The Dallas Cowboys will open the 2025 NFL season with a Thursday night game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, the team that won the NFC East and the Super Bowl. It doesn’t get harder than that. This game follows a tumultuous week in which the Cowboys traded their most talented player, Micah Parsons. It is also Brian Schottenheimer’s first game as a head coach, not just of the Cowboys, but his first as a head coach ever in the NFL. There’s a lot going on.
Anyway, the oddsmakers have not taken a positive view of the Cowboys this season. They don’t really see them as a playoff team, and their win total odds are among the lowest in the NFL right now. So as you might expect, they won’t be favored in this first game of the season.
As of the time of this article being written, the Cowboys are 8.5-point underdogs to the Eagles according to FanDuel. That’s a pretty large spread in the NFL. And for this weekend, it is the biggest. My colleague RJ Ochoa dug this up.
For a while FanDuel Sportsbook had the Cowboys listed as 6.5-point underdogs, but in the aftermath of the Micah Parsons trade that jumped to 7.5 points.
As of Tuesday morning FanDuel officially had the Cowboys as the biggest underdog across all Week 1 games.
- Dallas Cowboys (+8.5) at Philadelphia Eagles
- Tennessee Titans (+7.5) at Denver Broncos
- New Orleans Saints (+6.5) vs. Arizona Cardinals
- New York Giants (+6.5) at Washington Commanders
- Cleveland Browns (+5.5) vs. Cincinnati Bengals
What’s your call BTB? Would you take the Cowboys and 8.5 points?
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