There are a couple of great divisional match-ups this week that should not only be highly entertaining, but also have major implications for the division race. Minnesota will travel to Green Bay for round two of Favre vs. the Packers, the New York Giants head down 95 to play the Eagles, Miami heads north to the Meadowlands to play the Jets, and the Falcons will be in the Big Easy to play the undefeated Saints on Monday night.
NFL Week 7 Match Ups
The game of the week has the unbeaten 6-0 Minnesota Vikings traveling to Pittsburgh to take on the 4-2 Steelers. This will be the first true test for Brett Favre and Co. outside the friendly confines of the Metrodome. Some other big games this week are Chicago @ Cincinnati, Arizona @ N.Y. Giants, and Atlanta @ Dallas.
Here is a brief look at all the match ups with some keys to the game.
In the NFC the game of the week is the 5-0 N.Y. Giants @ 5-0 New Orleans Saints, while over in the AFC the Broncos try and make it six in a row when they visit San Diego on Monday night. If Denver finds a way to win, it would give them a 3 ½ game lead in the AFC West.
Here is a brief look at all the match ups with some keys to the game.
The two big games for week 5 include a couple of teams I did not think we would be talking about before the season began. The 3-1 New England Patriots travel to Denver to take on the surprising 4-0 Broncos and 3-1 Cincinnati heads to Baltimore to clash with the 3-1 Ravens for the outright lead in the AFC North.
There are several intriguing match ups this week involving some of the best teams in the league. The Jets take their dominating defense to New Orleans to play the high flying Saints, Baltimore will try and prove they are the best team in the AFC when they take on the Patriots in Foxboro, and on Monday night, Brett Favre gets a shot at his old team when the Vikings host the Packers.
After two weeks of games there are nine teams with 2-0 records and nine teams with 0-2 records striking a perfect balance heading into week three. The big game this week pits the 2-0 Minnesota Vikings against the surprising 2-0 San Francisco 49ers in the only match up of undefeated teams.
Here is a brief look at all the match ups with some keys to the game.
The GMAC Bowl between Tulsa and Ball State is the last chance to bet on college football except for Thursday’s BCS Title game.
Tulsa has moved from 2.5-point underdogs to three-point favorites at Sportsbook.com. The game will be on ESPN at 8 pm ET.
This was almost the fourth matchup of conference champions during the bowl season, but Tulsa and Ball State both lost in their championship games.
The NFL Wild Card Weekend is in the books! Now sports betting fans turn their attention to the Divisional Playoff games.
Which wild card weekend winning teams will take their good fortune into this weekend’s NFL Playoffs? Which teams will falter? What favorites are in for an against the spread beating and which favorites will win against the BetUS online wagering spread?
Let’s take a quick peek at each game this weekend!
The Ohio State Buckeyes are desperate for respect as they face the Texas Longhorns in Monday night’ Fiesta Bowl.
Ohio State has lost each of the last two national championship games. With that said, coach Jim Tressel’s team is happy to be back in the Fiesta Bowl, site of its last bowl win over Notre Dame three years ago.
This year’s opponent is Texas, who has been installed as an eight-point favorite by oddsmakers after an impressive 11-1 regular season. Bettors are backing the Longhorns at a 4-1 ratio.
The Utah Utes put together a tremendous season to make the BCS out of the Mountain West Conference but bettors aren’t buying them as nine-point underdogs against Alabama.
A whopping 76% of the support for Friday night’s Sugar Bowl is backing the Alabama Crimson Tide as nine-point favorites over the Utes, who crash the BCS party for the second time in four seasons.
Liberty Bowl bettors are backing the Over for Thursday’s Liberty Bowl but Sportsbook.com members should take a closer look at the Under for the matchup between East Carolina and Kentucky.
The Liberty Bowl has been an amazingly solid wager for Under bettors and has hit Under the Total in 13 of the last 16 contests. Despite that, the trends show that 78% like the chances of this game going Over the 41-point total.
The Texas Tech Red Raiders out of the Big 12 are getting plenty of support from bettors as they face the Mississippi Rebels in Friday’s Cotton Bowl.
The Red Raiders are 4 ½-point favorites and 80% of bettors are backing them.
Texas Tech flirted with the #1 national ranking this season and its only blemish came at Oklahoma. Still, the Red Raiders are the annual team left outside of the BCS looking in, thanks to a crowded Big 12 South Division field.
Oddsmakers predict a tight contest when the Virginia Tech Hokies meet the Cincinnati Bearcats in the Orange Bowl.
The Bearcats are 2 ½-point favorites and 57% of bettors are backing them.
ACC champ Virginia Tech is a familiar name to the BCS. Big East champ Cincinnati is a first time participant. In fact, the Bearcats have never even played a BCS-Conference opponent in a bowl game before. Will that be the difference in Thursday’s Orange Bowl?
Two long-time powers that could’ve easily met for the BCS title meet Thursday in the ‘Grandaddy of them All’, the Rose Bowl.
The USC Trojans are hefty nine-point favorites over the Penn State Nittany Lions out of the Big Ten, after beating Michigan and Illinois handily in the last two Rose Bowl games. This site has been a graveyard for the Big Ten, with a 10-19 ATS record in this meeting with the Pac-10.
Sportsbook.com bettors are not fazed by the points Penn State is getting and 78% still back USC to cover the large number.
Minnesota made one of the best turnarounds in college football this season, but they are heavy dogs at Phoenix’s Insight Bowl against Kansas tonight.
The Jayhawks are eight-point favorites and 71% of bettors are backing them.
Minnesota (7-5, 7-4 ATS) finished with four straight losses, but this bowl experience should be cherished after a 1-10 2007 campaign.
The Music City Bowl and the Sun Bowl are the afternoon highlights of a terrific Wednesday with five games overall.
Oregon State is a two-point favorite and the Over/Under is 51.5 for this 2 pm ET game.
The Sun Bowl has become well-known to bettors as an underdog dominated series, as that side of the pointspread has gone 10-1-1 ATS in the last 12.
