NFL Thanksgiving and Black Friday odds, expert picks, best bets: How to watch,

You know what goes great with some turkey? Football! The NFL has a tripleheader on deck for Thanksgiving and, for the first time ever, will treat us to a Black Friday game as well. That’s four games over the two-day holiday stretch before we kick things into full gear on Sunday and Monday. Every one of those games is a division rivalry showdown, so the competition should be at an all-time high and will feature a number of Super Bowl contenders. 

As we do every week for the entire slate, we’ve collected all of the best Thanksgiving and Black Friday picks and gambling content from CBSSports.com and SportsLine. We’ve put them all in one place, so you can get picks against the spread from our CBS Sports experts as well as additional featured content for each game, including plays from top SportsLine experts and the SportsLine Projection Model, best bets from our staff, survivor picks and more.  

All NFL odds via SportsLine Consensus Odds.

Which picks can you make with confidence in Week 12? And which Super Bowl contender goes down hard? Visit SportsLine, as its incredible model simulates every NFL game 10,000 times and is up well over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception.

Time: Thursday, 12:30 p.m. ET (Fox), stream on fubo (try for free) 
Open: Lions -7, O/U 45.5

The SportsLine Projection Model has cooked up a Thanksgiving parlay that you’ll definitely want to feast your eyes on. The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up well over $7,000 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model entered Week 11 of the 2023 NFL season on an incredible 174-125 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates to the 2017 season. Now, it’s eyeing a parlay that would pay around 12/1. We can tell you that one of the legs is Packers +7.5, but to see the rest of legs you’ll have to go to SportsLine.

“If you didn’t get to watch the Lions on Sunday — and I’m guessing you didn’t because I’m pretty sure their game was only shown to about 1.3% of the country — they pulled off the most improbable comeback of Week 11. They were trailing by 12 points with three minutes left to play against the Bears and somehow still won. 

“Sure, it was against the Bears, but it was still impressive, and this is how I know the Lions are different this year. The old Lions would have lost that game by 33 points because the Bears would have somehow scored three touchdowns over the final three minutes to complete the blowout. But these Lions are so good that they were able to…