The 2024 regular season will start when the Baltimore Ravens visit the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2024 NFL Kickoff Game on Thursday, September 5. This will mark the first game of the 2024 season and a rematch of the 2023 AFC Championship Game. In that matchup, the Chiefs won 17-10 and eventually won their second straight Super Bowl title.

Kickoff from Arrowhead Stadium is set for 8:20 p.m. ET. Kansas City is a 3-point favorite in the latest Ravens vs. Chiefs odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 47. The Chiefs are -151 money-line favorites (risk $151 to win $100), while the Ravens are +127 underdogs.

Before making any Ravens vs. Chiefs picks or predictions of your own, you NEED to see which side SportsLine NFL expert Larry Hartstein is on. 

A former lead writer for Covers and The Linemakers, Hartstein combines a vast network of Vegas sources with an analytical approach he honed working for Pro Football Focus. He tied for 52nd place (out of 1,598 entries) in the 2022 Westgate Las Vegas SuperContest, going 53-34-3 ATS. Hartstein's weekly Vegas contest selections form the basis of his NFL best bets column, which is 79-48-2 (62.2%, +25.95 units) since its inception in 2022. He's also 33-21 (+955) on his last 54 ATS picks involving the Chiefs! Anyone who has followed him is WAY up!

Now, Hartstein has locked in another confident against-the-spread pick for Ravens vs. Chiefs.

We can tell you he's leaning Over 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 Ravens vs Chiefs, and what x-factor makes one side a must back? ... Join SportsLine right now to see these picks from Larry Hartstein, who is 33-21 on picks involving the Chiefs!