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The Most Anticipated Game of Week 9

The game everyone was waiting for ever since the season started is finally here! The New England Patriots will be facing the Indianapolis Colts at Foxborough, a place they struggled in throughout the last seasons. In last year?s playoff match up, the Colts were also favorites to win, only to suffer another defeat.

This years Patriots are a very different team from the one that won the Super Bowl last year. The Patriots are 1 game above .500 with a record of 4-3. On the other hand the Colts remain undefeated after 8 weeks. The Patriots have alternated wins and losses every game since opening the season with a victory over the Oakland Raiders. The toughest stretch of their schedule has been a five-game span against teams that were .500 or better entering Sunday -- four of them on the road. They went 2-3 in those games.

The Patriots have had the Colts? number for past few years. The Patriots have gone 6-0 against the Colts since 2001. In New England, Peyton Manning has never won. For the Colts, who ended their season in Foxborough in each of the last two years, a victory would mean a four-game advantage over the Patriots in the race for home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs. Don?t forget this is a much different Colts team also. The biggest difference between this Colts team and the previous ones is in the defensive end.