This Sunday\u2019s running of the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway marks the first of three final races in the Chase for NASCAR\u2019s 2013 Sprint Cup title. This race is set to get underway at 3 p.m. and it will be broadcast nationally on ESPN. <\/p>\n
NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA Texas 500 Preview and Prediction<\/strong> Veteran NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon not only notched his first Sprint Cup victory of the year last week at Martinsville, he also kept his slim title chances alive with a jump to third-place in the standings.<\/p>\n Matt Kenseth finished second to pull into a tie for the lead with Jimmie Johnson in the current standings and Clint Bowyer finished third.<\/p>\n The following is a closer look at our favorite, contender, and longshot picks for Sunday\u2019s race with odds provided by Sportsbook.<\/p>\n Heading into last week\u2019s race Matt Kenseth found himself four points out of the lead in the Sprint Cup standings in what has turned into a back and forth affair with Johnson since the start of the Chase.<\/p>\n The No. 20 car got a quick start out of the gate with victories in the first two races of this 10-race playoff to the title and the team holds the tie-breaker over the No. 48 car with seven point-race victories this season to the rival team\u2019s five wins.<\/p>\n Kenseth comes into this race at +400 odds to widen that gap with another checkered flag this Sunday.<\/p>\n He adds some solid value to these odds given that he has seven top-five finishes in his last nine races at Texas dating back to the 2009 season. He also has two previous point-race victories this track and an average finishing position of 8.5.<\/p>\n While the Chase to the title is basically down to a two-driver show, do not tell that to Kevin Harvick. [ad-8757089]<\/p>\n He still has a mathematical chance to win the title with 2,266 total points, which is 28 points out of the lead. The No. 29 car would probably have to win the final three races starting with this Sunday as a +1200 contender.<\/p>\n The team already has one victory in the Chase with a first-place finish at Kansas to go along with checkered flags in races at Charlotte and Richmond over the course of the entire season.<\/p>\n The one drain on Harvick\u2019s odds for this race is the fact that he has never won a Sprint Cup event on this track and he has an average finishing position of 12.5 at Texas.<\/p>\n Playing longshots at this time of the Sprint Cup season is probably just an unnecessary drain on the bankroll, but we have seen it happen a couple of times in this year\u2019s Chase.<\/p>\n Looking at the current odds for a couple of the longer plays on the board, the one name that does jump out is Dale Earnhardt Jr. at +2000.<\/p>\n He is actually having one of his better runs in the Chase and while he is out of the title picture, he does have a second-place finish at both Dover and Talladega in the first seven races of the Chase.<\/p>\n The No. 88 car finished 29th in the first race at Texas this season, but Earnhardt has posted a top-10 finish in five of his previous six trips around this track in a Sprint Cup race.<\/p>\n JIMMIE JOHNSON 7-2 JIMMIE JOHNSON 5-7 Texas – AAA Texas 500 Predictions This Sunday\u2019s running of the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway marks the first of three final races in the Chase for NASCAR\u2019s 2013 Sprint Cup title. This race is set to get underway at 3 p.m. and it will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":68170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38395,66498,1188,58800],"class_list":["post-68158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-aaa-texas-500","tag-nascar","tag-sprint-cup","tag-texas-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68172,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68158\/revisions\/68172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Race: AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway<\/strong>
\n Date: Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013<\/strong>
\n Time: 3 p.m. (ET)<\/strong>
\n Broadcast: ESPN<\/strong>
\n Odds By Bovada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThe Favorite (odd of less than 10\/1)<\/h3>\n
The Contender (odds from 10\/1 to 19\/1)<\/h3>\n
The Longshot (odds 20\/1 or greater)<\/h3>\n
Odds from Bovada<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nMATT KENSETH 4-1
\nKYLE BUSCH 5-1
\nKASEY KAHNE 8-1
\nJEFF GORDON 8-1
\nKEVIN HARAVICK 12-1
\nBRAD KESELOWSKI 12-1
\nCLINT BOWYER 18-1
\nDENNY HAMLIN 20-1
\nKURT BUSCH 20-1
\nMARTIN TRUEX JR 20-1
\nDALE EARNHARDT JR 20-1
\nCARL EDWARDS 20-1
\nJOEY LOGANO 20-1
\nGREG BIFFLE 20-1
\nRYAN NEWMAN 35-1
\nJAMIE McMURRAY 60-1
\nJUAN MONTOYA 75-1
\nRICKY STENHOUSE JR 100-1
\nJEFF BURTON 200-1
\nPAUL MENARD 200-1
\nMARK MARTIN 300-1
\nELLIOTT SADLER 300-1
\nARIC ALMIROLA 300-1
\nMARCOS AMBROSE 300-1
\nTREVOR BAYNE 500-1
\nKYLE LARSON 500-1
\nDANICA PATRICK 1000-1
\nBOBBY LABONTE 2000-1
\nFIELD 500-1<\/p>\nOdds To Win 2013 SPRINT CUP CHAMPIONSHIP<\/h3>\n
\nMATT KENSETH 11-10
\nJEFF GORDON 12-1
\nKEVIN HARVICK 12-1
\nKYLE BUSCH 30-1
\nDALE EARNHARDT JR 200-1
\nCLINT BOWYER 200-1
\nGREG BIFFLE 200-1
\nCARL EDWARDS 500-1
\nKURT BUSCH 500-1
\nJOEY LOGANO 1000-1<\/p>\n*SPRINT Cup Odds provided by Bovada (Click Here now – Open A free Nascar betting account today!)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"