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**Udog** · 01-02-2018, 10:23 AM

Armadillo: Tuesday's six-pack

— Big 14 is 7-1 in bowl games, with Michigan the only loser.

— Big X is 5-3 in bowl games; 8 out of 10 teams made a bowl.

— MAC is 1-4 in bowls this year, 6-22 in their last 28 bowls overall.

— Early line on the college football national title game: Alabama -5.5

— Bears repeating that Syracuse upset Clemson October 13, then went 0-5 rest of the season.

— Baker Mayfield had three scholarship offers out of high school; FAU, Rice, New Mexico.

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13) NFL coaching carousel: Colts-Raiders-Cardinals-Bears-Lions now need new head coaches, joining the Giants.

Broncos keep Vance Joseph for next year; Cleveland keeps Hue Jackson- no word out of Cincinnati on Marvin Lewis yet.

12) Georgia 54, Oklahoma 48 OT— Total yardage was 531-527 Oklahoma; they led 31-14 right before halftime, but a messed-up squib kick allowed Georgia to kick a FG at the halftime gun, and that turned out to be huge.

Now the debate about Baker Mayfield’s NFL prospects can begin; very polarizing kid. He was 23-35/287 yards in this game.

11) Alabama 24, Clemson 6– SEC is 4-5 n bowl games this year, but they’ve got two teams playing for the national title next week in Atlanta.

As great a game as the Rose Bowl, this game was a dud- Clemson didn’t have the QB play to move the ball at all on Alabama. Hell, Clemson barely beat the Crimson Tide last year, when they had Deshaun Watson.

10) Central Florida 34, Auburn 27— Good for the UCF kids; their coach bolted to Nebra$ka about 90 $econds after they won their conference title game, but UCF wins their New Year’s Day bowl game and finished an unbeaten season. Two years ago, the Knights went 0-12.

Central Florida is a very big school and is a sleeping giant athletically.It doesn’t have Nebraska’s tradition, but it has a brighter future, given the wealth of high school football talent in Florida.

9) North Texas starts league play 2-0 in Conference USA, with pair of one-point wins, in El Paso and San Antonio. Been six years since the Mean Green’s basketball team finished conference play over .500, back when Johnny Jones was UNT’s coach, before he bolted to LSU.

8) You read about all these NFL coaching vacancies and who gets interviewed and all, and I think about the late Al Davis, who would often interview people he had no intention of hiring, but what he wanted was to pick their brain, to know what they knew, to help him down the road.

I’m guessing that Sean McVay’s success this season will lead to a couple of younger guys getting head coaching jobs this winter. People tend to imitate successful teams.

7) Sunday night score: Rockets 148, Lakers 142 2OT— Houston’s bench was +46 in this game; Lakers’ subs were -30. Rockets snapped a 5-game losing streak.

6) Georgia Bulldogs QB Jake Fromm hit three homers in the 2011 Little League World Series.

5) Arizona Cardinals played really well on defense down the stretch; in their last six games, Redbird opponents converted only 11 of 70 third down plays.

4) One of the more overrated things TV guys say a lot is, when a team plays a poor first half, “…that coach must be peeling the paint off the walls in the locker room!!!”

Oftentimes, if a team is getting waxed at halftime, there are tactical adjustments that need to be made, and that takes brain power and grease boards, not screaming/yelling, especially in the NFL, where halftime is 12 short minutes.

I spent many years as a part of basketball programs; the best coaches I worked for rarely yelled at halftime, they addressed what needed to be done and how we were going to do it.

3) Rams host Atlanta in the playoffs Saturday night; their last playoff game was a 47-17 loss in the Georgia Dome to the Michael Vick-led Falcons in 2004.

2) This from a New York Times article a friend e-mailed me over the weekend:

“(The ACC has) corporate sponsors include Toyota, Gatorade and Geico. When the conference filed its annual tax return for 2015, it reported about a quarter-billion dollars from broadcasting games for its member universities, as well as $147 million in other sports-related revenue. Its commissioner earned $2.9 million. The ACC was a huge commercial success with income that would normally generate a huge tax bill.

But no taxes were owed. As the conference explained in its filing with the Internal Revenue Service, the Atlantic Coast and its member schools are nonprofit charitable organizations that place an emphasis on ‘academic excellence’”

College sports is big business, for sure.

1) Buffalo Bills fans are so happy the Bengals beat Baltimore to put the Bills into the playoffs that they’ve contributed over $57,000 to Cincinnati QB Andy Dalton’s charitable foundation in the last 24 hours. Bills are in the playoffs for the first time since 1999.

**Udog** · 01-02-2018, 10:47 AM

NBA
Dunkel

Tuesday, January 2

Portland @ Cleveland

Game 501-502
January 2, 2018 @ 7:05 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Portland
117.303
Cleveland
130.414
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Cleveland
by 13
224
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Cleveland
No Line
N/A
Dunkel Pick:
Cleveland
N/A

San Antonio @ New York

Game 503-504
January 2, 2018 @ 7:35 pm

Dunkel Rating:
San Antonio
122.674
New York
116.411
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
San Antonio
by 6 1/2
195
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
San Antonio
by 4
199 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
San Antonio
(-4); Under

Atlanta @ Phoenix

Game 505-506
January 2, 2018 @ 9:05 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Atlanta
114.433
Phoenix
114.672
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Atlanta
Even
224
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Phoenix
by 2
217
Dunkel Pick:
Atlanta
(+2); Over

Charlotte @ Sacramento

Game 507-508
January 2, 2018 @ 10:05 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Charlotte
115.204
Sacramento
116.132
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Sacramento
by 1
199
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Charlotte
by 3 1/2
206
Dunkel Pick:
Sacramento
(+3 1/2); Under

Memphis @ LA Clippers

Game 509-510
January 2, 2018 @ 10:35 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Memphis
116.775
LA Clippers
117.812
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
LA Clippers
by 1
209
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
LA Clippers
by 5
204
Dunkel Pick:
Memphis
(+5); Over

NBA
Long Sheet

Tuesday, January 2

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PORTLAND (19 - 17) at CLEVELAND (24 - 12) - 1/2/2018, 7:05 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
PORTLAND is 3-1 against the spread versus CLEVELAND over the last 3 seasons
CLEVELAND is 2-2 straight up against PORTLAND over the last 3 seasons
2 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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SAN ANTONIO (25 - 12) at NEW YORK (18 - 18) - 1/2/2018, 7:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
NEW YORK is 15-6 ATS (+8.4 Units) in home games this season.
SAN ANTONIO is 1023-895 ATS (+38.5 Units) in all games since 1996.
SAN ANTONIO is 819-697 ATS (+52.3 Units) as a favorite since 1996.
SAN ANTONIO is 154-109 ATS (+34.1 Units) on Tuesday nights since 1996.
SAN ANTONIO is 344-271 ATS (+45.9 Units) after a non-conference game since 1996.
SAN ANTONIO is 342-280 ATS (+34.0 Units) in non-conference games since 1996.
SAN ANTONIO is 210-148 ATS (+47.2 Units) off a upset loss as a favorite since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
NEW YORK is 3-2 against the spread versus SAN ANTONIO over the last 3 seasons
SAN ANTONIO is 4-1 straight up against NEW YORK over the last 3 seasons
3 of 5 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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ATLANTA (10 - 26) at PHOENIX (14 - 24) - 1/2/2018, 9:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
PHOENIX is 162-117 ATS (+33.3 Units) after allowing 115 points or more since 1996.
PHOENIX is 46-28 ATS (+15.2 Units) after a loss by 10 points or more over the last 3 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
PHOENIX is 4-0 against the spread versus ATLANTA over the last 3 seasons
PHOENIX is 2-2 straight up against ATLANTA over the last 3 seasons
3 of 4 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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CHARLOTTE (13 - 23) at SACRAMENTO (12 - 24) - 1/2/2018, 10:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
CHARLOTTE is 48-63 ATS (-21.3 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
SACRAMENTO is 48-77 ATS (-36.7 Units) against Southeast division opponents since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
CHARLOTTE is 3-1 against the spread versus SACRAMENTO over the last 3 seasons
CHARLOTTE is 3-1 straight up against SACRAMENTO over the last 3 seasons
3 of 4 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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MEMPHIS (12 - 25) at LA CLIPPERS (16 - 19) - 1/2/2018, 10:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
MEMPHIS is 13-22 ATS (-11.2 Units) in all games this season.
MEMPHIS is 3-11 ATS (-9.1 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record this season.
LA CLIPPERS are 93-63 ATS (+23.7 Units) in home games in January games since 1996.
MEMPHIS is 163-123 ATS (+27.7 Units) after a win by 10 points or more since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
LA CLIPPERS is 4-4 against the spread versus MEMPHIS over the last 3 seasons
LA CLIPPERS is 5-4 straight up against MEMPHIS over the last 3 seasons
6 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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NBA
Armadillo's Write-Up

Tuesday, January 2

Home side won last seven Portland-Cleveland games; Blazers are 1-3 vs spread in last four visits here. Under is 5-2 in last seven series games. Portland won three of last four games after winning in OT at Chicago Monday; Blazers covered their last seven games as road underdogs. Portland is 2-1-1 vs spread if they played night before. Under is 8-3 in their last 11 games. Cleveland is off an 0-3 road trip; they get Isaiah Thomas in lineup for first time tonite. Cavaliers are 4-14 as home favorites- their last three games stayed under the total.

Knicks lost four of their last five games with San Antonio; over is 6-2-1 in last nine series games. San Antonio is 2-3 vs spread in its last five visits to Manhattan. Spurs won six of their last eight games; they’re 4-8 vs spread as road favorites. Under is 9-2-1 in their last 12 road games. New York lost four of its last five games; they’re 7-5 as home underdogs. Under is 5-2 in Knicks’ last seven games.

Home side won last five Atlanta-Phoenix games; Hawks are 1-4 vs spread in last five visits to the desert. Six of last seven series games stayed under the total. Atlanta won three of its last four games; they’re 9-3 vs spread in last dozen games as a home underdog. Last three Atlanta games stayed under total. Phoenix is 5-3 in its last eight games, 1-3 vs spread as home favorites- three of their last four games went over total.

Hornets won three of last four games with Sacramento; they’re 3-2 vs spread in last five visits here. Over is 5-2 in last seven series games. Charlotte lost seven of its last ten games; they’re 5-9-2 vs spread on road, 0-1 when favored. Last three Hornet road games stayed under total. Sacramento lost four of its last five games; they’re 7-5 as home underdogs. Four of their last five games went over the total.

Clippers are 6-4 in their last ten games with Memphis; last five series games went over. Grizzlies are 4-2 vs spread in last six series games played here. Memphis is 3-2 in its last five games after a 2-19 skid; Grizzlies are 5-2-1 vs spread in last eight games as road underdogs. Four of their last five games went over total. Clippers won five of their last six games, have Griffin back in lineup- they’re 9-4 as home favorites. Four of their last five games went over total.

NBA

Tuesday, January 2

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Trend Report
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PORTLAND @ CLEVELAND
Portland is 9-1 ATS in its last 10 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Portland's last 8 games when playing on the road against Cleveland
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Cleveland's last 8 games when playing at home against Portland

SAN ANTONIO @ NEW YORK
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of San Antonio's last 13 games on the road
San Antonio is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing New York
New York is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of New York's last 9 games when playing San Antonio

ATLANTA @ PHOENIX
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Atlanta's last 7 games when playing Phoenix
Atlanta is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Phoenix's last 7 games when playing Atlanta
Phoenix is 19-4 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against Atlanta

CHARLOTTE @ SACRAMENTO
Charlotte is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Sacramento
Charlotte is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Sacramento
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Sacramento's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Sacramento's last 7 games when playing Charlotte

MEMPHIS @ LA CLIPPERS
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Memphis's last 5 games when playing LA Clippers
Memphis is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of LA Clippers's last 5 games when playing Memphis
LA Clippers is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home

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