The Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals will finish up Week 17 in the NFL when these two AFC clubs go toe-to-toe on “Monday Night Football” at Paycor Stadium.
This matchup has plenty of playoff implications, particularly with the No. 1 seed in the conference. If Buffalo wins out, they’ll secure home-field throughout the postseason. Even if they lose this matchup, however, they could still earn the No. 1 seed, but would no longer control their own destiny and would need some help. That scenario would open the door for both Cincinnati and Kansas City to possibly leap up. A win by the Bengals would clinch them the AFC North title and ensure that they finish no lower than the No. 2 seed (you can check out all the Week 18 clinching scenarios here).
Here, we’ll specifically be looking at the different betting angles that this game has to offer. Along with the spread and total, we’ll also take a look at several player props and hand in our picks for how we see this showdown unfolding.
All NFL odds via Caesars Sportsbook.
How to watch
Date: Monday, Jan. 2 | Time: 8:30 p.m. ET (slight delay due to Rose Bowl)
Location: Paycor Stadium (Cincinnati)
TV: ESPN | Stream: fuboTV (try for free)
Follow: CBS Sports App
Odds: Bills -1.5 | O/U 49.5
Line movement
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There hasn’t been a ton of movement for this matchup, but it is notable that Buffalo is the road favorite in this battle of AFC heavyweights. They opened as a 1.5-point favorite and that number volleyed between 1-point and 1.5-points leading up to this head-to-head, but Buffalo has never relinquished its status as the favorite.
The pick: Bengals +1.5. While I may concede that Buffalo is a better top to bottom team, I don’t believe they are so overwhelmingly superior to Cincinnati that they should be road favorites here. The Bengals have been the team to be on all season, owning an NFL-best 12-3 ATS record coming into Week 17. They have covered seven straight and feature a quarterback in Joe Burrow who is more…
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