The Green Bay Packers will start the 2016 NFL season as prohibitive -153 favorites with BetAnySports to win their division. This has actually been the case the past several seasons but last year following a 6-0 start, they stumbled to a record of 10-6 and a second-place finish in the NFC North behind Minnesota. The Packers are not only heavy favorites to win the NFC North this year, they are +455 second-favorites behind Seattle (+445) to win the conference and they have the third-best odds on the NFL futures board at BetAnySports to win Super Bowl LI.
One of the other big story lines in the NFC North this season will be the Vikings. Their odds to repeat as division champs are set at +210 and their projected win total for the 2016 NFL regular season is set at 10 with the current betting moneyline favoring the UNDER at -132. Minnesota's previous winning season before last year's 11-5 campaign was in 2012 when it went 10-6. The following season in 2013 the wheels came off with just five wins on the year. The Vikings also won a NFC North title in 2009 at 12-4 and the following season they finished last at 6-10. As a betting man, I would probably jump on this up and down trend with a play on the UNDER for this year's projected wins.
Detroit and Chicago are basically afterthoughts in this division race and I would have to agree. The Lions dropped to 7-9 last season after a 12-4 record in 2014 led to a wild card spot in the playoffs. Their projected win total this season has been set at 7.5 with the moneyline favoring the UNDER at -153 and I would take that bet. The Bears are in a rebuilding process under second-year coach John Fox and, after going 6-10 in his first season at the helm, the outlook for any dramatic improvement this year does not look all that good with a win total of 7.5 that is also trending towards the UNDER with the betting public at -140 with BetAnySports.
The link below is my complete preview and prediction for the NFC North as part of a series of NFL division outlooks I recently did for SportsBettingStats.com and as a spoiler alert I am going heavy chalk in this title race.
LINK: NFC North Odds
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