NFL Betting Guide for 2020

The NFL, and football in general, unites fans, players and communities with a simple yet powerful bond. People pour their hearts, soul and even money into the game.

It takes 17 weeks to get to the best weekend of NFL football, the Super Bowl (aka America’s most popular sports betting event of the year). Here’s what you need to know about the NFL:

• There are 32 NFL teams. Matches feature two teams at a time and the teams with the most points after four 15-minute quarters win.

• The NFL is split geographically into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

• Each conference is separated into 4 divisions (8 all together) which consist of 4 teams, North, South, East and West.

• The NFL’s regular season runs from September to January. Teams play a total of 16 games with one bye-week so the season stretches 17 weeks.

• Teams in the same conference will play each other twice. Once at home and once away (6 games).

• Teams play other teams outside of their conference in a rotation of every 4 years. This makes up 8 games. The last two games are determined by a team’s same finish in their division (ex. 3rd place plays against another 3rd place).

• The division winner with the best record is given the top seed, then the 2nd best record is given the 2nd seed and so on. Wildcard teams are always 5th and 6th.

• The playoff rounds are split across three weekends in January: 1. Wildcard Weekend 2. Divisional Round 3. Conference Championship.

• If a team makes it to the Conference Championship, then the 2 champions from that weekend will move on to the Super Bowl.

• The Super Bowl takes place the first Sunday in February where the 2 best teams in the league will battle it out for the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy.