The win meant that all four
road teams won on a Wild Card weekend — a feat that had never been accomplished.
Below was written on April 14, 2017: Game 1 results have a big impact on the rest of the series, especially when
the road team wins.
In addition to this,
the road team winning has been a theme this post season.
Not exact matches
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Teams that
win the first two games of a best - of - seven series on the
road have gone on to
win the se...
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But series
wins on the
road (especially those against top 25
teams) speak volumes for RPI and end of the season selection seedings and hostings, and I sure do judge a season on that.
I suppose Florida's
road win over the No. 7
team carries weight?
This Sooners squad was third, sporting national title hopes and maybe the single most impressive résumé
win of the season (a
road pummeling of an Ohio State
team that has been perfect since).
They took down UTSA when the Roadrunners were looking like the best
team in the conference, handled Louisiana Tech on the
road with a backup QB *, and needed bad breaks to miss out on a second
win over Kentucky in as many years.
Because of
road games against bad
teams and home games against decent ones, USM has only two games with a
win probability below 30 percent, three above 65, and a full seven projected within a touchdown one way or the other.
This
team will Not
win another
road game in the Big10 this season.
This
team will not
win another
road game this season period.
As you can see, the ATS
winning percentage and return on investment (ROI) for college football
road teams steadily increases as we gradually lower the closing total.
Auburn and Penn State are similar, each with lots of comfortable
wins and two close losses on the
road to ranked
teams.
Road teams receiving between 0 and 30 % of spread bets have gone just 216 - 583 which equates to a
winning percentage of just 27 %.
It's the first time since 2005 (DAL - HOU) that the
road team has
won the first 4 games of a series.
Road teams continue to struggle with just 2
wins in Week 20.
The Kings are also a poor
road team,
winning only 3 of 19 games played away from Sacramento while Miami has a stellar 13 - 2 record at home.
Over the past twelve seasons,
road teams coming off a loss have gone 188 - 207 (+32.62 units, 8.3 % ROI) while home
teams coming off a loss have essentially
won at the breakeven point (221 - 173, +0.37 units).
For our spread system,
road teams receiving no more than 30 % of public bets have gone 429 - 353 (54.9 %) with +55.71 units
won and a 7.1 % ROI.
The
road will not be easy, but they can
win against any
Team out there.
Following their convincing
win at Seattle this past weekend (which is one of the toughest places for opposing
teams to play in the NFL), the public isn't just drinking the Cincy kool - aid, they're pounding it, with 7 out of 10 bets confident the high - rising Bengals can either
win straight up or lose by two or less on the
road.
Reason why
Team Pivar can
win it all — They have the right
road and certainly enough athletes to get the Championship.
The league's top
team looks to continue its stretch of dominance as -305
road favorites this Saturday visiting Everton (+800 to
win, +400 to draw).
After dropping seven consecutive games and losing its coach, Ole Miss rebounded with an impressive offensive performance against a stellar defensive
team, and showed enough fight to pick up its first
road win in conference.
The chart below compares the home and
road winning percentages of NFL
teams in the»90s (excluding Carolina and Jacksonville); the difference between the two figures is the statistical advantage that each club gains at home — or loses on the
road.
Will a close
road win against a potential bowl
team be enough for the 11 - 0 Herd to crack the rankings?
LeBron always
wins on the
road and more often than not, his
teams have not had home - court advantage by this point.
The Bucs face two
winning teams, Green Bay and Pittsburgh, both in Tampa, then go on the
road to Washington and Cincy.
That was confusing, considering that the Tigers have one home
win against a CFP top - 15
team, while OU has three (and two were on the
road).
White and Fucillo went the opposite direction, predicting the 49ers to become just the second
road team in 18 games to
win in Seattle.
One thing
winning teams know how to do, is
win on the
road.
Road losses to three ranked
teams kept the ceiling low, but on paper, the Hurricanes were strong, and they looked the part in big
wins over Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, and UNC.
If they can keep that up against better
teams, they have a shot to
win some games coming down the
road.
If the Bills want to prove that they are truly a playoff
team,
winning on the
road early and often is the way to do it.
One thing I'll never understand about the Steelers is how they can be such a great
team, loaded with talent, and then go on the
road and lose a game where they should've
won.
This is an immensely talented
team that takes fans to the highest of highs, like a beatdown of the Panthers last week at home and 31 - 24
road win over the Patriots in Week 10.
The Ravens are one of two
teams with a
winning playoff
road record at 10 - 5 while quarterback Joe Flacco holds the record with seven
road playoff
wins and he will arrive off the back of an impressive performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
We had a great chance this year to build a
team to
win the league but as it stands we look like 4th place is our aim again, still time for Wenger to spend money but been down this
road before with him and been lied to and let down for nine years
• With their 31 - 14
win at Dallas on Sunday, the 49ers have a better record on the
road (50 -14-1,.777) since 1981 than any NFL
team except Denver (52 - 13,.800) has at home.
The Stars fell to 3 -8-1 away from home and have just one
win in seven
road games against fellow Central Division
teams.
Nathan MacKinnon and Gabriel Landeskog had the goals for a Colorado
team that returned home after earning two straight
road wins, including Thursday in St. Louis.
I've been down that
road here, myself, and the truth is that you can never
win any argument about his bat helping the
team because he's a liability on defense.
There are five unbeaten
teams, and UGA's
road win at Notre Dame and blowout of Mississippi State are easily the two best
wins out of that entire group.
On the negative side, the Bears were even worse on the
road than the Cardinals (2 - 9 vs. 4 - 7), but on the plus side, Baylor has two top 20
wins, including a marquee one over Kansas, something Louisville, whose five best
wins all came over
teams outside of the RPI top 50, can't claim.
The NFL has never seen a wild card
team win three games on the
road or a lower seed be favored over a # 1 seed.
The Tigers»
road win at a top - 10 Texas A&M
team was awfully similar to Missouri's
road win over top - 10 Georgia the previous week.
The Pittsburgh Steelers took the hard
road to Super Bowl XL,
winning three straight
road games against the toughest
teams in either conference.
His play all game long — and yes, especially at the very end — helped the Steelers go on the
road, in a hostile environment, and get a
win over a very good Chiefs
team and advance to the AFC Championship.