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Auto Racing Glance
By Jerry Bonkowski, The Sports Xchange

NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES: BANK OF AMERICA 500, Charlotte Motor Speedway; Concord, N.C.
TV: Saturday, Oct. 10, 7 pm ET � NBC
(Radio: Performance Racing Network/SiriusXM Channel 90).
THEN AND NOW: This is the fourth race in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, as well as the first race of the second round of the playoffs. It is also the 114th Sprint Cup race to be held at the 1.5-mile track. � Four drivers (Jamie McMurray, Paul Menard, Clint Bowyer and the biggest surprise of all, six-time champ Jimmie Johnson) were eliminated from the Chase after Dover. � Kevin Harvick dominated last Sunday's race, leading 355 of 400 laps to avoid elimination and move on to the second round of the Chase. � Speaking of Harvick, he won this race at Charlotte last fall. Carl Edwards won this spring's Coca-Cola 600. � After finishing first (Chicagoland) and second (Loudon) in the first two races, Denny Hamlin finished 18th at Dover. � All 12 remaining Chase drivers enter Saturday's race tied for first place, as the points were reset after Dover. � The three races in Round 2 are Charlotte, Kansas and Talladega. � Two remaining Chase drivers still have not earned a win in 2015: Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman.

NASCAR XFINITY SERIES: DRIVE FOR THE CURE 300, Charlotte Motor Speedway; Concord, N.C.
TV: Friday, Oct. 9, 8 pm ET � NBCSN (Radio: PRN/SiriusXM Channel 90).
THEN AND NOW: This will be the 68th time the Xfinity Series has raced at Charlotte. � Brad Keselowski is the defending winner of this race, while Austin Dillon won this year's spring race. � Regan Smith held on while the rain held off to win last Saturday's Hisense 200 at Dover International Speedway. �
Chris Buescher remains the Xfinity Series points leader, holding a 24-point edge over Chase Elliott. Regan Smith moved into third with his Dover win and is 36 points behind Buescher. Ty Dillon fell from second to fourth and is 39 points back.

NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES: Off this weekend.
THEN AND NOW: The Truck series has the next two weekends off before resuming Oct. 23 at Talladega. � John Wes Townley emerged as the winner in a dramatic fuel mileage race last Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was Townley's first career win in the Truck series, and in any NASCAR series, for that matter. � Townley becomes the eighth different winner in the last eight Truck races. � Erik Jones remains atop the Truck Series points standings, holding a slim four-point lead over two-time and defending series champion Matt Crafton. Tyler Reddick is third (-16), followed by Johnny Sauter (-51) and Daniel Hemric (-106). � Austin Theriault, who was involved in a hard head-on hit at Las Vegas that resulted in a 10 percent compression fracture, hopes to return to racing before the end of the season.

NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION MELLO YELLO DRAG RACING SERIES: Off this weekend.
THEN AND NOW: The six-race Countdown to the Championship reached the halfway point this past weekend at Reading, Pa. Top Fuel driver Antron Brown remains perfect, having won each of the first three Countdown races. Jack Beckman won in Funny Car, stopping Del Worsham's two-race winning streak, while Chris McGaha (Pro Stock) and Andrew Hines (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won. � Pro Stock points leader Erica Enders and Elite Motorsports team owner Richard Freeman were scheduled to appear on the season premiere of Jay Leno's Garage on Wednesday. � The NHRA announced that the 2016 Nitro Spring Training will take place Feb. 3-6 at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. � Here are the points leaders in all four pro classes at the midpoint of the Countdown. In Top Fuel, Brown opened up a 94-point edge over teammate Tony Schumacher, while Brittany Force moved into third place (-194), followed by Larry Dixon (-198) and Richie Crampton (-245). In Funny Car, Worsham leads Beckman by a mere 16 points, followed by defending series champ Matt Hagan (-90), Tommy Johnson Jr. (-98) and Ron Capps (-105). In Pro Stock, Enders saw her lead shrink to 72 points over No. 2 Greg Anderson, followed by McGaha (-104), Larry Morgan (-145) and Allen Johnson (-158). Lastly, in Pro Stock Motorcycle, defending series champ Andrew Hines leads teammate Eddie Krawiec by 89 points, followed by Hector Arana Jr. (-101 points), Jerry Savoie (-119) and Matt Smith (-134)

 

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Bank of America 500 Preview
By Micah Roberts

Holy Harvick!

I'm starting to have a new found appreciation for last year’s Sprint Cup champion like I haven't had for any driver since I was a kid. This guy is one the coolest of competitors under pressure I've ever seen and his win in desperate circumstances Sunday at Dover proved once again that he really might be in his own class.

Now I don't want to take away anything greats of the past have done. I saw Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and Jeff Gordon do great things in NASCAR. I saw Jimmie Johnson win an incredible five championships in a row, but Kevin Harvick is in a new class in this 10-race Chase era where drivers get eliminated from championship contention every three races.

Last year, Harvick had to win at Phoenix to advance to the Championship race at Homestead and he did it in dominant fashion. And then he went on to win at Homestead and win his first Sprint Cup. This season, in another elimination situation -- do or die -- at a Dover layout he'd never won at before in 29 starts, he went on to lead 355 of the 400 laps en route to the win.

All other past NASCAR Championship formats never had that type of pressure built in so we never had to see that part of the athlete -- yes, the drivers are athletes -- come out in the same way we've seen John Elway, Joe Montana or Madison Bumgarner always rise to the occasion when their team needed them most in crunch situations.

I think Harvick always had that in his DNA. He's a fighter. He never backs down from anyone and he never backs down from any challenge. But he's never had this type of opportunity to show what he's really made of during his career because the situation was never in place to allow him to show off that deep inner strength. Because of NASCAR's ability to quickly make changes for the better and continually tweak its format, we now get to find out what drivers have these special set of skills we admire so much in all other athletes.

While Harvick was being amazing, at the same time we saw Johnson be eliminated from the Chase after a 42nd-place finish. It's a bizarre twist in the Chase, not only because Johnson is a six-time champion and owns almost every track record at Dover, but also because in the first race of the Chase at Chicagoland, Johnson had bumped Harvick into the wall putting Harvick in 42nd-place and in the desperate position he was in at Dover. Karma can be cruel.

Saturday night's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte kicks off the second leg of the Chase called the “Contender Round” where 12 drivers all start with the same amount of points. Win any of the next three races between Charlotte, Kansas and Talladega and it's an automatic ticket into the “Eliminator Round.”

This will be the eighth race this season held on a 1.5-mile track and second of five we'll see during the Chase. A Chevrolet won the first four with Johnson taking three wins and Harvick getting the other. But things started to shift for Chevrolet and Toyota at the Charlotte in May when Denny Hamlin won the All-Star Race and then Carl Edwards won the Coca-Cola 600 the following week. Kyle Busch would win at Kentucky's 1.5-mile layout in July and Hamlin would win at Chicagoland to kick off the Chase.

That's four straight Joe Gibbs Racing wins (All-Star race was non-points event) on 1.5s and they've won 10 of the past 14 races overall coming into this week. Needless to say, they are on a roll and should be considered the favorites to win again this week -- all four of them almost equally as good.

Joey Logano has been the top Ford entry and while he's never won at Charlotte over his young career (13 starts), he does lead all active drivers with a 10.2 average finish. He finished 13th there in May and was fourth in this race last fall.

You can also expect Harvick to give the Gibbs cars a strong run as well. He's a three-time winner at Charlotte including the Chase race last season. He's finished ninth or better at Charlotte in nine of his past 10 starts.

The driver I'd really like to see step up and win a race is Jeff Gordon. I've been waiting all year for it, as have his entire base of fans wanting to see the No. 24 in victory land one more time before he calls it quits at seasons end. This is the track where he really got discovered, or stolen from car owner Bill Davis. Former Charlotte President Humpy Wheeler noticed from his office a car that was attacking turns three and four better than he had seen before. It was Gordon in a Busch series practice. Rick Hendrick noticed too, signed him, and soon a legend was born. Gordon has five wins at Charlotte with the last coming in 2007.

Gordon is currently 20/1 at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook to win the Sprint Cup and after watching Ryan Newman make the Championship race last season without a win on the year, anything is possible.

That certainly would be a nice way to go out. Whether he gets his fifth Sprint Cup title or not -- he never won the title when called “Sprint Cup” -- I'd just like to see his name added to a story line down the stretch which is already building up quite nicely thanks to Harvick's exploits last week.

Top-5 Finish Prediction:

1) #18 Kyle Busch (7/1)
2) #22 Joey Logano (7/1)
3) #11 Denny Hamlin (9/1)
4) #4 Kevin Harvick (6/1)
5) #20 Matt Kenseth (7/1)

 

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FEZZIK 3* total- Over MTSU/W Kent

Does anyone have Fezz 3* Sat Morning Blowout?

do you know what his # was for the over

 

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Euro Championships TODAY 19:45

Bosnia-Hz.

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KEY STAT: Wales are unbeaten in ten competitive matches

EXPERT VERDICT: Wales need just one more point to make sure of a Euro 2016 berth and could earn it with a draw against Bosnia. Wales have been defending superbly and their goals conceded tally of two is the second-lowest of the 48 teams in the qualification process which suggests the visitors can nullify Bosnia.

RECOMMENDATION: Draw
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League Two Su 11Oct 12:15

Exeter

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KEY STAT: Stevenage have conceded ten goals in five league away matches

EXPERT VERDICT: Exeter’s decent home performances have propelled them into a handy position after the first portion of the season. Bookmakers still think the Grecians will end up in mid-table, but they will fancy their chances against a Stevenage side who haven’t won on the road since mid-April.

RECOMMENDATION: Exeter
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League Two Su 11Oct 14:30

Notts Co

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KEY STAT: Plymouth have scored in all bar one of their league games this season

EXPERT VERDICT: Notts County made 18 permanent new signings after relegation last season, which could be a mitigating factor behind their slow start to this campaign. However, they’ve begun to find their feet, particularly at home, and County carry enough of a threat to trouble promotion hopefuls Plymouth.

RECOMMENDATION: Both teams to score
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Euro Championships Su 11Oct 17:00

Finland

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KEY STAT: Finland have scored just twice at home in qualifying

EXPERT VERDICT: Northern Ireland booked their place in the finals by comfortably beating Greece on Thursday and this visit to Finland may come as an afterthought. Finland have averaged less than a goal a game in qualifying and this one is likely to be a low-scoring affair.

RECOMMENDATION: Draw
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Euro Championships Su 11Oct 19:45

Poland

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KEY STAT: Robert Lewandowski has scored 14 goals in his last five games

EXPERT VERDICT: Ireland shocked Germany in Dublin but it will be a tough ask to go to Warsaw and repeat the feat. Poland know a win will seal a place in the finals and free-scoring Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski can inspire them to victory.

RECOMMENDATION: R Lewandowski first goalscorer
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Euro Championships Su 11Oct 19:45

Gibraltar

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KEY STAT: Gibraltar have conceded 50 goals in nine qualifying games

EXPERT VERDICT: Scotland had their qualification hopes extinguished on Thursday night so this game against Gibraltar has become virtually meaningless. Gibraltar have shipped plenty of goals in qualifying so Scotland will still be expected to win by a significant margin, probably without reply.

RECOMMENDATION: Scotland to win 5-0
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Question, anybody get The Champs Tony Chow PICKS BUFFET or know if its any good someone told me its like 500.00

 

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DAVE COKIN

TEXAS STATE +4

Of all the games on this Saturday’s big slate of college action, here’s one that not a whole lotta folks will give a hoot about. But I think there are some decent reasons to get involved here and I’ve already made my wager on the underdog.

Texas State has a pretty nice scheduling edge coming into this game. The Bobcats had last week off, and they also have next week off. So focus for this game should not be a problem.

Quite a bit has transpired since Texas State last played. Their defensive coordinator resigned and Head Coach Dennis Franchione’s son Brad is now running the stop unit. Reports are that the players have bought in to a few subtle scheme changes taking place and that the practices have been really good. That’s encouraging, as the Texas State defense to date this season has been abysmal, to put it mildly. This is a team with designs on getting to a bowl this year. To accomplish that feat, a game like this one is enormous for the Bobcats and I’m excited about their apparent approach to Saturday’s clash.

UL Lafayette is down substantially from last year and they’re off two bad games. The Cajuns were destroyed two weeks ago at home by Akron, and they were on the receiving end of another lopsided loss last week at Louisiana Tech. Let’s just say there’s little on the ULL ledger of late to inspire a great deal of confidence.

I have Texas State as the slightly better team on paper. Of course, this isn’t getting played on paper and the Bobcats have to show some better defense than we’ve seen from them to date. But I do expect a bit of a spike with the coordinator change and if that results in a few more stops, then Texas State will have an excellent chance to win this game. There’s every reason to believe Texas State will be the fresher team and I don’t mind at all the fact they’re out to avenge a blowout loss at home to these Cajuns last season.

Whenever dealing with a pair of teams outside the Top 100 on the ratings, anything can happen as that’s just the way it is with well below average teams. But the sharp side here appears to be Texas State and I’m grabbing the available points with the Bobcats in this game.

 

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Doc’s Sports

#371 Take Miami Hurricanes over Florida State Seminoles (Saturday 8 pm ABC)

Just do not believe Florida State is that good this season. Miami is coming off a disappointing loss to Cincinnati last Thursday but despite that I am still a big fan of Brad Kaaya and the offense of Miami. The visitor is 7-2 straight-up in this series over the last 9 game. 11 of the last 14 meetings have been decided by a touchdown of less and if that holds true again we will win no matter who comes out on top. The Seminoles have yet to be tested this season and they are just not as explosive without Jameis Winston who bailed them out of numerous games last season. Take the points in this rivalry game.

 

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Scott Spreitzer

Georgia Tech +7

Big win for the Tigers last week, holding on for a 24-22 victory over previously unbeaten Notre Dame. Time to make the adjustment for Ga Tech's option attack. The Yellow Jackets have had little trouble piling up yards against the Clemson defense over the last few meetings and will be in an ornery mood after dropping three straight games, falling out of the rankings. Tech squashed the Tigers, 28-6 last season, so Clemson will have the revenge angle, but they're off back-to-back high intensity, close wins over Louisville and the Irish. The Tigers gave up over 430 yards to Notre Dame in the win last weekend. Ga Tech's ground game has been below par during their losing skid, but again, they're not only catching Clemson at the right time, but have the confidence knowing they have moved the ball against this stop unit in recent meetings. Ga Tech is on a 9-3 ATS run, overall, while the Tigers have failed to cover six straight ACC contests.

 

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Jason Sharpe

Rutgers +15

No team in CFB has been worse against the point spread this season than the Michigan State Spartans as they enter this one with a 0-5 ATS record. It's obvious that the Spartans are not as good as everyone expected them to be before this year. Despite being favored in all five of their games (and easily favored by double digits in four of them) they have only out-gained the opposition by just 11 yards overall this season. With a huge game against their top rival on deck (Michigan) next week, the Spartans most likely won't have their undivided attention here in this one on the road. Plus MSU has dealt with some massive injuries all year long as they come into this one missing a handful of their top players. The feeling here for them might be to try and get the win in this one and get out of town without losing another key guy to injury. Rutgers comes in off a bye last week so they will have had two weeks to prepare for this contest. This is a nice time of the season for a bye as it refreshes a team mentally and physically. The Scarlet Knights have spent the past couple weeks hearing about how they can't compete with the bigger CFB programs after getting smashed in their three biggest games last season. One of the bright spots thus far from Rutgers this year has been the solid play from their new starting quarterback Chris Laviano. The 1st year starter has played very well thus far in completing over 70 percent of his passes overall. It's always important to have a decent passing QB going for you when taking bigger underdogs as these kind guys can get you a meaningless score late in the game against a soft zone to help you cover the spread on a backdoor cover. I expect the Scarlet Knights to play this game like it's their National Championship and fight hard to keep things close overall. Take Rutgers plus the points.

 

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JOE GAVAZZI

Illinois

A pair of Defensive Dandies faceoff in Iowa City with each team coming off upsets as a TD or more underdog. Last week, the Illini held on for a 14-13 home victory against Nebraska. It was a well-deserved win which saw Illinois outgain the Huskers 382-292. A coaching change, just prior to the season, which replaced former HC Beckman with current HC Cubit, has resulted in the Illini turnaround to 4-1 SU, 3-2 ATS. Major difference has been on the defensive side of the ball, where they have gone from allowing a combined 35 PPG and 468 YPG, combined in the last 2 seasons (200 CLUB DEFENSIVE DUDS both years) to Defensive Dandy status with a unit that is allowing just 18/303/4.4. That includes the previous 3 games against high-powered offenses, N. Carolina, Mid-Tenn and Nebraska. In a similar way, Iowa has used their own stingy defense 15/300/4.5 to ascend to 5-0 SU, 4-1 ATS and a (+50) PLAY AGAINST net AFP. That has forced this line to rise to double digits. Following their 10-6 victory at Wisconsin last week, as touchdown dog, the role changed as double digit favorite, seems a bit heavy for an Iowa team, who was outgained 320-221 in that Wisconsin game. As a result, we look to fade this overheated double digit favorite against a quickly improving team, who has ascended to Defensive Dandy status.

 

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Oskeim Sports

Pittsburgh -9.5

The home team is a perfect 4-0 SU and ATS in this series, with three of the previous four meetings being decided by 11, 30 and 25 points, respectively. Pittsburgh is 3-1 SU and ATS this season and continues to be underrated by the betting market. The Panthers boast an outstanding defense that is allowing 21.0 points per game and 245 total yards at 4.1 yards per play to teams that would combine to average 5.6 yards per play against mediocre defensive squads.

Overall, Pittsburgh's stop unit is 1.7 yards per rush attempt, 1.5 yards per pass attempt and 1.5 yards per play better than average, which is certainly good enough to shut down an underrated Virginia attack that is 0.4 yards per play better than average (5.5 yards per play against teams that would combine to allow 5.1 yards per play).

Pittsburgh Defense vs. Virginia Offense:
+2.4 yards per rush attempt advantage
+0.1 yards per pass attempt advantage
+1.1 yards per play advantage overall

The most alarming issue facing Virginia is its defense that is allowing 38.2 points per game and 445 total yards at 6.4 yards per play to teams that would combine to average just 6.4 yards per play. The biggest liability facing the Cavaliers is their secondary, which has been 0.5 yards per play worse than average (8.0 yards per pass play to teams that would combine to average 7.5 yards per pass play). Opposing quarterbacks are completing 64.1% of their pass attempts against Virginia, and the Panthers' aerial attack should have similar success Saturday afternoon.

Indeed, Pittsburgh is averaging 7.3 yards per pass attempt against teams that would combine to allow 6.6 yards per pass play, while also completing 66.3% of its pass attempts. While the Panthers are a run-first offense (40 run attempts vs. 22 pass attempts on average), I expect head coach Pat Narduzzi to employ more of a pass game to exploit the Cavaliers' inept backfield. Overall, Pittsburgh's subpar offense (5.3 yards per play against teams that would combine to give up 5.5 yards per play) should move the ball effectively against a Virginia stop unit that yielded 503 total yards at 6.1 yards per play in its lone road game in 2015.

From a technical standpoint, Pittsburgh is a profitable 23-11-2 in its last 37 October games, 12-5-1 ATS in its last nineteen games versus teams with a losing record and 5-2 in its last seven games overall, whereas the Cavaliers are just 6-13-1 ATS after failing to cover the point spread, 1-3-1 ATS in its last five road games and 0-3-2 ATS in its last five games in October. Lay the wood with the Panthers and invest with confidence.