For the fan new to NFL betting, understanding each team’s schedule can be the difference between lots of successful wagers, and only getting your feet wet. One of the trickier concepts in the football schedule to strategize for is the success rate of the road team. A general rule of thumb is that every team plays at least two of their road games back to back. As a result when betting on NFL teams, one should always consider that the odds of the road team winning both games are rather slim.

We have found that the decent teams tend to win one out of the two games on their mini road trips, usually the second of the two games. The first game, the odds of the road team winning are usually lower and would read like this:

Panthers
Packers - 10
Outcome of Game 1: Panthers 10 Packers 24
The Packers who are known as one of the perennial powerhouses in the NFC are favored over the Panthers by 10.

Panthers
Vikings - 7
Outcome: Panthers 14 Vikings 10

In the second game of the back to back for the Panthers, the point spread tends to go down, because the bookie believes the Panthers as the road team will have a little more push in the second leg of a back to back. Now although in this example they did win, this is not always the case as losing both is just as likely as winning both games.

As well aside from the back to back away games scenario, another time where you should bet on the road team is when that team is going into a bye week. We have found that every time a road team goes into a bye week or comes out of one, they tend to give a stronger effort.