Friday, January 18, 2008

Conference Championship Game Trends

The Conference Championship Games will be played on Sunday....interestingly, The Gold Sheet published an article this week about how these title games are often times not competitive....
  • The Gold Sheet


  • Since 2000, the home team is 5-2 Straight Up (SU) in the NFC while the home team does not fare so well in the AFC with a mark of 3-4 SU....

    Over that same time span, the NFC Underdogs are 4-3...however, the favorite has covered the last three years in the NFC: Chicago -2.5 over New Orleans; Seattle -3.5 over Carolina; and Philadelphia -5.5 over Atlanta....

    On the AFC side, the Dogs are 4-3 over the last seven years...

    Here is the most interesting trend...since starting the season 8-0 Against the Spread (ATS), the Patriots have struggled ATS with a mark of 2-7 including four straight losses....on the flip side, San Diego is read hot ATS...the Chargers have won their last eight games ATS....

    In the NFC, the Giants are 6-1 in their last seven games ATS including winning their last four games...the Packers are just as good as they have posted a 9-2 mark ATS...


    The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a special section devoted to the NFC Championship Game....
  • Green Bay Packers Special Section


  • Ohm Youngmisuk of the New York Daily News writes how both teams are preparing for the cold weather.... "While Sunday's game won't approach that or the coldest NFL game ever played - the legendary 1967 "Ice Bowl" NFL Championship Game at Lambeau between the Packers and Cowboys played in minus-13 degree weather with a wind chill of minus-48 - it will still be freezing." ....
  • Ohm Youngmisuk


  • The Boston Globe's Mike Reiss breaks down each position and see who has the advantage between the Patriots and Chargers....
  • Mike Reiss


  • The San Diego Union-Tribune's Nick Canepa tells the national media to deal with the fact that the Chargers, not the Colts, are in the conference title game..... "I'm sick of it all. Why play the games? Why bother? Just get those "American Idol" idiots to pick the Super Bowl finalists. Don't have a regular season. Don't have playoffs. Go straight to the Roman numerals." ....
  • Nick Canepa
  • 1 comment:

    The Big Picture said...

    new england is going to beat the hapless chargers by one hudred and fifty thousand points.