Teams battling for playoff positioning meet on Monday Night Football when the Baltimore Ravens take on the Los Angeles Chargers. Baltimore coach John Harbaugh will also face off against his brother, Jim, who is in his first season at Los Angeles. The Ravens (7-4), second in the AFC North, are coming off an 18-16 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers this past Sunday, while the Chargers (7-3), second in the AFC West, defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 34-27 that same night.

Kickoff from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., is set for 8:15 p.m. ET. Baltimore is a 2.5-point favorite in the latest Ravens vs. Chargers odds from SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is set at 51. The Ravens are -151 money-line favorites (risk $151 to win $100), while the Chargers are +127 underdogs (risk $100 to win $127).

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

A veteran sportswriter whose work appears periodically in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has covered the NFL for decades and reported from seven Super Bowls. Tierney is 154-124-9 in the NFL the past two seasons, returning $1,586 to $100 players. In addition, he is an amazing 52-22-2 on his last 76 NFL picks in games involving the Ravens, returning a whopping $2,762. Anyone who has followed him is WAY UP!

Now, Tierney has locked in another confident against-the-spread pick for Ravens vs. Chargers on Monday Night Football.

We can tell you he's leaning Under the point total, but he also 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. Chargers on Monday Night Football, and what x-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the Ravens vs. Chargers spread hits HARD, all from the expert who is an AMAZING 52-22 on picks involving the Ravens!