10/24/2008 - Hampton, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For the third straight week and the 10th time this season, rain washed out Sprint Cup Series qualifying and forced NASCAR officials to set the field by owner points for Sunday's Pep Boys Auto 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Jimmie Johnson will start on the pole position for the third consecutive race and once again has the first pit stall. After winning last Sunday's race with a dominating performance at the Martinsville Speedway, Johnson extended his points lead to 149 with four races remaining in the season.
"It's great to have that guaranteed pit stall and starting position, but at the same time, everybody else is right there," Johnson said. "There are certain guys that I am racing right now in the points that are very good in qualifying and other guys that are not...When you start up front at a big track like (Atlanta) and the air is so important these days, the track position is really everything. If you can start in the top-five, it's much easier to stay in the top-five than it is to start 15th and find your way into the top-five."
Johnson scored the victory in last year's fall race at Atlanta as part of his four-race winning streak en route to his second consecutive series title.
Greg Biffle, currently second in the standings, will start on the outside pole.
"We certainly don't want to see Jimmie get that first pit box every single week, but at the same time, you could make a little mistake qualifying and not be able to start up front," Biffle said. "I'm not complaining about starting up front. Everybody tried just so hard to get this qualifying in, but it's just still raining."
Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards will start on the second row, while Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick will make up row three.
The remaining Chase contenders - Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch - will start seventh through 12th, respectively.
Bryan Clauson and Joey Logano did not make the field. Clauson was hoping to make his first career Sprint Cup start for Chip Ganassi Racing, while Logano was attempting to put a fourth Joe Gibbs Racing entry in the field.
Sprint Cup teams got less than 10 minutes of practice in before the session was halted. Practice is scheduled for Saturday morning.
The weather outlook looks much better for the remainder of the weekend with partly cloudy skies forecasted for Saturday and then mostly sunny for Sunday.
The green flag is scheduled to drop Sunday around 2:00 p.m. (et).
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“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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