The New England Patriots (7–1) return from their bye week as the only one-loss team in the AFC and one of two in the NFL overall. Tom Brady and company are listed as 7.5-point home favorites at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com for their Sunday night matchup this week against the Seattle Seahawks (5–2–1).
The Seahawks have enjoyed some road success versus the Patriots, going 4–1 straight up and against the spread in the past five road meetings. However, only one of those games was played at Gillette Stadium, which opened in 2002. New England won that matchup 30–20 as three-point chalk in 2004 and earned a 28-24 victory in Super Bowl XLIX the last time the teams met on February 1, 2015.