We've finally made it through the doldrums of sporting boredom and the National Football League has already kicked off its 2024 season. And like I've been doing for several years now, I'll be giving out the best bets to put your money on each week of the NFL season so that you can profit whether or not your favorite team finds success this year. I'll be honest. I'm coming off a somewhat mediocre betting year last season. But I still finished with a winning record of over 53 percent. And the better news is that my Locks of the Week finished the 2023-24 season with a 12-6 record. So get strapped in and set reminders to check BSSR's betting articles each week, because I'm ready to go on the biggest heater of my sports gambling career through all of 2024.
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Week 1 of the college football season was pretty eventful in the SEC. The bulk of teams playing non-Power 4 teams absolutely dominated, while several of the squads facing tougher opponents did not perform well. Removing South Carolina from the equation, who barely held on to survive against Old Dominion, the other nine SEC teams playing non-Power 4 opponents won by a combined score of 541-13. Pretty impressive even considering the talent mismatches.
The 2024 SEC football season is finally here, as two games featuring SEC schools kick off tonight. And along with it, we're thrilled to launch the 5th Annual Bucket Squad Sports Reports SEC Betting Challenge. Like we've done for each of the last four seasons, our five college football experts will compete to see who can most accurately predict the results for every SEC game of the year. And this time, we also have one extra special announcement that will be discussed soon.
It's nearly time for the most anticipated football game of the year. Made even more popular than it already was with the addition of the Swiftie army into the mix. While there has been some disdain for the matchup we got this season, I'm in the seemingly unpopular camp who is excited for what should be a really good matchup featuring the two most deserving teams this postseason. I know a lot of people are already sick of seeing Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the big game, and to that I say: get used to it. There is also the contingency that thinks Brock Purdy is a fraud and has been carried by San Francisco's abundance of offensive talent, and to that I say: there might be some truth to that. 
If you took my betting advice for the Divisional round last weekend, I apologize. I went an unprecedented 0-4 on the week, as nothing went right for the bets I gave out. It was just one of those Murphy's Law weekends where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. But I'm a firm believer in another law: the law of averages. And that means we're basically guaranteed to go undefeated in our picks across the two conference championship matchups on Sunday. So let me go ahead and give you your ticket to financial success in the penultimate weekend of the NFL season. Baltimore Ravens -3.5 vs. Kansas City Chiefs AND Under 44.5
Round 1 of the 2024 NFL playoffs is complete. And if your favorite team is still standing... must be nice. Despite an abnormally high amount of blowouts in Wild Card weekend, there was still a lot to discuss about each game. And that's what I did in an article I wrote earlier this week that you can read HERE. I went 2-2 last week, with one of my losses being a bad beat with the over in the Rams/Lions game. Those two teams scored 38 points in the first half and couldn't manage just 14 more in the second half. It definitely put a bit of a damper on my Sunday evening, but I bounced back Monday night with a win on the under for the Bucs/Eagles matchup. But today, my only goal is to look to the future and give out a bet in each of the four Divisional games this weekend that are sure to make you money. And there's no need to delay that. So here are my four favorite plays of the Divisional round. Houston Texans +9.5 at Baltimore Ravens
Playoff football is here and after a ho-hum 3-3 betting record in the final week of the regular season, I'm excited to try to get back on the winning side of things in the first round of the postseason. ​ Before we get into my favorite picks for the opening round of the playoffs, I wanted to give a brief recap of my betting performance for the 2023 regular season. 
For the most part, when I was right on New Year's weekend, I was very right. But on the bets I missed, I completely whiffed. It was nearly a wash of a week betting wise but we did manage to barely come out on top with the Lock of the Week cashing by half a point in Sunday night's contest. That brings our season record to a healthy 61-53-3. We have one more week to push for a higher win percentage before the playoffs begin, as well as one final Lock of the Week to attempt to secure a .750 win percentage for its season.
Christmas weekend was exactly what we needed to right the ship after a horrendously unlucky betting performance the week before. Our 5-2 run brings us to 57-50-3 on the season. Not bad, but I'd like for it to be better. And that's why I'm giving out seven winners in this penultimate week of regular season football. As a side note, the Lock of the Week has experienced a bit of a skid and now sits at 10-6 on the season. If we can hit these last two weeks, then a .750 win percentage for the Weekly Lock will be quite an achievement.
Last week was an utter disaster for my picks I gave out. But while I'm willing to take responsibility for any bad advice I produce, I have to admit that there was a lot of bad luck involved in my 1-6 performance on Sunday. |