Cincinnati Bengals

Every Team the Market Bet Up in Preseason Week 1 Failed to Cover

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Infographic on the first nine games of 2026 NFL preseason Week 1. All four teams the market bet up before kickoff failed to cover, three losing outright. Cincinnati moved 3.5 to 7 and won by two. Underdogs went 6-1 ATS and unders 6-1 across the games with settled numbers.

On Tuesday this site went through the sixteen NFL preseason Week 1 lines and flagged two that had moved hard on nothing but a coach answering questions. Nine of those games are now played. Every side the market moved toward before kickoff failed to cover, three of the four lost outright, and NFL preseason underdogs … Read more

Sixteen Preseason Lines and the Two That Moved

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Infographic on the 2026 NFL preseason Week 1 betting board. Detroit at Cincinnati opened at 3.5 and sat at 6.5 on August 10 in the AP consensus line from Sportradar, after Zac Taylor said Joe Burrow would play and Dan Campbell said Jared Goff would not. Eleven of sixteen games opened at 1.5.

The full slate of NFL preseason lines is posted, and the board looks like what a market puts out when it has almost nothing to price. Eleven of the sixteen games opened at a point and a half. Six road teams are favored. Totals sit between 36.5 and 40.5, averaging 38 across the slate, and … Read more