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“#NFL divisional round betting trends to know<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Last week, I started my annual NFL playoff series<\/a> on recent trends in the wild-card round. I revealed a number of road, underdog and Under-the-total systems that had been very successful recently. A key part of that pattern continued last weekend, when visiting teams won four of the six game<\/a>s. So, like the league itself, I will move on to the divisional round this week.<\/p>\n

The six winners last weekend join No. 1 seeds Green Bay and Kansas City in looking to take a big step toward the Super Bowl. The top seeds bring superior talent into their games, including arguably the two best quarterbacks in the business, and seemingly, each is capable of making it to Tampa next month for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Last year, three of the four home teams advanced out of the divisional round. Home sweeps are rare, and if this season is like other recent ones, not all the top teams will move on, though it\u2019s a good bet that at least three will. In fact, looking back at the last nine playoff seasons, the hosts swept this round twice \u2014 in 2016 and 2019. They split in 2017. In the other six years, they went 3-1 for a cumulative record of 28-8, or 78 percent, in that span. If the pattern holds, expect one host to be eliminated this weekend. On paper, that team would figure to be Buffalo, which is the smallest favorite of the four host teams.<\/p>\n

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Recent years have produced some wild action in this round. Last year\u2019s most exciting game was Kansas City\u2019s rally from a 24-0 deficit to beat Houston, 51-31, and the Chiefs went on to win the Super Bowl. Surely, you remember Jacksonville\u2019s 45-42 win at Pittsburgh in 2018 or the Minnesota Miracle that same season. But rather than looking back at specific games, we will instead look back at some general<\/a> trends in the hope of finding nuggets from which we can profit in this year\u2019s contests.<\/p>\n

One trend to get us started: The divisional playoffs have produced a lot of points recently, with 26 of the 40 games (65 percent) over the past 10 years having surpassed the posted total.<\/p>\n

Here are some others:<\/p>\n