The Payments at the moment are the favorites at Boyd Gaming to win the Tremendous Bowl after they snapped the Lions’ franchise-record 11-game profitable streak Sunday in a 48-42 victory in Detroit.
Buffalo, +420 at Boyd to win all of it and a +425 co-favorite with the Lions at Caesars Sportsbook, by no means trailed en path to the upset as a 2½-point underdog in a doable Tremendous Bowl preview.
The betting public misplaced on Detroit, together with a Caesars bettor who wagered $220,000 on the Lions -2. However bettors pounded the over, which closed at 56 at a number of books and soared over the very best complete of the NFL season by 44 factors.
“Each week, the Detroit over is our greatest place for the sport and same-game parlay outcomes,” Caesars Sportsbook vice chairman of buying and selling Craig Mucklow mentioned. “A 55½-point complete couldn’t put the shoppers off, and when the sport of the week has 90 factors and is the highest-scoring recreation of the yr, it’s a great outcome for the bettors.”
Buffalo, which prolonged its franchise document with 30-plus factors in its eighth straight recreation, has scored 90 factors in its previous two video games after final week’s 44-42 loss to the Rams.
“If this was a Tremendous Bowl preview, what do you make the whole if these two groups play in New Orleans in a dome on a quick observe?” Purple Rock Resort sportsbook director Chuck Esposito mentioned. “You might even see one of many highest Tremendous Bowl totals ever.”
The early Tremendous Bowl line on the Westgate SuperBook is a choose’em, and the whole ticked up from 50 to 51½ on Sunday night time.
The Eagles — who gained their tenth straight recreation and coated as 5½-point favorites in a 27-13 win over the Steelers — are the 4-1 co-favorites with the Lions on the Westgate to win the Tremendous Bowl.
The Chiefs — who ran their NFL-best document to 13-1 and snapped an 0-7 slide towards the unfold in a 21-7 win over the Browns as 4-point favorites — are tied with the Payments for the +450 third alternative.
“The Payments definitely have the very best participant within the league. Josh Allen is clearly the MVP proper now,” Westgate vice chairman of race and sports activities John Murray mentioned. “However there are lots of query marks about that Buffalo protection. I don’t know if it’s sustainable. Whereas I take a look at Kansas Metropolis, and everybody’s making enjoyable of them as a result of they barely win each week. However look how good their protection is.
“Patrick Mahomes doesn’t need to do practically as a lot to get a win as Allen does. It’s robust to ask Allen to attain a landing on principally each possession within the playoffs.”
Ebook report
Favorites went 9-4 towards the unfold, and overs went 7-5-1.
The perfect video games for bettors have been the Chiefs, Bengals (-6, beat Titans 37-27), Cardinals (-6, beat Patriots 30-17) and Broncos (-4½, beat Colts 31-13).
Indianapolis was on the verge taking a 20-7 lead over Denver early within the third quarter when Jonathan Taylor inexplicably dropped the ball a cut up second earlier than crossing the objective line on what would have been a 41-yard landing run.
The blunder resulted in a touchback, and Denver turned issues round from there, scoring the ultimate 24 factors of the sport, together with Nik Bonitto’s defensive landing when he intercepted a lateral and returned it 50 yards for a rating.
“The Colts loss was actually dangerous. Having Taylor drop that ball modified the entire complexion of that recreation,” Esposito mentioned. “That was simply catastrophic. That was the most important straight-bet recreation of the day.”
Bettors at Station Sports activities additionally gained on the Jets, who scored two touchdowns within the last 3:24 to beat the Jaguars 32-25 and canopy as 3-point favorites.
Davante Adams caught a 71-yard TD cross with 3:24 remaining and a 41-yard catch that arrange Breece Corridor’s 1-yard TD run with 1:05 left to deal Jacksonville bettors a troublesome beat.
Survivor sweat
The perfect video games for the books have been the Payments, Buccaneers (+3, beat Chargers 40-17) and Saints, who coated as 7½-point underdogs in a 20-19 loss to the Commanders.
New Orleans rallied from a 17-0 second-half deficit and had an opportunity within the last seconds to stun Washington and 5 of the remaining 50 contestants in Circa Survivor nonetheless within the working for the $14.3 million prize.
After catching a break from officers who mistakenly stopped the clock within the last seconds, Saints QB Spencer Rattler threw a 1-yard TD cross to Foster Moreau as time expired. New Orleans then went for the win, however Rattler couldn’t full the 2-point conversion cross.
Favorites went 10-3 on the cash line.
“Cash-line favorites proceed to be the darlings of the bettors,” Mucklow mentioned. “When the one favourite to lose within the morning is the Carolina Panthers, it’s a superb day for NFL prospects.”
Contact reporter Todd Dewey at tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Comply with @tdewey33 on X.
