Friday, May 18th, 2012
The New Orleans Saints (9-3) are a perfect 6-0 at home this year, but they’ll put their .500 road record to the test this weekend in a 1:00 PM ET game at the Tennessee Titans (7-5).
The Titans have a 4-2 mark in Tennessee this year, but that hasn’t stopped the odds makers from making the visiting Saints a 4-point favorite.
New Orleans originally opened up at -4.5 but has been bet down to as low as -3.5 despite the fact that close to 80% of tracked NFL bettors are taking the Saints to cover this small spread.
Tennessee has covered the point spread in both recent meetings with the Saints, including a 31-14 road win as 4.5-point underdogs in 2007.
The last time the Titans were at home against New Orleans came in the 2003 season when Tennessee won 27-12 as 4.5-point favorites.
Both games went under the total, and the Saints only averaged 220 total yards in the 2 games.
New Orleans has won 4 straight games heading into Sunday’s matchup with the Titans, but they’ve also lost outright against the St. Louis Rams as 13.5-point favorites and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as 6-point favorites.
The other road loss for New Orleans came as underdogs against the Green Bay Packers back in week 1.
The Saints have covered the point spread in 4 straight games while going under the total in 3 of 4.
Tennessee has won outright in 3 of their last 4 and has covered the point spread in every single game.
The Titans have been involved in some low-scoring affairs of late, and they’ve not gone under the total in 6 straight games.
Tennessee has been a home underdog just once all season and it was the game in which they upset the Baltimore Ravens as similar 5.5-point underdogs.
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