The Bills are now the favorites at two sportsbooks to win the Super Bowl after they upset the Lions on Sunday in a game that soared over the total.
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Carolina, a 14-point underdog at Philadelphia, appeared to score a go-ahead touchdown with less than a minute to play on a diving catch in the end zone.
Favorites won 11 of 14 NFL games Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and the betting public also won on the three popular underdogs that prevailed.
One entrant in the Circa Survivor contest missed the weekly deadline and was eliminated. But 41 others arguably had it worse with the Commanders and Texans.
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes has been nearly unbeatable against the spread as an underdog in his NFL career. But he lost Sunday, and there’s a new Super Bowl favorite.
The Chiefs remained the NFL’s only unbeaten after defeating Denver 16-14 on a walk-off blocked field goal. But they failed to cover for the third straight week.
NFL Week 9 favorites have won 13 of 14 games and gone 10-4 against the spread, including big covers from the Lions, Commanders, Ravens and Vikings.
The Jets hit a new low Sunday with their fifth straight loss — straight-up and against the spread — in a 25-22 defeat as 7-point favorites over the Patriots.
The Chiefs beat the 49ers 28-18 after closing as 2½-point underdogs. Bettors backed San Francisco at the SuperBook, which, in a rarity, won on Kansas City.
Bettors could have cashed an eight-team parlay, which pays 160-1, in the NFL Sunday afternoon games by blindly taking all four favorites and overs.
Playing favorites paid off in a big way in Week 5 for NFL bettors, but the two biggest favorites on the board lost to eliminate tons of Circa Survivor entries.
Sportsbooks improved to 4-0 on Raiders games this season following their 20-16 victory over the Browns as 2½-point underdogs Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.
Bettors lost for the third consecutive week in the NFL with seven underdogs winning outright, and there also was more carnage in the $14.3 million Circa Survivor contest.
For the second straight week, the biggest NFL favorite on the board lost outright, as the Raiders stunned the Ravens 26-23 as 9-point road underdogs.
A day after Circa set a record for prize money and entries for its $1,000-entry Survivor contest, a huge portion of the field was eliminated in Week 1 of the NFL season.