The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants will kick off the 2012-2013 regular NFL season on Wednesday September 5, 2012 in MetLife Stadium at 8:30 PM ET. The game will be televised by NBC.

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The Giants are home favorites with a point spread of -3½ along a total over/under line of 47 points.

The current Super Bowl champions will start the season against Division rivals the Dallas Cowboys. Both teams last met in January 1, 2012 when the Giants took the victory at home with a score of 31-14 and bets on New York covered the point spread of -3. The combined score went under the total line of 48 points.

Both teams have odds to win the NFC East at 2/1 behind the Eagles who are 7/5 to become division champions.

Since September 20, 2009, Cowboys and Giants have met a total of 6 times with New York leading the series 5-1.

These were the results and point spreads on those games:

We can see from this chart that the New York Giants have the upper hand both in the score and against the football spread in the last three years over Dallas. The 2012 NFL Kickoffs was moved from the regularly schedule on Thursday to Wednesday due to Barack Obama’s speech in the Democratic National Convention according to CBS. Another interesting fact is that since Super Bowl champions have won every opening game since in the last 8 years