NFL Wild Card Weekend Betting Preview
The 12-team field for this year’s NFL Playoffs has been set and all the action gets underway with the first four matchups in this Saturday and Sunday’s Wild Card Weekend. The NFL betting odds for the games have been posted by BetAnySports USA online and live betting Bitcoin Sportsbook. All four home teams have been opened as favorites by three or more points so the pressure has already been dialed-up on the lower-seeds.
The first showdown out of the gate this Saturday afternoon in a 4:35 p.m. (ET) start is a NFC tilt between the 11-5 Arizona Cardinals and the 7-8-1 Carolina Panthers. Throw the records out the window in this one as momentum could be the driving force with Carolina favored by 4.5 points at home. Arizona stumbled down the stretch to a straight-up 2-4 (3-3 against the spread) record in its last six games while the Panthers went 4-0 SU (2-2 ATS) in their last four contests. The Cardinals are still 7-3 ATS this season in 10 games as underdogs. The total for this Saturday’s game has been set at 38.
Saturday’s nightcap is the rubber game of one of the most heated rivalries in the NFL. The 10-6 Baltimore Ravens will go on the road to Pittsburgh to face the AFC North Champion Steelers, who went 11-5 this year. Each team won at home this season both SU and ATS and the total was evenly split 1-1 in the season series. Pittsburgh has been listed by BetAnySports USA live betting Bitcoin Sportsbooks online as a three-point favorite with BetAnySports USA online and live betting Sportsbooks setting the betting odds for the total at 47.
In the first of two games on Sunday’s Wild Card slate, we stay in the AFC for a matchup between 10-5-1 Cincinnati and 11-5 Indianapolis. The Colts have been opened as four-point home favorites and the total line has been set at 49.5. The Bengals have been a solid bet as underdogs this season at 6-2 ATS, but the Colts went a profitable 9-4-1 as favorites. Indianapolis shutout Cincinnati 27-0 in Week 7 of the regular season as a three-point home favorite.
In Sunday afternoon’s late game, the 11-5 Detroit Lions will head into Big D as eight-point road underdogs to face the surging 12-4 Dallas Cowboys. The total for this game has been set at 48. The Lions are 2-3 ATS as underdogs this season and in eight road games they failed to cover six times. Dallas went 10-6 ATS this season, but its record falls to just 3-5 ATS in eight home games. It has gone just 1-7 SU in its last eight playoff games. Top
