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Polymarket and the Sportsbooks Are Already Splitting on NFL Week 1 — Here's Where the Gap Lives
9/12/2026
NFL Week 1 is here, and the markets are already disagreeing. The opening weekend of the 2026 season features some genuinely unusual matchups — a Wednesday night opener, the league's first regular-season game in Australia — and the structural novelty of those games is creating exa…
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