Now, it has turned its attention to the latest Week 1 NFL odds and locked in its Week 1 survivor pool pick. You can only see who the model is backing this week at SportsLine.
The model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past six years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94 percent of CBS Sports Football Pick'em players four times during that span. Anyone who has followed it is way up. Top Week 1 NFL survivor pool predictions For Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season, the model is shying away from the San Francisco 49ers, even though they're coming off a 13-4 season and are favored over a Steelers team that went 9-8 and missed the playoffs. San Francisco's seasons have ended in at least NFC Title Game appearances in three out of the last four years, but its seasons haven't always started out strong. Since Kyle Shanahan became coach in 2017, the team is just 2-4 in Week 1 games. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh has just one Week 1 defeat over that span despite all of those Week 1 games coming on the road.