NFL Upset Weekend Ends With ... Wait For It ... Another Upset

September 17, 2024 by CollegeFootballPoll.com Staff

Las Vegas bookmakers in Week 2 were 7-9 outright, and 4-11-1 against the spread. So it's not too shabby that the NFL Congrove Computer Rankings at CollegeFootballPoll.com were 6-10 on the moneyline as they, more importantly, were 8-8 against the spread.

The weekend began with 2.5-point home favorite Miami getting rolled 31-10 by Buffalo.

On Saturday, there were ten early afternoon kickoffs and upset results dominated the scoreboard with 6 outright upsets and a 2-7-1 ATS record for "Vegas".

After the Eagles frittered away a win at home over Atlanta to finish week two on Monday night, it was fairly easy to count the favorites who actually won games. You had the LA Chargers at the woeful Carolina Panthers, the Houston Texans at home over rookie QB Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears, the Kansas City Chiefs over the visiting Cincinnati Bengals, the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Denver Broncos, the Seattle Seahawks in overtime at the New England Patriots, the Washington Commanders over the New York Giants, and the New York Jets at the Tennessee Titans.

Miami fans not only witnessed their team getting thumped, but also saw Tua Tagovailoa leave the game with another concussion.

New York Jets fans got to rejoice in an Aaron Rodgers-led victory, 18 regular season games after they thought they would start witnessing such results as commonplace.

Dallas fans got to scratch their heads, stomp their feet and point their hands to the heavens, wondering why, oh why do we look like we suck. A 44-19 home loss will do that to you when you're a Cowboys fan, no matter who the opponent. In this case, it was the New Orleans Saints who put that whoopin' on Dallas, a week after understandably drubbing Carolina in New Orleans by a not-much-worse score of 47-10.

After a 41-10 loss at Arizona, Ram fans would be feeling just as terrible as Cowboy fans - if they weren't so laid back.

And San Francisco? Falling 23-17 at Minnesota? With Sam Darnold at QB? And the Vikings are one of just four teams in the NFC that are 2-0?

We need a show of hands on this one. How many of you truly thought Jim Harbaugh would be 2-0 and his brother John would be 0-2? I know I had it going the other way.

After all the confusing weekend carnage, the NFL Team Rankings underwent a dramatic reshuffling with the New Orleans Saints now at No. 1. How can they not be? They're followed by the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills.

Week three of the NFL season gets underway on Thursday night with the Patriots at the Jets (-6.5) on Prime, and wraps up with a pair of games at nearly simultaneous times on Monday with the Jaguars at the Bills, and the Commanders at the Bengals.

On Sunday, the Eagles at the Saints lead the early kickoff slate, while the Lions at the Cardinals look like the best game out of the later afternoon starts. Sunday night sees the Falcons back on prime time as they host the Chiefs.

Get the odds and computer picks of all 16 games on this week's NFL agenda.