{"id":499879,"date":"2026-01-07T22:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:09:15","slug":"2025-nfl-playoffs-betting-odds-los-angeles-rams-are-largest-road-favorites-in-the-super-bowl-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499879\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL playoffs betting, odds: Los Angeles Rams are largest road favorites in the Super Bowl era"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first game of the 2025 NFL playoffs<\/a> on Saturday afternoon pits the 12-5 Los Angeles Rams \u2014 one of the Super Bowl favorites with potential MVP Matthew Stafford \u2014 against an 8-9 division winner in the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n

Oddsmakers and bettors aren’t convinced the game will be close \u2014 so much so the Rams are now a historic road favorite.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles opened as a 10-point favorite in Carolina at BetMGM<\/a>, and the line has moved to -10.5 (and even up to -11 at some books). If that line holds, it would make the Rams the biggest playoff road favorite in the Super Bowl era, according to Sports Odds History<\/a> \u2014 which goes all the way back to 1966.<\/p>\n

“We opened Rams -10, but it’s been one-sided wagering so far,” Thomas Gable, sportsbook director at The Borgata in Atlantic City, told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday. “All public money on the Rams. We’re up to -10.5 right now, with the total still at 46.5.”<\/p>\n

Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 10-point road favorites at the Washington Commanders in 2021, while the New Orleans Saints were 9.5- or 10-point road favorites at the Seattle Seahawks in 2010 in Marshawn Lynch’s famous “Beast Quake” game. Both underdogs covered, with the Seahawks winning outright 41-36 over Drew Brees’ Saints.<\/p>\n

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In fact, playoff road favorites of at least 4.5 points are 1-6-1 against the spread since 1966 and have gone 4-4 straight up.<\/p>\n

The Rams lost 31-28 at Carolina in Week 13<\/a> as a 10-point favorite this season, a game in which Bryce Young threw three touchdown passes and Stafford had one of his worst games of the year with three interceptions.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles was one of the best teams against the spread this season at 12-5, while the Panthers were 10-7 ATS. All eight games Carolina won were as an underdog, but the Panthers are 8-0 ATS after a loss this season. Carolina lost 16-14<\/a> in Week 18 against the Bucs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first game of the 2025 NFL playoffs on Saturday afternoon pits the 12-5 Los Angeles Rams \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[29360,1582,276,8996,87844,2961,224,9006,5337,112527,56082,9004,7149,21686,3528,224350,1263,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-499879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-bryce-young","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-drew-brees","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-rams","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-marshawn-lynch","18":"tag-matthew-stafford","19":"tag-new-orleans-saints","20":"tag-seattle-seahawks","21":"tag-super-bowl","22":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","23":"tag-thomas-gable","24":"tag-tom-brady","25":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115856104744893121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}