2022 Bills NFL futures, trends: Buffalo taking league-high betting action, slides under 6-to-1 odds to win Super Bowl 57
For the first time since Caesars Sportsbook oddsmakers released odds to win Super Bowl 57 back in late January, a team is under +600 to do so – and it's the Buffalo Bills at +575. Josh Allen & Co. have taken by far the most action at the book to win it all on Feb. 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium outside Phoenix. Of course, the Bills have yet to win a Super Bowl and haven't been back since losing a fourth straight title game following the 1993 season.
After reaching as high as +750, the Bills took over the top spot on the board March 8 and have stayed there. On Wednesday, the Bills had their odds drop from +650 to +575. Not a huge shock considering Buffalo leads all teams by a mile by taking in 14.3 percent of all money wagered to win Super Bowl 57 and 10.3 percent of the tickets. The Raiders have collected the second-most tickets at 6.9 percent and the Bucs the second-most money at 7.5.
There have been a whopping 77 wagers of at least $1,000 on the Bills to win the Super Bowl; no one else has 50. A Nevada bettor put down $20,000 on Bills +650 for a potential win of $130,000, the largest Super Bowl 57 wager taken thus far at Caesars.
Only two teams have finished an NFL regular season unbeaten, and the Bills have taken 19 wagers to finish with exactly 17 regular season wins – those bets are more than the rest of the NFL combined. A New York bettor put $150 on Bills with 17 wins at +10000 for a potential win of $150,000. Buffalo was 11-6 last regular season but five of those defeats were by seven points or fewer. The only blowout loss was 41-15 against Indianapolis in Week 11.
Buffalo and Tampa Bay are tied for the highest Over/Under win total of 11.5, but Buffalo's Over is a -140 favorite and the Over has taken 93.8 percent of the money and 85.6 percent of the tickets. On lookahead lines, Buffalo is not projected to be an underdog in any game. It had opened at +1 for the Kickoff Game at the Rams but is now -1. Week 4 in Baltimore and Week 6 in Kansas City are possibilities where the Bills could be dogs.
Allen is the +700 favorite for league MVP; he finished second in 2020. The former Wyoming star is first in tickets at 10.6 percent for MVP and second in handle at 12.4 (behind Justin Herbert). Allen is +1200 to lead the NFL in passing yards and +1000 for passing TDs – not among the Top 5 favorites in either. He is first in tickets and money for passing TDs and sixth in handle for yards. Allen threw for 4,407 yards and 36 TDs last year, both slightly down from 2020 when there was one fewer regular-season game in the NFL.
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