The Chinese zodiac may say 2021 is the Year of the Ox, but for anyone throwing down some NFL betting action in 2021, they know it’s the Year of the Dog.
NFL underdogs are 77-56-1 ATS heading into Week 10 – a 57.8 percent success rate for those teams getting the points. That record has been helped along by a 20-7-1 ATS run for pointspread pups the past two weeks (73.2%), including a 10-3 ATS mark for dogs in Week 9.
Hell, you’d have to go all the way back to… 2020… to find underdog…results like… that. Huh.
Yep, as impressive as NFL underdogs have been in 2021, last year saw a near identical record of 77-56 ATS (57.9%) for dogs through the opening nine weeks of action. That was the Year of the Rat, by the way.
Ox, Rat, Dog, whatever year it is, my weekly pointspread picks column is grateful for the extra punch from pups. Here are my favorite Week 10 NFL Underdogs picks.