The Broncos will travel to New England to take on the Patriots in primetime on Monday. Here’s a look at that contest and the rest of the schedule in your Daily Sports Roundup.

World Series Odds

Las Vegas gives the Philadelphia Phillies a much better chance to end 25 years of misery in the City of Brotherly Love than the offshore and online sportsbooks. The land based Las Vegas betting line for the series is Tampa -135, while we saw Tampa open up at -180 at the Greek, it has dropped to -150. To say the least before betting the World Series line, shop around as the oddsmakers vary.

The Gridiron Spotlight

Placing wagers on the Broncos this season hasn’t been a lucrative pastime. Denver managed to pick up an ATS win over the Raiders in their season opener, but since then they’ve managed to go just 0-4-1 against the number. That puts the Broncos at 1-4-1 ATS on the season, a record which stands in contrast to their 4-2 straight-up mark. Last week against the Jaguars the Broncos were defeated 24-17 as a 3-point home favorite.

The Patriots have alternated ATS losses and wins so far this season – they managed to cover the spread twice, in Week 2 against the Jets and in Week 5 (after a bye) against the 49ers. New England was thumped 30-10 on the road against the Chargers last week, as 6-point underdogs. The Pats are 3-2 straight-up and 2-3 ATS on the season.

The oddsmakers opened the Patriots as 3-point home favorites against the Broncos, and that line stayed steady throughout the week. The total for the game is at 48 points. A strong menu as to who to bet tonight is at the homepage of OffshoreInsiders.com 
 
Other Notable Events

There are four games on the NHL’s schedule for Monday night: Pittsburgh at Boston, Dallas at the Rangers, Florida at Montreal, and Colorado at Los Angeles. The 6-1-1 Rangers lead the league in points, thanks in part to the jumpstart they got on the season over in Europe. The 4-0-1 Habs have yet to suffer a defeat in regulation time.

The Rest of the Schedule

The final week of the NBA’s exhibition schedule gets underway on Monday night, with Orlando at Atlanta, New York at New Jersey, Charlotte at Phoenix, and Portland at Sacramento. The league’s regular season will tip off with games Tuesday, October 28.

News from the Wire

DT Josh Shaw is OUT for Denver on Monday, while TE Tony Scheffler, WR Brandon Stokley, RB Ryan Torain, and RB Selvin Young are QUESTIONABLE. A host of Broncos, including WRs Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal, are PROBABLE . . . LB Eric Alexander, DE Jarvis Green, RB LaMont Jordan, T Nick Kaczur, RB Laurence Maroney, WR Kelley Washington, CB Jonathan Wilhite are DOUBTFUL for the Patriots.

A Peek at the Future

Highlighting the Week 8 NFL schedule are Tampa Bay at Dallas, San Diego at New Orleans, Arizona at Carolina, the Giants at Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis at Tennessee. Chicago, Denver, Green Bay, and Minnesota are off next week . . . Games 1 and 2 of the World Series will be played on Wednesday and Thursday night, with the series shifting to Philadelphia for Games 3 through 5 on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday night.

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The fans at Gillette Stadium will be treated to a game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots when they take their seats on Monday. Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 3-point favorites versus the Broncos, while the game’s total is sitting at 49. The Broncos lost to Jacksonville 24-17 as a 3-point favorite in Week 6. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over/under total (48.5). Jay Cutler threw for 192 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for Denver and Michael Pittman rushed for 109 yards on 20 carries. The Patriots lost to San Diego 30-10 as a 6-point underdog in Week 6. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over/under total (45). Matt Cassel threw for 203 yards with no touchdowns and an interception for New England, while Sammy Morris rushed for 26 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries. Team records: Denver: 4-2 SU, 1-4-1 ATS New England: 3-2 SU, 2-3 ATS Denver most recently: When playing in October are 6-4 When playing on turf are 4-6 After being outgained are 4-6 When playing outside the division are 5-5 New England most recently: When playing in October are 9-1 When playing on turf are 9-1 After being outgained are 7-3 When playing outside the division are 8-2 A few trends to consider: Denver is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against New England Denver is 16-3 SU in its last 19 games when playing New England Denver is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing New England Denver is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against New England New England is 15-2 SU in its last 17 games at home New England is 21-3 SU in its last 24 games The total has gone UNDER in 7 of New England’s last 8 games at home The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New England’s last 6 games when playing at home against Denver Next up: Denver home to Miami, Sunday, November 2 New England home to St. Louis, Sunday, October 26

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Peyton Manning and the Colts will try to pick up a victory as road favorites against the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday afternoon. Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup.

The Gridiron Spotlight

The Colts are back over the .500 mark at 3-2 (2-3 ATS) after picking up back-to-back wins over the Texans and Ravens. That still leaves them with ground to make up on the first-place Titans (who they’ll play next week) in the AFC South, but they’ll gun for their third straight win on Sunday afternoon against the 3-3 (3-3 ATS) Packers at Lambeau Field. The oddsmakers have Indy pegged as a 1-point road favorite, with a total of 47.

Meanwhile, the Titans will be looking run their record to a perfect 6-0 (and 6-0 ATS) when they play a road game against the Chiefs on Sunday afternoon. Tennessee slipped past Baltimore 13-10 two weeks ago – they had a bye last week. Kansas City (1-4, 2-3 ATS) was also off last week, but they were blasted 34-0 by the Panthers prior to that down time. The Titans are favored by 8.5 points on the road, while the total is at 35.

Other games on the NFL’s Sunday schedule: San Diego at Buffalo (pick’em), Minnesota at Chicago (-3), Pittsburgh (-9.5) at Cincinnati, Dallas (-7) at St. Louis, Baltimore at Miami (-3), San Francisco at the Giants (-10.5), New Orleans at Carolina (-3), Detroit at Houston (-9), the Jets (-3) at Oakland, and Cleveland at Washington (-7.5). As well, the Sunday nighter will feature Seattle at Tampa Bay, with the Bucs favored by 10.5 points.

Other Notable Events

The Red Sox and Rays will play Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday, after Boston roared back to tie the best-of-seven set with a win on Saturday.

Jon Lester will get the ball for Boston on Sunday. The lefthander was tagged for a loss by the Rays earlier in the series, surrendering five runs (four earned) on eight hits over 5 2-3 innings of work. The fading Rays will counter with Matt Garza, who earned a win over the Red Sox in this series by allowing just one earned run over six innings pitched.

The Rest of the Schedule

Racing fans get two big events to watch on Sunday. First off it’s Formula One and the Chinese Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton looking to lock down first place in the drivers championship. Hamilton has a five-point lead on Felipe Massa in those standings right now, with only two races left in the season. The hottest driver on the circuit, though, is Fernando Alonso; the Spaniard is coming off consecutive wins in Singapore and Japan.

The Sprint Cup Series will then stage the TUMS QuikPak 500 at Martinsville Speedway. Jimmie Johnson has a 69-point advantage on Jeff Burton in the Chase standings heading into this event, although Burton is coming off a victory in last week’s Bank of America 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Johnson has four career Cup wins at Martinsville Speedway, while teammate Jeff Gordon has picked up seven wins there.

There are just two National Hockey League games on tap for Sunday – it’s Carolina at Anaheim, and Vancouver at Chicago. The Hawks will be playing their second game under new head coach Joel Quenneville; Denis Savard was fired Thursday afternoon.

Finally, there’s a single Canadian Football League game on Sunday afternoon, with Hamilton at Saskatchewan at 3:00pm ET. The Roughriders are 13-point home favorites.

A Peek at the Future

The Monday Night Football matchup this weekend features Denver at New England, with the Patriots pegged as 3-point home favorites . . . a rare Tuesday night college football contest sees Ohio at Temple this week, while there are a pair of games on Thursday (Auburn/West Virginia, New Mexico/Air Force), and another on Friday (Boise State/San Jose State) . . . the Formula One season will end in Brazil on November 2.

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Kal Elner, a handicapper out of Reading, PA hits a consistent 65 percent when “waiving his normal star rating system”.  He is also the all-time top NBA totals capper. He waived the rating with his “Added Rotation Game of the Year” on Florida Atlantic Tuesday, Sept. 30.  Added Rotation Parlay of the Year on Saturday, October 4 wins with Western Kentucky and Louisiana Lafayette. Saturday, Oct. 11 he crushed the books with his Big 12 Game of the Year Oklahoma State and the Mountain West Game of the Year on New Mexico. In addition, he is 13-3 with all NFL plays. Last week you got right here the Interconference Game of the Year on the New Orleans Saints. Cowboys/Rams is the National Conference Game of the Year. Plus for Game 7 of the ALCS, Elner has his 2008 Postseason Game of the Year in MLB Rays/Red Sox. 

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Game of the Year and Game of the Month plays still involve the same straight betting as above.  While we believe all gamblers need only bet our plays we realize some pick and choose selections.  Said distinction is for such ala carte players. All units won quoted on systems are based on one unit per bet.

In MLB, because so many systems are pitcher specific, please note it is now our policy to always specify pitchers unless otherwise noted.

CFB

Wise Guy…

ARKANSAS +7.5 Kentucky

We are tempted to go with Arkansas on the moneyline as going against home teams with a winning record off a loss is +97.1 units on the moneyline.

Arkansas has three losses, but all were to Top 5 teams in back to back to back weeks.

Kentucky has beaten just one good team all year and that was Louisville in August.

Kentucky‘s offense is very unimpressive averaging 4.0 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.2 and 5.1 yards per pass to 6.0.

Arkansas has faced the 11^th toughest schedule compared to 44 to Kentucky.

The Wildcats mirror the Auburn team that Arkansas beat last week, in some ways, but no coaches have been fired this week.

Kentucky has a great defense, struggles on offense because of a lack of a proven quarterback and is expected to win.

Dicky Lyons, the Wildcats only real weapon is out. Lyons, 33 catches for 264 yards, has exactly the same catches as Kentucky‘s next best two receivers, running back Derrick

Locke and wide receiver/quarterback Randall Cobb, combined. Lyons also averaged 12.4 yards per punt return before sidelined for the season with torn knee ligaments during last Saturday’s 24-17 loss to South Carolina in Lexington.

Also the Wildcats have had good fortune this year, which is tough to maintain.

Kentucky‘s defense has netted 16 turnovers in six games. The Cats recovered two fumbles and one pick against Alabama and recovered two fumbles and picked off a pair of passes against South Carolina.

KANSAS +20 Oklahoma

 

Kansas only loss was by three points on the road to a very good USF squad. The ratings numbers don’t show the line to be justified. Kansas gets .6 more yards per play than their opponents normally allow and .4 less yards per play on defense than their foes get. KU is 20-3 straight up their last 23, so they are a good team.

Kansas has righted the ship after its loss at South Florida this season, developing a run game that had been missing early on. Jake Sharp ran for a season-high 118 yards and three touchdowns last week against Colorado in the best performance this year by a Jayhawks running back.

The Jayhawks will be seeking their second straight win against a top 5 opponent, having beaten No. 5 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl.

We know Bob Stoops is perfect straight up in the week after the Red River Shootout, but this is a lot of points against a quality team.

GEORGIA -14.5 Vanderbilt

 

Oh we have had so much success fading teams once the glass slipper is off. The Commodores lost their first game last week, now for the first time all year play consecutive road games and it’s against their toughest foe.

Vandy will for the first time this year get key yardage in the air, but they average 5.0 yards per pass against teams normally allowing 6.4.

Commodores have trailed in every game they’ve won, falling behind Auburn by 13 and

Ole Miss by 10. It finally bit them in the but, but now that UGA won’t have their guard down, is better than any team the ‘Dores faced, we see a big blowout.

Those who watch game films—and we subscribe to all of them, tell us UGA outmans

Vanderbilt everywhere. Now the other slipper comes off in blowout.

SMU +13.5 Houston

SMU is looking at each game as a building block and clearly is getting better. The Tulsa game gives you an idea how much they’re hoping we get things turned around,” said first year head coach June Jones. “In my eyes, we lost that game, and that’s not good enough. As a fan and as an SMU person who has been watching for 22 years, I think they sense that it is going to be different, that it is going to change.”

The most noticeable success has been in the Mustangs’ passing offense, which is ranked No. 11 in the country (293.1 yards per game). Other units, however, entered the season with nowhere near the depth present at quarterback and receiver.

Those areas, particularly the running game, are finally showing improvement. SMU racked up 151 rushing yards against Tulsa, with sophomore Chris Butler leading the way with 95 yards on nine carries. Butler (leg) is likely to be out for the Houston game, but other running backs on the roster have turned the rushing game into more than an afterthought.

Though they are 1-6 straight up and 16 straight to Division I teams, they have covered 2-of-3 by double digits and the one exception was a .5 point spread setback.

The Mustangs are clearly in building block, moral victory mode. We call them covers.

Major…

UL LAFAYETTE -3 Arkansas State

Going against road team off home win to conference against a team off double digit win to the conference is 303-199 +84.1 units. The status of ULL QB Mike Desormeaux keeps this as a Major, though there are other key indicators that would make it a Wise Guy.

MICHIGAN STATE +3.5 Ohio State

Going against road team off home win to conference against a team off double digit win to the conference is 303-199 +84.1 units.

COLORADO -3.5 Kansas State

This is a competitor consensus.  If we do not have a lean towards one side but it does not rise to the level of premium play, but get a strong play or consensus from the few other handicappers we respect, we pass it as a “competitor consensus”.

NEVADA -22.5 Utah State

 

This is a competitor consensus.  If we do not have a lean towards one side but it does not rise to the level of premium play, but get a strong play or consensus from the few other handicappers we respect, we pass it as a “competitor consensus”.

RUTGERS +1 Connecticut

Our official outlaw line is Rutgers -3.5. The official outlaw line is what the odds would be if there was no consideration given to public perception and balancing the action.  It is the more accurate line from the standpoint of the bettor.

CENTRAL MICHIGAN +2 Western Michigan

Our official outlaw line is Central Michigan -3.5. The official outlaw line is what the odds would be if there was no consideration given to public perception and balancing the action.  It is the more accurate line from the standpoint of the bettor.

BUFFALO -11 Army

Our official outlaw line is -16. The official outlaw line is what the odds would be if there was no consideration given to public perception and balancing the action.  It is the more accurate line from the standpoint of the bettor.

IOWA -4 Wisconsin

This is one of the top sharp versus squares games.  That means most of the sharp money is going one way and most of the sucker money the other way according to our offshore, Vegas and “outlaw” contacts.  We go with the sharp money.

PURDUE +155 (Moneyline) Northwestern

Go against a home team off an straight up loss with a winning record is +97.1 units on the moneyline including +11.8 this year. Also when both teams are averaging 21-28 points per game on offense and the road team gave up and scored 17 or less the previous game, the road team is 25-7 +39.2 units. Again, your wallet considers that better than 100 percent.

BOSTON COLLEGE -2.5 Virginia Tech

This game illustrates why ratings are so much more accurate than rankings. Virginia Tech’s success is because they average 175 yards rushing per game, but a closer look shows that they get just 3.8 yards per carry against teams normally allowing 4.2. Now they face a BC team that holds teams to .8 yards per rush below their normal average.

Overall they allow 4.2 yards per play to teams normally getting 4.7. Tech is actually below average on offense and on defense. They are a paper Hokie. BC is above average on both sides of the ball.

Even the rankings tells us that Tech is not as good as their record. The Hokies are ranked 107^th nationally in total offense, averaging 292.8 yards per game, their lowest average since 1987, when Virginia Tech averaged 261.7 yards per game in Beamer’s first season.

The Hokies’ defense, which was ranked third, first, and second the last three seasons, is now ranked 35^th, allowing an average of 314.3 yards per game.

Now they have two starters suffering season-ending injuries the last two games – rover back Davon Morgan (torn anterior cruciate ligament) and tailback Kenny Lewis (ruptured Achilles’). Morgan and Lewis were also the Hokies’ primary kick returners. This is the youngest team Frank Beamer ever coached.

MLB

Major…

BOSTON (BECKETT +131) Tampa (Shields)

Boston has gotten all of the momentum and now has won eight straight in potentially elimination games. Tampa has lost 7-of-9 to Shields.

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