Wild Cards and Boilermakers

A couple of NFL games and an onslaught of college basketball makes for nice day of betting. However, I must warn you that my mono is fading... take my advice at your own risk.

Lets start with the Bengals at home against the Jets.

LINE: Bengals -3 vs. Jets

OVER/UNDER 34

The Bengals were embarassed last week in New York. I mean pants down, cold water, embarassed. Carson Palmer completed 1 of 10 passes for -4 yards. The tolken team manager that every high school team in the country is using as a gimmick to get on Sporscenter could have chucked the pigskin for better numbers.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/video/highschool-basketball/Chubbs-special-for-Pioneers-58996

Does any of this concern me, considering I'm leaning towards the Bengals here? No. The Bengals are at home, and the Jets threw everything, including Rex Ryan's double decker fridge at them last week. The Jets revealed Brad Smith's wildcat running ability, and the Bengals refused to run against a poor Jet's run D to see what Palmer could do in the air against Revis. The Bengals will make adjustments and win. I think. Both teams will run the crap out of the ball which makes me believe this game has a legit chance to stay under the small 34 point spread. But, to play it safe I'll play the tease card. This is the bet I will be placing on BODOG.COM.

2 Team Teaser

Bengals +3
UNDER 40


Game two features another rematch from last week.

Cowboys -4 vs. Eagles
OVER/UNDER 45

This game was similiarly horriffic for the Eagles as they were also spanked and shutout by the home team. Dallas won both of the regular season meetings with ease, but (you know it's coming) it's NEVER easy to beat a team three times in a season, especially the Philadalphia Eagles. I know the Eagles don't have a running game, but no team does when they play Dallas. If you watched the game last week, you saw that McNabb didn't have trouble moving the ball down the field, they just made stupid turnovers and dropped pass after pass all game. They aren't going to make those mistakes this week. And given Andy Reid's success in the playoffs compared to the law firm of Romo and Wade, I think the Eagles +4 is enough to hold up in court any day. This will be a field goal game and it could go either way.

Eagles +4


And a little college hardwood bonus...

I like Michigan State -14 @ Iowa. State just received a scare from Wisconsin and they'll be looking to do to Iowa the same thing they did to Northwestern the last time they were on the road.

I also like Purdue to remain undefeated and their line of -1 @ Wisconsin. Purdue could easilly lose here. Nope, they couldn't. They're good.