Each week of the season, right through until the Super Bowl itself, here at Pickswise our expert handicappers put in the work so you don’t have to.

The margins are fine in the NFL and even though there are no more than 16 games a week, it’s still a tall task putting in the required amount of research ahead of the NFL betting this week. With a fewer number of games, each game is of huge importance. The NFL, even with an extended 18 week season, is over in a flash and much shorter in comparison to other major sports such as the NBA, MLB, and NHL. For more on the more exotic ways to bet on the NFL, check out our NFL Prop Bets and NFL Parlays pages. The money line is betting on the outright winner, the Point Spread is for a team to either cover the spread, with the favorite conceding points and the underdogs gaining points, or the points totals where you are betting on whether the match will hit over or under a set number of points. The main three ways people will bet on an NFL game, however, are the Moneyline, Point Spread, and Points Totals.

Each NFL match will have hundreds of different markets in which you can wager on, from betting on the winner of the game, to the point spread, or a whole host of Player Prop Bets such as touchdown scorers, the possibilities when betting an NFL game are near limitless. NFL is by some way the most popular sport to bet on across the US, and with the relative recency to sports betting, many people are left wondering how to bet on the NFL and the different ways in which you can.

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