The Dallas Cowboys had won 16 straight home games before Sunday’s 48-32 wild-card playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers as 7-point favorites.
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Seattle native Kris Lundborg won the Westgate SuperContest with a 58-27-5 record against the spread (68.2 percent) to top a field of 1,301 entries.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay, who leads the Review-Journal NFL Challenge, likes the Lions on Saturday against the Broncos.
The Raiders are consensus 3-point favorites over the Chargers and the consensus total is 34½ for their “Thursday Night Football” game at Allegiant Stadium.
Handicapper Lou Finocchiaro (@GambLou) went 4-1 against the spread last week and leads with a 17-7-1 record (70.8 percent). VSiN.com handicapper Dave Tuley is in second.
The Fighting Irish trounced the Trojans on Saturday night, easily covering as 3-point favorites. A day earlier, Stanford’s rally past Colorado was a gift to sportsbooks.
Handicapper Joe D’Amico (@JoeDamicoWins) analyzes every NFL Week 6 Sunday and Monday game and makes predictions for each matchup.
There are overreactions every week in the NFL. But with the possible exception of the San Francisco 49ers, no team is as good or bad as it looked in Week 1.
The winning team in the first 57 Super Bowls, including 19 underdogs, is 48-7-2 ATS. In other words, there have been only nine games in which the favorite has won but failed to cover.
Two days after the app went down during the Super Bowl, the William Hill and Caesars Sportsbook mobile sports betting apps in Nevada were still down Tuesday.
The two entries made 20 straight winning selections to split the $6,133,000 prize in the contest, in which contestants pick one straight-up NFL winner each week.
The FanDuel bettor hit the first four legs of the parlay of alternate rushing yards props Sunday, including Colts running back Jonathan Taylor over 125 yards. He had 147.
Buffalo is -2½, and the total is 54 for the matchup of the NFL’s highest-scoring teams. But this one will be decided by the better defense, and it belongs to the Bills.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay said: “There is no doubt in my mind that information leaked sometime in the middle of last week. This is concerning.”
The Buffalo Bills were the sole 7-1 favorite at the Westgate SuperBook to win the 2023 Super Bowl before the Rams beat the Bengals, 23-20.