That’s a win straight up, but not a win against the spread. For example, the Chiefs could have been favored by six points in a game on the road but only won by three points. In betting lingo, the Chiefs are 4-3 straight up on the road.Īgainst the spread and straight-up, records aren’t always correlated very strongly. This would just be referred to as the Chiefs’ record on the road in regular sports media coverage.
The second piece of betting lingo of that sentence is SU, which stands for “ straight up.” Straight up, in this case, is used as the Chiefs’ record on the road in the absence of a spread. It doesn’t mean the Chiefs won all five of those games but, rather, they covered that margin.
To say the Chiefs are 5-2 on the road against the spread means that if you bet on the Chiefs against the spread on the road in every game to that point, you’d have won five bets and lost two.
