The Dallas Cowboys will try to keep their faint playoff hopes alive when they battle the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football. The Bengals (4-8), who are third in the AFC North, have lost three in a row. The Cowboys (5-7), who are third in the NFC East, have won two straight. With five games remaining, Dallas entered the weekend 2.5 games behind the Washington Commanders, who hold down the seventh and final playoff spot in the conference.

Kickoff from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is set for 8:15 p.m. ET. Cincinnati is a 4.5-point favorite in the latest Bengals vs. Cowboys odds, while the over/under for total points scored is 50. The Bengals are -221 money-line favorites (risk $221 to win $100), while the Cowboys are +182 underdogs (risk $100 to win $182).

Before making any Bengals vs. Cowboys picks or NFL 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 an INCREDIBLE 28-10 (+1680) on his last 38 NFL picks involving the Cowboys! Anyone who has followed him is way up.

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

We can tell you he's leaning Over 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 Bengals vs. Cowboys 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 Bengals vs. Cowboys spread hits HARD, all from the expert who is an AMAZING 28-10 on picks involving the Cowboys!