Chiefs open as monster favorites over Jets in Week 8
The Kansas City Chiefs (6-1) are favored by a landslide over the New York Jets (0-7) in Week 8.
BetMGM’s betting lines for Week 8 have dropped and they have the Chiefs favored heavily. What can you truly expect when you have the reigning Super Bowl champions going against a winless team at their home stadium?
At BetMGM, the Chiefs are currently listed as 20-point favorites over the Jets. The current money line is at -3334 for Kansas City and +1300 for New York. The over/under point total is set at 48.5 points. The Chiefs have an implied win probability of 96.15% in this matchup.
As far as betting goes, the point spread in this game is quite rare. It doesn’t quite rival the largest point spread in NFL history, which was the Broncos favored by 26.5 points over the Jaguars back in 2013. It is actually the most that Kansas City has been favored by in the Super Bowl era. This surpasses the 16-point spread they were part of back in 2018, when the Chiefs were favored to beat the Arizona Cardinals. K.C. won that game, but it was one of the few games that season where they didn’t cover the spread. Perhaps that’s a sign of how to handle your bets heading into this game.
This Chiefs team will continue to get everyone’s best shot and that includes a winless Jets team. Nothing could turn around their fortunes more than defeating the reigning champs, it might even buy Adam Gase a few extra weeks in charge. Kansas City will likely rely on a massive helping of a vengeful Le’Veon Bell in Week 8 as he faces his former team.
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