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Merry Christmas you “filthy animals”! That’s right, Week 17 features three games on Thursday, December 25. In fact, two of these three Christmas Day matchups appear to be presents for all of us good little boys and girls as they will have Playoff implications. All three Christmas games featured divisional rivalries, which adds drama to an already intense week of action. The Dallas Cowboys head to Washington, the Detroit Lions are in Minnesota, and the Thursday Night game features the Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs. However, that’s not all! The Sunday slate features some thrilling matchups as well. None bigger than the main event of the week – Philadelphia Eagles at Buffalo Bills. This could be a Super Bowl

The road to the College Football Championship has officially been paved. The College Football Playoff is through the first round and as the next couple of weeks come along, we will inch closer to what should be an intense title game. Until then, of course, I’ll be handing out some college football underdog picks. The pickings are as slim as they’ve been all year, but there are still CFP games and several bowl games to peruse. I am limiting my college football upsets to just four picks, with the caveat that they are riskier than usual simply since we have fewer games to work with. That said, I think there’s logic to all of my college football underdog picks this

Week 17 not only features Christmas games, but it also brings us one step closer to the NFL Playoffs and the 2026 Super Bowl. It also provides us with a few matchups that NFL bettors find appealing in regards to the Underdogs. In Week 16, we ended up going 3-1 with our underdogs. The Colts not only let their fanbase down by getting eliminated from postseason contention but they also let us down with a three-touchdown defeat. Nobody saw that NFL result coming. However, we looked like geniuses after rolling with the Chargers, Patriots and Bears in their respective matchups last weekend. For the penultimate week of the regular season, the Panthers (+7), Bears (+3), Texans (+2) and Browns (+3.5)

Week 17 is shaping up to be one of the funnest slates of the 2025 NFL season, as key divisional clashes and playoff implications impact how we approach NFL player prop bets. This is also a crucial week for the road to the Super Bowl, as playoff seeding comes into play and several teams are on their last leg as they try to force their way into the playoff conversation. This can make NFL betting a bit complicated, as motivation and playoff scenarios can be tough to gauge, but I tend to lean into the situations that simply make the most sense and exploit them. My NFL picks have been on fire the last few weeks, as I got tripped