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01/16/2007 - Stillwater, OK (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two outstanding Big 12 teams will collide in Stillwater tonight, as the 12th-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys host the 21st-ranked Texas Longhorns.
Texas comes into this contest with a five-game winning streak that has enabled the club to move to 13-3 overall and 3-0 in Big 12 action. On Saturday, the Longhorns showed a great deal of toughness in an 80-69 victory over Oklahoma. All three league victories have come by double figures.
Oklahoma State was slated to take on Nebraska on Saturday, but poor weather conditions restricted travel and caused the game to be postponed. The Cowboys are eager to get back to action, as they dropped a 30-point decision to Kansas last time out. Despite that ugly defeat, OSU is still 15-2 overall and a perfect 10-0 at home, as the only other loss came against an outstanding Tennessee squad by two points.
Texas owns a narrow 34-33 edge in the all-time series with Oklahoma State.
College basketball's best player was at it again on Saturday, as Texas star freshman Kevin Durant scored 28 points to lead his team over Oklahoma. Durant has led the Longhorns in scoring in seven straight games, and he has topped 20 points in all of those tilts. He racked up 37 points against Colorado in the league opener and followed that performance with a 34- point effort against Missouri. Durant is averaging 23.7 ppg and 11.0 rpg while shooting 50 percent from the floor, and he has blocked 29 shots as well. The fact that he is shooting 38 percent from three-point range and 85.6 percent from the foul line suggests that there is no apparent weakness in his game. Durant does get some help from A.J. Abrams (16.7 ppg) and D.J. Augustin (13.4 ppg, 6.5 apg), but the 6-9 freshman phenom is clearly the headliner. Texas connected on 54.7 percent of its field goal attempts against Oklahoma on Saturday and earned a 34-23 rebounding advantage.
Oklahoma State relies heavily on the duo of Mario Boggan and JamesOn Curry to be productive at the offensive end, and those two players have responded in a big way. Boggan is scoring 21.1 ppg on 59.7 percent shooting from the floor, and he is pulling down 7.4 rpg as well. Curry does his damage from the backcourt, as he is racking up 18.5 ppg on 42.1 percent accuracy from three-point range to go along with 78 assists. Oklahoma State is averaging 83.2 ppg on 50.2 percent shooting from the floor, and it is holding the opposition to 69.4 ppg. The Cowboys shot a lowly 32.1 percent from the floor and committed 20 turnovers against Kansas last week in a game that featured few positives. Defensively, Oklahoma State permitted the Jayhawks to hit 57.6 percent of their field goal attempts. Boggan was limited to eight points on 4-of-16 shooting from the floor, and he failed to grab a single rebound in 26 minutes of action.
<< Falcons swoop into Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The victories are becoming a little
tighter, but they still keep coming as the 13th-ranked Air Force Falcons
hit the road to take on the Utah Runnin' Utes at the Huntsman Center in Salt
Lake Ci
<< Sharapova beats opponent, heat in Aussie opener
Melbourne, Australia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Maria Sharapova survived a
scare and hung on to win in the first round at a scorchingly-hot 2007
Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday.
With temperatures over 100 degrees, pla
<< St. Louis to host 2009 All-Star Game
St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis' Busch Stadium has been chosen
to host the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Commissioner Bud Selig made the announcement at the annual St. Louis Baseball
Writers Dinner on Monday.
<< Sharapova beats opponent, heat in Aussie openers
Melbourne, Australia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Maria Sharapova survived a
scare and hung on to win in the first round at a scorchingly hot 2007
Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday.
With temperatures over 100 degrees play
Big East tussle pits Panthers against Huskies >>
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A battle of Big East Conference
heavyweights will ensue in Pittsburgh tonight, as the sixth-ranked
Panthers hope to hold off the Connecticut Huskies.
On Saturday, UConn halte
NFL will play in London >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The NFL has announced that it will play a
regular-season game in London, England during the 2007 season.
NFL owners voted in October to play up to two games outside the United States
every year for the n
Brewster to take over Golden Gophers >>
Minneapolis, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The University of Minnesota is set to name
Tim Brewster its new head football coach.
Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi offered Brewster the position late
Monday night and he accepted Tuesday morn
Indians, Michaels agree on two-year deal >>
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Indians and outfielder Jason
Michaels have agreed to a two-year deal worth $4.25 million.
The Akron Beacon Journal also reported that Michaels received a $100,000
signing bonus and th
While the NFL is the sport wagered on the heaviest, college football betting lines has become more and more popular as people realize it’s a game that can be beat. The NCAA football season gets longer each year with the addition of numerous bowl games and with that comes more opportunities for more money in your pocket, if handled correctly.
Betting on college football is not the same as with the NFL, so make sure you separate the two. Because of the vast number of teams, the parity between college football programs is slight and thus, you are going to see some high numbers in the NCAA. Teams favored by more than 40 points are not uncommon especially early in the season when teams playing their non-conference schedules.
The best advice when trying to tackle these enormous spreads and is to just stay away. A team that is favored by 40 points is favored by that many for a reason while teams getting 40 points are bad enough that they shouldn’t be touched. Set yourself a spread limit. Getting rid of these games will cut down on the number of contests that you need to handicap while staying away from backdoor or front-door covers.
What is a backdoor and front-door cover you ask? A backdoor cover is a team that is getting beat by more than the spread, but scores late to get within that number thus covering the spread. A front-door cover is just the opposite where the favorite scores late and covers the number they are favored by.
These front-door and backdoor covers are common when second and third string players enter games in college football and it can be the worst nightmare for some bettors. These players can also be your best friend, but ask any bettor and he will give you more instances on losing in this situation than winning. It just seems to work out that way even though everything evens out in the end.
College football betting has some of the softest lines of any sport and it’s being able to find these lines that will make you a successful college football handicapper. The NFL and NBA have the tightest lines around and while those sports can be beat by looking at situations and systems, college football doesn’t quite work that way. It’s much more manual, but when done correctly, it’s much more gratifying as well.
Getting into the nuts and bolts of college football means looking at the many stats in order to beat the number. As opposed to pro football, college football is less dependent on situations and angles and more on certain statistics. Rushing offense and defense, pass efficiency offense and defense and turnover margins are huge. These are vital in the NFL, but even more so when it comes to college football.
Being able to run the ball in college football has always been a key factor in the overall success of a team. The same adage also goes for teams who have the ability to stop the run. Putting these two factors together can produce some positive results in a team’s record both straight up and against the spread. These numbers show huge differences in teams and the spread may not take those into effect, which is where the value comes into play.
Passing yardage numbers both for and against can be a misinterpreted statistic. However, pass efficiency has always been one of the best ways to look at a teams’ passing game ability both offensively and defensively. But is it really a true indication of how they perform? I wouldn’t say so since they are raw passing numbers with nothing else taken into consideration.
I use pass efficiency ratings when doing my handicapping but I adjust my numbers based on a number of factors including power ratings, strength of schedules, personnel and injuries. This gives a much better picture of a team’s ability to pass effectively and also being able to defend the pass. Tweaking pass efficiency stats instead of raw passing yards is the key.
Turnovers are the single most frustrating, and at times the most gratifying, aspect of a college football lines, mostly because they are so unpredictable. They are part of the game and most of the time nothing can be done to control them. However, turnovers are contagious and they can carry over from game to game and season to season.
It’s important to know how to forecast these unforeseen events and how to use them to your advantage. You can find ways to give yourself an edge by looking at past histories of teams and coaches and how they have fared in turnover wars in the past. Instead of turnovers hurting you at the wrong times, find ways to use them to your advantage.
As you can see, college football handicapping is very labor intensive and isn’t just based on where teams are ranked in the AP and coaches polls. Experience, coaching and match-ups are all important since unlike the NFL, college teams turn over much more often with new personnel at most positions every single year. Keeping current on this information is vital.
Betting NCAA football can be lucrative if done correctly, but more importantly, it’s just plain enjoyable because it can be beat. College football is one of the best sports to watch with some of the best rivalries taking place in all of sports. The only downfall is that a championship isn’t decided on the field but on a computer-based system that is the Bowl Championship Series. That will change someday and we will all be better off for it.
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“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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