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Thursday’s Best NFL, MLB & College Football Bets (9/28)

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No matter your sport of choice, there’s always sports betting action to be had. We’ll have you covered each and every day with our daily best bets. Here are all of our best bets across each major sport in action today.

Today’s Best Bets

Here are today’s best bets.

NFL Best Bets

(Odds courtesy of Caesars Sportsbook)

Detroit Lions @ Green Bay Packers

The Lions have beaten the Packers three straight times. While every game was decided by one score, Aaron Rodgers was under center for the Packers in those meetings.

The Packers should get Aaron Jones back this week, and it seems as though Christian Watson is also trending toward playing. While that will be good for Jordan Love and the Packers’ offense, we don’t think these players are good enough to offset the Lions’ advantages.

The Lions are allowing just 72.0 yards rushing per game this season, and they held one of the best rushing attacks in football to 44 yards last week. The Packers are only averaging 308.7 yards of total offense this year. The key to this game will be the Lions taking care of the football. Though Jared Goff has thrown an interception in back-to-back games, we know how good he can be with ball security. If he looks like the Goff who went nearly 400 passes without an interception, the Packers have very little chance of winning this game.

Bet: Detroit Lions -1.0 (-110)

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MLB Best Bets

(Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook)

Texas Rangers @ Seattle Mariners

This is an important final series for both teams. Seattle’s only shot at the playoffs is through the Wild Card, and they need help from other teams. After the Mariners couldn’t lose with Logan Gilbert on the mound, now they can’t win. Seattle has lost four of their last five games with Gilbert starting, including one against the Rangers, after winning nine of the previous 10.

On the other side of that loss against Texas was Jordan Montgomery. The Rangers have been piecing together a rotation all season due to injuries, and Monty has done well since coming over from the Cardinals with a 2.92 ERA in 10 starts.

Texas has controlled this series, winning eight of nine. I like that trend to continue.

Bet: Rangers Moneyline (+102)

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College Football Best Bets

(Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook)

New Mexico @ Wyoming

This is 100% the eye test for me. I’ve seen Wyoming play two games so far this season, and they’ve been very impressive. I watched Wyoming take down Texas Tech in Week 1 of the season, where they showed that the offense was much improved over the 2022 season. I also watched Wyoming play Texas, and they were really good until the fourth quarter, when Texas wore them down and scored three TDs late.

New Mexico has been terrible on defense, ranking below 100 in PPG allowed, 95th in passing YPG and rushing YPG allowed. FCS Tennessee Tech couldn’t do much against the Lobos in Week 2 and only had 280 total yards and just under 100 rushing. But the FBS teams New Mexico has played have averaged just under 170 rushing yards against them. Wyoming will pile up yards with transfer RB Harrison Waylee, who went over 100 in his first two games with the Cowboys.  

New Mexico isn’t as bad on offense as on defense, but Wyoming is a strong defensive team. Unlike the Texas game, where they kept them in check until the fourth quarter, the Texas Tech game was the opposite. They got beat early in the first and held Tech to only 10 points until OT. Last week was a bit of a disaster against App State. Still, even though the Mountaineers had the ball for over 40 minutes, Wyoming held them to four FG attempts, and the only TD App State scored was on defense.  

Wyoming will control the clock, and they play a slow, boring pace at 111th in plays per game. Wyoming is playing at home in the elevation, too. There aren’t many things pointing New Mexico’s way. Give me the Cowboys big in this one!

Bet: Wyoming -14 (-110)

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