There are four games in NFL Week 1 that the nation will see, starting in the late afternoon window on Sunday afternoon and rolling through the now-traditional Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN. TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis concludes it’s Week 1 coverage with a look at the four money games…
All of the games are predicted on the moneyline, which unlike the pointspread is simply about winning outright. If a team is (-300) as the favorite, it means you’re required to wager $300 to turn a $100 profit. If an underdog is (+220), a simple $100 bet gets you a profit of $200. Each team’s moneyline is in parentheses, and the road team is always listed first.
There are six games on the NFL Week 1 schedule that will draw national coverage, excepting in cases where the local team is playing in the same time slot. We’ve already previewed the nine undercard games. Here, TheSportsNotebook will focus on the core six games, which include the now-traditional Monday Night Football doubleheader to open the season
The NFL season kicks off tonight, and with it TheSportsNotebook’s weekly game previews begin. The format for previewing each week will be as follows—We’ll start with an opening preview of the midweek game (normally Thursday nights) and include the undercard games of Sunday, which will be defined as those just being shown to the local market. Then on Friday we’ll come back with a preview of the nationally televised games, the four on Sunday (two early, one late, one prime-time) and Monday night. Here we go with NFL Week 1…