Eskendereya favored in final Kentucky Derby Future Wager

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03/24/2010 - Louisville, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fountain of Youth champ Eskendereya has been installed as the 5-1 morning-line favorite for the third and final Kentucky Derby Future Wager of 2010. The final Future Wager begins Friday and runs through Sunday.

There are 24 available betting interests in the pool, 23 individual horses and the mutuel field. Wagering starts at noon (et) Friday and concludes Sunday at 6 p.m. (et).

Eskendereya won the Fountain of Youth by more than eight-lengths at Gulfstream Park last month. He is being pointed to the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 3.

The 6-1 second choice is Rebel Stakes winner Lookin At Lucky. The colt is expected to make his next start on April 3 in the Santa Anita Derby.

The mutuel field, which includes all three-year-olds not listed in the pool, is 8-1 in the morning-line.

The 136th Kentucky Derby will be conducted on Saturday, May 1 at Churchill Downs.

Here is the complete list of the 24 betting interests for the final Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

Number Wagering Interest Morning line odds Final odds:

1. Aikenite 50-1

2. Alphie's Bet 15-1

3. Awesome Act 15-1

4. Caracortado 20-1

5. Connemara 20-1

6. Conveyance 20-1

7. Discreetly Mine 20-1

8. Dublin 15-1

9. Eskendereya 5-1

10. Homeboykris 50-1

11. Ice Box 12-1

12. Interactif 20-1

13. Jackson Bend 30-1

14. Lookin At Lucky 6-1

15. Make Music for Me 30-1

16. Noble's Promise 12-1

17. Odysseus 20-1

18. Pleasant Prince 20-1

19. Rule 20-1

20. Schoolyard Dreams 30-1

21. Sidney's Candy 15-1

22. Super Saver 20-1

23. Tempted to Tapit 50-1

24. All Other 3YOs (field) 8-1

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NCAA Football Betting : USC's reward: Top spot in Top 25

NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.

No. 1 always seems to fit USC.

Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.

Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.

Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.

"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."

Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.

"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."

The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.

"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."

Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.

"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"

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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.

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South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.

The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.

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