Texans Betting

With emotions running high on both sides of the ball, one team (Florida) will benefit greatly. The other will suffer an embarrassing loss on New Year’s Day. Cincinnati is playing without former head coach Brian Kelly, who led the Bearcats to significant success in recent years

We are going to use the same philosophy with game 2 of our teaser that we used with game one. Both of these teams come into this game at 7-7 and must have a win here. Again the line is about right, as the home team should win this game by around a field goal, but it’s too close to call

Seattle was able to win a close one against San Francisco last week while Houston lost a game that they had to win at Jacksonville. We have been waiting for years for Houston to finally get their stuff together and they haven’t yet. All is not lost however as in the wacky AFC

Houston played Indianapolis very tough a few weeks ago and almost beat them 20-17. The reason for that is because they can rush the passer, and that is the recipe to beat Peyton Manning, as Baltimore demonstrated last week. Houston didn’t play that great against Tennessee

Not quite the same allure as the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma, but this week’s Bedlam Rivalry game is Oklahoma State’s Super Bowl. The Cowboys have had a tremendous season so far and Oklahoma is sitting at 6-5, ensured of its worst season since 1999

Virginia coach Al Groh has beaten the Cavaliers’ arch rival Hokies just one time in his nine years at UVA. He and the Cavaliers look to make that number two and possibly avoid his firing this Saturday in Charlottesville. The Hokies are in a down year at 8-3 and will not contend for the ACC Championship,

Despite an 11-0 record up to this point, Alabama still realistically needs to win its next two games to get into the National Championship. With Florida a perfect 11-0 as well, the Crimson Tide will need to beat Auburn this week and Florida in the SEC Championship

Boise State doesn’t play too many home games where they are only 14 point favorites, but that is exactly what they are this week when Nevada comes to play on the blue turf. Boise State needs a win this week, and badly. Though the Broncos are 11-0, their only hope for a BCS appearance

At first glance you might think that it was quite a shocker that Oakland beat Cincinnati last week, but at we said the Bengals were coming off their biggest win in years and might be flat. We also felt that Jamarcus Russell was hindering the Raider offense and the switch to anybody but he was the correct move

The NFL works in patterns. One pattern is there are surprise teams every year (that would be the Texans). The other is there are teams that get off to a bad start, start playing for next year and start to play well (That would be the Titans). Tennessee has won 3 straight after dropping

Houston is starting to play like the team that I thought they would be before the season. They have won 3 straight against 3 pretty good teams. The Colts are 7-0, like they seem to be every year. The early (smart) money has knocked the line down from

We love Houston and last week we said Houston-3 was too close to call and they won by 3.We missed on the total by a half point. The Bills have been playing well as of late, beating the Jets and Panthers on the road 2 weeks in a row. The line of Houston-3 is right on the money again

We like both of these teams very much. The Texans showed that they are for real by beating the Bengals last week in Cincinnati, raising their record to a respectable 3-3. San Francisco was playing great until they were killed by Atlanta 2 weeks ago

This is a game we feel strongly about. If you have been following our picks section, you have heard me say that, in the NFL all these teams are pretty close, and it comes down to coaching and motivation. We like this game for a few reasons.

We still love the Texans and feel that they have not begun to play their best football yet. They started to play the way we feel they are capable last week with an impressive 26-9 victory that was part of our teaser.

We had another good week as we went 6-1 with our picks last week. Unfortunately Cardinal mistakes cost us our 4 team teaser. We won’t make that same mistake this week.

Both of these teams have problems. Miami really can’t play offense at the N.F.L. level. They look like a college or high school team at times, with their “Wildcat” offense and their quarterback who throws the ball like a shot put. Another quarterback, who has a funky delivery is Phillip Rivers

This week 2 of our sleeper picks are playing each other. We had Houston +7 to upset Tennessee last week and they did. They finally played up to their potential as one of the best teams in the N.F.L.

This game scares me, not only as a Giant fan but as a bettor. This is a trap game for the Giants. After 2 huge wins against division rivals, Dallas and Washington, they now play 3 games in a row versus bad teams

The next 2 games that we are picking, we are going a little bit out on a limb. There are 2 home dogs that both played very well last week as huge underdogs. Both teams had opportunities to win outright but didn’t.

Houston let us down last week and killed all of our teaser bets. There are no excuses anymore for the Texans. They had the 3rd ranked offense in the league last year, have been stockpiling young talented defensive players

The New York Jets are +5 underdog at Houston. This is one of the four games we are going to include in a 13 point teaser bet.

Before last season actually started, the Texans were being billed as a team that was poised to make its first playoff appearance ever.

Probably the most well known handicapping angle is the “Monday Night Home Underdog.”

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