(LEARFIELD/PACKERS) – The early line has the Packers set as a 13-point favorite in their home game against the Carolina Panthers.
ESPN gives Green Bay a 76-percent chance of winning the game.
The next game after the Panthers is against the Philadelphia Eagles, so coach Matt LaFleur’s biggest job may be to keep his team from overlooking the Panthers.
Carolina was steamrolled 40-9 by Buffalo in its last game.
Odds and ends: It is the fourth meeting with the Panthers in the last seven years.
- Green Bay has won three consecutive games against Carolina.
- Including the postseason, the Packers are 12-6 (.667) against the Panthers.
- Green Bay has won three straight over Carolina, which is tied for its longest win streak (including postseason) against the Panthers (1997-98 and 2001-04).
- The Packers have scored 24-plus points in each of the last 11 matchups with Carolina.
- Seven of the last eight contests, including each of the last five, have been decided by single digits.
- It marks the second noon CT kickoff for Green Bay this season. It is the first of five scheduled 12 p.m. CT kickoffs for the Packers in the next six games.
- The Packers are one of two NFL teams with only one loss this season (Indianapolis is 7-1).
- The Packers have won 14 of their last 16 games against teams from outside their division. Green Bay’s streak of 11 straight wins against teams outside of the NFC
North, which is the longest streak by the Packers in games played outside the division since the 1970 AFLNFL merger (per Elias) and the longest streak by an NFC North team since divisional realignment in 2002, was snapped with a Week 3 loss at Cleveland. - This will be the second home game (Oct. 12 vs. Cincinnati) for the Packers over a 52-day span (Sept. 12 vs. Washington – Nov. 2 vs. Carolina).
- Green Bay is the only NFC team to not lose a game (3-0-1) against a conference opponent this season.
- The Packers are 51-24-1 in conference games since 2019, a .673 winning percentage that ranks No. 1 in the NFC and No. 3 in the NFL (Kansas City, 56-20, .737
/ Buffalo, 52-23, .693). - Green Bay has a plus-34 turnover margin in confer
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