NFL Week 2 Betting Odds, Media Stocks To Watch: Will Josh Allen Stay Perfect On Thursdays? Can Viewership Continue To Climb?

Author: Chris Katje | September 12, 2024 03:10pm

The 2024 National Football League season continues with a second week featuring three primetime games and all 32 teams in action, including the Kansas City Chiefs, who are hoping to become the first NFL team to win three straight Super Bowls.

Here's a look at the betting odds and media companies that could benefit in the second week of the 2024 NFL season.

Week 2 Betting Odds: The Chiefs remain the betting favorite to win Super Bowl LIX as the top NFL team for the season after an impressive opening week win over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Here are the week 2 matchups and the betting odds from sportsbook DraftKings Inc (NASDAQ:DKNG) with the teams records in parentheses.

• Buffalo Bills (1-0) at Miami Dolphins (1-0) -2.5
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-0) at Detroit Lions (1-0) -7.5
• Las Vegas Raiders (0-1) at Baltimore Ravens (1-0) -8.5
• San Francisco 49ers (1-0) -5 at Minnesota Vikings (1-0)
• Los Angeles Chargers (1-0) -6 at Carolina Panthers (0-1)
• New Orleans Saints (1-0) at Dallas Cowboys (1-0) -6
• Indianapolis Colts (1-0) -2.5 at Green Bay Packers (1-0)
• New York Jets (0-1) -4 at Tennessee Titans (0-1)
• Cleveland Browns (0-1) at Jacksonville Jaguars (0-1) -3
• New York Giants (0-1) at Washington Commanders (0-1) -2
• Seattle Seahawks (1-0) -3.5 at New England Patriots (1-0)
• Los Angeles Rams (0-1) at Arizona Cardinals (0-1) -1.5
• Cincinnati Bengals (0-1) at Kansas City Chiefs (1-0) -5
• Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0) -2.5 at Denver Broncos (0-1)
• Chicago Bears (1-0) at Houston Texans (1-0) -6.5
• Atlanta Falcons (0-1) at Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) -6.5

A quick look at the betting odds shows that sportsbooks are giving away teams more love this week, with six away teams favored. This compares to Week 1 where only two away teams were favored, and five away teams ended up winning.

The second week also features four matchups between teams that failed to win their opening games, with each team fighting to avoid an early 0-2 start to the season.

At DraftKings, these are the top five teams getting the most action against the spread, according to sports betting writer Ben Fawkes:

• Chargers -6.5%, 90%
• Eagles -6.5, 87%
• Commanders -1.5, 86%
• Ravens -9, 84%
• 49ers -6, 83%

In week 1 several of the most bet on teams lost against the spread with top favorite the Bengals -8.5 losing outright. BetMGM's John Ewing said teams with 50% or more bets on them went 6-10 against the spread in week 1.

For Thursday night's opening game featuring the Bills and Dolphins, Ewing said Bills quarterback Josh Allen is 6-0 overall and 4-2 against the spread in Thursday games.

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Media Stocks on Watch: NFL viewership was up 12% year-over-year in the first week of the season, as reported by FrontOfficeSports.

A rare Friday game between the Packers and Eagles was watched by 14 million people, with the game being exclusive on the Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Peacock streaming platform.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) recorded 20.4 million viewers for the first Monday Night Football game, which was down 10% from last year's record-setting debut, but was the second most-watched Week 1 Monday Night Football game since 2006.

Here are the national primetime television games for the second week of the NFL season:

• Thursday, Sept. 12, 8:15 p.m. ET: Bills, Dolphins on Prime Video, a unit of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)
• Sunday, Sept. 15, 8:20 p.m. ET: Bears, Texans on NBC, Peacock
• Monday, Sept. 16, 8:15 p.m. ET: Falcons, Eagles on ESPN

Of the six teams featured in the primetime games, five won their first week game, setting up some highly anticipated week 2 matchups.

The Sunday 1 p.m. ET and 4 p.m. ET games will be broadcast by Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA)(NASDAQ:PARAA) unit CBS and Fox Corporation (NASDAQ:FOX)(NASDAQ:FOXA) unit FOX.

Coverage will vary by location. In Week 1, CBS and Fox games averaged 18.4 million viewers per game—the highest opening-week Sunday afternoon figure since 2016 and a 21% increase over last year’s opening week.

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