The Bengals will be competing against the Texans in the nfl playoffs. The Cincinnati Bengals will travel to Reliant Stadium in Houston for the game. Cincinnati finished their season with a record of 9-7 and arrived at the playoffs this season as a wild card in the AFC North division. Following coming out ahead as the leading team in the AFC South this season, Houston finished with a record of 10-6.

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Both squads have still had their fair share of challenges this season with the Bengals losing every single game against playoff quality squads and the Texans having significant accidents to quarterbacks Matt Schaub and Matt Leinart. Both quarterbacks were lost for the season with their accidents and rookie T.J. Yates has taken control. Houston has also viewed major accidents to linebacker Mario Williams as well as wide receiver Andre Johnson. The two squads have already faced one another in the course of the regular season and the Texans made a last effort comeback try with a game winning td pass captured by wide receiver Kevin Walters with mere seconds left on the clock.

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The Cincinnati Bengals are going to have to try and stay with what has worked for them this year which has been their outstanding run game with running backs Cedric Benson and Bernard Scott. If they are able to make this happen they may have the edge and ultimately wipe out a playoff team and advance past the first round for the first time in only over 20 years.

This will likely be a close one and may boil down to the wire yet again. The Texans are slight faves in spite of many accidents to several essential celebrity competitors. The over/under for total in total points for this specific game is 38. The line is set with the Texans as three point faves at their home turf to the long shot Cincinnati Bengals.