Test Your Pro & College Football Pointspread IQ
Before You Start Betting
the 2008 Football Season
>Section
1 -- NFL Sides
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1 -- Which team, since
2002, that plays its home games on Natural Grass, is just 31-42 (42%) ATS (Against
the Spread) on that surface while going a stellar 16-5-2 (76%) ATS on Artificial
Turf?
2 -- Which team is just 4-14 (22%) ATS since 2002 in same season Divisional
rematches (3 per season) with a losing ATS record in EACH of the past 6 seasons?
3
-- Which team is just 5-12-1 ATS (29%) as a Home Underdog since 2002?
4 --
Which team has gone 15-8-1 ATS (65%) in the final quarter of the season (games 13
through 16) since 2002?
5 -- Which team has gone 26-11 ATS (70%) since 2002
when facing a team that made the Playoffs the previous season?
6 -- Which
team has gone 14-5 (74%) ATS since 2002 in their next game following a game in which
they allowed over 30 points yet during the same period has gone just 1-8 (11%) ATS
in games following a game in which they allowed under 10 points?
7 -- Which
4 numbers account for more than one-third of all winning margins (35.4%) over the
past 27 seasons? Or the percentage of games decided by 14 points or more (a margin
greater than 95% of all pointspreads)?
>Section
2 -- NFL 2 Team 6 Point Teasers
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8
-- Which NFL team that has covered the regular pointspread just 46% of the time overall
since 2002 has been a remarkable 77% (23-7) in Teasers as a Home Underdog over these
past 6 seasons?
9 -- Which NFL team has gone an outstanding 16-2 (89%) in
Teasers in regular season rematches since 2002?
10 -- Which NFL team has gone
an amazing 37-8-3 (79%) in Teasers in ALL REGULAR SEASON ROAD GAMES since 2002?
Or the 2 NFL teams that have gone 11-1 (92%) in Teasers in Interconference games
since 2005?
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Section 3 --
NFL Totals (Overs & Unders)
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11
-- Which team has played UNDER 56% of the time at home since 2002 (21-27) while playing
OVER 72% of the time on the road (34-13-1) during this same span ?
12 -- Which
team that plays its home games on Artificial Turf, has actually played a significantly
greater percentage of OVER games on Natural Grass 23-11, 68%) than on Artificial
Turf (29-32-1, 48%) since 2002?
13 -- Which team, a 48% UNDER team overall
since 2002 (45-48-3), nonetheless has closed the season by playing 16 OVERs and just
8 UNDERs (67% OVERs) since 2002 over the final quarter of the season (games 13 through
16) ?
>Section
4 -- College Football
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14 -- Which
team is just 5-16-3 (24%) ATS (Against the Spread) since 2002 in Conference Home
Games while at the same time has gone 15-9 (63%) in Conference Road Games? Or the
team that has gone 10-1 (91%) ATS in Conference Home Games since 2005 while going
just 2-8 (20%) ATS in Conference Road Games?
15 -- Which team since 2002 has
started the season 18-9 (67%) ATS in Games 1-5 but has then gone 16-25 (39%) ATS
in Game 6 through the end of the regular season?
16 -- Which 5 teams have
gone 0-6 ATS (0%) in their opening conference game of the season since 2002? Each
of these teams was 0-6 ATS from 2001 to 2006 and each again failed to cover their
first Conference Game in 2007!
17 -- Which team, since 2002, has gone 32-15-1
ATS (68%) in all Conference games?
18 -- Which team has gone 20-9 ATS (69%)
since 2002 in the game following a game in which they allowed over 30 points? Or
the team in the same situation since 2002 that has gone just 5-16 (24%) ATS?
19 -- Which team since 2002 just 10-19 (34%) as a Home Underdog while going a
stellar 21-12 (64%) during this period as a Road Underdog?
20 -- Which team,
since 2002, is just 1-10-1 ( 9%) ATS in the game immediately following a game in
which they scored over 30 points?
21 -- Which team – from a BCS Conference
– is just 7-14-1 (33%) since 2002 as a Home Underdog and also just 10-18 (36%) ATS
as a Road Underdog?
22 -- Which team that has a losing ATS record since 2002
as a Home Favorite (13-15-1, 46%) is nonetheless 16-4-1 (80%) ATS as a Road Favorite
during the same period?
23 -- Which team since 2005 has performed as expected
in 12 of the 15 instances (80%) in which the pointspread in their games closed a
point or a half or more away from where it opened? Or the team that was 4 for 4
in that situation in 2007?
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