Not exact matches
You're still playing just as hard, you're
doing all the things, but playoffs means if you have one team to focus on, that means you can study all your regular -
season matchups against them, you can learn all the information you need to learn to prepare yourself for this playoff series.
How they can
do it: The Saints beat the Panthers in both meetings this
season, but they still get arguably the toughest first - round
matchup of any team with home field advantage.
An early
season matchup can always cause problems when teams don't quite have an identity yet.
The 2017 NFL
season doesn't start for more than four months, but several offshore sportsbooks have already posted odds for every Week 1
matchup.
These bowl
matchups are all just guesses until November, but that doesn't mean teams can't make or break their
seasons in October.
Another first time
matchup here between two Teams that
did not play during the Regular
Season.
He has a solid
matchup against the Warriors, owning an Opponent Plus / Minus of +2.98, although his track record against the Warriors during the regular
season isn't great: He's exceeded salary - based expectations just once in his past four meetings, although the lone exception
did come on Christmas day last
season.
Here's how Tiebreakers work: 1) Head to Head
matchups (volleyball tourney doesn't count), 2) If the teams didn't play head to head (non-volleyball) he overall win - loss record of a team (if you advanced out of pool play in Volleyball it's a W, if not it's a L) are taken and whoever has the better record gets the nod, 3) if still tied somehow, strength of schedule will be used by adding up the points in the Standings for each team's opponents during the
season.
These Teams
did not meet in the Regular
Season, so it will be a fresh
matchup with both Playoff lives hanging in the balance.
This contest didn't feel like just some regular
season matchup it felt as if their was a Championship to be one out there on Sunday..
These teams didn't meet in the Regular
Season so it will be a first time
matchup this Summer and the first time we get to see this particular version of Team Shlofrock try to outscore the sharp - shooting Maione squad.
He knows what he's
doing when he doesn't start you at that point in the
season, and how that's going to feel for you, so obviously he has his reasons — and I'll bet they start with
matchups.
Former Alabama defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick would have loved to have played UCF last
season, and he doesn't think a
matchup against the Knights would have been close.
His
matchup against the Cardinals» third - ranked defense in rush DVOA isn't great, although three of four backs to score 20 - plus DraftKings points on the Cardinals have
done so at home this
season.