Dumb football pool question

[clemsontiger]

Originally posted by Peaches@Dec 7 2003, 01:00 PM
Since I know nothing about football, I'm TRYING to look at this logically and it makes no sense to me:

Why does Indiana get 3.5 points on the spread this week?

First of all, it's Indianapolis. Second of all, the spread is the number of points that professionals (critics) come up with that they think the one team is better than the other. If the spread is 0 then they consider the teams to be equal. Since Indianapolis has a 3.5 spread, they feel that Indianapolis is better than Tennessee by 3.5 points.