The US Government was shut down for 16 days, but the sports world carried on. There are two undefeated teams remaining in the NFL (Denver and Kansas City), three winless teams remaining in the NFL (Jacksonville, New York Giants and Tampa Bay), 16 undefeated teams in the NCAA FBS, eight winless teams in the NCAA FBS, and four teams left standing in the Major League Baseball playoffs (St. Louis, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston and Detroit). The NBA regular season is set to begin on Tuesday, Oct. 29, and the NHL regular season may have already started, but if a sport starts and nobody watches it, has it really started?

4: NFL teams quarterback Matt Flynn has been on after signing with Buffalo on Monday. The 28-year old Flynn has been a Packer, Seahawk, Raider and now a Bill.

3: Quarterbacks used this season by the Buffalo Bills through six weeks of the season. Starting quarterback EJ Manuel is expected to miss several weeks with a knee injury; his replacement Jeff Tuel was benched after playing versus Cleveland and replaced this week with Thad Lewis, who suffered a right foot injury during a home loss to Cincinnati on Sunday.

20.5: Projected amounted of losses this season for the Miami Heat based on their season win total on 5Dimes of 61.5.

16.5: Season win total on 5Dimes for the Philadelphia 76ers, the lowest in the league by a margin of four games (Phoenix Suns team win total is 20.5).

34: Games won last season by the Philadelphia 76ers.

4: Number of homeruns hit by the Los Angeles Dodgers in their Game 5 NLCS 5-4 win against St. Louis Cardinals. It was a single-game postseason franchise record.

1.3 million: Population of Trinidad and Tobago, the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup.

325,000: Population of Iceland, a country who is one step away from qualifying for the World Cup. Iceland finished second in Group E of European World Cup qualifying. Ranked No. 54 by FIFA, Iceland will have a two-leg playoff against No. 10 Croatia on November 15 and 19 with a shot to qualify for the World Cup to become the smallest country ever to qualify.

17: Goals scored by Iceland in World Cup qualifying.

14: Goals scored by Spain in World Cup qualifying.

24: Positive goal differential maintained by Bosnia-Herzegovina during its 10 World Cup qualifying games this year. The goal differential was second-best in UEFA behind only Germany and Netherlands, who both had a goal differential of +28. Bosnia-Herzegovina won Group G to qualify for its first-ever World Cup.

10: The opening line at a number of sportsbooks for last Saturday’s game between favored Baylor and Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas. The line ballooned to as high as 20 points during the week and closed at 17 at nearly all sportsbooks.

10: The final margin of victory for Baylor in a 35-25 win at Kansas State.

39: Average points per game scored by Northwestern in its first five games this season as the Wildcats started the season 4-1.

6: Points scored by Northwestern in a 35-6 loss at Wisconsin on Saturday. The Wildcats were 11-point underdogs and the total was 58.5.

-750: Odds on 5Dimes of Lee Corso picking Florida State to win on ESPN “College GameDay” on Saturday. The No. 5-ranked Seminoles are three-point favorites on the road at No. 3 Clemson.

+450: Odds on 5Dimes of Denver Broncos to finish the NFL regular season 16-0. The Broncos are also listed at -110 to win the AFC, +280 to win the Super Bowl and +600 to finish 16-0 and win the Super Bowl.

4/1: Listed odds on Bovada for Apu and Sideshow Bob to be the first major character to pass away on “The Simpsons”. Apu and Sideshow Bob are co-favorites at 4/1 ahead of Grandpa Abe (6/1) and Edna Krabappel (6/1). The longshots are Carl, Chief Wiggum and Ned Flanders, who are all listed at 20/1. No members of the immediate Simpson’s family are listed.

-287: Worst single-season point differential in NFL history; it was set by the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

-128: Current point differential for the Jacksonville Jaguars through six games, putting the Jaguars on pace for a -341 point differential.