Whether you’re playing in a straight-up NFL pick’em pool or any other format, knowing when to back an underdog with your NFL office pool picks is key. So far, there hasn’t been a single double-digit underdog to earn an outright win during the 2021 NFL schedule. If you’re not making NFL football pool picks against the spread, it’s a generally successful strategy to fade double-digit underdogs.
Do the Jets, Giants, Dolphins or Texans have any chance as double-digit NFL underdogs this week, and what other potential upsets should be on your radar as you finalize your Week 8 NFL confidence pool picks? Before you make your NFL predictions, you need to see the Week 8 NFL football pool picks from SportsLine’s proven model.
The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up almost $7,700 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception six years ago. It went a sizzling 24-14 on top-rated NFL picks last season, returning more than $800. The model also enters Week 8 of the 2021 season on an incredible 126-85 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season.
More importantly for NFL confidence pool players, the model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past five years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94 percent of CBS Sports office pool players four times during that span. Anyone who has followed it is way up.
Now, the model has simulated the entire Week 8 NFL schedule 10,000 times and generated its optimal NFL pick’em plays. Go to SportsLine to see them.
Top Week 8 NFL office pool predictions
One of the top Week 8 NFL pick’em predictions from the model: The Seahawks cruise past the Jaguars for a comfortable six-point win. With Geno Smith at the helm for an injured Russell Wilson (finger), it was clear that the Seahawks weren’t going to be as dynamic of a passing attack. However, Smith has been able to keep his team in games by taking care of the football.
The Seahawks have only turned the ball over once in two weeks with Smith starting and managed to take two playoff teams from a season ago to the brink. Pittsburgh needed overtime to beat Seattle two weeks ago, while New Orleans needed a field goal in the final two minutes to win 13-10.
Against a Jaguars team that has given up at least 369 yards of total offense in every game this season, Smith should find moving the ball easier on Sunday. In fact, the model predicts he’ll throw for a season-high 257 yards and two touchdowns, with D.K. Metcalf and Tyler Lockett combining for 10 catches, 148 yards and a score. That’s a big reason why the model has the Seahawks winning in well over 60 percent of simulations with a projected final score of 25-19.
How to make Week 8 NFL office pool picks
The model also made the call on every other Week 8 game and has strong picks for potentially close matchups like Cowboys vs. Vikings and Steelers vs. Browns. It’s also calling for multiple underdogs to win outright. You can only see all of the model’s NFL pool picks here.
So who should you pick in every Week 8 NFL game? And which underdogs win outright? Visit SportsLine now to get optimal NFL office pool picks, all from the advanced computer model that has ranked in the Top 10 on straight-up picks four of the last five years and went an outstanding 126-85 on top-ranked picks since 2017.
