Texans Picks

Texans at Ravens Spread -7 1/2 Total 36. Moneyline Ravens -340, Texans +280

The Houston Texans and the Tennessee Titans clash in a huge AFC South showdown at LP Field in Nashville this Sunday afternoon with first-place in the division on the line. The game is slated for a 1 p.m. (ET) start and it will be broadcast regionally on CBS

The Oakland Raiders will look to raise their record back over .500 when they tangle with the Houston Texans this Sunday afternoon in a matchup of two up-and-coming teams in the AFC

The Pittsburgh Steelers will try and win their third straight game when they take on the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium this upcoming Sunday afternoon. The kick-off is slated for 1 p.m. (ET) and the game will be broadcast nationally on CBS.

Houston is one of a few teams that is a perfect 2-0 straight-up and against-the-spread this season, coming off a 23-13 win over the Miami Dolphins as three-point road favorites. The Texans have won the yardage battle

Lines for Week 3 in the NFL

Houston came away with an uneventful 34-7 home win over the Indianapolis Colts as nine-point favorites, as the team didn’t have to defend quarterback Peyton Manning, who is still recovering from offseason neck surgery

NFL Lines for week 2

Indianapolis dropped a 34-24 contest in last year’s season opener against Houston, failing to deliver as one-point road favorites. The Colts finished that contest with a 463-355 yardage advantage

What a different a year makes when analyzing the second consecutive year of opening a season against each other. Indianapolis failed as a one-point road favorite in Houston last year

Florida Atlantic travels to The Swamp in Gainesville and will begin the final season under head coach Howard Schnellenberger, who began the program 13 years ago, taking it from obscurity into the major college football ranks

LSU is a dominating 20-4 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference, which includes a 3-0 mark under Miles. Playing inside of a dome will likely factor little in the Tigers ability to come out with a victory, entering with a 22-7 all-time mark when indoors. LSU has won

Houston is one of three teams with a perfect 3-0 ATS mark and was visually impressive in a 30-7 road win over the San Francisco 49ers as 5.5-point favorites. The Texans out-gained the 49ers by an incredible 312 yards

Bettors are enjoying a unique opportunity to start playing around with the NFL Week 1 lines this year, even with many roster spots in doubt due to free agency starting this week. Professional bettors will continue moving these numbers around until the season kicks off with a premiere matchup

The ongoing negotiations between the NFL owners and the Players Association to arrive at a new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) continue to point towards a resolution that could potentially end a four-month owner imposed lockout of the players and reopen the league for business as early as the end of this week

The 2011 Pro Bowl returns to Hawaii after being held in Miami, Florida last year. The annual contest of the AFC's and NFC's best will take place Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 7 p.m. ET. This is only the second time in history that the Pro Bowl will be held the week

The Texans keep finding new and different ways to lose every week while the Titans have been finding ways to win until recently. Now there is a big mess with

This is one of the best plays on the board this week. The Jets have been getting so lucky. How they covered a 3.5 point spread in overtime

Both of these teams have a shot at a division title and both have been hot and cold all year long. The Texan defense is better then the Jaguars' while the Texan offense is better

Houston really didn’t step up at Indy last week however, San Diego did step up against Tennessee last week. Both of these teams seem to do the same

Another good match up on Monday Night Football. This is a rematch of the season opener which was won by Houston. This is a little different this time around

Kansas City fought valiantly at the Colts last week, but came up a little short. Houston got killed by the Giants at home

Nobody believed me when I said the Giants have a good defense. They looked unstoppable against Chicago last week. I spoke

Another great week. We went 7-3 and hit on our big teaser bet. That makes it year to date, 27-14-1 and 3-1 on Teaser betting. We will start the week

Houston really let us down last week against Dallas. The Raiders are one of the many teams that had bad years last year but are playing

How bout dem Cowboys!!!!. America’s team is 0-2 and I’m laughing my ass off. How can you possibly lose to the Bears at home in a must win game. We told you bet the Bears +9 but we didn’t think

After a surprising Week 3 performance in which Wisconsin barely squeaked out a 20-19 win over Arizona State and needed a blocked extra point to do it, the Badgers get

These are 2 of the teams that we feel really highly about, and both made us money last week, as part of our top 3 picks. There are problems with the Redskins

Part 2 of our teaser could also be used as a straight bet. Indianapolis has looked terrible in the pre season as usual, and the new umpire position is hurting Manning while Houston has looked great in pre season.

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

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,

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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