Texas A&M won big. So did Floyd Mayweather.
It turns out the Aggies? 42-13 victory against SMU paid off in multiple zeroes for Mayweather, who won $200,000 betting on A&M to cover a 17.5-point first-half spread against the Mustangs. (Basically, Mayweather bet that A&M would be ahead by 18 or more points after 30 minutes against the overmatched Mustangs.)
No big deal. Mayweather just put down $220,000 to bet on a football game ? a college game, actually, and not the entire game but the first half.
Three birds, one stone: Mayweather made a tremendous sum of money ? for most of us, at least, though it?s chump change after his recent $40 million payday; he gave A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel a holler; and made a very timely quip about the status of student-athletes in amateur athletics.
