We like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to defeat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday at 4:05pm ET for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

The Buccaneers blew the Giants out last week. They will be looking for a repeat of that this weekend.

Tampa are 12-3 versus the spread over their L15 games played away from home.

When playing against Carolina, Tampa Bay have won seven of the L8 meetings, while covering against the spread in six of them.

Carolina are fresh off a very close loss against Kansas City. They showed flashes of what they can do, but ultimately fell short last week. They will return to losing again this week.

The Panthers are 3-15 in their L18 games played against NFC opponents.

They are also just 3-9 versus the spread since the final game of last season.

We think that this spread is too low. The Buccaneers will win this game by at least two scores in week 13.

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