Until the day Peyton Manning retires, the Denver Broncos and the Indianapolis Colts will forever be competing. It all comes down to one question: Did the Colts make the right move when they cut Peyton Manning and drafted Andrew Luck?

So far it’s been a mixed bag of results. On one hand, the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl with Manning, but on the other hand, Luck beat the Broncos in the Divisional Round last season and holds a 2-1 record against the Broncos overall.

Really, if anyone’s going to “win” the Manning-Luck situation, it’s going to be the team that comes away with a Super Bowl first. But for right now, these head-to-head matchups still mean a whole heck of a lot.

The Broncos may have looked out of form last January, but here are three reasons why the Broncos will beat the Colts this time around: