Vegas Books Post NFL Week 1 Point Spreads & Totals
The 2017 NFL season will begin on Thursday night, September 7 with the New England Patriots hosting the Kansas City Chiefs. There are NBA and NHL playoffs, and MLB is in full swing with a lot of games to wager and watch.Yet the sports betting operators in Las Vegas are one step ahead with their NFL predictions.
Leave it up to the Vegas sports betting industry to build up interest and demand for an off season sport to take center stage for a few days. The NFL draft is the biggest news this time of year while the NBA and NHL playoffs are just getting some momentum in each new round leading up to the finals. But the NFL casts its giant shadow over other sports with the draft results receiving so much critique and interest.
The Vegas books just posted the NFL week 1 point spreads and totals.
On top of all things NFL comes another angle on just how popular the NFL is across all sports even when they are not playing. The Vegas operators displayed the first scheduled week of football with betting spreads, totals and team matchups. I guess they figure it will be here before you know it. Opening week of NFL puts the jazz and buzz back in to action from the doldrums of June, July and August baseball. The books are dead in the summer and football betting is their profit machine with so much more dollar volume. This is a good psychological move by the books to maintain interest and create more demand for the NFL betting frenzy. The NFL is a year round business which generates a lot of news and is active during the off season with the draft and rule changes proposed at owner meetings. Listing the opening lines for week 1 is another off season news story to keep all things NFL on top.
Some of the game spreads with totals are listed below.
Chiefs at Patriots opening Thursday night football, September 7, 2017, Patriots -7.5 — 49 total.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
List of early games at 10am.
Jets at Bills — Bills favored by -6, total of 42 Falcons at Bears — Falcons favored by -6, total of 51 Jaguars at Texans — Texans favored by -4.5, total of 42.5 Eagles at Redskins — Redskins favored by -2.5, total of 48 Cardinals at Lions — Lions favored by -2.5, total of 49 Raiders at Titans — game is PK, total of 53 Bucs at Dolphins — Dolphins favored by -2, total of 47.5 Ravens at Bengals — Bengals favored by -1.5, 43 Steelers at Browns — Steelers favored by -9.5, total 47.5
Late game schedule
Colts at Rams — Colts favored by -3.5, total 47.5 Seahawks at Packers — Packers favored by -3, total 50 Panthers at 49ers — Panthers favored by -4, total 48.5 Giants at Cowboys — Cowboys favored by -6, total 51 (Sunday Night Football ) Saints at Vikings — Vikings favored by -3.5, total 48.5 (Monday Night) Chargers at Broncos — Broncos favored by -4, total 44.5 (Monday Night)
These are listed games with rotation numbers ready for wagering action four months before the games start. Talk about a future bet that is not really a prop bet but a regular wager on the future of week 1 football. Some may come off the board pending any team or player news that could affect a spread or total but none the less, all intact for betting. We will check back in a few weeks and see if any betting interest has shown up in dollar volume. Bettors usually want to preserve their bankroll for more pressing action with all the betting options on the board with NBA and NHL playoffs. But July and August will show more handle as preseason football starts leading up to opening week 1 football.
