The Houston Texans win over the Los Angeles Chargers last weekend was the first game of this year’s postseason with a home underdog. The second game could be Sunday’s divisional-round game between the Baltimore Ravens and Buffalo Bills.
Since the 2003-04 NFL season, there have been 32 home underdogs. That includes the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV, but not the Los Angeles Rams in this year’s wild-card game in Arizona.
While home underdogs are common in the postseason — an average of 1.5 per year — they aren’t common beyond the wild-card round. It’s happened only nine times over that period.
As of Tuesday’s NFL odds at BetMGM, the Bills are a 1-point home underdog. And if they cover, it’ll be a continuation of recent dominance by home dogs. The Texans’ cover was the 10th in the last 12 opportunities for those teams, which dates back to the Seattle Seahawks wild-card win over the Minnesota Vikings in January 2016.
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