NFL Week 17 - CFB Bowls thru 12/22 - 74 Pages!

Today’s Free Picks

The PLAY: Total Under 50.5 (-110)

What's the mindframe of both of these teams right now? The Bengals have lost six of their last seven games and QB Joe Burrow said that he's not having fun playing football at the moment. That's not exactly something you want to hear from a quarterback that is in the middle of a five-year $275 million contract. Miami just saw its slim playoff hopes snapped with a road loss in Pittsburgh on Monday as Tua Tagovailoa looked lost against the Steelers' defense. With those playoff hopes now gone, Miami is essentially back in purgatory. Did Tagovailoa show you enough to suggest he should continue being the franchise quarterback? Does head coach Mike McDaniel deserve another shot? In Monday's press conference McDaniel said that benching Tagovailoa over the final three weeks is on the table as an option. Ultimately, we can only look toward the under in this contest. The under is 4-1-1 in Miami's last six games. The under is 4-1 in Cincinnati's last five games. The Bengals' defense was put in some tough spots last week as Burrow threw two interceptions, but they largely held their own. The same can be said about the Dolphins' defense, who held Pittsburgh scoreless for the first 29:43 before the dam walls broke.

The PLAY: Total Under 142.5 (-108)

South Carolina won last year's edition of the Palmetto Showdown in overtime. Prior to that, eight of the previous nine games stayed under the total. Even with last year's high-scoring overtime game, the last ten games between the Tigers and Gamecocks have seen an average of 129.0 points per game. Clemson's last two games have stayed under the total. South Carolina's last two games have stayed under the total. It's pretty obvious where we're heading for this one, huh? This will be the Gamecocks' first true road game of the season. South Carolina has played eight home games and two neutral site games thus far, falling to Butler and Northwestern at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. We generally look to play against teams that are playing their first true road game after a lengthy stretch at home, especially teams that are heavily-reliant on the three-point line. Over 48-percent of the Gamecocks' field goal attempts have come from beyond the arc this season, which puts them top-40 in the country. Unfortunately for Lamont Paris, his team isn't very good at making them. Both teams are strong on the defensive glass so there won't be too many second-chance opportunities. Neither defense forces a high rate of turnovers, so there shouldn't be too many fast-break opportunities. Both teams have been good at defending the three-point line this season. After a one-year blip where both teams got hot on the same night, we're expecting this rivalry to revert to its slow-paced, defensive manner.