{"id":6059,"date":"2009-10-17T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/football-betting-houston-to-cover-sportsbook-odds-versus-tulane\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:55:00","slug":"football-betting-houston-to-cover-sportsbook-odds-versus-tulane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/football-betting-houston-to-cover-sportsbook-odds-versus-tulane\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Betting: Houston to Cover Sportsbook Odds Versus Tulane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There is no more prosperous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoresoddspicks.com\/\">football handicapper<\/a> than Joe Duffy of GodsTips. He has <font color=\"#333333\"><span style='color:#333333'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles\">today&#8217;s free pick<\/a><\/span><\/font> on the Houston-Tulane game. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">Sportsbooks<\/a> have the Cougars a 17-point favorite. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Never one to lay a large number on the road, <\/span><\/font><st1:country-region><st1:place>America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>&#8217;s only living Grandmaster Handicapper in sports betting says lay the points on the road. Here is the analysis: <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ah the difference between rankings and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=1398\">rankings<\/a> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>are greatly demonstrated here. Rankings make it look like Tulane is excellent against the pass. It helps that they faced an Army team that almost never passes. It helps they also played <\/span><\/font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span   class=SpellE>McNeese<\/span><\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fact is they give up 9.1 passing yards per attempt to teams normally getting 7.9 and are only average against the run. Now they must slow down a <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> team that gets 144 more yards per game than their opponents normally allow. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In fact deceptive ratings make it appear <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is inferior against the pass, but truth is they are better than Tulane, holding teams to .3 yards per pass below their normal average. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tulane has lost all three home games to <span class=SpellE>FBS<\/span> foes by 21 or more points. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Green Wave can&#8217;t possibly keep up with the Cougars. Houston QB Case <span class=SpellE>Keenum<\/span> is averaging 426 yards passing and his 183 completions this season is 78 more than the number of passes Tulane quarterback Joe Kemp has attempted.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While nothing is dumber than the adage &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lines-maker.com\/2009\/03\/sports-betting-myth-just-pick-team-that.html\">just pick the team that wins outright<\/a>&#8221; it&#8217;s tough to ignore the Green Wave has dropped 36 straight to ranked opponents. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Free pick: <\/span><\/font><\/b><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> -17 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>For more information: <\/span><\/font><\/b>As professional gamblers well know, the Center of the Handicapping Universe owes a great deal of success to underdog mastery. That&#8217;s what makes the College Football Blowout of the Year so special. A rare case of GodsTips laying double digits and utterly shocking that&#8217;s it&#8217;s among four Wise Guys. Also get 11 Majors. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wise Guy plays from Joe Duffy&#8217;s GodsTips are widely accepted by high rollers, bookmakers, linesmakers, and fellow handicappers as the biggest play in the handicapping abyss. This is just fact.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>GodsTips was 8-3 last Saturday, all in college football. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no more prosperous football handicapper than Joe Duffy of GodsTips. He has today&#8217;s free pick on the Houston-Tulane game. Sportsbooks have the Cougars a 17-point favorite. Never one to lay a large number on the road, America&#8217;s only living Grandmaster Handicapper in sports betting says lay the points on the road. Here is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/football-betting-houston-to-cover-sportsbook-odds-versus-tulane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Football Betting: Houston to Cover Sportsbook Odds Versus Tulane<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}