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Ravens vs. Giants Has Biggest Betting Line Of 2024 NFL Season

Originally posted on The Spun | By Matt Hladik | Last updated Dec 11, 2024 5:09 PM ET

There are several marquee matchups in the NFL in Week 15. Ravens-Giants is not one of them.

The game still has meaning for Baltimore, which is 8-5 and battling to catch the 10-3 Pittsburgh Steelers atop the AFC South. However, the Giants are 2-11 and are on an eight-game losing streak. If Big Blue is not the worst team in the NFL this season, they certainly have an argument.

Not surprisingly, the spread in this game is sizable, the biggest of the season in fact. Currently, the Ravens are 16.5-point favorites, up a couple of points from where the line was this morning, before the Giants announced that Drew Lock would miss the game with an injury and Tommy DeVito would get the start at quarterback.

Neither player is a particularly good option at this point, but the oddsmakers obviously feel that Lock is more likely to keep the game closer. As Pro Football Talk points out, the last time an NFL team was an underdog by more than 16 points was the Giants against the Dallas Cowboys last season, in a game that DeVito also started.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 11: Tommy DeVito #15 of the New York Giants throws a pass as he warms up prior to an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers at MetLife Stadium on December 11, 2023 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images)Michael Owens/Getty Images

Dallas, favored by 17.5 points, easily covered, winning 49-17. At least the Giants are still far behind the largest point spread in NFL history, the 28-point gap between the Denver Broncos and Jacksonville Jaguars in 2013.

Denver won that game easily, but the Jaguars did cover, losing 35-19. Last week, we saw the 13.5-point underdog Carolina Panthers almost beat the Philadelphia Eagles, but earlier this season, a Jacksonville team facing the same spread was blown out 52-6 by the Detroit Lions.

Funnily enough, the Giants are one of only two NFC teams to beat Lamar Jackson since he's been Baltimore's starting quarterback, the other being the Philadelphia Eagles two weeks ago. New York upset Jackson and the Ravens at MetLife Stadium in 2022.

It would take a miracle for them to duplicate that feat this weekend. Expect lots of Baltimore rans in East Rutherford to watch their team secure what should be an easy victory.

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