The Pittsburgh Steelers are are on a historic streak where they have reached double-digit wins and no losses. With a quick turn around to face the Ravens on Thanksgiving night, the Steelers have the chance to mathematically eliminate their AFC North rivals from the division race. Most importantly, the Steelers need to keep their winning streak going in order to maintain the number one seed in the AFC.
Can the Steelers keep their franchise record streak going of consecutive wins to start a season? Will they be able to hand the Ravens their third straight loss? Can they eliminate the Ravens from AFC North contention?
When it comes to the betting lines for Sunday’s game, the following information is the current consensus spread and over/under for the Steelers this week as reported by oddsshark.com.
Game Info: Week 12
Pittsburgh Steelers vs Baltimore Ravens
Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 8:20 PM
Betting line: -4.5
Over/under: 45
Last Regular Season Meeting: Steelers (W) 28-24 vs Ravens
Win streak: 1 games PIT
Last 3 Meetings: PIT 1 - 2 BAL
Last 10 Meetings: PIT 5 - 5 BAL
The opening line on the game was at +1 when the schedule was released in May. While the Ravens were favored in every game in 2020 before the season started, they have dropped two straight games while the Steelers are the the lone undefeated team left in the NFL.
Being favored on Sunday, the Steelers have a current moneyline on sportsbettingdime.com of -220 to win the game straight up, which is the equivalent of 5/11 odds. So a $20 bet placed on the Steelers over the Ravens would have a payout of $29.09 ($9.09 plus the original $20 bet). The Ravens have a current moneyline of +180, or 9/5 odds. Therefore the same $20 bet placed on Baltimore to win straight up would have a payout of $56 ($36 plus the original $20 bet) .
According to Oddsshark.com, the Steelers are 7-1 against the spread in their last 8 games and are 5-0 straight up the last 5 home games. The Steelers also have gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 games against Baltimore and have gone UNDER in 5 of their lat 7 games played in November.
If looking at the futures bets, the Steelers odds to win the Super Bowl vary from 5/1 to 11/2 and only the Kansas City Chiefs have better odds. The Steelers odds to win the AFC Championship are 13/5 odds. As for winning the AFC North, the Steelers are currently at 1/10 odds and are ahead of Baltimore at 11/2 odds. The Browns are next at 22/1 odds with Cincinnati now eliminated.
SportsBettingDime.com has the odds at https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/nfl/odds/