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March Madness Handicapping Tips

March Madness Odds: Ohio Teams to Make the Big Dance!

Dayton Flyers and an Early Exit

The Dayton Flyers will probably make the NCAA tournament because their record is 18-2 but if you take a closer looks at the Flyers you will see that they will probably not make it past the 1st weekend maybe not day 1. Dayton should be really worried about there weak schedule as the strength of schedule is 143rd. They were able to defeat Marquette and Auburn neutral courts early in the year and also have a home win against Miami, Oh.

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Super Bowl Prop Betting Breakdown- Hines Ward

SuperBowl XLIII Prop Betting

Odds makers as always have given the average fan and even their wives something to bet on this weekend with hundreds of prop bets available for action. While your wife is trying to determine the song list of the Boss, what commercial will be rated the highest , and the color of Gatorade that will be dumped on the winning coach there is money to be made by investing in the games top wide receivers.

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Super Bowl XLIII Handicapping: Arizona Cardinals

Arizona Cardinals Super Bowl Preview

Before the season you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who would have picked Arizona to even make it to the Super Bowl. But the Cardinals love being the underdog and are 3-0 as underdogs this postseason against the spread and Money Line. This past week we looked at the Pittsburgh Steelers and broke down both there offense and defense today we will do the same for the Arizona Cardinals.

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Duke Betting Tips

Duke Basketball 2009 Under Rated??

Handicappers are always looking for those teams that are over or under rated. The last few years Coach K’s team were over rated living off an illusion of past great teams. Last year pro handicappers got rich off playing against the spread when Duke was favored. But this years team is if you can believe it Under Rated.

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Super Bowl XLIII Handicapping: Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl Breakdown

The Super Bowl favorite is the Pittsburgh Steelers which have been made a -7 point favorite by the odds makers. Pittsburgh has been playing so good lately and coming off a very good win against Baltimore Ravens. This playoffs they are 2-0 against the spread! Also make sure to check out Craig’s earlier article breaking down all the Super Bowl Trends the last 5 years.

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2009 NCAAB Handicapping: Top College Coaches

Top 5 NCAA Basketball Coaches

Last week we covered the top 5 over all rated college basketball teams and today we will look at the top 5 coaches in college basketball. As a handicapper Craig looks at it a little differently than just your average fan. Most fans of a school just look at the wins and losses but Craig instead looks at it as does this coach have his players performing above or below there potential.

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Oddsmakers Five Favorites – 2009 NCAAB Championship

March Madness: 5 Longshots to win NCAA Championship!!

With only one NFL game left it is time to turn my attention to NCAA basketball. It is hard to believe that the NCAA tournament selection show is only 55 days away. I’m going to look at five teams that present a lot of value with 8 weeks remaining in the season. To make the list I will only consider teams who odds makers have listed at 10-1 or higher so as of 1/19/09 that rules out the following teams UNC, UConn, Louisville, Duke and Pitt.

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Handicapping Trends: 2009 Superbowl

Super Bowl 2009: Last 5 Years Betting Trends

Another great year for NFL is coming to an end on February 1st. Great games this past weekend with both home teams winning and completing there dreams of making it to the Super Bowl. Both winners this past weekend covered the spread which make them a total of 5-0 against the spread this post season.

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NFC Championship Handicapping – Eagles

Philadelphia Eagles: NFC Championship Against the Spread Breakdown

The Las Vegas books have made Philadelphia Eagles a four point favorite to beat the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC championship game. They also are 7/4 to win the Superbowl which is 2nd favorite behind the Steelers. Today Craig will break down the Eagles chances of winning and against the spread trends. Lets take a deeper look at recent trends for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Handicapping Super Bowl XLIII Odds

Super Bowl Odds Breakdown

Wow going into the championship game weekend the super bowls odds are a little surprising to me. Right now Pittsburgh is the favorite at 3/2, second is Philly at 7/4, third is Baltimore at 7/2, and last is Arizona at 5-1. Really think that this should be flipped between 1st and 2nd because the Eagles beat up the Steelers earlier this year handing them there worst loss of the season.  

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NFL Conference Championships: ATS Betting Trends

NFL Championship Games: Against The Spread Trends

Hopefully this past weekend all of you followed the divisional match up trends which showed the underdogs the last five years covered 80 percent of the time. Well this year its only 75 percent with the underdogs winning straight up in all three of those games. Now lets look at the recent trends for both of these games to help clue us in on which trend plays we should be looking at this weekend.  

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Handicapping Chargers vs. Steelers Playoff Game

San Diego Chargers at Pittsburgh Steelers Divisional Breakdown (01-09-2009)

This divisional round match up is actually a rematch from Nov. 16, 2008 at Heinz Field which finished with a Pittsburgh win 11-10. Pittsburgh didn’t score a touchdown despite making three trips inside San Diego’s 20-yard line. One drive ended when Mewelde Moore was dropped for a 1-yard loss on fourth-and-goal from inside the 1, and Pittsburgh repeatedly hurt itself with 13 penalties.

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Florida Betting Analysis – 2009 BCS

Five Reasons Florida Gators Win BCS TITLE GAME!

Thursday’s national championship game is almost here and the odds makers have made Florida Gators a four point favorite over Oklahoma Sooners. Today Craig is going to list the top 5 reason why Florida wins the championship. Tomorrow we will look at the top 5 reasons why Oklahoma wins.  

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Oklahoma Betting Analysis – 2009 BCS

Five Reasons Oklahoma Sooners Win BCS Title Game

Thursdays meeting at the Orange Bowl for all the marbles will face two high powered offenses and two heisman trophy winners. Yesterday we looked at the top 5 reasons Florida wins and today we will look at Oklahoma. Las Vegas Odds Makers have made Oklahoma a four point underdog in this BCS match up.  

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2009 Fiesta Bowl Handicapping

Fiesta Bowl Breakdown Ohio State Buckeyes (01-04-2009)

Well here we are again and the Ohio State Buckeyes are in another BCS bowl game. Well recent history has not been good for the Buckeyes with them losing the last two BCS National Championship games. Coach Tressell has had many sleepless nights trying to figure out why they have not been able to compete with the big boys in CFB.

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2009 Cotton Bowl Handicapping

Cotton Bowl Breakdown – Ole Miss vs Texas Tech

The 2009 Cotton Bowl will be the last for the historic Cotton bowl which after this 73rd annual bowl will move to the new Texas Stadium. After being left out of the bcs picture they have to find new revenue streams thus moving to state of the art facility is mandated. This years game features another classic sec vs big 12 matchup. Texas Tech and Ole Miss are very different in styles and should create a hugely interesting matchup.

Oddsmakers also think this will be a very close game as Tech is only favored by four points.  

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