Last week:12 wins, or more than the Cleveland Browns have in the last four seasons. 98-58 on the season.

Thursday Night

- Tennessee Titans at Pittsburgh Steelers (-7): Pittsburgh at home is tough to bet against. Pittsburgh in prime time is tough to bet against, too; the Steelers have won 9 in a row on the national stage. Even though I like the Titans, winners of four in a row, the step up in competition and primetime expectations might be a step too high. Their middling pass defense is a problem against Antonio Brown. These two could meet again in January and the winner could very well be hosting, so it’s a very critical AFC contest.

Steelers 31, Titans 17

Sunday Games

- Los Angeles Rams at Minnesota Vikings (-2): The battle for the No. 2 seed in the NFC is a marquee game nobody would have expected even a month ago. Neither team has lost since Week 5, and both are coming off prolific passing games.

Minnesota’s win over Washington without NFL sack leader Everson Griffen impressed me a lot. Then again, watching Aaron Donald and Michael Brockers generate QB pressures on more than 50 percent of Houston’s dropbacks last week makes me lean Rams. Vikings QB Case Keenum can struggle with pressure in his face. How well the Vikings OL handles Donald is a huge key to this one. So is tackling in the secondary, and that edge decisively leans to the home team.

Vikings 22, Rams 20

- Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys (+3.5): No Tyron Smith, no Zeke Elliott and no Sean Lee for Dallas? Yeah, no win for Dallas either. Sorry to be so glib, but losing the three best players on the team when facing the NFL’s best and most complete team is no bueno. The Eagles fly like vultures above what remains of the Cowboys. Add a TD for Dallas’ score below if Smith somehow plays.

Eagles 33, Cowboys 13

- Baltimore Ravens at Green Bay Packers (+2): It doesn’t get enough national attention just how bad Joe Flacco has been this year for Baltimore.

The Packers defense is not good, and Green Bay doesn’t rush the passer or finish plays well. Something has to give in what looks like a cold and windy weekend on the shores of Lake Michigan. I’ll take a Packers team which is starting to get healthier even sans Aaron Rodgers.

Packers 27, Ravens 21

- Kansas City Chiefs at New York Giants (+10.5): The Giants sure give off the stench of a team that has given up on the season. That’s just what the doctor ordered for a Chiefs team coming off a bye having lost 3 of 4 since opening 5-0. I do worry about a death-gasp game from the Giants, but I think it waits another week and happens on the road.

Chiefs 24, Giants 13

Washington at New Orleans Saints (-8): If you haven’t been paying attention to the Saints defense, it’s not too late to get on the bandwagon. Keyed by Defensive Rookie of the Year shoo-in Marshon Lattimore, they’re aggressive, confident and skilled both up front and in back, like a glorious mullet from 1990.

Saints 32, Washington 12

- Arizona Cardinals at Houston Texans (+1): Houston is honoring Andre Johnson at halftime. Too bad the wideout can’t still suit up. Then again, with the QB battle in this one setting up to be Tom Savage vs. Blaine Gabbert, the future Hall of Famer probably is grateful he’s done playing. Houston’s defense is the difference in this one.

Texans 20, Cardinals 13

- Jacksonville Jaguars at Cleveland Browns (+7.5): The Jaguars have the NFL’s best pass rush, recording a sack on over 10 percent of opposing pass attempts. Cleveland lost future Hall of Fame left tackle Joe Thomas earlier this year, and starting right tackle Shon Coleman is iffy with a concussion. The Browns tackles in this game could very well be Spencer Drango and Zach Banner. Pray for DeShone Kizer.

Jaguars 32, Browns 6

- Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears (+3): Trap game for Detroit as they cannot afford to look ahead to the Thanksgiving showdown with the Vikings, a game which could decide the NFC North. The Bears defense can give Matthew Stafford & Co. problems, but the Lions defense is playing very well against the run and I don’t see Mitchell Trubisky beating Darius Slay & Glover Quin for more than one passing TD.

Lions 29, Bears 20

- Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Miami Dolphins (-1): If the Buccaneers had any sort of pass rush, they would be the pick. They don’t, so in Jay Cutler we trust.

Dolphins 28, Buccaneers 24

- Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Chargers (-4): Buffalo has benched QB Tyrod Taylor in favor of rookie Nathan Peterman. I’ll have more thoughts on this in this week’s $.10, but I don’t hate it like most folks. The proof will be in the pudding. Ooh, pudding. I love butterscotch pudding, or vanilla, or banana.

Chargers 23, Bills 21                                   

- New England Patriots at Oakland Raiders (+7): This game is in Mexico City, and the fans in Estadio Azteca will get treated to Tom Brady. Fun Brady fact: in four career starts vs. the Raiders, he’s never turned the ball over. Not once. He hasn’t been all that great or productive, but the Pats QB doesn’t hurt his own team even when he’s not at his sharpest.

Patriots 27, Raiders 24

- Cincinnati Bengals at Denver Broncos (-2.5): Somehow Denver has lost its last four games by a combined 84 points, handedly the worst in the league. That’s 34 more than the winless Browns, and one of those Denver losses came to the previously winless Giants, who have lost the three ensuing games by 61 points. You could make a compelling argument the Broncos are currently the worst team in the league.

Bengals 30, Broncos 24

Monday Night

- Atlanta Falcons at Seattle Seahawks (-3): I watched the epic playoff game between these two back in 2013 (after the ’12 season) at a beachside sports bar with several former NFL players and coaches as we were in St. Pete for the upcoming Shrine Game week. It was a gorgeous day, bright and sunny and warm. I look out my window here on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan and we’re getting our first legit snowfall of the season, and I want to go back to that beautiful January day in Florida. I suspect the Falcons do too.

This game could be a nice step in the right direction, as the Seattle offense is predicated almost entirely on Russell Wilson pulling rabbits out of ski caps. Without Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor on the back end of the Seattle, Wilson will need those rabbits to do their thing pronto.

Falcons 19, Seahawks 17

College Games

This is the week much of the SEC takes off from conference play and eats creampuffs, while the rest of the college football nation plays critical conference games with so much at stake. Clemson and some ACC schools are following suit, making this arguably the weakest CFB week all year. Such a joke…

Alabama 62, Mercer 6

Auburn 59, Louisiana-Monroe 12

Florida 20, UAB 18

Clemson 52, Citadel 9

Wisconsin 28, Michigan 20

Stanford 34, Cal 21

Miami 30, Virginia 17