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All Sports 7 Day Package
It's Sunday, May 20, and In the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 7-2/+11 units Friday nite, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 67% (32-16 for +45 units) for the past month. As a result, our POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B). And the Nite Owl has been FIRE ON ICE and MONEY IN THE BANK in NHL, cashing 65% (52-29/+70 units) of all NHL picks this season since All Star break, including 28-15/+33 units so far in the NHL playoffs. And our PODs (Plays of the Day) in NHL TY are 69-12 (86%) for +167 units. Also note that we are +93 units with our L450 NHL picks at Top Ten L3Y (see us on Top Ten NHL L/B). And ALL OF THE ABOVE IS VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 K for our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). Today we already have a strong 3 unit NHL playoff pick, and will likely have more than a few NBA picks on the early NBA East series game 4 between Pacers and Heat, and in the late NBA West series game 4 between Clips and Spurs, all of which are included in this $179 Seven Day All Sports Package. No matter how you do it, whether buying our big picks individually, one of our reasonably priced short term all sports passes like this one, just to take us out for a "test drive," or (for the best value) one of our longer term packages, we urge you to give us a shot for at least a day, and see how it feels to WIN BIG, CONSISTENTLY, with the Nite Owl in your corner. And once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see the winning results of our picks, then you'll know why WE ARE #1, and you’ll be back for one of our longer term combo packages, where you will get even more "bang for your buck. And in the unlikely event that you don't end up with plus units from this or any of our packages, note that all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. So get the Nite Owl on your team TODAY, as we have been ON FIRE for months with our top POD picks, and have been a consistent big winner at Top Ten in ALL OF THE MAJOR SPORTS (NFL, college FB, college hoops, NHL, NBA and MLB) L3Y, and see for yourself how it feels to win big and win consistently with the Nite Owl. But again, note that our two active sports this time of year are NBA and NHL (no MLB). So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

$179

All Sports 3 Day Package
It's Sunday, May 20, and In the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 7-2/+11 units Friday nite, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 67% (32-16 for +45 units) for the past month. As a result, our POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B). And the Nite Owl has been FIRE ON ICE and MONEY IN THE BANK in NHL, cashing 65% (52-29/+70 units) of all NHL picks this season since All Star break, including 28-15/+33 units so far in the NHL playoffs. And our PODs (Plays of the Day) in NHL TY are 69-12 (86%) for +167 units. Also note that we are +93 units with our L450 NHL picks at Top Ten L3Y (see us on Top Ten NHL L/B). And ALL OF THE ABOVE IS VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 K for our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). Today we already have a strong 3 unit NHL playoff pick, and will likely have more than a few NBA picks on the early NBA East series game 4 between Pacers and Heat, and in the late NBA West series game 4 between Clips and Spurs, all of which are included in this $99 Three Day All Sports Package. No matter how you do it, whether buying our big picks individually, one of our reasonably priced short term all sports passes like this one, just to take us out for a "test drive," or (for the best value) one of our longer term packages, we urge you to give us a shot for at least a day, and see how it feels to WIN BIG, CONSISTENTLY, with the Nite Owl in your corner. And once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see the winning results of our picks, then you'll know why WE ARE #1, and you’ll be back for one of our longer term combo packages, where you will get even more "bang for your buck. And in the unlikely event that you don't end up with plus units from this or any of our packages, note that all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. So get the Nite Owl on your team TODAY, as we have been ON FIRE for months with our top POD picks, and have been a consistent big winner at Top Ten in ALL OF THE MAJOR SPORTS (NFL, college FB, college hoops, NHL, NBA and MLB) L3Y, and see for yourself how it feels to win big and win consistently with the Nite Owl. But again, note that our two active sports this time of year are NBA and NHL (no MLB). So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

$99

Daily

All Sports 1 Day Package
It's Sunday, May 20, and In the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 7-2/+11 units Friday nite, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 67% (32-16 for +45 units) for the past month. As a result, our POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B). And the Nite Owl has been FIRE ON ICE and MONEY IN THE BANK in NHL, cashing 65% (52-29/+70 units) of all NHL picks this season since All Star break, including 28-15/+33 units so far in the NHL playoffs. And our PODs (Plays of the Day) in NHL TY are 69-12 (86%) for +167 units. Also note that we are +93 units with our L450 NHL picks at Top Ten L3Y (see us on Top Ten NHL L/B). And ALL OF THE ABOVE IS VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 K for our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). Today we already have a strong 3 unit NHL playoff pick, and will likely have more than a few NBA picks on the early NBA East series game 4 between Pacers and Heat, and in the late NBA West series game 4 between Clips and Spurs, all of which are included in this $59 One Day All Sports Package. No matter how you do it, whether buying our big picks individually, one of our reasonably priced short term all sports passes like this one, just to take us out for a "test drive," or (for the best value) one of our longer term packages, we urge you to give us a shot for at least a day, and see how it feels to WIN BIG, CONSISTENTLY, with the Nite Owl in your corner. And once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see the winning results of our picks, then you'll know why WE ARE #1, and you’ll be back for one of our longer term combo packages, where you will get even more "bang for your buck And in the unlikely event that you don't end up with plus units from this or any of our packages, note that all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. Get the Nite Owl on your team TODAY, as we have been ON FIRE for months with our top POD picks, and have been a consistent big winner at Top Ten in ALL OF THE MAJOR SPORTS (NFL, college FB, college hoops, NHL, NBA and MLB) L3Y, and see for yourself how it feels to win big and win consistently with the Nite Owl.But again, note that our two active sports are NBA and NHL (no MLB). So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

$59

NBA

It's Sunday, May 20, and in the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 13-7/+12 units Thurs thru Sat, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 65% (32-17 for +41 units) for the past month. As a result, our massive POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B), ALL OF THE ABOVE VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. In tonite’s late NBA West series game 4, we have five picks (two sides, 3 totals) for 12 total units, including a rock solid 4 UNIT POD full game totals play, available individually for just $29. But your BEST BET is this $169 full season NBA Playoff Pass, which gives you ALL 5 of our picks tonite, and also takes you with us all the way thru the playoffs, until a new NBA champ is crowned in June. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 K for our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). And with the NBA playoffs now in full swing, note that our past accomplishments and "numbers' in the NBA playoffs L3Y are second to none. For example, in LY’s NBA playoffs, our PODs were nothing short of INCREDIBLE – try 83% winners, at 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD player) in just over 7 weeks – and ALL of the above is VERIFIABLE by calling Top Ten customer service. After going 6-1 for +12 units on our POD picks in games 3-5 of the 2011 championship series, and then smashing the books with a 6-1/+16.5 unit nite (including 4-0/+14 units with our 4 POD picks) with our picks on Mavs and the Over in the game 6 finale of LY's NBA championship round, our big picks (PODs or stronger) in LY’s NBA playoffs hit at an incredible 83% pace -- try 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD players in just over 7 weeks). And that stellar playoff POD record includes 47-8/+104 units on all side PODs, 48-7/+114 units on all partial game picks, 30-2/+81 units on all partial game side picks, and 26-8/+48 units on all full game PODs, which breaks down into 16-6/+25 units on all full game side PODs and 10-2/+23 units on all full game totals PODs. And we also ended the NBA playoffs on a major roll the year before (spring 2010), with a 10-0 close out POD run for +34 units and a 60% hit rate in L3 rounds). And the year before that (spring 2009), we went 65-41/+46 units on our 106 NBA playoff picks, for a 61% hit rate that was tops on Top Ten NBA leader board, incl 26-10/72% for +30 units in final month of those 2009 playoffs, all of which clearly makes us TOP TEN's #1 NBA PLAYOFF CAPPER L2+Y. And it’s our biggest picks, our GOM, GOY and POD plays, where we are at our best, as it should be – again, up +1834 POD units thru May 17 with a 66% hit rate on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, putting us way on top of Top Ten’s POD L/B, with the compettion not even in our rear view mirror. If it's consistency that you're looking for, look no further than Nite Owl Sports, and let the Nite Owl put his 30+ years of sports capping experience to work, to get you the best picks at the best lines available each and every day of the playoffs. That is why in the 3+ years that Nite Owl has been with Top Ten, we are up +438 units on our more than 1,000 NBA PODs (634-404) during that 3+ year stretch, with a 61% hit rate on those NBA PODs. And note that those +438 NBA POD units L3Y translate into a cool $43,800 for anyone who has played only our NBA PODs at $100 a unit since we have been releasing them at Top Ten. So let the Nite Owl put his 30+ years of sports capping experience to work, to get you MAXIMUM BANG FOR YOUR BUCK with this Full Season NBA Package, recently reduced in price to just $189, which gets you the best picks at the best lines available, each and every day of TY's NBA playoffs, until this season's NBA champion is crowned in June. And we are confident that once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see how much cash you end up with in your wallets with the many winning picks you will get from this NBA Season Pass, you'll be back for even more winners with one of our football combo packs this fall (we are taking off July and August after the NBA and NHL playoffs have concluded). And in the unlikely event that you don't end up with plus units with this full season NBA package, note that this and all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
NBA Basketball Season Package
$169 |

$169

It's Sunday, May 20, and in the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 13-7/+12 units Thurs thru Sat, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 65% (32-17 for +41 units) for the past month. As a result, our massive POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B), ALL OF THE ABOVE VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. In tonite’s late NBA West series game 4, we have five picks (two sides, 3 totals) for 12 total units, including a rock solid 4 UNIT POD full game totals play, available individually for just $29. But your BEST BETS are to get ALL of our NBA picks tonite, either with this $99 Seven Day NBA Playoff Pass or our $169 full season NBA Playoff pass, which takes you with us all the way thru the playoffs, until a new NBA champ is crowned in June. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 Kfor our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). And with the NBA playoffs now in full swing, note that our past accomplishments and "numbers' in the NBA playoffs L3Y are second to none. For example, in LY’s NBA playoffs, our PODs were nothing short of INCREDIBLE – try 83% winners, at 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD player) in just over 7 weeks – and ALL of the above is VERIFIABLE by calling Top Ten customer service. After going 6-1 for +12 units on our POD picks in games 3-5 of the 2011 championship series, and then smashing the books with a 6-1/+16.5 unit nite (including 4-0/+14 units with our 4 POD picks) with our picks on Mavs and the Over in the game 6 finale of LY's NBA championship round, our big picks (PODs or stronger) in LY’s NBA playoffs hit at an incredible 83% pace -- try 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD players in just over 7 weeks). And that stellar playoff POD record includes 47-8/+104 units on all side PODs, 48-7/+114 units on all partial game picks, 30-2/+81 units on all partial game side picks, and 26-8/+48 units on all full game PODs, which breaks down into 16-6/+25 units on all full game side PODs and 10-2/+23 units on all full game totals PODs. And we also ended the NBA playoffs on a major roll the year before (spring 2010), with a 10-0 close out POD run for +34 units and a 60% hit rate in L3 rounds). And the year before that (spring 2009), we went 65-41/+46 units on our 106 NBA playoff picks, for a 61% hit rate that was tops on Top Ten NBA leader board, incl 26-10/72% for +30 units in final month of those 2009 playoffs, all of which clearly makes us TOP TEN's #1 NBA PLAYOFF CAPPER L2+Y. And it’s our biggest picks, our GOM, GOY and POD plays, where we are at our best, as it should be – again, up +1834 POD units thru May 17 with a 66% hit rate on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, putting us way on top of Top Ten’s POD L/B, with the compettion not even in our rear view mirror. If it's consistency that you're looking for, look no further than Nite Owl Sports, and let the Nite Owl put his 30+ years of sports capping experience to work, to get you the best picks at the best lines available each and every day of the playoffs. That is why in the 3+ years that Nite Owl has been with Top Ten, we are up > 400 units on our more than 1,000 NBA PODs during that 3+ year stretch, with a 61% hit rate on those NBA PODs. So at least give us a "test drive" with this 7 Day NBA Pass for just $99, and we are confident that once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see the results of our picks, we're sure that you'll be back for more winners with one of our longer term NBA packages, like our full season NBA Pass, which gives you the most BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. And in the unlikely event you don't end up with plus units for the 7 days with this package, all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
NBA Basketball 7 Day Package
$99 |

$99

It's Sunday, May 20, and in the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 13-7/+12 units Thurs thru Sat, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 65% (32-17 for +41 units) for the past month. As a result, our massive POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B), ALL OF THE ABOVE VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. In tonite’s late NBA West series game 4, we have five picks (two sides, 3 totals) for 12 total units, including a rock solid 4 UNIT POD full game totals play, available individually for just $29. But your BEST BETS are to get ALL of our NBA picks tonite, either with this $79 Three Day NBA Playoff Pass or our $169 full season NBA Playoff pass, which takes you with us all the way thru the playoffs, until a new NBA champ is crowned in June. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 K for our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). And with the NBA playoffs now in full swing, note that our past accomplishments and "numbers' in the NBA playoffs L3Y are second to none. For example, in LY’s NBA playoffs, our PODs were nothing short of INCREDIBLE – try 83% winners, at 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD player) in just over 7 weeks – and ALL of the above is VERIFIABLE by calling Top Ten customer service. After going 6-1 for +12 units on our POD picks in games 3-5 of the 2011 championship series, and then smashing the books with a 6-1/+16.5 unit nite (including 4-0/+14 units with our 4 POD picks) with our picks on Mavs and the Over in the game 6 finale of LY's NBA championship round, our big picks (PODs or stronger) in LY’s NBA playoffs hit at an incredible 83% pace -- try 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD players in just over 7 weeks). And that stellar playoff POD record includes 47-8/+104 units on all side PODs, 48-7/+114 units on all partial game picks, 30-2/+81 units on all partial game side picks, and 26-8/+48 units on all full game PODs, which breaks down into 16-6/+25 units on all full game side PODs and 10-2/+23 units on all full game totals PODs. And we also ended the NBA playoffs on a major roll the year before (spring 2010), with a 10-0 close out POD run for +34 units and a 60% hit rate in L3 rounds). And the year before that (spring 2009), we went 65-41/+46 units on our 106 NBA playoff picks, for a 61% hit rate that was tops on Top Ten NBA leader board, incl 26-10/72% for +30 units in final month of those 2009 playoffs, all of which clearly makes us TOP TEN's #1 NBA PLAYOFF CAPPER L2+Y. And it’s our biggest picks, our GOM, GOY and POD plays, where we are at our best, as it should be – again, up +1834 POD units thru May 17 with a 66% hit rate on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, putting us way on top of Top Ten’s POD L/B, with the compettion not even in our rear view mirror. If it's consistency that you're looking for, look no further than Nite Owl Sports, and let the Nite Owl put his 30+ years of sports capping experience to work, to get you the best picks at the best lines available each and every day of the playoffs. That is why in the 3+ years that Nite Owl has been with Top Ten, we are up > 400 units on our more than 1,000 NBA PODs during that 3+ year stretch, with a 61% hit rate on those NBA PODs. So at least give us a "test drive" with this 3 Day NBA Pass, and we are confident that once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see the results of our picks, we're sure that you'll be back for more winners with one of our longer term NBA packages, like our full season NBA Pass, which gives you the most BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. And in the unlikely event you don't end up with plus units for the 3 days with this package, all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
NBA Basketball 3 Day Package
$79 |

$79

It's Sunday, May 20, and in the NBA we just keep racking up the Ws, going 13-7/+12 units Thurs thru Sat, and our NBA PODs (Plays of the Day) an AMAZING 65% (32-17 for +41 units) for the past month. As a result, our massive POD stash is now +1,831 units on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, with a 66% hit rate. We are also +73 units on our last 300+ picks in All Sports (see us on TT’s All Sports L/B), ALL OF THE ABOVE VERIFIABLE with Top Ten customer service or by CHECKING OUR PAST PICKS on this site. In tonite’s late NBA West series game 4, we have five picks (two sides, 3 totals) for 12 total units, including a rock solid 4 UNIT POD full game totals play, available individually for just $29. But your BEST BETS are to get ALL of our NBA picks tonite, either with this $49 One Day NBA Playoff Pass or our $169 full season NBA Playoff pass, which takes you with us all the way thru the playoffs, until a new NBA champ is crowned in June. And speaking of our major success with PODs, note that our +1831 POD units translates into a cool $183 K for our $100 a unit POD clients, who make more money staying at home playing our POD picks than most people make working five days and 40+ hours per week at their jobs (assuming they even have one), not to mention the hassles of commuting, dealing with bosses and other work place issues, etc.). And with the NBA playoffs now in full swing, note that our past accomplishments and "numbers' in the NBA playoffs L3Y are second to none. For example, in LY’s NBA playoffs, our PODs were nothing short of INCREDIBLE – try 83% winners, at 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD player) in just over 7 weeks – and ALL of the above is VERIFIABLE by calling Top Ten customer service. After going 6-1 for +12 units on our POD picks in games 3-5 of the 2011 championship series, and then smashing the books with a 6-1/+16.5 unit nite (including 4-0/+14 units with our 4 POD picks) with our picks on Mavs and the Over in the game 6 finale of LY's NBA championship round, our big picks (PODs or stronger) in LY’s NBA playoffs hit at an incredible 83% pace -- try 78-15, pulling in a whopping +165 units ($16,500 in the wallets of our $100 per unit NBA POD players in just over 7 weeks). And that stellar playoff POD record includes 47-8/+104 units on all side PODs, 48-7/+114 units on all partial game picks, 30-2/+81 units on all partial game side picks, and 26-8/+48 units on all full game PODs, which breaks down into 16-6/+25 units on all full game side PODs and 10-2/+23 units on all full game totals PODs. And we also ended the NBA playoffs on a major roll the year before (spring 2010), with a 10-0 close out POD run for +34 units and a 60% hit rate in L3 rounds). And the year before that (spring 2009), we went 65-41/+46 units on our 106 NBA playoff picks, for a 61% hit rate that was tops on Top Ten NBA leader board, incl 26-10/72% for +30 units in final month of those 2009 playoffs, all of which clearly makes us TOP TEN's #1 NBA PLAYOFF CAPPER L2+Y. And it’s our biggest picks, our GOM, GOY and POD plays, where we are at our best, as it should be – again, up +1834 POD units thru May 17 with a 66% hit rate on our > 2,400 POD picks at Top Ten since Jan 2010, putting us way on top of Top Ten’s POD L/B, with the compettion not even in our rear view mirror. If it's consistency that you're looking for, look no further than Nite Owl Sports, and let the Nite Owl put his 30+ years of sports capping experience to work, to get you the best picks at the best lines available each and every day of the playoffs. That is why in the 3+ years that Nite Owl has been with Top Ten, we are up > 400 units on our more than 1,000 NBA PODs during that 3+ year stretch, with a 61% hit rate on those NBA PODs. So at least give us a "test drive" with this One Day NBA Pass, and we are confident that once you see our detailed write-ups with our trademark match-up analysis and betting attack strategy, and then see the results of our picks, we're sure that you'll be back for more winners with one of our longer term NBA packages, like our full season NBA Pass, which gives you the most BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. And in the unlikely event you don't end up with plus units for the day with this package, all of our packages offered through Top Ten Cappers are all backed by Top Ten's "win or renew for free" guarantee. So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
NBA Basketball 1 Day Package
$49 |

$49

NHL

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Making Some Sense of the BCS Mess

by: Nite Owl Sports

Ever since I can remember, talk starts to heat up in mid-November about which team is #1 in college football, and reaches new heights during the bowl selection process in early December. But unfortunately, while the major bowls could have been used to determine a national champion, they were instead used for many years as showcases for the top teams in the country, with some potential great match-ups going by the wayside due to bowl tie-ins to certain conferences (like the Rose Bowl always pitting the Big Ten champion against the Pac Ten champion), or stupid rules like the Big Ten’s “no repeat rule” which not only prevented some great teams from coming to the Rose Bowl, but from playing in any bowl – teams like the 9 -0-1 Michigan State Spartans of 1966, with a tie against #2 Notre Dame being the only blemish on their record (and that tie also being the only blemish on the record that year for the Fighting Irish, who at that time were not permitted by the school administration to play in bowl games), and the 9-1 Ohio State Buckeyes of 1969, who were a unanimous #1 for all that year until being upset by Michigan in their final game. Finally, after many years of this nonsense, the Fiesta Bowl in Phoenix, AZ splashed onto the bowl scene, and quickly became one of the most popular bowls, with the inviting winter weather in Arizona, and lots of “fiestas” and other fun things to do and places to go for the fans, during the days before attending the Fiesta Bowl game. The main significance of the Fiesta Bowl is that it did not (at least not initially) have any automatic conference tie-ins, unlike the other major bowls, and it was able to match-up some of the top “independents,” at a time when there actually were some major independents, such as in 1987 when the Fiesta Bowl was played between independents Penn State and Miami for the national championship, and won by Penn State, as 7 point dogs, a great victory not only for Joe Paterno and the Nittany Lion faithful, but also for yours truly, as my biggest haul (on State, both ATS and on the money line, as well as on the under, with a Penn State to under parlay and teaser) ever as a sports handicapper, at least to that point.

But it was still pretty much “hit and miss” as far as the top teams actually facing off against each other on new Years day – more often than not, it was something like #1 Texas beating some # 5 team in the Cotton Bowl (which until the last 10-15 years was a major bowl), #2 USC beating # 6 Michigan or Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, and then USC and Texas fans claiming their school was #1. And there was even an occasional “split decision” (with one team at the top of the coaches UPI poll, and the other at the top of the sports writers AP poll), like in 1978, with USC and Alabama each finishing #1 in the two different polls, pretty unbelievable considering that the Trojans had stemmed the Tide, 24-14, in an early season game in Birmingham that year. In an attempt to stop all of this nonsense and increase the chances of the bowls actually helping to determine a national champion, the Bowl Coalition was created in the early 1990s, and the Bowl Coalition rankings were a composite of the coaches (UPI) poll, the sports writers (AP) poll, and a new computerized poll (aptly called the “Coalition Poll”), similar to the (Jeff) Sagarin ratings, which by then had become well known as a credible source of rating collegiate athletic teams in major sports such as football and basketball. That was generally perceived as an improvement, because the partial computerization of the rankings diluted the subjective “human element” somewhat, and it resulted in not only some good bowl match-ups but also some legitimate national championship games.

But fast forward to the late 1990s, when a group of “fat cats” masquerading as major conference commissioners got together and cooked up the idea of the BCS, which would be promoted as an improvement of the then existing Bowl Coalition system, but would in reality guarantee all member (BCS) conferences a multi-million dollar “payday” each January, by having its conference champion automatically qualify for one of the lucrative BCS bowls, regardless of whether or not their conference champion was deserving of such a bowl bid. All of the member conferences bought into this idea, and why not? It’s good business to guarantee your conference an annual multi-million dollar “payday” each January rather than speculate by requiring each conference to actually earn that big bowl revenue by producing a team that is worthy of a BCS bowl bid.

But the matter of determining match-ups for the major bowls, and for determining a national champion, should be about rewarding the most successful teams and their coaches and fans, certainly not about filling the coffers of the BCS member conferences. However, that’s what we’ve got now, and in many ways, it stinks, particularly if you are a Michigan State player, coach or fan, and your team just completed the best season for a Spartan team since that undefeated but tied 1969 season, being one of three teams tied for the Big Ten title and with some good victories, especially their upset of Big Ten Rose Bowl rep #5 Wisconsin, but will not be going to a BCS bowl, because according to that backroom deal cut several years ago by the major conference commissioners, the unranked “champions” of the Big Least Conference (either a U Conn team with FOUR losses if they beat USF Sat night or a West Va team with 3 losses if they don’t) gets an automatic BCS bowl bid, by virtue of their conference title in a crappy (in FB at least) conference.

The BCS supporters claim that “any team has a chance to play for the national championship,” but once one understands how the BCS bowl selection process is “gerry rigged” to cater to the financial goals of the member conferences, the hypocrisy of that statement, plus the fact that the BCS is really a bunch of BS, is readily apparent. And when it was suggested to some of the BCS conference commissioners a few years ago to “tweak” the selection process so that even BCS conference champions would get a BCS bowl bid only if they were ranked in the top 10 in BCS rankings, their reactions were characterized by self-righteous indignation more than anything else – statements like “we’re the Big East Conference, and being our conference champions should by itself be enough to automatically qualify for a BCS bowl.” Well, my answer to that is “No, being champions of the Big East, or of any other member conference, is not by itself enough,” especially when that conference wreaks of mediocrity that year, as does the Big East (and to a lesser extent the ACC) this year, as was made painfully clear in the 2004 Fiesta Bowl, which was unlucky enough to be last in the BCS bowl selection “pecking order” that year and was forced to take a Pitt team which was the “champion” of the Big East, but had three losses and was not even ranked in the BCS top 20 – the result, a 35-7 blowout loss to Utah, which was ironically the only team from a non-BCS conference (the Mountain West) in a BCS bowl that year. But yet, that coveted final BCS bowl spot will be taken TY by the Big East chumps. And while both U Conn and West Virginia are pretty good teams, neither is a legitimate Top Ten team, and neither deserves to be taking a BCS bowl spot away from a much more deserving team like Michigan State. Hopefully the “damage” for TV viewers will be minimized by the Big Least and ACC champs playing each other in the Orange Bowl, where the ACC Champion is automatically the home team, while the rest of the football world ignores the game with a collective yawn (but that doesn’t help Michigan State). And that’s just the tip of the BCS iceberg. For example, what happens if a very good South Carolina team comes up big in the SEC Title Game and knocks off Auburn? It could easily happen – the Gamecocks are a talented and well-coached team with an experienced core of veteran players, and the game is being played in Atlanta, about halfway between both campuses. And Carolina had Auburn on the ropes when they played at auburn earlier this year, leading 27-21 after 3Q, only to have it all unravel in the fourth, when QB Jeff Garcia (who had to that point passed for 235 yards and 3 TDs with no INTs) was injured and could not continue, and inexperienced Connor Shaw threw two picks, as Auburn gratefully accepted those “gifts” and out-scored the Cocks 14-0 in the 4Q for that 8 point victory. And if Carolina does somehow knock off Auburn, they will crash the BCS party with an automatic bid to the Sugar Bowl, likely taking the spot of a deserving Arkansas team that whipped them 41-20 at Columbia, SC only last month. But in such event, while there will be two deserving teams (Mich State and Arkansas) getting the shaft, at least Carolina would have legitimately earned their BCS bowl spot by upsetting one of the top two teams in CFB, something which clearly cannot be claimed by the Big Least “champions,” whoever they might be.

To summarize, there are two major problems caused by the present BCS system – one is that deserving teams (some years highly ranked conference champs from non-member conferences like Boise State, other years even highly ranked conference runner –ups (or like this year, even conference co-champs like Mich State) from BCS conferences get shut out due to champions of member conferences getting an automatic BCS bowl bid, regardless of their ranking and record, and the other is that every year, two or three great teams (like Stanford, TCU and arguably even Wisconsin) who clearly deserve a chance to play for the national championship, are deprived of that chance, because only two teams can be given that chance. While it’s more difficult to devise workable ways to attack and fix the problems caused by the present BCS system than it is to recognize and criticize its shortcomings, that’s what needs to be done, and sooner (no pun intended, Okie fans) rather than later.

But first things first. In this, Part 1 of a two part article on first making some sense of the current BCS mess and then fixing it, we will focus on what the BCS bowl match-ups will likely be, given that things could change, based on the results of the three major conference championship games (the SEC, the Big 12 and the ACC), particularly the SEC, as well as which Big Least team gets the “glass slipper” for a BCS bowl, depending primarily on the result of the U Conn–USF game, which will make the result of the West Va-Rutgers game relevant only if U Conn loses.

I’ve done some research and talking to people supposedly “in the know” about the BCS/BS, especially how it affects my team, #4 Stanford, and here is my take on this BCS bowl BS until the “impact games” are played Saturday and we know if anything will change in the Top 4 (i.e., resulting from an upset of either Auburn or Oregon):

1. BCS Title Game – if both Oregon and Auburn survive, as expected, then it’s easy -- they play each other for “all the marbles.” But if either Oregon or Auburn should stumble Saturday (the latter being a more likely possibility), the poll voters (sportswriters and coaches) will most likely move #3 TCU up to #2 if Oregon is #1 (to avoid an all Pac Ten title game), but if somehow Oregon “gags” and Auburn prevails, don’t be shocked if Stanford moves up to #2 in order to create a Stanford-Auburn match-up, which many l (myself included) believe would be a lot more attractive than Auburn-TCU.

2. Rose Bowl – after the BCS Title Game combatants are chosen, the Rose Bowl gets to choose the opponent for #5 Wisconsin, an automatic qualifier for the Rose bowl by being the highest ranked of the 3 Big Ten co-champions. But that’s where it (determining Wisconsin’s opponent) gets complicated, as with likely Pac Ten champion Oregon presumably headed to the BCS Title Game with a victory over Oregon State Saturday, the Rose Bowl is obligated to take a qualifying team from a non-BCS conference (TCU this year). But what most people don’t realize is that their obligation only needs to be satisfied once over a four year period (2011-2015), and thus can be deferred to a future year. And I don’t care what the self-proclaimed pundits say – if both Auburn and Oregon survive on Saturday, and TCU and Stanford presumably stay at #s 3 and 4, I still think the Rose Bowl will choose Stanford and defer their “obligation” to a future year. If the Rose Bowl does not take TCU, I see the Horned Frogs most likely going to the Fiesta Bowl or the Orange Bowl, with the Sugar Bowl still likely preferring Ohio State as the visiting team, and the Orange Bowl likely preferring West Va (but not U Conn) over TCU. On the other hand, if Auburn should stumble Saturday while Oregon survives, #3 TCU will likely move up to #2 and go to the BCS Title Game vs Oregon, and the Rose Bowl is then “off the hook” as far as their “obligation” to take TCU, in which event they will obviously take Stanford.

3. Sugar Bowl - then the Sugar Bowl picks next, and regardless of whether the Rose Bowl takes TCU or Stanford, the Sugar Bowl will most likely take Ohio State and either Arkansas (assuming Auburn beats Carolina) or Carolina (because they’ll have to, if Carolina beats Auburn). So there is little chance of either Stanford or TCU going to the Sugar Bowl, but Arkansas could end up getting screwed if Auburn loses and Carolina takes “their spot” in the Sugar Bowl. And in that event, the Razorbacks could then play Michigan State in the “Disappointment Bowl.” Orange bowl picks next, after the Sugar.

4. Orange Bowl – according to my contacts in SE Florida, what everyone is saying down there is that Stanford will most likely go to the Orange Bowl if the Cardinal is snubbed by the Rose Bowl and U Conn is the Big Least champ (because the Orange Bowl picks before the Fiesta, and obviously Stanford is a much more attractive team than U Conn). But if U Conn loses Sat and West Va is the Big Least champ, then the Orange Bowl will most likely opt for West Va, especially if Va Tech is the ACC team, because of the strong regional “rivalry” between those two schools, even though they rarely play each other any more (not since Va Tech jumped to the ACC from the Big East, in 2005). The other scenario which would keep Stanford out of the Orange Bowl is if Auburn should stumble Saturday in the SEC Title Game and would thus become an attractive available option for the Orange Bowl, while paving the way for Stanford to play Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl and TCU to play Oregon in the BCS Title Game.

5. Fiesta Bowl – the only way Stanford ends up there is if the Rose Bowl chooses TCU and U Conn loses to USF, then the Orange Bowl takes West Va over Stanford – it could happen. But if U Conn prevails Saturday, it will likely go to the Fiesta Bowl, which chooses last and could end up with another “brass ring,” like it did in 2004 with the lop-sided Pitt-Utah match-up.

So bottom line, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in Saturday’s games, and then we’ll have a somewhat better idea of who will go where, although if both Oregon and Auburn survive, the Rose Bowl is the big X factor, and I just don’t see them passing on an 11-1 Pac Ten team with their only loss to Oregon, one of the two tied #1 teams (Oregon and Auburn being effectively tied at #1 in the latest BCS rankings, separated by two thousandths of a point), with Stanford being a viable option for them as explained in item #2 above.

And my most sincere condolences to 11-1 Michigan State, the primary “screwee” of this BCS mess. In Part 2, we’ll make some suggestions about what can be done to prevent a recurrence of this major travesty which seems to be unfolding this year for the Spartan program and their loyal fans, courtesy of the BCS.

And while speculating about which teams will go to which BCS bowls can be fun but involves a good deal of guess-work, let Nite Owl Sports take the guess-work out of uncovering the best picks for this weekend in both college FB and the NFL, just like we did last Saturday, when we went 8-4 for +12 units in CFB, hitting our Big East GOY in U Conn’s easy victory over Cincy and also 3-1 on our PODs for 6 units, and then last night in the NFL, hitting both picks on Philly as well as the Over for +10 units, all 3 of them POD picks. Those POD victories, plus a 5-2/+10 unit POD log this week in the NBA, have raised our POD haul TY to nearly +500 POD UNITS (496 to be exact) on our 875 POD picks TY, with a 63% hit rate (see us waayy on top of Top Ten’s POD leader board). Think about it, that’s $50K in your wallet at $100 per unit with one year of our PODs! And with there being fewer college FB games than usual this Sat, we reduced the price of a One Day CFB Pass to $49, but your best short term deal for trying us out is our 3 Day NFL/CFB Combo Pack, which gets you all of our CFB and NFL picks, either Friday thru Sunday or Sat thru Monday.

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