After seven months of suspense, the 2025 NFL season finally kicks off Thursday with the Cowboys heading to Philadelphia to take on the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles . With it comes the chance to bet on real NFL football games for the first time since that Super Bowl after a long offseason dissecting win totals and other futures odds.

Ten years ago, I finished in the top 50 of the Las Vegas SuperContest, at the time the biggest NFL spread competition in the world with more than 1,700 participants. Two years later, I finished 18th out of 2,748 competitors in the same contest. While I haven't cashed in a Vegas contest since, my spread picks at SportsLine have hit at a 53.5% rate since 2017 even though I make them at a much higher volume than most experts, with more than 170 pi

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