There are three road favorites in this weekend’s games, and Houston is the favorite to claim the new football league’s title.
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The best teams in the new football league have started to emerge, and that is reflected in this week’s betting lines and futures odds.
Circa Sports watched bettors drive the totals on Week 1 games for the new football league up from 40½ to 51 or higher, but the results worked out for the book.
An all-time Super Bowl prop loss and some brutal changes of fortune in basketball make up our first weekly compilation of games bettors want to forget.
The relaunched football league, which opens play this weekend, eliminates extra points, encourages kickoff returns, discourages punts and speeds up play.
The Chiefs quarterback’s rushing yards took a hit as Kansas City ran out the clock, dealing a bad beat to bettors who took him to exceed his total.
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The Kansas City Chiefs remain favorites of 1 or 1½ points over the San Francisco 49ers at Las Vegas sportsbooks, while the total continued its downward trajectory.
