Bengals FAVORED All Year?! Predicting Game-By-Game Wins & Losses

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4.7 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's early, but with Joe Burrow's return, and Dexter Lawrence's arrival feeding optimism that the defense will rebound, the Bengals are favored in 15 games in 2026 - 2nd most in the entire NFL. With that in mind, Jake Liscow and James Rapien play the schedule game and walk through every matchup to predict wins and losses for the Bengals this year. Expectations are sky high as the Bengals should compete for a top seed in the AFC!

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0:00.0	The Cincinnati Bengals are favored in 15 of their 17 games in 2026.
0:06.3	So let's play the schedule game.
0:14.0	You are Locked on Bengals,
0:16.3	your daily Cincinnati Bengals podcast.
0:19.4	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:25.0	What up, Bengals fans, and welcome to another episode of the Lockdown Bengals podcast.
0:28.9	He's James repeating.
0:29.6	I'm Jake Liskow in every year shortly after the schedule comes out.
0:33.5	James and I like to go through the schedule and in May, way too early, tried to predict wins and losses.
0:40.9	We should go back to previous years and see how we did last year, probably pretty far off.
0:46.2	They fell far short of expectations.
0:48.4	Joe Burrow missed a lot of time.
0:50.3	And those are the things that you don't know when you play this game in May.
0:55.1	But with the full schedule available to us and Fox Sports, for example,
0:59.7	reporting that the Bengals are favored in 15 of their 17 games,
1:04.1	the second most in the NFL behind only the Los Angeles Rams.
1:08.1	Well, that's a fun time to play the schedule game with expectations sky
1:12.4	high from fans this year, James. And today's episode is brought to the people by a Fandul where new
1:18.2	customers can bet $5 and get $150 in bonus bets if that first bet wins had to Fandle.com to get
1:25.1	started. And looking at Fandul, it's quite interesting, James,
1:27.7	because the Bengals are third highest odds in the AFC to get the number one seed, but seventh highest odds to win the AFC overall. They're not even favored to win the division right now. And you can look at some individual game odds over at Fandall as well. But we're going to start with week one, of course. When we work our way through the schedule here, we'll go chronologically.
1:46.3	And the two games in which the Bengals weren't favored, according to that Fox Sports article, were week two in Houston, week seven at Baltimore. Outside of that, we're talking about games in which the Bengals are scheduled. That includes week one, where right now Fandul has him at three to half point favorites to start the season at home against the buccaneers
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