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The 2026 NFL season is officially underway, and the Rams and 49ers take to Australia for the first “Thursday Night Football” feature of the year. Los Angeles enters as 3.5-point favorites after the NFC West rivals split their two games last year.

H2 Gambling Capital expects U.S. sportsbooks to draw $31.4 billion in NFL handle this season, with prediction markets siphoning off demand.

Week 1 of the NFL season has a rare double-digit favorite.

One of those pastimes is confidence pools. Each week, you select your winner for every game on the slate and assign them a points system. For 16 games, you assign your most confident selection 16 points and your least confident with one point. So if you think a game is a coin toss, it gets fewer points while lopsided matchups get more.

The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up well over $7,000 for $100 players on betting sites on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters the 2026 NFL season on a 53-37 run on top-rated picks dating back to 2024. Anybody following its picks at NFL betting sites could have seen strong returns.