With the NFL Draft taking place this past weekend, the aroma of NFL football is back in the air once again and although it will be approximately four months before the 2008 NFL regular season gets underway, wise NFL bettors know that it’s never too early to begin in their preparation for another exciting NFL wagering season in either, the BetUS Locker Room or BetUS Sportsbook.

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With that in mind, this article will look at the early 2009 NFL Betting Odds to win the AFC Championship while providing a brief comment about each team’s realistic chances of actually winning the conference title.

Odds To win the 2009 AFC Championship
In A League of Their Own: This group of AFC teams not only represents the best group of teams In the AFC, but in my estimation, all of football and the three best bets to win Super Bowl XLIII in early 2009.

New England Patriots +150
Despite their colossal collapse in 2007 the Patriots could find themselves in a familiar place come season’s end – in the Super Bowl. The fact of the matter is that, as long as Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are in New England together, the Patriots will be legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

San Diego Chargers +450
The Chargers played the Patriots in the AFC title game with their three best players, running back LaDainian Tomlinson, tight end Antonio Gates and quarterback Philip Rivers, all suffering injuries to some degree or another. This team could be back in the AFC title games next year easily.

Indianapolis Colts +500
Simply put, the combination of Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy will give this team a legitimate shot to reach the big dance every year they are joined at the hip, which, unfortunately, may not be much longer.

Legitimate Contenders: These teams are hovering on the fringes of the conference’s elite teams and could genuinely reach Super Bowl XLIII.

Jacksonville Jaguars +850
The Jaguars are approaching the elite class mentioned above and are almost there. The upcoming 2008 season could be the one that puts them in their first Super Bowl after years of being bridesmaid.

Pittsburgh Steelers +1200
The Pittsburgh Steelers had a fine season in head coach Mike Tomlin’s first season, winning the AFC North with a 10-6 record and could be even better in 2008 with another year of experience for Tomlin. If the Steelers can keep their star players healthy while getting some improved contributions from their younger players, the Steelers could contend for more than just a division title.

Cleveland Browns +1600
After years of Oh, Romeo, wherefore art thou? Cleveland Browns likable head coach Romeo Crennel and his young Cleveland Browns team finally answered the bell in a big way, shocking the entire NFL while recording a solid 10-6 record. With an even better supporting cast in 2008 and a new attitude that hasn’t been seen in Cleveland since Jim Brown was lacing up his cleats, the Browns could surprise even more in 2008.

Tennessee Titans +2000
While the Titans have one of the best coaches in the league in veteran leader Jeff Fisher, this team needs to surround quarterback Vince Young with some more talent on the offensive side of the ball if they ever expect to move into the class of the AFC’s elite teams. If the Titans can improve on offense, Young could carry this team to something meaningful.

Denver Broncos +2200
The Denver Broncos were I big disappointment last season, going just 7-9 and missing out on the playoffs altogether. To simplify the Broncos’ situation, they will need young quarterback Jay Cutler to look more like the player he was in his rookie season than the one who took the field last season and floundered all season long.

Not Gonna’ Happen: This group of teams has absolutely no chance whatsoever of winning the NFC title in 2008 or at any point in the foreseeable future.

Buffalo Bills +4500

Cincinnati Bengals +2200
It’s a damn shame that all the hard work head coach Marvin Lewis has put into turning this franchise around is suddenly going up in smoke because of the team’s multiple ‘head case’ players, including All-Pro wideout Chad Johnson who has already gone on record to say he wants out. If the Bengals see eight wins in 2008, I’ll be surprised to say the least.

Baltimore Ravens +2500
No Air McNair may means no hope, at least on offense for the Ravens in 2008. Still, the Ravens will field another powerful defense next season.

Houston Texans +3000
This franchise is improving on both sides of the ball under head coach Gary Kubiak but they’ve still got quite a way to go. Still, the Texans’ 8-8 record last season was a step in the right direction and could lead to much bigger things in the very near future, like 2009 possibly.

New York Jets +6000
The Jets took a big step backwards last season under head coach Eric Mangini, falling to 4-12 just one season after going 10-6 in Mangini’s first season at the helm. While I like the Jets to improve significantly this season if they can get some solid play at quarterback, the Jets likely won’t win more than eight games tops.

Miami Dolphins +6600
The best thing that could have happened to the beleaguered Dolphins franchise is that they went 1-15 and were forced to bring in someone that actually knew what they were doing in new director of football operations, Bill Parcells. The ‘Fins will be back, but it will take a couple of seasons at least.

Kansas City Chiefs +6600
The Chiefs are a total mess and I’m going on record right now to say that this will almost assuredly be head coach Herman Edwards’ last season at the helm unless this franchise can pump out at least eight wins, which isn’t going to happen people.

Oakland Raiders +10000
While the Raiders may not be ready to compete for anything more than an 8-8 record, they do have some talent on the roster and could be a bit closer to getting back to respectability than most people think.

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Super Bowl — February 3

EXACT COIN TOSS OUTCOME
New York Giants - Heads +240
New York Giants - Tails +240
New England Patriots - Heads +240
New England Patriots - Tails +240

TEAM TO WIN THE COIN TOSS
New York Giants -120
New England Patriots -120

TEAM TO RECEIVE OPENING KICKOFF
New York Giants -110
New England Patriots -110

We talk a lot about teams and their pointspread records at home, on the road, as a favorite, as a dog, on artificial turf, on grass. But how many people handicap the one thing that seems to get mentioned every time a Super Bowl is played - the big novelty that by this time seems to be OVER-played so much that it’s no longer a novelty at all? I’m speaking, of course, about the coin toss.

You might think it’s as simple as “heads” or “tails” and it’s basically a 50-50 proposition, right? Well, I won’t sit here and tell you that you’re wrong about that; because the toss of a coin is an “independent trial” and has no bearing on any coin tosses that come before it or after it, there is always an equal chance that either heads or tails will come up when the coin lands.

Or is there?

I was talking with a professional poker player a couple of years ago, and he was telling me that in the Super Bowl between the Patriots and Eagles, he did a little research and found out that there was actually a weight bias in the coin the NFL was using for the pre-game ceremony at midfield, and bet accordingly.

Well, that may be just a colorful story for conversation, but let me give some hard data about the outcomes of this pre-game ritual through Super Bowl history:

To start off with, the team that wins the coin toss has always received the ball, because you can’t defer to the second half in the NFL.

So what else? Well, let;s take a look at the NFL Super Bowl betting trends as they relate to THE COIN TOSS!
In the 41 Super Bowls, “heads” has been called 21 times, with “tails” being called 20 times.
In the 41 Super Bowls, “tails” has been the result 21 times, with “heads” coming up 20 times.
In 18 of the 41 Super Bowls, the team who won the coin toss also won the game (43.9%).
In 22 of the 41 Super Bowls, the team who made the heads-tails call won the toss (53.7%).
In 11 of the 41 Super Bowls, the team that made the call won the toss and won the game. (26.8%). However, this has happened only once in the last ten years.

The NFC, oddly enough, has won TEN straight coin tosses, and 13 of the last 14.

Overall, the NFL/NFC has won 27 coin tosses, compared to just 14 for the AFL/AFC.

Now, to get a little more sophisticated, let’s talk pointspread:
The coin toss winner has a record of 19-20 against the spread, with two pushes.
The coin toss winner has covered three of the last five Super Bowls, but was 0-5-2 ATS before that.
The coin toss winner once covered six straight Super Bowls, from VII through XII.

Okay, so now you have the FULL story.

All that having been said, what this comes out to is a New York Giants win (of the toss, at least), based on the current bias toward NFC teams, and maybe a ‘heads” result, based on evening things out a bit.

Well, if you believe in that kind of thing.

(By the way, you can couple this with the prop in “Team To Receive the Opening Kickoff,” because the team that wins the toss is required to receive)

JAY’S PLAYS: GIANTS (-110) ** to receive opening kickoff

GIANTS-HEADS (+240) ** as exact result

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If had placed money on the New York Giants through your BetUS account to win every single game this year against the spread, including playoffs, you would have won 13 out of 6 games. That would have netted you a nice BetUS profit for the year, right? Unless, of course, you change the number of units you wager on each game.

Well, what about the New England Patriots? That’s where it gets tricky. If you had wagered the same unit on every single Patriot game from the beginning of the regular through the playoff, and all the way up to the Super Bowl against the spread then you would be sitting on a 9 and 7 record. Again, a nice profit margin for the year, right?

Ah! But this is where it gets tough for us BetUS bettors! Why? Because the New England Patriots have not covered in their last five games. That includes spread of – 20.5 versus the New York Jets, - 22 versus the Miami Dolphins, - 13 versus the New York Giants, - 13.5 versus the Jacksonville Jaguars, and - 14 versus the San Diego Chargers.

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The BetUS line in the Superbowl is Patriots – 11.5 at this time. What complicates matters further is the fact that the Patriots are receiving two weeks two prepare for this game. Two weeks is an awfully long time for Bill Belichick to create those fantastic defensive schemes. Too long, I think, but will it be long enough to stop the red-ho Eli Manning and the New York Giants offense?

First, this is going to be a fantastic Super Bowl in terms of drama! Eli, Peyton’s little bro, gets to test his mettle versus the one and only New England Patriots. The Patriots are playing in their fourth Super Bowl XLII in seven years and folks thought that dynasties were dead in the NFL! Are you kidding me, Becky? We couldn’t ask for a better game then the one that pairs the strategist king, Bill Belichick, against the man who, up until getting his team into the playoffs, was on every NFL watcher’s hot list, Tom Coughlin.

Manning vs. Brady. Tedy Bruschi, coming back from stroke two years ago, versus that spectacular Giants’ running game. Coughlin versus Belichick.

Hype, hype, hype, baby! And for once it’s worth it!

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I’m going to analyze each only because I’m hard up on this Super Bowl. Who knows? Maybe, I’ll put some money on all of them:

New York Giants vs. New England Patriots Various NFL Odds:

Patriots – 11.5 (- 110) vs. Giants + 11.5 (- 110) = This is the classic wager. It’s also been going down since the line was first established soon after the Giants beat the Packers. That means that everybody is wagering on the Giants. What to do with this one? Well, if you think that the BetUS line is going the right way, against the Patriots, then the Giants are an excellent wager. It’s still above ten points after all.

Patriots + 3.5 (- 800) vs. Giants – 3.5 (+ 600) = I sort of see this as a pretty good BetUS saver bet, if you really, really love the Patriots, or a great money making bet if you really, really love the Giants. Giants fans who talk a lot of trash could do worse then getting + 600 on the fact that the G-Men will “beat the hell out of those Patriots!”

Patriots - 3.5 (- 300) vs. Giants + 3.5 (+ 250) = Okay, now the BetUS wagers against the line are starting to get very interesting! Are you will to take the Giants at + 3.5 instead of + 11.5 to get + 250 versus – 110? How much do you really like the Giants? This is a great wager for those who truly believe that the Giants have a shot at winning this thing outright. If you like the Patriots but feel that giving up 11.5 is too much, then take them at – 3.5 and – 300. That’s a good deal depending on how you think either team will fare in this super competitive Super Bowl.

Patrtiots - 7.5 (- 165) vs. Giants + 7.5 (+ 145) = How about getting the all important half of a point in a BetUS against the line wager in the Super Bowl 42? A touchdown and a half a point either way and you’ve made a smart wager with this one. You shave for points off of the classic BetUS wager on the Patriots by giving up less than 2 to 1. That’s pretty good!

Patriots – 17.5 (+ 180) vs. Giants + 17.5 (- 220) = If you like the Patriots big, then BetUS is offering some great against the line spreads for you! I mean, you will be making extra money if you’re willing to give up 17.5 points! For those Patriot watchers who believe that Belichick and two weeks spells disaster for the Giants, this is a dream wager!

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I’ve included these three wagers together because my feelings regarding all three are the same:
Patriots – 21.5 (+ 320) vs. Giants + 21.5 (- 400)
Patriots – 24.5 (+ 450) vs. Giants + 24.5 (- 600)
Patriots – 28.5 (+ 600) vs. Giants + 28.5 ( - 800)

My feelings is that if you truly believe that the Patriots are one of the greatest teams that has ever played in the NFL, then you should wager on ALL THREE of these BetUS Lines. Why? Because if the Patriots pull a 1986 Chicago Bears type of win of something like 46 to 10 then you stand to make a lot of money on all three of these wagers! Look at the money you’d be receiving - - + 320, + 450, and + 600! What are you waiting for, Becky?

Patriots – 6.5 ( - 220) vs. Giants + 6.5 (+ 180) = A great BetUS wager for Giants’ fans. If you take only 6.5 points, you still make money above the juice. Nice!

Patriots – 4.5 (- 250) vs. Giants + 4.5 (+ 210) = You make over 2 to 1 in this BetUS wager but you still get a point over 3.5 if you like the Giants. This is a fantastic wager for those who think that the Super Bowl will be a closer game - - maybe a field goal or less.

As I said to Becky right now, turn on your computer and get to NFL betting! You can’t possibly lose by getting on one or more of these BetUS wagers right now!

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Francis Doyle, senior betting analyst for Sports Interaction, discusses where the money’s been going  after the first week’s betting on Super Bowl XLII.

It’s fairly clear now, as we approach the turn, that the initial line was set too high for Super Bowl XLII.

Vegas odds and online odds were all favoring the New England Patriots by two touchdowns. The idea was that there was going to be a lot of square money going on the Patriots initially, and we wanted to buttress ourselves a little before the sharpies started playing the percentages and taking the Giants. The same way a squirrel stores nuts for the winter, you know?

But what happened, of course, was that we outsmarted ourselves. It’s like trying to figure out a double-bluff – after a while you just end up chasing your own tail, and you’d have been better off seeing things simply for the start.

That’s what happened here. The squares ignored the Patriots completely, and have been pounding the Giants all week. Pounding them. We opened with the Patriots -13, one point off Vegas, and we’ve moved in a point and a half in just five days.

The question is, is the popular play the smart play? Well, who can ever tell? I was really impressed by the Giants in Lambeau on Sunday night, especially the way they stuffed the Packer running game, making Favre revert to type and force the game. But then, the Patriots have so many options on offense it’s nearly unfair, and Belichick has an extra week to scheme. Not only that, but the Patriots made a point of whipping teams at the start of the season, and then stopped. What if they’ve been saving an extra-big can of whup-ass for a really special occasion? Randy Moss gets away twice and the line is covered right here. That’s how dangerous Moss is.

Whatever happens, it’s going to be a great Super Bowl. We’re doing a lot of business at Sports Interaction and we’re really enjoying the buzz of it. It’s the last game ‘til August, after all – you have to make the most of it.

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The enormous list of 2008 Super Bowl props have been popping up all over Las Vegas this week, with virtually every offshore sportsbook joining Vegas by putting out hundreds and hundreds of ‘proposition’ wagers. For the un-initiated, ‘prop’ bets are wagers that the sportsbooks offer on everything except the final score. The final score, of course, is covered by more ‘standard’ wagers on the side (the Patriots are currently 12 point favorites over the Giants) and the total (currently sitting at Over/Under 53.5 points scored by both teams combined). The prop wagers are a good part of what makes Las Vegas such an exciting place to be on Super Bowl Sunday, second only to the venue (Glendale, Arizona) itself.

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Square bettors roll into town and go nuts betting on all of these props. One of the more popular wagers every year is the classic ‘Who will win the coin flip’, with both sides priced at -110. Some shops offer -105 juice on this wager; the Hilton here in Vegas is offering ‘who will receive the opening kickoff’ at -101, a 90% discount off the standard 10% vig for normal games. Even with that 90% discount, betting on the opening coinflip is still a negative expectation wager. Laying -101 on a prop that should be even money (-100) is a bet that will lose money over the long term.

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Sharp bettors look for positive expectation wagers on the enormous prop sheets that the books offer for the Super Bowl, eschewing bets like the ‘coinflip’ example described above. In many instances, that means laying big prices against longshots. For example, betting the ‘No’ on the ‘Will there be overtime’ prop forces bettors to lay more than $10 for every dollar that they want to win. Tourists hate this type of wager, looking for big scores, not big risks.

But if you’ve been betting this prop every year, you’ve cashed 41 consecutive times – the Super Bowl has never gone to overtime. Here are the games that went to overtime in the NFL this year:

Week 1: Washington -3 vs. Miami
Week 2: Detroit -3 vs. Minnesota
Week 2: Denver -9.5 vs. Oakland
Week 8: Denver -3 vs. Green Bay
Week 9: Washington -3 vs. New York Jets
Week 9: Cleveland -1.5 vs. Seattle
Week 11: Cleveland -1.5 vs. Baltimore
Week 11: Pittsburgh -9 vs. New York Jets
Week 12: Arizona -10 vs. San Francisco
Week 12: Chicago -1 vs. Denver
Week 13: San Diego -1 vs. Tennessee
Week 16: Arizona -10 vs. Atlanta
Week 17: New York Jets -4.5 vs. Kansas City
Week 17: Minnesota -2.5 vs. Denver

Conference Championships: Green Bay -7.5 vs. New York Giants

Note the common theme in these 15 games: short pointspreads. Nine of the 15 games featured lines of a field goal or less, expected to be highly competitive contests. Only once did a double digit favorite go into overtime, and frankly, Arizona had little business as a double digit favorite. The Patriots, of course, are 12 point favorites over the G-men as I write this, making this prop a ‘must bet’ once again this year.

For bettors who hesitate to lay more than 10:1 on any proposition, here is an easy way to hedge your bet while giving you a solid chance to cash both wagers. If you bet the ‘No Overtime’ prop, come right back with a bet on the ‘Will the game be decided by exactly three points’ prop, available at +500 or better right now. Most OT games get decided by a field goal, unless you see an interception returned for a touchdown. And with Brady not throwing many picks to begin with and Manning still looking for his first interception of the postseason, an OT pick six is not our biggest concern.

We saw the first meeting between these two teams decided by three points. The Pats also had late season wins against Baltimore and Philadelphia by a field goal. The Giants enjoyed three point wins over Green Bay, Philadelphia and Miami. More games get decided by exactly three points than any other margin of victory. New England has three Super Bowl titles this decade, all won by exactly three points. It’s quite possible to cash both wagers, should either team win by three in regulation, and it’s a solid hedge against your ‘No OT’ bet, helping you recoup some of your losses should that play fail to cash after a stellar 41 year run.

This is just the tip of the iceberg as we start to talk Super Bowl props. Check back over the course of the next week, and I’ll share many of my plays as well as the thought process behind those wagers.

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There will be more money wagered on this year’s Super Bowl than the entire 2006 GNP of almost 40 countries on Earth. Countries like Kiribati, Marshall, Vanuatu and Micronesia will not produce in an entire year the amount of currency we’ll bet on football in one day this February, just for fun. This year, over $600-million will be bet on Super Bowl XLII.

Don’t worry about those countries needing money, however. They’ll be gone soon, sunken under rising oceans caused by global warming. By Superbowl L, they will no longer exist.

New York Giants +11.5 vs. New England Patriots –11.5

When setting the Superbowl odds, bookmakers are not making the statement that they think the Patriots are two touchdowns better than the Giants. Many would even tell you that they personally think New England is no more than a field goal favorite. Anything can happen in a game, however - especially with Brady playing against a Manning – and, if the books were to set the Super Bowl odds at New England -3 or -4, they would be so far offside on the Patriots that many would go broke if the Pats covered. This is because almost everyone on the parts of Earth still above water would have jumped all over New England.

 To account for the public adoration of Brady and the general popularity of the Pats, books have inflated the line in an attempt to force some of the public into taking the G-men. This year, they may have pushed it just a little too far and have had to lower the Super Bowl lines from 14 to 11.5 points.

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To know beforehand whether or not the line will wiggle even more, keep an eye on the attached money lines:

When all is even on both sides, that money line is standard, set at -110 ($110 to win $100) for both teams. As the money starts to pour in, the team that is getting more of the action will become more expensive in an attempt to persuade bettors to take the other team. You’ll see the line on the heavier bet team go to -115, -120 or higher, while the team getting less love gets cheaper, down to -105, then EVEN. If the money gets too far offside, that is when you will see books change the actual spread again.

If you see the Patriots money line go down – which is highly likely – and you like the Giants, jump in and bet with the BetUS sportsbook right away. It means your New York team will be getting fewer points very soon.

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Perfection will be the word of the day on Super Bowl Sunday, when the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady guns for a 19-0 record and fourth championship ring against the heavily underdogged New York Giants.

The Patriots are trying to become the first team in NFL history to go undefeated at 19-0. They already beat the Giants this season, winning 38-35 in Week 17 as the 13-point favorites but the win didn’t come easy, to say the least.

Eli Manning and company nearly spoiled New England’s perfect season and bid for history in the regular-season finale. Manning threw for four touchdowns and was 22-for-32 for 251 yards with only one interception. Brady finished 32-for-42 for 356 yards and two touchdowns.

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It was a meaningless game to the Giants, who had a playoff berth secured, and many NFL betting and novice fans alike wasn’t even sure if head coach Tom Coughlin would play his starters or for how long if so. The Giants played its starters the entire game and gave the Patriots all they could handle in a game which meant nothing in terms of postseason.

But on Sunday, February 3 this meeting will mean everything and will be for all the marbles as the two collide again in Super Bowl XLII at Glendale, Arizona.

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Brady and the Patriots are playing in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in seven years. A win in this one would rank the Patriots as perhaps the greatest championship team in NFL history. 

Brady threw an NFL-record 50 touchdown passes in the regular season, with 23 of those to Randy Moss, who topped Jerry Rice’s record. Brady was also the league’s Most Valuable Player in helping New England score an NFL-record 589 points.

The Giants earned their first NFC championship in seven years and became the first NFC wild-card team to reach the Super Bowl since Dallas in 1975. And the Giants did it the hard way, winning all their road games after dropping their season opener at Dallas. This will be the Giants fourth Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. They own a Super Bowl record of 2-1.

The Giants have covered the spread in its last five games overall, and on the road they’re a stout 6-2-0 ATS (against the spread) this season including postseason. Meanwhile, the Patriots have dropped the cash in their last five consecutive and seven of eight.

The NFC holds a 21-18 SU (straight up) edge over the AFC in the first 39 meetings. Also, the NFC is 21-15 ATS with three pushes against its foe. However, the AFC has gone 6-3 SU and 4-3-2 ATS in the last nine Super Bowls.

BetUS opened the football lines by tagging New England the 13-point favorites with a game total of 54. The 2008 will be the most watched sporting event of the season in the United States and the most bet on by far. The general public loves betting the favorites and overs, so it’s unlikely there will be much of a number’s change in favor of the puppy or under. But be sure to follow the NFL odds daily to see which way the money is going.

Of the Super Bowl betting games the favorite and dog are actually quite close in wagering numbers. Depending upon the closing numbers and book it varies slightly but the consensus is that the favorites are 21-17 ATS with three pushes. The underdog has actually won the game outright 12 times.

If you can’t decide on a side using the spread, you might want to bet the money line, or you might want to bet a proposition. A NFL prop bet is a wager on something that will happen during the game, or it could be a result that happens before the game, yet tied into the game. We’ll also have football prop bets on halftime activities actually making the seemingly never ending break worth watching.

We have you covered from the coin toss through the last play of the game. Speaking of coin toss: The NFL does not allow the team that wins the coin toss to defer their choice to the second half. The NFC has won the coin toss twenty seven times, compared to fourteen times for the AFC. The team winning the toss has lost the game SU for the last four years, and 9 times in the last 11 years.

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