Archive for November, 2009
Can Brees beat Patriots to stay Perfect?
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Are you ready for arguably the biggest game of the week?
Week 12 of the 2009 NFL football season culminates with arguably one of the biggest games you’ll ever get to see this year.
That’s right because on Monday Night Football, we have the New England Patriots taking on the unbeaten New Orleans Saints in a game that is arguably THE game to watch this week. The Saints are trying to stay undefeated against a Patriots team that came close from finishing the season unscathed a couple of seasons ago. In case you haven’t guessed it yet, this one is going to be good.
Tom Brady helped the 
Patriots beat the New York Jets last week in what was a nice confidence – booster before facing another highly decorated opponent on the horizon.
After a 3-0 start, the Jets entered this game as the wounded lion, and it was up to the New England Patriots to pounce. They did just that, coaxing rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez into four turnovers three of them interceptions.
Now the road gets much tougher, as the Patriots play in another hostile environment against a New Orleans Saints team looking to keep its perfect season unblemished. The Saints have shrugged off a slow start defensively, shutting down the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win their 10th straight game after yielding a long touchdown drive to open the faceoff.
The Saints’ 10-game winning streak is the longest in franchise history.
Who will win a battle between two of the best quarterbacks in the league? Can Drew Brees and the Saints stay perfect? Will the Patriots slay another solid team in a span of three weeks?
As much as we love them Saints…
College Football Week 13 Betting Tips
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Which teams will play for a BCS bowl game?
We’ll know soon enough. But right now, we have games for you to bet on for Week 13 of the 2009 NCAA college football season.
First we have the Oklahoma State Cowboys looking for their fourth straight victory as they battle the Oklahoma Sooners. The 12th Cowboys are on a roll with three straight wins, getting a huge lift from quarterback Zac Robinson.
He set an Oklahoma State record last season by completing 65 percent of his passes and still has a shot at achieving that mark again, completing 158 of 249 passes for a .635 completion percentage in 2009. Also stepping up for the Cowboys is running back Keith Toston. Since taking over as Oklahoma State’s featured rusher, the guy has averaged 103.6 yards.
On the other hand, the Oklahoma Sooners will try to rebound from a 41-13 loss against Texas Tech. With the loss, Oklahoma (6-5, 4-3) now has its most losses since going 7-5 in 1999. It was just the fifth victory in 17 meetings for Texas Tech against the Sooners, and the Red Raiders had never won by more than 10 points in the series.
The huge win was a stunning reversal from last season, when the Sooners crushed Texas Tech 65-21 to end the Red Raiders’ national championship hopes. Oklahoma hadn’t lost this badly since falling to Texas 45-12 in 2005.
Expect the Sooners to bounce back against the Cowboys.
The no.1 team in the nation Florida Gators will look to continue to play at a high level Saturday at home against the Florida State Seminoles. Florida already posted a significant accomplishment in becoming just the 13th team to make it through an SEC regular season undefeated following a 24-14 win over South Carolina.
Florida’s Joe Haden was named SEC Defensive Player of the Week following his performance against South Carolina. Haden led the Gators with 11 tackles, including a sack. He also had an interception, a career-high two forced fumbles and a pass breakup.
Florida’s defense has come through big in the…
Can the Florida Gators win the SEC?
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Guys from SPORTSBETTING.com know it, that’s why they’re hyping this thing up as much as they can already.
The 2009 NCAA college football season hits Week 12 and already, attention is focused on the SEC championship game to be played a couple of weeks from now. It will, barring a complete disaster, be a matchup between the no.1 Florida Gators and no.2 Alabama Crimson Tide. Online sportsbooks currently have the Gators as the odds-on favorite to win the SEC at 5/9, with Alabama sporting odds of 7/5.
The BCS’ top 5 teams remain unchanged from the previous week with the Florida Gators still on top, the Alabama Crimson Tide second and then followed by the Texas Longhorns, the TCU Horned Frogs and the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Florida hasn’t deviated from top spot since the BCS rankings first came out a little over a month ago and with two more easy games before the conference championship, there is no reason why the Gators shouldn’t remain at the top of the 2009 BCS rankings heading into the big game.
This week, Florida has a tilt against the Florida International Golden Panthers. This should be a blowout. It is one of the biggest pointspread margins of the season, with sportsbooks listing the Gators as 43-point favorites.
Florida is currently riding an 11-game straight up winning streak. They have recorded a mark of 9-5-1 ATS the last 15 times they’ve been listed as a favorite of 8 points or more, but they’re only 2-5-1 ATS in the last eight in that spread range. Although 43 points is a wild spread to ask a team to cover.
Sports bettors are still enamored with the no.1 team in the nation, as 74 percent of all the betting volume on this is laying the 43 points.
A quick note on the Total in this one; the last eight times the Gators have been favored by eight points or more, they have a mark of 1 Over, 6 Unders and 1 Push. The Gators should be able to get by FSU too the week after when the cross-state rivals meet. Since 1995, Florida is 5-2 ATS in seven home games against the Seminoles.
All signs point to the Gators being undefeated…
Who will save Cutler from the Eagles?
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Jay Cutler likes playing in the dark.
That’s what they are saying anyway. They say the Chicago Bears quarterback is a nocturnal creature and prefers nighttime like a freaking vampire. However, if that was true, then how come he has been on the losing end of the three night games the Bears played this 2009 NFL football season?
Believe it or not, Jay Cutler loves evening games, For some reason, he even told his coaches that he prefers night games and late afternoon games as compared to noon starts. Unfortunately, their night games haven’t equated to wins yet.
In the three night games the Chicago Bears played, all three were losses. Jay Cutler, who loves these night games so much, threw 65 percent of his interceptions during the night, making us think that this guy is probably more comfortable after dark with booze than handling footballs.
That is certainly bad news for the Chicago Bears since they are scheduled to be in yet another evening game for Sunday Night Football. To make matters worse, Jay Cutler, who throws majority of his interceptions at night, will face one of the best secondary in the league today, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Unlike Donovan McNabb who can put a lot of points on the scoreboard, Jay Cutler has struggled against superior defensive teams. And since the league schedules its top tier teams on primetime, Cutler’s struggles against these teams during the evening is really not THAT surprising.
In his four-year NFL career, Jay Cutler is 4-9 in the 13 night games he played on primetime. Yep, maybe Cutler is just trying too hard on national TV perhaps? The fact that he has thrown an interception for every 20.3 attempts at night compared to his one interception for every 34.6 attempts at daytime proves just that.
And in case you were wondering, those numbers are…
Griffin gets a crack at Ortiz again
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Can Griffin avenge his first loss in the UFC after Ortiz won a controversial split decision a few years ago?
That is the question most MMA fans are asking themselves heading to the highly anticipated rematch between Forrest Griffin and Tito Ortiz in UFC 106. And since the fight will be in Griffin’s hometown at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, you just know Las Vegas can’t wait for this epic encounter.
”The Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz was originally scheduled to fight Mark Coleman. However, on October 5, Ortiz made it public that the fight was off, and it later became known that Coleman was suffering from a knee injury.
The UFC then confirmed that Forrest Griffin would step in to face Ortiz, setting us up for one rematch MMA fans were asking for since that controversial split decision.
For more than three years of waiting, the stakes for this much awaited rematch remain very much the same. For Forrest Griffin, it represents an opportunity to rebound from consecutive losses and reestablish himself as a contender for the light heavyweight title he once held.
For Tito Ortiz, this serves as his chance to prove that a fresh round of surgeries have him back to his old, incalculably grating self. Ortiz enters this fight trying to prove that despite his age, he can still fight with the best fighters in the world and win big.
If his shots still have some juice on them, Griffin is in a lot of trouble. Heck, he has already proven that he can take down Griffin and work the ground and pound gameplan to perfection.
Griffin still loses his discipline with alarming regularity and Ortiz will look to prey on that weakness. However, the last time these two warriors met, Ortiz could not sustain his ground and pound game past the first round and just barely survived two periods of attrition with Griffin.
This Saturday, survival will not be an option if…
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