The quest for the championship continues Sunday as the Round of 12 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs begins with the 2024 Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. Twelve drivers remain in contention for the crown, including four previous winners - two-time champ Joey Logano, Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson and reigning titleholder Ryan Blaney. Larson officially punched his ticket to the Round of 12 by capturing the checkered flag at Bristol last weekend, while Ty Gibbs, Harrison Burton and previous Cup Series champions Martin Truex Jr. (2017) and Brad Keselowski (2012) were eliminated from title contention.

Larson is the 33-10 favorite in the latest 2024 Hollywood Casino 400 odds. Denny Hamlin is 9-2 and 2024 regular-season champion Tyler Reddick, who won this race last year, is 7-1. Christopher Bell is 9-1 and William Byron rounds out the top five NASCAR at Kansas contenders at 10-1. Sunday's race is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. ET.

Before making any NASCAR at Kansas picks, be sure to see what CBS Sports NASCAR writer Steven Taranto has to say.

Taranto, who moonlights as a sim racer and has 20 career wins in iRacing, is the lead NASCAR writer for CBSSports.com, and he chronicles stock car racing with the same thoroughness and passion that he's had since becoming a full-time race fan in 2001. He has an annual NASCAR media credential and also publishes a popular weekly NASCAR predictions column, famously calling Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez's breakthrough wins in 2022. Taranto has been red-hot for SportsLine in 2024 as he has nailed 13 winners, including 16-1 longshot William Byron at the Daytona 500 and 14-1 longshot Chase Elliott at Texas. Anybody following his NASCAR picks has seen HUGE returns!

For the 2024 Hollywood Casino 400, we can tell you Taranto is high on Ross Chastain, even though he's a 28-1 longshot. Another curveball: He's fading Tyler Reddick (7-1), even though he made his way to Victory Lane in this race last year. "(He had) a somewhat flat opening-round performance, with two finishes of 20th or worse," Taranto told SportsLine. "Although he won this race a year ago, he followed it with a performance (at Kansas) in May that saw him run 20th."

Taranto also locked in four more Hollywood Casino 400 best bets and is high on a MAJOR dark horse who is going off at more than 65-1! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his picks before locking in any NASCAR picks of your own.

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