2014 NFL Season - Week 8: Win, Spread, Over/Under and Game Score Predictions

Welcome Back to The Sports Savant's Weekly NFL Picks 2014: Week 8 Edition!


Last week was a week of several near misses for The Sports Savant. I actually managed to pick 4 games last week where I correctly picked the underdog to beat the spread but lost on the winner.  Despite the near misses, I'm still rolling on my winners at a 63% clip and I'm tearing up the spread picks at a whopping 55.8% accuracy picking all 106 games to date!  Be sure to use my spread picks while I have the momentum going!  My over/under picks are still sitting below 50%, but I was able to bring up my season average with a nice 9-6 clip on the over/under last week.


I'd like to widen the gap on my trifecta versus strikeout ratio but sitting at a 23 to 18 ratio is not too bad and I continue to deliver at least a couple of perfect team scores per week through 7 weeks which I'm pretty pleased with.
 
This week, I got my Week 8 NFL picks started off right with a trifecta in Thursday night's Broncos/Chargers showdown so it's already looking like a promising week of picks from The Sports Savant!
Below is my overall record for picking games to win, against the spread and the over/under including trifecta predictions, strikeouts and my perfect team score and perfect game score predictions for the 2014 season.

*WEEK 7 RESULTS*

Winner: 7-8

Winner w/ Spread: 9-6

Over/Under: 9-6

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Trifecta: 3

Strikeouts: 3

Perfect Team Score Predictions: 2(Oakland, New Orleans)

Perfect Game Score Predictions: 0

*2014 Overall Record*

Winner: 66-39-1 (.629)

Winner w/ Spread: 58-46-2 (.558)

Over/Under: 50-56-0 (.472)

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Trifecta: 23

Strikeouts: 18

Perfect Team Score Predictions: 12   [Week 1]: New Orleans, Cincinnati [Week 2]: Green Bay
[Week 3]: Chicago, Denver, Seattle [Week 5]: Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, San Diego
[Week 6]: Philadelphia [Week 7]: Oakland, New Orleans

Perfect Game Score Predictions: 1 [Week 3]: Denver @ Seattle

NOTE: The team with a negative number in parenthesis "(-3)" next to their name is the favorite to win the matchup and the number represents how many points the favorite has to score more than the underdog to count as a winning bet.  The over/under for the game is represented by a number in parenthesis with the letters o and u "(o/u 46)".  The number represents the amount of points you are wagering whether or not the two team's combined score will be in excess of or short of.  Official betting lines courtesy of www.footballlocks.com


Here are The Sports Savant picks for Week 8...


San Diego @ Denver(-9)  (o/u 51)
Savant Spread Pick: Denver and the points to win ~ 34-24
Over/Under Pick: Over
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Result: New York(N) 14 - Arizona 25 / Total Points 39 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta



Atlanta @ Detroit(-3.5)  (o/u 46.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Detroit and the points to win ~ 27-21
Over/Under Pick: Over
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Result: Atlanta 21 - Detroit 22 / Total Points 43 /
Winner: +  Spread: -  O/U: -




Minnesota @ Tampa Bay(-2.5)  (o/u 42.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Minnesota to win ~ 24-17
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Minnesota 19 - Tampa Bay 13 / Total Points 32 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta




Chicago @ New England(-5.5)  (o/u 50.5)
Savant Spread Pick: New England and the points to win ~ 27-17
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Chicago 23 - New England 51 / Total Points 74 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: -




St. Louis @ Kansas City(-7)  (o/u 44)
Savant Spread Pick: Kansas City and the points to win ~ 23-13
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: St. Louis 7 - Kansas City 34 / Total Points 41 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta




Carolina v. Seattle(-5)  (o/u 45)
Savant Spread Pick: Carolina with the points; Seattle to win ~ 23-20
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Carolina 9 - Seattle 13 / Total Points 22 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta




Buffalo @ New York(A)(-3)  (o/u 40.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Buffalo to win ~ 26-23
Over/Under Pick: Over
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Result: Buffalo 43 - New York(A) 23 / Total Points 66 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta




Jacksonville v. Miami(-6)  (o/u 42.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Miami and the points to win ~ 27-13
Over/Under Pick: Under 
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Result: Jacksonville 13 - Miami 27 / Total Points 40 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta
Perfect Game Score 




Tennessee v. Houston(-3)  (o/u 42.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Houston and the points to win ~ 24-13
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Tennessee 16 - Houston 30 / Total Points 46 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: -




Cincinnati v. Baltimore(-1)  (o/u 45.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Baltimore and the points to win ~ 23-13
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Cincinnati 27 - Baltimore 24 / Total Points 51 /
Winner: -   Spread: -  O/U: -
Strikeout




Philadelphia @ Arizona(-2.5)  (o/u 48)
Savant Spread Pick: Arizona and the points to win ~ 24-21
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Philadelphia 20 - Arizona 24 / Total Points 44 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta




Pittsburgh v. Indianapolis(-3)  (o/u 49)
Savant Spread Pick: Indianapolis and the points to win ~ 31-20
Over/Under Pick: Over
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Result: Pittsburgh 51 - Indianapolis 34 / Total Points 85 /
Winner: -  Spread: -  O/U: +



Oakland @ Cleveland(-7)  (o/u 43.5)
Savant Spread Pick: Oakland with the points; Cleveland to win ~ 21-17
Over/Under Pick: Under
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Result: Oakland 13 - Cleveland 23 / Total Points 36 /
Winner: +  Spread: -  O/U: +



Green Bay @ New Orleans(-2)  (o/u 47.5)
Savant Spread Pick: New Orleans and the points to win ~ 30-26
Over/Under Pick: Over
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Result: Green Bay 23 - New Orleans 44 / Total Points 70 /
Winner: +  Spread: +  O/U: +
Trifecta




Washington @ Dallas(-9.5)  (o/u 50)
Savant Spread Pick: Dallas and the points to win ~ 34-20
Over/Under Pick: Over 
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Result: Washington 20 - Dallas 17 / Total Points 37 /
Winner: -  Spread: -  O/U: -
Strikeout