72.0% of spread bets are on Los Angeles Chargers -8.5 in Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Chargers — a clear public lean on September 13, 2026.
| Market | Side | Bet % | Money % | Odds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spread | Arizona Cardinals +8.5 | 28% | 26% | -108 |
| Los Angeles Chargers -8.5 | 72% | 74% | -110 | |
| Total | Over 47.5 | 10% | 23% | -115 |
| Under 47.5 | 90% | 77% | -115 | |
| Moneyline | Arizona Cardinals | 4% | 4% | +380 |
| Los Angeles Chargers | 96% | 96% | -260 |
Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Chargers is one of the slate's lopsided public plays. 72.0% of the bet count on the spread market is sitting on Los Angeles Chargers -8.5 — the kind of one-way lean that usually lands on a name-brand team in a primetime window, where the ticket count runs well ahead of the dollars.
The money side isn't arguing: 74.0% of dollars on Los Angeles Chargers -8.5 against 72.0% of tickets, so the bigger bets are leaning the same way as the crowd, if only slightly. That leaves no contrarian signal to read here — just a heavily backed side whose price already reflects it. Books price these games knowing the public is coming — the line builds in the lean — which is why heavy public favorites historically underperform their implied win rate against the spread.
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The spread is the market NFL bettors trade. Moneyline percentages on a big favorite mostly restate the spread lean at a worse price, so we read the spread first and only let the total take over when its split is the more unusual one.
We aggregate publicly reported sportsbook handle on a sub-hourly cadence and store every snapshot from the moment a line is posted, so a game's splits can be read as a series rather than a single reading. This page shows the most recent snapshot before kickoff.
On NFL spreads the median gap between a side's share of tickets and its share of dollars is about 2 points, a quarter of games clear 9, and one in ten clears 22. So a gap in the teens is already a top-quarter event here, where the same number on a college board would be ordinary.
We don't issue picks. This page shows where the tickets and the dollars are landing so you can weigh that against your own read of the game.
Not as a blanket rule, and we don't present it as one. NFL lines are priced knowing which side the public is coming for, so the lean is mostly in the number already. What we track is where the ticket count and the dollars disagree, which is a narrower and more specific thing than fading whoever is popular.
NFL spreads are set by the sharpest market in American sports, so most games split their tickets close to 63/37 and only about a quarter of sides draw 70% or more. When one does, it is usually a name-brand team in a primetime window. The line already knows the public is coming; whether the dollars agree with the tickets is the part that carries information. See our methodology →
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Last updated: September 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM UTC
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