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We’ve made it to NFL Championship Weekend. In a matter of hours, we will know who will be representing their respective conferences in Super Bowl 57 after the AFC and NFC Championship Games.
In the NFC, the top-seeded Philadelphia Eagles will play host to the San Francisco 49ers at Lincoln Financial Field.
In the AFC, Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals will travel to Arrowhead Stadium for another championship showdown with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. When you look at the betting lines, the AFC Championship has had one of the most volatile betting lines throughout the week.
The fine folks at BetOnline.ag have been tracking the movement for the betting lines leading up to the conference championships and it really highlights how Mahomes’ ankle injury impacted the odds.
How have the lines moved throughout the week?
A full look at the movement for the AFC and NFC Championship betting lines can be seen below, via BetOnline.ag.
2023 AFC & NFC Championship Betting Lines
SF @ PHI Line Movements
Sunday:
- Opens PHI -3.5
- Moves to -3 in Minutes
- Minutes later -2.5
- Minutes later -2
- An hour later later -2.5
Tuesday Afternoon:
- Moves to -3 for 10 Minutes then back to -2.5.
- Hasn’t moved since
CIN @ KC Line Movements
Sunday: (probably the most volatile opening line movement in the site’s existence)
- Opens KC -2
- Moves to KC -2.5
- Immediately then to -3 a minute later
- Then back to -2.5 a minute later
- Then -2 a few minutes later
- Then -1.5 few minutes later
- Then -1 a minute later
- Moved to a pick’em a minute later
- KC back to -1 a minute later
- KC -1.5 another minute later
- KC -1 another minute later
- Then back to a pick’em five minutes later
- CIN goes -1 about 36 minutes later
- KC back to -1 almost immediately
- KC -1.5 four minutes later
- KC back to -1 three hours later
Monday:
- KC back to a pick’em (10:21Am EST)
- CIN -1 later in afternoon
- CIN -1.5 an hour or so later
Tuesday:
- CIN -2 (8:51 am EST)
- CIN -2.5 early afternoon
- CIN -2 later afternoon
- CIN -1.5 three minutes later
- CIN -1 two hours later
Wednesday:
- KC -1 (4:00pm) EST
Thursday:
- KC -1.5 (1:20PM) EST
- Hasn’t moved since