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NFL Week 1 Recap
Week 1 of the NFL season went to the dogs. The so-called favorites turned out to be chumps against the spread in the opening week, which means if you bet solely on favorites on Sunday, your sportsbook account is probably hurting. If you count the Thursday opener as well as Sunday's games (Monday night results are excluded), the favorites were a pathetic 5-9 ATS. This of course means the underdogs were a profitable 9-5 ATS. This looked a little better straight up, with emphasis on the word little. The favorites were 8-6 straight up in Week 1, so if you stuck to picking favorites straight up you would have made out okay. If you like to root for the home team, then your betting account really took a hit in Week 1. The home team was just plain awful ATS, posting a 3-11 record in Week 1. They weren't much better straight up either with a 5-9 mark SU. That means home field advantage meant very little in Week 1, as the visitors were 11-3 ATS and 9-5 SU. Despite the home team performing so badly in Week 1, the oddsmakers have stuck by them in early Week 2 lines. Out of the 16 games scheduled for Week 2, the oddsmakers have deemed the home team the favorite in 12 of them. The only visitors to be labelled the favorites are Carolina at Minnesota, New Orleans at Green Bay, St. Louis at San Francisco and New England at the New York Jets. High scores were few and far between in Week 1, which led to a ton of unders. The over/under mark for Week 1 was a rather lopsided 4-10. There were 509 points scored in 14 Week 1 games, for an average of 36.4 per game. The average over/under total for Week 1 was set at 39.7. Now that teams have the opening week jitters behind them, expect some more scoring in Week 2. If the oddsmakers lower the over/under total this should mean a few more overs, but make sure you check out what the totals look like before placing your bets.

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