, man. All right, see you guys.
[8:28] Speaker 3: All right, I don't know what the hell is going
[8:30] Speaker 3: on there. I'm starting to get to a point where
[8:31] Speaker 3: these phones are really bugging the hell out of me, man.
[8:33] Speaker 3: They are just driving me nuts.
[8:34] Speaker 6: Starting to get to a point, Jackson?
[8:37] Speaker 2: Can you help me with that?
[8:38] Speaker 6: Was that like 1997 when that started?
[8:40] Speaker 3: Well, I mean, when I say starting to get to
[8:43] Speaker 3: a point, maybe get to a point where I might
[8:44] Speaker 3: actually rip this microphone apart and shove it in your
[8:47] Speaker 3: belly button.
[8:47] Speaker 2: Honestly, that's how much it's driving me crazy. It's 2026,
[8:49] Speaker 2: for God's sakes.
[8:52] Speaker 3: Anyway, Ole Miss pulls the upset over Texas, says Lee.
[8:56] Speaker 3: He likes Michigan plus the points against Indiana Air Force
[8:59] Speaker 3: minus the points at Wyoming. Bengals minus the one and
[9:02] Speaker 3: a half against the Ravens. The Hawks get it done
[9:04] Speaker 3: against Kansas City and cover and also give us this
[9:07] Speaker 3: little bonus. We should count this towards his official picks,
[9:09] Speaker 3: by the way. Under 84 and a half. Write that
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