2024 UFL Betting Online
Heading into Week 6 and the second half of the season, The United Football League has quickly built a reputation for close, down-to-wire competition. But its four Week 5 games did nothing to burnish that image. The closest contest finished with a 10-point margin. And even in a league with a 3-point conversion available, that’s a two-possession game. There were no upsets, as the team with the better record won each game in Week 5, even though all the victories came on the road.
Now, let’s take a look at the UFL after five weeks of action.
UFL Betting Lines
| ODDS TO WIN 2024 UFL CHAMPIONSHIP |
| Birmingham Stallions -110 |
St Louis Battlehawks +150 |
DC Defenders +1250 |
| Arlington Renegades +12500 |
Houston Roughnecks +4500 |
Memphis Showboats +3800 |
| Michigan Panthers +1400 |
San Antonio Brahmas +500 |
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*Odds as of Wednesday, May 1, 10:00 AM ET
The San Antonio Brahmas ran for 190 yards and scored the game’s final 10 points in a 25-15 victory over the Arlington Renegades on Saturday night. San Antonio offset Arlington quarterback Luis Perez’s 270 passing yards with two touchdown runs by John Lovett.
Birmingham stayed unbeaten as quarterback Adrian Martinez piled up 138 rushing yards on nine carries in the Stallions’ 32-9 victory over the Houston Roughnecks on Saturday night.
St. Louis intercepted three passes, blocked two punts, made two fourth-down stops, and recovered a fumble as the Battlehawks beat D.C. 45-12 to pin the first home loss on the Defenders in franchise history on Sunday.
Michigan running back Wes Hills became the first UFL player this season with three rushing touchdowns in one game during the Panthers’ 35-18 victory over the Memphis Showboats on Sunday. Memphis quarterback Troy Williams passed for 248 yards and three touchdowns, including an 82-yarder to wide receiver Daewood Davis. But Williams also threw two interceptions, and the Showboats lost two fumbles, too.
UFL officials had to be ecstatic about the first couple weeks of the season when it came to the on-field product. Not only was the quality of play better than the first few weeks of both the XFL and USFL in 2023, as promised, but most of the games came down to the wire.
Week two was especially tight, with the average margin of victory across the four games at just four points per game. Since then, however, more and more games have gotten out of hand. The culmination came in week five when the average margin of victory was a staggering 20.8 points per game.
Blowouts happen. They’re part of any sport. And all of those close games clustered together early in the season should not have been taken as a predictor of what was to come for the weeks that followed. Rather. It was likely the ironing out of kinks each team had to go through – remember, there were no preseason games – that leveled the playing field.
By the midway point of the season, the haves and have-nots are pretty clear. That line of demarcation played itself out this past weekend. Injuries have plagued some times more than others, and some teams have been able to patch those holes better than others.
General ineffectiveness has snake-bitten teams at the bottom of the standings.
For drawing TV ratings and general interest in the product, the league would like to avoid the kinds of games seen this weekend, if at all possible. It’s why the UFL went to great pains (and to the confusion of fans and even those under contract, at times) to distribute players as evenly as possible in the dispersal drafts prior to the season. It’s why the rules of the game encourage comebacks and close contests. It’s part of the reason the Arlington hub exists. It’s all done in the name of parity.
This is a great idea, but ultimately, in practice, the result is out of the league’s hands. Unless they want to put their fingers on the scales and move players around, which they absolutely should not and should never do, lest the integrity of the games and, therefore, the entire league come into question.
2024 UFL Season Schedule (ET)
UFL Week 1
Birmingham 27, Arlington 14
St. Louis 16, Michigan 18
D.C. 12, San Antonio 27
Memphis 18, Houston 12
UFL Week 2
San Antonio 20, Memphis 19
Arlington 24, St. Louis 27
Birmingham 20, Michigan 13
Houston 18, D.C. 23
UFL Week 3
D.C. 29, Arlington 28
Memphis 14, Birmingham 33
Houston 20, Michigan 34
St. Louis 31, San Antonio 24
UFL Week 4
Memphis 17, St. Louis 32
D.C. 18, Birmingham 20
Michigan 9, San Antonio 19
Arlington 9, Houston 17
UFL Week 5
San Antonio 25, Arlington 15
Birmingham 32, Houston 9
St. Louis 45, D.C. 12
Michigan 35, Memphis 18
UFL Week 6
Saturday, May 4
Birmingham at Memphis - 12:00 PM - ABC
Houston at St. Louis - 3:00 PM - FOX
Sunday, May 5
Arlington at Michigan - 1:00 PM - FOX
San Antonio at D.C. - 4:00 PM - FOX
UFL Week 7
Saturday, May 11
Memphis at Arlington - 1:00 PM - ESPN
St. Louis at Birmingham - 4:00 PM - FOX
Sunday, May 12
Michigan at D.C. - 12:00 PM - ESPN
San Antonio at Houston - 3:00 PM - ESPN
UFL Week 8
Saturday, May 18
Memphis at Michigan - 4:00 PM - FOX
Houston at Birmingham - 8:00 PM - ESPN2
Sunday, May 19
D.C. at St. Louis - 12:00 PM - ABC
Arlington at San Antonio - 4:00 PM - FOX
UFL Week 9
Saturday, May 25
St. Louis at Arlington - 12:00 PM - ABC
Birmingham at San Antonio - 3:00 PM - ABC
Sunday, May 26
D.C. at Memphis - 2:30 PM - FOX
Michigan at Houston - 2:30 PM - FOX
UFL Week 10
Saturday, June 1
Michigan at Birmingham - 12:00 PM - ESPN
San Antonio at St. Louis - 4:00 PM - FOX
Sunday, June 2
Arlington at D.C. - 12:00 PM - ABC
Houston at Memphis - 7:00 PM - FOX
UFL Conference Championship
Saturday, June 8
2 at 1 Seed - 3:00 PM - ABC
Sunday, June 9
2 at 1 Seed - TBD - FOX
UFL Championship
Sunday, June 16
USFL vs. XFL Champions - TBD - FOX
In the United States, the television rights for the UFL are held by Fox and ESPN, which previously held the rights to the USFL and XFL, respectively.
The league is divided into two conferences, the USFL Conference and the XFL Conference, each a continuation of its respective league. Each team will play a ten-game schedule with no bye weeks, playing two games against each conference rival (one home and one away) and one game against each team in the other conference, like the XFL, all eight teams playing in their home markets.
The UFL has reworked the playoff system so that the winners of each conference will host the league semifinals as before. In contrast, the two remaining playoff seeds will be wild-card bids going to the best remaining overall records, regardless of conference.
UFL Teams
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