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Oddmakers chart out rough 2025 road ahead for Chicago Bears

The Bears will start out the season as favorites on their own field on Monday Night Football but things will turn shortly thereafter in the eyes of oddsmakers.
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DJ Moore catches a two-point conversion pass last year in a Bears comeback against the Vikings.
DJ Moore catches a two-point conversion pass last year in a Bears comeback against the Vikings. | Daniel Bartel-Imagn Images

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It has nothing to do with the thought Caleb Williams might go over to the wrong sidelines to start the season opener, but the Bears are only 1 1/2-point favorite for the Sept 8 2025 season opener on Monday Night Football against the Minnesota Vikings.

Williams, of course, was reported this week by ESPN's Seth Wickersham to have wanted to play for the Vikings and coach Kevin O'Connell before the draft.

Things are different, though, and Williams starts his second season with his Bears team favored by 1 1/2 points at home in the opener. In betting terms that's like being an underdog because the home field is worth three points, say oddsmakers.

The line is according to DraftKings.com.

The Bears are 4 1/2-point underdogs at Detroit for Week 2, a Sept. 14 noon game.


The Bears are underdogs in 10 of their 17 games this season.

Here's how they look in other games the rest of the season at this point:

  • Week 3: Bears favored by 3 at home over Cowboys.
  • Week 4: Bears favored by 1 1/2 at Raiders.
  • Week 5: BYE
  • Week 6: Bears 4 1/2-point underdog at Commanders
  • Week 7: Bears favored by 7 1/2 at home over Saints
  • Week 8  Bears 7-point underdogs at Ravens
  • Week 9: Bears 3-point underdogs at Bengals
  • Week 10: Bears favored by 5 1/2 at home over Giants
  • Week 11: Bears 2 1/2-point underdogs at Vikings
  • Week 12: Bears favored by 2 1/2 at home over Steelers
  • Week 13: Bears 7-point underdogs at Eagles
  • Week 14: Bears 3 1/2-point underdogs at Packers
  • Week 15: Bears favored by 7 points at home over Browns 
  • Week 16: Bears 1 1/2-point underdogs at home against Packers
  • Week 17: Bears 3 1/2-point underdogs at 49ers
  • Week 18: Bears 1 1/2-point underdogs at home against Lions
  • Game odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.
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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.