{"id":19135,"date":"2011-11-05T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19135"},"modified":"2011-11-05T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:14:50","slug":"sunday-night-football-betting-ravens-steelers-meet-in-afc-north-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-night-football-betting-ravens-steelers-meet-in-afc-north-clash-19135\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Football Betting: Ravens, Steelers meet in AFC North clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers
\nSunday, 11\/6\/11, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Steelers
Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers are looking to avenge a 35-7 loss at Baltimore in the season opener.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The hardest-hitting rivalry in the NFL will add another important chapter on Sunday Night Football when the Baltimore Ravens visit the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u00a0 Last year, it was the Steelers (6-2) who came up with a key 13-10 victory at Baltimore (5-2) in prime time to split the season series and give them control of the AFC North title.<\/p>\n

The Ravens had won the first meeting 17-14 at Pittsburgh, but Steelers safety Troy Polamalu stripped Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco on a safety blitz with a little more than three minutes remaining.\u00a0 That play set up the game-winning touchdown, as Pittsburgh QB Ben Roethlisberger connected with running back Isaac Redman on a 9-yard pass to capitalize on the turnover.\u00a0 The victory enabled the Steelers (-3, O\/U 42.5) to earn home-field advantage for the third meeting, which took place in the playoffs and resulted in a 31-24 win on their way to the AFC championship.<\/p>\n

Roethlisberger did not play in the first meeting last season due to a four-game suspension for breaking the league\u2019s personal conduct policy in the offseason, and he performed terribly in the season-opening 35-7 road loss to the Ravens this year.\u00a0 He threw three interceptions as the Steelers turned the ball over seven times overall in the rout.<\/p>\n

Since then, Pittsburgh has gone 6-1 with the only loss coming at Houston in Week 4.\u00a0 The Steelers are riding a four-game winning streak and have gone 3-1 against the spread during that stretch.\u00a0 They are coming off a 25-17 victory against New England at home last Sunday behind 365 passing yards from Roethlisberger, who also threw for 361 in a 32-20 win at Arizona the previous week.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Ravens have struggled in their last two games, going 0-2 ATS as double-digit favorites.\u00a0 They rallied back from a 24-3 deficit at home against the Cardinals last week for a 30-27 victory and lost at Jacksonville 12-7 the previous Monday night.\u00a0 This is the first time they have been underdogs all season.<\/p>\n

Baltimore and Pittsburgh have split the last six meetings, with the home team winning five of the past seven.\u00a0 The past two games between the teams have won OVER the total after last season\u2019s meetings both went UNDER.\u00a0 The UNDER is 3-1 in the last four home games for the Steelers, although the OVER is 8-3-1 in the past 12 meetings and 6-1-1 in the last eight games against the Ravens in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers<\/a> at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, 11\/6\/11, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 42.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The hardest-hitting rivalry in the NFL will add another important chapter on Sunday Night Football when the Baltimore Ravens visit the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[608,1772,1930,1922,346,2757,5479,3617],"class_list":["post-19135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pro-football","tag-sunday-night-football","tag-week-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19142,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19135\/revisions\/19142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}