Dallas had the ball at the Tampa Bay 24 on Thursday night, down eight with less than two minutes to play. Dak Prescott’s pass went off tight end Jake Ferguson’s hands, Alex Anzalone caught the carom, and Tampa Bay won 24-16 as an underdog of about 8.5 points. It took 347 days to see the … Read more
New England lost 35-6 in Jacksonville on September 27. Seven days later the Patriots were getting 7 points at Buffalo, which was 3-0, and Drake Maye threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Efton Chism with under two minutes left to win 29-26. It was the longest shot among seven NFL Week 4 upsets. Casino.org, a … Read more
Clemson plays at LSU on Saturday night, and depending on where you looked this week, the Clemson LSU odds made the home side anywhere from a 78 percent favorite to an 83 percent favorite. Same game. LSU’s moneyline has appeared in print at -355, -376, -380, -405, -425, -450 and -480 over the past four … Read more
The Premier League season starts tonight at the Emirates, where Arsenal are somewhere between -550 and -600 against a Coventry City side that last played top-flight football in 2001. Nothing surprising in that. The Premier League title odds sitting behind it are doing something stranger. Patrick Everson of VegasInsider, citing BetMGM’s book, reports that Manchester … Read more
The 2026 preseason coaches poll landed Tuesday. Ohio State sits on top with 38 of 72 first-place votes, and Indiana, which finished 16-0 and won the national championship in January, comes in sixth. Before that ordering gets read as a forecast, last August’s ballot is the more instructive document. What the Preseason Coaches Poll Said … Read more
The trade deadline closes Monday at 6 p.m. Eastern, and Tampa Bay goes into Sunday holding the best record in the American League at 65-45. Rays World Series odds have come in from 50-1 to somewhere near 16-1 since Opening Day. The money has not followed. On BetMGM’s championship board in the last week of … Read more
Two baseball teams spent July doing opposite things as hard as they could. Boston won fifteen straight, matching a franchise record set in 1946, when Ted Williams was putting together an MVP season. Miami lost twelve, a first for the Marlins. This morning Boston is 55-51 and Miami 54-54. One win and three losses apart. … Read more
The Streak Is Over Super Bowl underdogs had covered five straight. Four of the last five won outright. The trend was so dominant that sharp bettors at Circa put 72% of their moneyline dollars on the Patriots, and two seven-figure wagers landed on New England before kickoff. None of it mattered. The Seattle Seahawks dismantled … Read more
Two-Thirds of the Public on Seattle. Sportsbooks Want the Patriots. Three days before Super Bowl LX, the betting public and the sharp money are telling two different stories. Across multiple sportsbooks, roughly 67% of spread bets are landing on the Seattle Seahawks. At DraftKings, that number comes with 74% of the spread dollars. Hard Rock … Read more
The Public Has Made Its Choice Nine days before Super Bowl LX, the betting public has spoken. And once again, they’re siding with the favorite. According to Caesars Sports director of football trading Joey Feazel, public money is flowing toward the Seattle Seahawks on the spread, while sharp bettors have taken a different approach entirely. … Read more