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• Multiple sportsbooks suffered a losing day Sunday. "[We] got beat up pretty bad," Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading for William Hill U.S., told ESPN.
"We got beat up," John Murray, executive director of the SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas, told ESPN. "Too much chalk."
Three popular favorites -- the Packers, Chiefs and Buccaneers -- easily covered the spreads and handed sportsbooks their worst losses of the day.
• The betting public's love affair with the Cowboys is getting expensive. Week after week, bettors have backed the Cowboys. At William Hill U.S. books, there has been more money bet on Dallas than their opponent in six of their seven games. On Sunday, 79% of the money bet on the Dallas-Washington game was on the Cowboys.
After losing to Washington 25-3, Dallas is 0-7 against the spread. The Cowboys are only the ninth team in the Super Bowl era to fail to cover the point spread in their first seven games. The 2006 Dolphins were the most recent team to accomplish this feat, and the 2003 Raiders started 0-8 against the spread.
"The public has just kept betting Dallas," Johnny Avello, DraftKings sportsbook director, told ESPN. "But I think that's probably over. They've burned all their money."
• The Jets covered the spread in an 18-10 loss to the Bills. It was the first time the winless Jets have covered this season.
• Sportsbook PointsBet reported taking a pair of $5,000 bets from a bettor on the Bills at the alternate point spreads of -30 (+800) and -29.5 (+600).
• "I get to say something that I haven't been able to say for the first six weeks, we actually won some money on a Jets game," Thomas Gable, sportsbook director at The Borgata sportsbook, wrote in an email on Sunday afternoon. "With [the Jets] winning the first half and the Bills not covering for the game, it was big. And I guess the New Jersey fans liked what they saw in the first half from the Jets and piled on them at +7 for the second half. So we ended up doing really well on that game."
• On Saturday, a bettor at the SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas placed a $100 bet on the Jets to win the Super Bowl at 10,000-1 odds.
• PointsBet described the day's NFL results as a "fairly below average NFL Sunday for book," with the Packers and Buccaneers producing the most costly decisions. "We refunded all bettors who took Cleveland -3.5 or -4 [with free bets], which didn't help our overall trading numbers," Patrick Eichner, communications director for PointsBet, said in an email recapping Sunday.
• The Arizona Cardinals' come-from-behind win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night helped ease the pain for some bookmakers, but the damage had already been done. "[We] needed Texans, Raiders or Broncos and couldn't get any," Murray of the SuperBook said in a text message.
• The Chiefs are around 21.5-point favorites over the Jets next week. If the line holds, the Jets -- who were also 20-point underdogs to the Patriots last season -- will be the first team to be 20-point underdogs in consecutive seasons since 1976-77, the expansion season for the Seahawks and Buccaneers.
• The most heavily bet college football games by state on Saturday at FanDuel sportsbooks:
New Jersey: Alabama-Tennessee
Pennsylvania: Penn State-Indiana
Indiana: Michigan-Minnesota
Illinois: Michigan-Minnesota
West Virginia: West Virginia-Texas Tech
Colorado: Michigan-Minnesota
Iowa: Iowa-Purdue
• Notable opening lines via Circa, the first U.S. sportsbook to post weekly lines:
Ohio State (-8, 62.5) at Penn State
Michigan State at Michigan (-24, 50.5)
Texas at Oklahoma State (-4, 61.5)
Wisconsin (-9, 56.5) at Nebraska
LSU at Auburn (-2, 60.5)
Mississippi State at Alabama (-33, 64.5)
19: The number of states and jurisdictions with functioning legal sports betting markets: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
4: The number of states that have passed sports betting legislation and are prepping to open for business: North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington.
13: The number of states and jurisdictions with online sports betting: Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
$2.05 billion: The amount wagered in August with U.S. sportsbooks.
4: States that have reported records for amount wagered in September: New Jersey ($748 million), Pennsylvania ($462 million), Colorado ($207.6 million) and Indiana ($207 million). The $748 million bet with New Jersey in September is the most for any single month in any state with regulated sports betting.
98.2: The percentage of the total money wagered in Colorado that was bet online.
$5.37 million: The amount wagered on table tennis in September with Colorado sportsbooks. That's more than was bet on college football during the month.
Question No. 2: The sports betting initiative on the Maryland ballot. A "yes" vote authorizes sports and events wagering at certain licensed facilities, with state revenue intended to fund public education.
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NFL
• A Las Vegas bettor placed 23 NFL bets, totaling $2.56 million, with BetMGM on Sunday afternoon games. According to sportsbook representatives, the bettor won a net $2.3 million. Stoneback described the unnamed bettor as "an established player who's played with us for years." "He had a very good day," Stoneback added.• Multiple sportsbooks suffered a losing day Sunday. "[We] got beat up pretty bad," Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading for William Hill U.S., told ESPN.
"We got beat up," John Murray, executive director of the SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas, told ESPN. "Too much chalk."
Three popular favorites -- the Packers, Chiefs and Buccaneers -- easily covered the spreads and handed sportsbooks their worst losses of the day.
• The betting public's love affair with the Cowboys is getting expensive. Week after week, bettors have backed the Cowboys. At William Hill U.S. books, there has been more money bet on Dallas than their opponent in six of their seven games. On Sunday, 79% of the money bet on the Dallas-Washington game was on the Cowboys.
After losing to Washington 25-3, Dallas is 0-7 against the spread. The Cowboys are only the ninth team in the Super Bowl era to fail to cover the point spread in their first seven games. The 2006 Dolphins were the most recent team to accomplish this feat, and the 2003 Raiders started 0-8 against the spread.
"The public has just kept betting Dallas," Johnny Avello, DraftKings sportsbook director, told ESPN. "But I think that's probably over. They've burned all their money."
• The Jets covered the spread in an 18-10 loss to the Bills. It was the first time the winless Jets have covered this season.
• Sportsbook PointsBet reported taking a pair of $5,000 bets from a bettor on the Bills at the alternate point spreads of -30 (+800) and -29.5 (+600).
• "I get to say something that I haven't been able to say for the first six weeks, we actually won some money on a Jets game," Thomas Gable, sportsbook director at The Borgata sportsbook, wrote in an email on Sunday afternoon. "With [the Jets] winning the first half and the Bills not covering for the game, it was big. And I guess the New Jersey fans liked what they saw in the first half from the Jets and piled on them at +7 for the second half. So we ended up doing really well on that game."
• On Saturday, a bettor at the SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas placed a $100 bet on the Jets to win the Super Bowl at 10,000-1 odds.
• PointsBet described the day's NFL results as a "fairly below average NFL Sunday for book," with the Packers and Buccaneers producing the most costly decisions. "We refunded all bettors who took Cleveland -3.5 or -4 [with free bets], which didn't help our overall trading numbers," Patrick Eichner, communications director for PointsBet, said in an email recapping Sunday.
• The Arizona Cardinals' come-from-behind win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night helped ease the pain for some bookmakers, but the damage had already been done. "[We] needed Texans, Raiders or Broncos and couldn't get any," Murray of the SuperBook said in a text message.
• The Chiefs are around 21.5-point favorites over the Jets next week. If the line holds, the Jets -- who were also 20-point underdogs to the Patriots last season -- will be the first team to be 20-point underdogs in consecutive seasons since 1976-77, the expansion season for the Seahawks and Buccaneers.
College football
• Clemson was listed as a -100,000 favorite to beat Syracuse straight up at FanDuel, one of the few U.S. sportsbooks to offer money-line odds on that game. According to a sportsbook representative, a bettor placed an $8,600 money-line bet on Clemson and won a net $8.60 when the Tigers defeated Syracuse 47-21.• The most heavily bet college football games by state on Saturday at FanDuel sportsbooks:
New Jersey: Alabama-Tennessee
Pennsylvania: Penn State-Indiana
Indiana: Michigan-Minnesota
Illinois: Michigan-Minnesota
West Virginia: West Virginia-Texas Tech
Colorado: Michigan-Minnesota
Iowa: Iowa-Purdue
• Notable opening lines via Circa, the first U.S. sportsbook to post weekly lines:
Ohio State (-8, 62.5) at Penn State
Michigan State at Michigan (-24, 50.5)
Texas at Oklahoma State (-4, 61.5)
Wisconsin (-9, 56.5) at Nebraska
LSU at Auburn (-2, 60.5)
Mississippi State at Alabama (-33, 64.5)
Odds and ends
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 would have turned 28 on Wednesday. The federal statute, which restricted regulated sports betting primarily to Nevada, was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 14, 2018. Here are some numbers from what has transpired since the landmark ruling:19: The number of states and jurisdictions with functioning legal sports betting markets: Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
4: The number of states that have passed sports betting legislation and are prepping to open for business: North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington.
13: The number of states and jurisdictions with online sports betting: Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
$2.05 billion: The amount wagered in August with U.S. sportsbooks.
4: States that have reported records for amount wagered in September: New Jersey ($748 million), Pennsylvania ($462 million), Colorado ($207.6 million) and Indiana ($207 million). The $748 million bet with New Jersey in September is the most for any single month in any state with regulated sports betting.
98.2: The percentage of the total money wagered in Colorado that was bet online.
$5.37 million: The amount wagered on table tennis in September with Colorado sportsbooks. That's more than was bet on college football during the month.
Question No. 2: The sports betting initiative on the Maryland ballot. A "yes" vote authorizes sports and events wagering at certain licensed facilities, with state revenue intended to fund public education.
Todd Gurley mistake, missed PAT produce big swings at sportsbooks
Todd Gurley's unintentional touchdown and Cody Parkey's missed extra point led to millions of dollars changing hands on Sunday.
