NFL preseason: Pointspread specialist all in on Buccaneers vs. Cowboys

National sportswriter Mike Tierney has covered seven Super Bowls and is coming off a season in which he went 63-46 (58 percent) against the spread.

SportsLine Staff

Teams looking to finish the preseason strong meet when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys meet at 8 p.m. ET Thursday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Dallas is a 5-point favorite, with the Over-Under set at 33.5.

A renowned sportswriter whose work appears in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Tierney has reported from seven Super Bowls. Tierney was all over the Patriots in the 2019 Super Bowl, enabling him to finish the season with a sparkling 63-46 record against the spread. Anyone who has followed him is WAY up.

Now, with the NFL preseason winding down, Tierney has evaluated Buccaneers vs. Cowboys from every angle and locked in his pick. We can tell you he's leaning Over, but he's isolated a critical X-factor that has him going BIG on one side of the spread. You ABSOLUTELY need to see it before locking in any of your own.

Who wins the Buccaneers vs. Cowboys preseason finale? And what critical X-factor makes one side of the spread hit HARD? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the Buccaneers vs. Cowboys spread you should jump on, all from the incomparable expert who went 63-46 on ATS picks last season!