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Super Five Picks - Week 14

We are sticking with the Borat photos given that we finally had our first perfect week and Borat was the featured image last week! 5-0! Great success! It is nice and we like!

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Week

Super Five Picks - Week 12

So we already have two games in our Super Five that have already been played: Minnesota @ Detroit & LA Chagers @ Dallas. We took Detroit and the LA Chargers so we are 1-1. You

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Football Predictions - 2017

One of my favorite holidays is upon us: Thanksgiving! Besides for family and great food (which everyone should enjoy even if you're not fond of your family or great food), Thanksgiving is not

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NFL

Super Five Picks - Week 11

Sorry for the poor advice last week. 1-4 is awful and we are better than that. Not to make excuses but last week was unusual with several birthdays in my family including my

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Week

Super Five Picks - Week 9

We will have to make this quick as the game swill start in a couple of hours. For the season, here is how we are doing. Super Five: 17-20-3 Against the Spread (all

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NFL

Super Five Picks - Week 8

Last week was profitable! 3-1-1! Let's keep it rolling! For the season, here is how we are doing. Super Five: 14-18-3 Against the Spread (all games): 53-50-3 Straight Up: 65-41 Over/Under: 50-53-3

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Football

Super Five Picks - Week 7

Last week was brutal again. So many upsets! We have to get this ship turned around fast. We went 2-3 with the Super Five picks and 7-7 against the spread overall. Over-unders were

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Westgate

Super Five Picks - Week 6

Sorry for our hiatus last week. We had issues with the site but all of that got resolved thanks to our web administrator and former student of mine Dylan Modesitt. So last week

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NFL

Super Five Picks - Week 3 NFL Predictions

Hopefully you read our column last week prior to the Week 2 games. We went 4-1 with the Super Five Picks! We were awfully close to a perfect 5-0 week! Overall, our picks

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Week

Super Five Picks - Week 2 NFL Predictions

Ugh ... last week was awful. So much randomness. When only 2 out of the 12 Sunday games hit the over and DeShone Kizer from Cleveland is one of the better QBs, you know

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Supercontest

Super Five Picks - Week 1 NFL Predictions

After several months of dormancy, we are back to writing about the NFL and our prognostication! This will be Year 2 for the Super Contest and I won't be going solo. My brother

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Super

Super Bowl LI Prediction: Why the Atlanta Falcons Will Win

Just two days away from the biggest game of the year so no more waiting. Time to give the prediction I love to give annually and have been spot for the last 3

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NFL

AFC and NFC Championship Predictions (2016)

Now has come the time to predict which two teams will face off in Super Bowl LI after 17 weeks of regular season football and 2 weeks of the postseason. Our model agrees

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Week

Big Five Bets - Week 17

Great week last week! 4-1! We still haven't had a 5-0 week but we hope this is the week with playoffs starting next weekend. Week 17 is always an interesting week for football

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Big Five Bets - Week 15

We will go with a short narrative for the games today. For the season, we are 34-34-2 with the Big Five Bets. Let's hope we finish strong by going 15-0 for the next

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 14

OK, we finally had a great week! 4-1! Could have been 5-0 if the NY Jets didn't decide to take a major dump on national TV on their own turf. My goodness was

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 13

Last week didn't go as well as we hoped: 1-3-1 with the push coming in the Carolina - Oakland game. The three games we missed on (MIN +2.5, MIA -7.5, BUF

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 12

For the season, the GE model is 86 - 75 against the spread and 28 -27 for the Big Five Bets. We have six more weeks left to the regular season so with

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 11

OK, we finally did better last week with our Big Five Bets: 3-2. For the season we are 25-25 with the Big Five Bets or 50% for those who are challenged by math.

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Big Five Bets - Week 9

Sorry for the poor picks the last three weeks. I am not proud of going 5-10 during Weeks 6 - 8. We are now 20-20 for the season but we can go 5-0

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NFL

Big Five Bets - Week 8

OK, the Big Five Bets have been in a bit of a tailspin the last two weeks after notching 4-1 weeks in Weeks 3 and 5. Sadly we went 3-7 the past two

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Big

Big Five Bets

OK, so I went 2-3 last weekend and I have to admit I was a bit nuts by going with 5 favors and so much chalk. I should have known better and this

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NFL

Best NFL Bets Today & Tomorrow

Call me crazy but the five games I love most today are all favors. Yes, it is tough to expect so many favors to cover but Week 1 of last year saw favors

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NFL

Welcome to Sportsmanac!

Later this week, we will publish predictions for this week's games (straight up and against the spread) and a ranking of all teams before the first regular season game kicks off in Denver!

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