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Early Rest in College Footbal, Help or Hurt?......

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Michael Alexander

Michael Alexander is the Founder and Head Handicapper of Alexander Sports.
By: Michael Alexander     Date: Sep 12, 2007
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You can certainly go to any sports periodical or so called expert and find differing opinions on whether or not a week off in College Football helps or hurts a team in their next game. While some will tell you that it provides injuries to heal and coaches to adjust others will tell you that it hurts by stopping whatever momentum and team had gained. The main thing, in my opinion, that it all boils down to is how do these teams fair against the number in these situations. After all, isn't that all that really matters?

I decided to pour into the archives and see how teams did coming out of a bye week in College Football and low and behold there are some interesting trends for this week. Below is a breakdown of these situations, their ATS performance, and what teams fall into the trend this week.

Trend #1 --Teams off a bye week playing their second game of the season and coming off a loss.

Teams in this role are a horrible 49-68 ATS overall. Inside this number are teams who are playing their second game on the road where they are only 24-41 ATS. Team to play against on the road in this situation this week is Houston

Trend #2 --Teams off a bye week playing their second game of the season coming off a win

Teams in this role are a profitable 106-76-4 ATS. If these particular teams won 10 or more games last season and were either a dog or favorite of 14 or less points in their first game pushes our profits to 30-7 ATS. There are two teams to play on in this situation this week: Arkansas and USC

There you have it! Three games to take a look at during the upcoming weekend!

Michael has come out of the blocks with profits in the College Grid Iron and has a Huge Card this weekend that includes his SEC and ACC Games of the Week and his NCAAF Mismatch of the Month. Join Michael at www.alexandersports.com


 



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