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In the meantime, let's examine where smart money is leaning for today's NFL Wild Card games.
4:30 p.m. ET: Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys (-7, 50.5)
The Packers (9-8) are the 7-seed and won their final three games of the regular season, beating the Bears 17-9 in Week 18 and covering as 3-point home favorites. Meanwhile, the Cowboys (12-5) are the 2-seed are are riding a two-game winning streak, crushing the Commanders 38-10 in the regular season finale and easily covering as 13-point road favorites.
This line opened with the Cowboys listed as a 7-point home favorite. We saw this line creep up to Cowboys -7.5 early in the week. However, once the hook was available we saw sharp buyback on the Packers +7.5, dropping the line back down to Cowboys -7. The public is riding with Dallas, as 60% of bets are laying the points with the Cowboys.
The Packers have contrarian value as they are only receiving 40% of bets in addition to the sharp buyback in their favor. Playoff dogs are 44-30 ATS (59%) since 2017. Wild Card dogs are 21-11 ATS (66%) since 2017. Playoff dogs who missed the postseason the previous year, like the Packers here, are 35-17 ATS (67%) since 2017. The Texans covered in this spot yesterday against the Browns.
We've also seen the total rise from 49.5 to 50.5. Currently 65% of bets and 80% of money is sweating the over, a notable "low bets, higher dollars" bet discrepancy. However, historically we've seen these high totals go under in the postseason. When the total is 47 or more the under is 26-13 (67%) in the postseason since 2018.