Teams with Super Bowl aspirations will meet when the Los Angeles Rams battle the Detroit Lions on Sunday Night Football in a Week 1 matchup. The teams last met in the NFC Wild Card last year, with Detroit earning a 24-23 victory. The Rams (10-7), who were second in the NFC West, finished 8-4 against NFC opponents in 2023. The Lions (12-5), champions of the NFC North, were 6-2 on their home field.

Kickoff from Ford Field in Detroit is set for 8:20 p.m. ET. Detroit is a 4.5-point favorite in the latest Rams vs. Lions odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 53.5. Before you make any Rams vs. Lions bets or predictions of your own, you NEED to see which side SportsLine NFL expert R.J. White is on. 

White, a Fantasy and gambling editor for CBS Sports, consistently crushes against-the-spread picks and has gone 643-543-34 on his ATS picks from 2017-23, which returned more than $4,600 to $100 players. He also went 101-84-4 (+1366) on all NFL spread picks last season. White also has a strong read on the Lions. He is an OUTSTANDING 62-44-2 (+1275) on his last 108 picks in games involving Detroit! Anyone who has followed him is WAY up!

Now, White has locked in another confident against-the-spread pick for Rams vs. Lions.

We can tell you he's leaning Under on the point total, but he knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

So who wins Rams vs. Lions on Sunday Night Football, and what x-factor makes one side a must back? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the Rams vs. Lions spread to back, all from the expert who is 62-44 on picks involving the Lions!