Tuesday’s betting tips, best bets, injury notes and international futbol news presented special to Who2beton.com by Tony Finn and Tradeline Sports.
1) ESPN Tue night College Football:
The Rockets are talking about not only winning on their home turf tonight, but getting even (revenge) with a NIU squad that ran them out of the building a year ago with a 65-30 blowout in DeKalb, Ill. last season. NIU won last year’s matchup convincingly by racking up 584 yards of total offense.
“It’s a big game for revenge,” Senior right tackle John Morookian told the Toledo Free Press. “I mean, if someone’s not saying we’ve got to have revenge on [their] team then they’re lying, because what happened last year, we didn’t play our game. We can’t have that happen again. It was kind of sad and pathetic how we came out, so we’ve got to turn it around this year. We’ve got to change it up, and I know all my teammates are going to come out and we’re going to play hard and give it all we’ve got.”
Key Trend: Alex Smart’s Free Pick:
Historically it has been very profitable to fade conference road underdogs in College Football when the oddsmakers set the home team as 3.5 to 10 point chalk -this when both teams are averaging more than 34 points per game. The trend is an amazing 23-3 over the last 10 college campaigns. The straight up record in this situation is even better, eliminating any pushes, a 90 percent proposition at 24-2. The average opening pointspread in these gameday situations has the home team favored by 6 and the average final score differential is 17 points.
2) Tuesday night Injury of note:
Despite not taking part in the Monday skate around Martin St. Louis is expected to play tonight vs. the Hurricanes. Carolina has struggled to stop St. Louis, who has a seven-game point streak in this series, including a goal in each of the last three meetings.
3) International Soccer:
AC Milan: The Italian giants have dismissed reports striker Antonio Cassano is in hospital because he suffered an ischemic stroke on Saturday night following speculation on the cause of his malaise. Italian news agency Ansa claimed sources said the forward was diagnosed as having had a stroke, but the extent of the problem had not been revealed on Monday evening. Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri refused to speculate and would only confirm that the player would miss the Rossoneri’s Champions League clash against BATE Borisov on Tuesday. However, an official note from Milan said much of what had been reported by the Italian press was unfounded, and added the player is improving.
Milan is a heavy favorite despite a rash of injuries. BATE will be eliminated from the competition if it fails to register three points versus Milan and Barcelona win at Plzen.
Consider it a given. The Belarusians have conceded eight goals in Group H, the highest in the tournament. Additionally look for BATE to struggle in league play Thursday. The club named an experimental line-up against Vitebsk on Thursday, after securing a sixth consecutive Belarusian league title on October 23.
On the injury front for Viktor Goncharenko’s men, Yegor Filipenko, Vitali Rodionov, Evgeni Kuntsevich and Alexsandr Pavlov are all out of contention, nursing lengthy injury setbacks.
Champions League Best Bet:
UEFA – Champions League Soccer – Tue 11/1 – 3:45 pm et / Arsenal vs. Marseille
Play Marseille handicap of +0.5 and +1 -106 at Pinnacle Sports.
4) National Hockey League Best Bet
Anaheim at Washington – Take Washington at a fair -170 tonight at home.
The Capitals have been slowed after their best start in franchise history. They start another winning streak tonight against a team that’s experiencing serious offensive struggles. The Capitals avoid a third consecutive defeat when they keep the Ducks, losers of five of six. Swimming upstream.
Washington -170
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