NFL Betting Totals Week 1: Thursday Night and Sunday Football Odds

NFL betting total for week 1 will have plenty of potential gems on the week 1 schedule of the regular season starting with Thursday Night’s NBC special with the Minnesota Vikings vs New Orleans Saints. The two teams have gone UNDER the total just once in their last 10 head to head match-ups and will have a high number of 48 to clear at online sportsbooks for their Thursday night game that kicks off at 8:35pm EST and can be seen nationally on NBC. Looking at some early week 1 Sunday games that kickoff at 1:05pm EST, there are plenty of betting handicapping angles in NFL week 1 football odds.

The Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills will meet in a key AFC East Division opener at Rich Stadium with a NFL betting total that opened at 38.5 at sportsbooks. The two teams have had their share of offensive struggles dating back to last season and have gone UNDER the total in 3 out of their last 5 match-ups in Buffalo. The Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears will meet at Soldier Field and have opened with a total of 43 in football odds. It may surprise Black and Blue Division fans to find that the two teams have gone OVER the total in 4 out of their last 5 games in Chicago.

The New England Patriots will host the Cincinnati Bengals in a game loaded with offensive weapons but counterbalanced by solid defenses. The NFL betting total has opened at 45 and the Patriots have gone OVER the total just once in their last 8 games as a home favorite. A big time AFC South match-up on Sunday will be Indianapolis at Houston, where Colts QB Peyton Manning will go up against Matt Schaub of Houston. As one would expect, the two teams have gone OVER the total 5 consecutive times so sportsbooks have this Sunday game total at 47. Also on the board in early Sunday football odds totals will be Carolina at the Giants (41), Atlanta at Pittsburgh (38), Cleveland at Tampa Bay (37), Denver at Jacksonville (39.5) and Oakland at Tennessee (40.5).