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    NFL Wild-Card Weekend odds, spreads: Colts lone team to be favored every regular-season game but getting 6.5 points at Bills

    The Colts will be something on Wild-Card Weekend they haven't been all season: Underdogs.
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    One might think that the Kansas City Chiefs or Green Bay Packers were the lone teams to be favored in every regular-season game in the just-completed campaign as they are the two top seeds in the NFL playoffs. However, the lone team to be favored in every game was the Indianapolis Colts, who only got into the playoffs because the Miami Dolphins lost on Sunday in Buffalo. It's Buffalo where Indianapolis is heading Saturday for Wild-Card Weekend, and the Colts have opened as 6.5-point underdogs on the William Hill Sportsbook NFL odds for that one.

    CBS has the Colts-Bills coverage at 1:05 p.m. ET, and there will be around 6,200 fans allowed to attend. Those tickets sold out immediately. Fans will be required to wear masks, and their seats will be distanced around the stadium.

    Indianapolis (11-5) earned the AFC's seventh seed with Sunday's 28-14 home win over terrible Jacksonville in what may have been the final regular-season game in the career of Colts QB and future Hall of Famer Philip Rivers. He didn't have to do much vs. the Jaguars because rookie tailback Jonathan Taylor blew up for a franchise-record 253 yards rushing and two scores on 30 carries.

    Rivers did have a TD throw and passed Dan Marino for fifth on the all-time TD passing list. Rivers has 421 and only Tom Brady (581), Drew Brees (571), Peyton Manning (539) and Brett Favre (508) have thrown for more touchdowns. All those guys won at least one Super Bowl -- Rivers has never played in one. After 16 years with the Chargers, the 39-year-old Rivers signed a one-year deal with the Colts this offseason. He has said he will either play for Indianapolis next season or retire. 

    With Baltimore and Cleveland also both winning and finishing 11-5 on Sunday, the Colts would have missed the playoffs had Miami won in Buffalo, but the second-seeded Bills trashed the Dolphins 56-26 to win a sixth straight game. The Bills are the first team to enter the playoffs winning six straight games all by double digits since the 2014 Seahawks. That Seattle team lost in the Super Bowl (but shouldn't have) to New England.

    Saturday will be Buffalo's first time hosting a playoff game since a 30-27 loss to Jacksonville in the Wild-Card Round on Dec. 28, 1996. That was the final game in the career of Bills QB and Hall of Famer Jim Kelly. The early forecast for Buffalo on Saturday calls for a high of 29 but only a 10 percent chance of precipitation.

    The lone club with an unbeaten record against fellow playoff teams this season was Kansas City at 4-0. Chicago had the worst record among teams in the postseason against playoff teams at 1-6.

    William Hill Sportsbook Opening Wild-Card Round NFL odds

    • Saturday: Colts at Bills (-6.5)
    • Saturday: Rams at Seahawks (-4.5)
    • Saturday: Bucs at Washington (+7.5)
    • Sunday: Ravens at Titans (+3.5)
    • Sunday: Bears at Saints (-9.5)
    • Sunday: Browns at Steelers (-3.5)

    Who wins every NFL game this week? And which teams cover more than 50 percent of the time? Get picks here from the SportsLine Projection Model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times and ranked in the Top 10 on NFLPickWatch three of the past four years on straight-up NFL picks.

    SportsLine Staff

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