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The over/under total at sportsbooks for one of this weekend's wild-card games dropped dramatically earlier this week. The reason? The weather.
On Sunday, the Buffalo Bills, no strangers to frigid conditions, are set to host the Pittsburgh Steelers in what could be 40 mph winds. Sports bettors and bookmakers took notice. The consensus opening odds for the total points scored fell rapidly from Sunday to Monday, with the over/under in the Bills game quickly falling from as high as 43 to as low as 35.5.
"Once the news comes out that there's horrible weather, [the under] just gets pounded relentlessly," Adam Pullen, assistant director of trading for Caesars Sportsbook, said.