BetAnySports WC Betting Preview
2 min readBetAnySports Weekend Betting Preview – January 9-10
It is Wild Card Weekend in the NFL which gives sports bettors four opportunities to cash-in on the games with BetAnySports as your top online sportsbook for all the action. Home underdogs is the prevailing theme of this season’s opening round of action in the NFL Playoffs and over the past two seasons the underdogs have compiled a profitable 6-2 record against the spread.
Saturday’s Wild Card action gets underway in a 4:35 p.m. (ET) start at NRG Stadium with the red-hot 11-5 Kansas City Chiefs looking to win their 11th-straight game as 3.5-point road favorites against 9-7 Houston. The Texans claimed the AFC South title with a three-game winning streak both straight-up and against the spread. The total in this AFC clash has been set at 40. The Chiefs are just 1-3 ATS in their last four games, but they have a 4-1 edge ATS in their last five road games against Houston.
The second Wild Card match-up on Saturday’s slate is an AFC North showdown between the 10-6 Pittsburgh Steelers and the 12-4 Cincinnati Bengals. These two split the season series with the road team winning both SU and ATS. The Steelers come in as three-point road favorites and BetAnySports has set the betting line for the total at 45.5. Pittsburgh has a 4-1 edge both SU and ATS in the last five meetings.
In the first of two Sunday Wild Card games, the 10-6 Seattle Seahawks will go on the road to face the NFC North Champion Minnesota Vikings as five-point favorites. The Seahawks went 5-1 down the stretch both SU and ATS, while the 11-5 Vikings were the top betting team in the NFL this season with a highly profitable 13-3 record ATS. The total for this NFC tilt has been set at 39.5 and it has gone OVER in four of the last five games between these two teams. In early December, the Seahawks cruised past Minnesota 38-7 as three-point road favorites with the total going OVER BetAnySports’ closing 43-point line.
The final NFL Wild Card game is another NFC match-up between the 10-6 Green Bay Packers and the 9-7 Washington Redskins, who strung together three wins (SU and ATS) down the stretch to win the NFC East. Green Bay comes into FedEx Field as a slight one-point favorite after opening as a one-point road underdog and the total for this contest has been set at 45. The Packers have a 5-1 SU record in their last six games against the Redskins.