🏈 Scouting Report: Dec. 31-Jan 4

Happy (almost) New Year, BettrNation family!! 🥳 We hope you have had a wonderful holiday season so far and that you have an awesome New Year! If you are like us, part of your New Year’s plan may likely involve watching some great CFP (and NFL, NBA, CBB, etc.) matchups over the next few days. Many of us are simply hoping for some competitive, entertaining matchups (sorry, Tulane and JMU, but your games in the first round of the CFP were hard to watch 😏), but for those of you who are fans of one of the final eight teams remaining, we hope that your New Year gets off to a fantastic start with your team moving on to the CFP Final 4️⃣ (and that you pocket some extra cash to start the New Year if you end up betting on the games 🤑)!

For those of us who are not so lucky and do not have our CFB teams in the CFP now (and, even worse, who may not have a NFL team in playoff contention either!), we can at least count on 2026 bringing some renewed optimism and hope as the calendar flips into the new year 🙌, unless, of course, you are a New York Jets fan (in which case, we feel for you and the trainwreck that is the J-E-T-S 😅).

To close out this year, we did want to sincerely thank all of our readers for your continued support 🙏 We love being a (small) part of your betting journey and look forward to partnering with you in the New Year. Hope you have a happy and healthy 2026 (and that the betting odds be ever in your favor)! And remember friends - don’t gamble; bet bettr! 

Today’s Schedule: NFL || CFB || NBA || CBB || NHL || Soccer

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