Our Sportsbook.com writers continue to provide you with solid picks and have four more games to dissect this week.
Both writers went 2-2 with last weekend’s picks and while not a winning week, they are both siding with the winners more often than not. Through six weeks, Cras has a 14-8-2 Double Take record with Mike at 13-9-2.
Will the winning continue this weekend? Here’s how they like four key matchups on Sunday.
The Denver Broncos travel to New England to take on the Patriots in a key game for both teams. Denver hasn’t been very good against the online betting spread this year. At times they look like a team that could win the AFC Conference and make it to the Super Bowl. At other times they look like a team that has no shot and that soon the San Diego Chargers will assert themselves in the AFC West. The Broncos have a decent quarterback in Jay Cutler and very good running backs in Michael Pittman and Selvin Young but their defense has been terrible so far this season. If it weren’t for some lucky breaks against teams like the New Orleans Saints, the Broncos would be sitting on 2 wins at the most.
The Dallas Cowboys travel to St. Louis to take on a Rams team that won their first game of the season last Sunday. The Rams were 13 ½ point online betting underdogs at Washington. What did they do? They simply marched onto the field and beat the Redskins without scoring a single point on offense.
A solid week gets us back into the plus territory – let’s see if we can keep it rolling this week and we approach the halfway point of the college football season.
Record: 19-7 (+3.6 units)
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Saturday night is Fight Night with world class matches in the Ring and in the Octagon.
In the boxing ring, Kelly Pavlik puts his 34-0 record (30KO’s) on the line when he faces old school Bernard ‘The Executioner’ Hopkins in a 170 pound, non-title fight from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
Pavlik is listed as a heavy -400 favorite at Sportsbook.com while Hopkins checks in at +300.
The Baltimore Ravens travel to Miami where they will attempt to defend against the wildcat offense. Online NFL betting fans had better get to know the wildcat offense well. The Cleveland Browns actually used a version of it this past Monday to keep the Super Bowl defending champion New York Giants on their heels.
The San Francisco 49’ers, back where they started this decade, in the cellar, travel to New York to take on the Super Bowl defending champion Giants. The 49’ers just aren’t a very good team. When you’re best quarterback is a guy who has bounced around the league for years, sorry J.T. O’Sullivan, your chances of winning consistently aren’t very good.
The New York Jets travel to Oakland to take on a Raiders team that was just obliterated by Drew Brees and the Saints last Sunday. What’s up with the Raiders? They were just destroyed. I mean, it got ugly almost as soon as the third quarter started. The Raiders still have no idea what to do when faced with adversity.
Man, the Minnesota Vikings got lucky against the Detroit Lions this past Sunday! Detroit had the game won. NFL betting fans who had money on the Lions to win straight-up had be jumping and cursing their televisions after the referee called that bogus pass interference penalty against the Lions. Ryan Longwell hit the game winner and the Vikings won. Of course, Minnesota didn’t come close to covering against the BetUS online sportsbook betting spread.
by Doc – 10/15/2008
I wish I could have started this column out with some good news as far as last week’s selections are concerned. However, that is not the case. We did nail a nice 5-unit winner with Penn State, as they completely destroyed Wisconsin, 48-7. We also had a nice winner with Mississippi State ending Vanderbilt’s perfect season, but those two wins did not come close to covering the disappointing losses that we had.
The San Diego Chargers are the Jekyll and Hyde of the NFL this season. I don’t understand this team. It’s been difficult as an online football betting fan to get a bead on a team that for some reason can look awesome against good competition and then tries to mail it in against bad competition.
The Pittsburgh Steelers finally get to play a game on a Sunday afternoon. How crazy has the Steelers’ schedule been so far? They’ve played on Sunday night twice and then they had that Monday nighter against the Baltimore Ravens just a couple of weeks ago. The Steelers haven’t played on a Sunday afternoon since their first game of the season. It will be nice to see the Steelers in the morning here on the West Coast.
The Vanderbilt Commodores are the surprise team of the SEC Conference this season. They have been very good this season. Yes, they did lose their last game to Mississippi State but that’s okay because the weekend before they beat the Auburn Tigers. The most surprising thing for college football betting fans is how the Commodores have suddenly found out how to play defense. They haven’t given up more than 21 points in a single game this season.
Inside the Boxscores is a weekly feature from Matt Fargo that has been widely recognized as one of the best summations in college football. He takes an in-depth look at each game and pulls out the most pertinent information that will help you handicap games in the future. College football is filled with quirky plays, misleading scores and surprise endings. Fargo takes you inside the action.
Turns out that the best thing that the Tennessee Titans could do was simply take a week off. The Titans are now the only undefeated team in the betting market, standing at 5-0 ATS and SU. Can the best bet on the board keep the train rolling against Baltimore?
Meanwhile, we saw something in Indianapolis the Colts’ fans have been waiting for. Not only did they get their first win at Lucas Oil Stadium, Peyton Manning came alive throwing for 271 yards and three electrifying touchdowns. Are the Colts back? It looks to me like the AFC South is just heating up.
