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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! This weekend is all about family, food, and football, so while you think about the first two pieces of that, we’ve got you covered for the third with the ClutchPoints 2025 NFL Week 13 picks, predictions, and odds column.
After several weeks of ho-hum slates, the Thanksgiving weekend calendar is a cornucopia of intriguing matchups and games with major playoff ramifications. The Turkey Day games are the best example of that, with three incredible matchups.
First, we get a huge NFC North showdown between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, where both teams need a win to keep pace with the (checks notes) first-place Chicago Bears?? Then, we get the Dallas Cowboys hosting the former Dallas Texans, aka the Kansas City Chiefs. And to wrap it all up, we get the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals, which may feature the return of Joe Burrow.
The action keeps rolling on Friday, as the shockingly good Bears take on the Philadelphia Eagles in a game that could impact home-field advantage or even the No. 1 seed in the NFC postseason.
This week, we welcome back the Denver Broncos, Los Angeles Chargers, Miami Dolphins, and Washington Commanders, and while there is one more bye week in the 2025 regular season, this ain’t it. We are full-go for 16 games of NFL action on Thanksgiving weekend.
Here in Week 13, we get funky with the schedule, with three Thanksgiving Thursday games, a 3:00 pm ET Black Friday matchup, seven 1:00 p.m. ET games, three late-window tilts, a Sunday night affair, and a Monday night showdown.
Overall, there were good signs for things to come with the NFL Week 11 predictions and picks. That’s because we were an awesome 11-3 straight up on the week. However, we took a bath against the spreads, despite picking so many winners, going 4-9-1 vs. the number. So, heading into Thanksgiving, we are 105-73 straight up, and 80-95-3 ATS on the season.
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So, with that, let’s get right into the NFL Week 13 picks, predictions, and odds.
Courtesy of DraftKings, here are the NFL odds.
This may be the first game in the Thanksgiving slate, but it is the last one we are picking as we write the NFL Week 13 picks, predictions, and odds column. That’s because this is a true toss-up, where either team could come out and dominate or battle to the death.
The Lions always seem to have a little magic at home on Thanksgiving, but the Packers looked better last week and have Josh Jacobs coming back. So, in the absence of true belief here, we’ll just fall back on the overall philosophy that the Lions are slightly better than the Packers...
