I don’t get the credit here. Co-worker [Matt Tait][1] actually threw it out there.But in response to my blog the other day on KU’s perfect mark [against the Vegas spread,][2] Tait posed the question: How much would someone have if they bet $100 on Kansas over Central Michigan in the opening week, then let it ride on Kansas all season long?For journalists, doing simple math problems is like splitting the atom. So after about 2 1/2 hours of all of us brainstorming mathematics and giggling over old words we remembered from high school (integer, factorial, pi…) this is what we found.If you bet 100 dollars on KU covering the spread in the first game, and let it ride up until this point, you’d have 25,600 dollars right now heading into the Oklahoma State game.And the wife, for once, would love your gambling habits.Let’s take it further. If KU covers the spread the rest of the year, plays 14 games (which would include the Big 12 championship game) and you let it ride throughout the year, guess how much you will have?The journalist-turned-math-wiz answer? 819,200 dollars. That’s quite an integer. Enough to finally get that house with lots of closet space for all of your wife’s new shoes.The question then is, where would you have gotten cold feet and backed out?**Now, on to the nuts and bolts** of Tuesday’s press conference.**- Check that. There really aren’t any nuts and bolts** with this team. No one is injured and there’s no quarterback controversy. I don’t know what to do.**- Offensive coordinator Ed Warinner** did heap loads of credit – way more than the normal coach-speak – to Todd Reesing’s ability to keep the offensive machine moving.”When you got the right quarterback, that’s what it comes down to,” Warinner said. “You see a lot of teams send a messenger in to the play or the quarterback reads the play off the wrist band because he can’t remember. Todd has that in his head. He knows.”**- Kicker Scott Webb,** who’s from Tulsa, Okla., says he has friends planning on sitting in the OSU student section Saturday wearing blue. Good luck to them.**- Center Ryan Cantrell** said that one of his teachers stopped class for 15 minutes to talk KU football. Quipped James Holt, “I haven’t had the luck with that kind of teacher. All my teachers are like ‘All right, let’s start class.'”**- Players of the game** for the Nebraska game were Todd Reesing on offense and Marcus Herford on special teams. Defense? No selection.See you tomorrow with links. [1]: http://www2.ljworld.com/staff/matt_tait/ [2]: http://www2.kusports.com/blogs/sawin_wood/2007/nov/04/sawinwood110407/