NFL players aren’t the only ones who are competitive, as everyday workers like to get the best of their fellow employees as well. Making NFL office pool picks is the perfect way to show off your prognostication skills, starting with the Week 1 NFL schedule. An NFL pick’em contest allows you and your colleagues, friends or family members to compete not only for bragging rights, but a potential prize as well. Whether you’re making Week 1 NFL picks against the spread or NFL predictions straight-up, anyone can take part in a football office pool.When making NFL against the spread picks, there are plenty of slim Week 1 NFL spreads you’ll have to navigate. Outside of Patriots vs. Bengals (-9) and Bills vs. Cardinals (+6.5), every other opening-week contest has a spread of five points or fewer. However, this allows you to really flex your football knowledge and prediction skills. If you’re up for it, CBS Sports has the perfect game to keep you locked in all season long.Compete for $100,000 or start a pool with friendsIt’s time to raise the stakes with CBS Sports Football Pick’em. CBS Sports Pro Football Challenge is back for the 2024 NFL season with a whole new look making it easier than ever to make your picks. Check out the new look, explore new features like open invites, and see what’s on the line this season in the free contest.  Join the challenge to compete for the $100,000 jackpot and guaranteed cash prizes each week or start a customizable pool to compete against your friends. (No purchase necessary. See Terms and Rules for details.)

You can win the $100,000 jackpot each week for hitting the full slate and tiebreakers. Even if no one hits the jackpot, CBS Sports is giving away a guaranteed $1,000 to the winner each week. In addition, the player with the most correct picks at the end of the season gets $5,000.If you’re looking to start a pick’em pool with your friends, family or colleagues, group settings include a variety of games suitable for every fan, including straight-up picks, against-the-spread picks, survivor pools, confidence points and much more. You can play on your desktop or on the CBS Sports app, so sign up here today. Get football picks for every game from a proven NFL modelWe’ll give you one team to consider backing during the NFL’s opening week. SportsLine’s advanced computer model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is predicting the New Orleans Saints to take care of business at home against the Carolina Panthers.

The Saints have owned this series recently when contested in New Orleans, winning seven of the last nine home matchups. However, both of those losses by New Orleans deserve asterisks as each came in the final week of the season in which the Saints had nothing to play for in either. Last year, the Saints swept both divisional matchups, allowing just one total touchdown over both games.Carolina ranked last in the NFL in defensive sacks last year, and it proceeded to let its top three sacks artists from last season, including two-time Pro Bowler Brian Burns, depart in the offseason. That will only make Derek Carr’s job easier, and he ripped off a 14:2 TD:INT over the last five games of last season, posting a 118.9 passer rating. This Week 1 matchup should look like a continuation of last season, and the model has the Saints winning outright in nearly 80% of simulations. Join a pool now to lock in your picks.Make NFL pool picks at CBS SportsShow your skills, beat your friends and coworkers, and take home guaranteed prize money. Create a pool, get your friends involved, and keep the competition going all season long.