This Week in Sports Betting by the Numbers
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/19/2013
We’re just two weeks into the NFL season, and everyone is ready to anoint the Denver Broncos as Super Bowl Champions and the Jacksonville Jaguars as winners of the Jadeveon Clowney sweepstakes. But hold the phone, Denver, the Seattle Seahawks look even better than last year. And Jaguar fans, don’t spring for a customized Clowney jersey just yet; the Browns are apparently going all in on the Clowney sweepstakes after blowing up their roster two games into the season.
$16.3 billion: Worth of Nike CEO Phil Knight, making him the 24th richest American.
$15.8 billion: Worth of Paul Allen, the richest US sports owner. Allen owns the Seattle Seahawks.
22: Number of NFL games decided by seven points or fewer in the first two weeks of the NFL, a record for the league.
36: Number of points the Jacksonville Jaguars have been outscored by after two weeks of football.
+100,000: Odds of Jaguars winning the Super Bowl on 5Dimes.
20: Denver Bronco’s average margin of victory after playing the last two Super Bowl champions in Week 1 (Baltimore) and Week 2 (New York Giants).
15: Number of personal fouls received by Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Dashon Goldson since 2010, the most in the NFL.
27: Largest point spread in NFL history. The Pittsburgh Steelers were 27-point favorites in 1976 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Steelers won, 42-0.
19.5: Amount of points the Seattle Seahawks are favored at home against the Jacksonville Jaguars this week, the 10th-largest NFL point spread ever.
2-10: Against the spread record of NFL teams favored by 19 or more points.
71: Percentage of televisions in the New Orleans market tuned into the Saints game during Week 2, making it the most watched game by local market percentage.
915: The number of total Houston households who watched the Astros/Angels game this Saturday, based on its 0.04 Nielsen rating.
33/1: Odds of Keyshawn Johnson winning “Dancing With The Stars” Season 17, making the former wide receiver the third-biggest longshot ahead of only Bill Engvall and Bill Nye, who are both 100/1.
2: Number of top three picks from the 2012 NFL Draft now on the Indianapolis Colts after the Browns dealt Trent Richardson to the Colts for a 2014 first-round pick on Wednesday. Richardson joins the No. 1 overall pick from the 2012 draft, quarterback Andrew Luck.
+180,000: Odds of FCS Savannah State winning on Saturday in its game at Miami Florida. Savannah State is a 60-point underdog.
1: Number of games Savannah State won last season. Savannah State beat something called Edward Waters College for its lone win.
10,786: Attendance Tuesday night at Tampa Bay’s Tropicana Field to see the 82-win Rays take on the 81-win Rangers in a game with major postseason implications.
$5,266,667: Mack Brown’s annual salary as head football coach of the University of Texas.
1-2: Texas’ record this season after allowing 40 points to BYU in Week 2 and 44 points to Ole Miss in Week 3.
$740 million: Amount of money in donations raised by Texas A&M University in the past fiscal year, a record amount for the school.
$400 million: Approximate amount of money raised by University of Texas during the same fiscal year.
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