The SportsLine Projection Model simulates the entire NFL season 10,000 times. That's helped it become an authority on the Survivor Pool format, which calls for picking one team to win each week, but never picking the same team twice. 

It's not how much you win by in a Survivor Pool. It's simply about picking a winner and moving on -- and sometimes saving a bigger favorite for a future week.

This model, which is up over $7,000 for $100 players on its top-rated NFL picks since its inception, ranked inside the Top 10 on NFLPickWatch.com for the third straight year on straight-up NFL picks and beat over 96 percent of CBS Sports office pool players last season. Anyone who has followed it is WAY UP.

The model took the Eagles and Ravens in Survivor Pools the first two weeks, and now it's revealing the optimal Survivor Pool pick for NFL Week 3.

We can tell you it's not going with the Vikings, even though they're 8-point favorites over the Raiders. Minnesota wins in 72 percent of simulations, but the model's data says you should wait to take the Vikings. 

There's a better team worth backing in Week 3, a team that should cruise this week before its schedule turns murderous. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any survivor picks.

So which team is a must-back in your Week 3 survivor pool? ... Join SportsLine right now to see the optimal Survivor Pool pick for Week 3, all from the computer model that has ranked in the top 10 in straight-up picks three years running!