Week 18 NFL Best Bets - Francesa Five
The Mike Francesa Podcast
BetRivers Network
4.6 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good everybody, the Francis Five for week number 18, the final week of the regular season. |
| 0:10.8 | Just one programming note Monday. |
| 0:13.6 | They call it Black Monday because a lot of guys get fired on Monday as soon as the season ends |
| 0:19.4 | so they can begin their search for whatever they might |
| 0:22.0 | need, general managers, head coaches, et cetera. We'll do a program. Usually the rumbling start right |
| 0:31.1 | away, 830, 9, 9.30. So figure us sometime around noonish, and we'll clue you in with all the news of the day of what's going on as to, I think there could be a couple of surprises. |
| 0:47.1 | So it should be a very busy Black Monday coming away. Never obviously a happy day in the NFL but hey it's a day that has to |
| 0:57.7 | happen and it happens every year at the end of the season and black Monday will be Monday |
| 1:02.8 | and it will be I think a relatively busy one all right here we go Francis a five |
| 1:08.0 | three college playoff games, the big games. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm not picking bowl games. |
| 1:17.1 | These are the ball games now. |
| 1:19.2 | And two NFL games. |
| 1:20.7 | So here we go. |
| 1:21.4 | Game number one, tonight, the first of the four college football playoff games. |
| 1:46.9 | Ohio State, nine and a half point favorite against Miami. Again, I don't think anybody would dispute that Ohio State is the most talented team in the country. |
| 1:49.9 | I don't think there'd be much argument with that. |
| 1:56.3 | Maybe somebody might want to quibble that they're at the best team. |
| 2:00.9 | You might be able to argue that, considering what's going on this year. |
| 2:04.8 | But are they the most talented team? |
| 2:06.9 | I think most people feel they are. |
| 2:07.7 | They, |
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