Week 3 was brutal for NFL Survivor pool contestants thanks to the Jaguars and Ravens

Think you had a rough NFL Sunday? Hopefully you didn't pick the Jaguars, Cowboys or Ravens in your Survivor pool.

NFL Survivor pools have been around for a while, but they’ve really jumped in popularity thanks to the creation of the Circa Sports NFL Survivor contest in Las Vegas by Derek Stevens and his team.

For those unfamiliar with NFL Survivor pools, it sounds simple: Pick one NFL team each week to win its game outright. And you can’t use the same team twice in a season. But the unpredictability of the NFL means that getting through each week with your entry intact can be exactly the name of the contest — survival.

This year, the Circa Sports Survivor contest had a record 9,267 entries at $1,000 per entry, which means the prize pool is a whopping $9.267 million, up from 6,133 entries in 2022.

It was a rough Week 3 for contestants.

Entering Week 3, there were a little over 5,900 entries still alive. With the two Monday Night Football games to go, a whopping 3,435 entries have been eliminated this week (58 percent).

The two biggest culprits? The Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens.

The Jaguars were 7.5-point favorites against the Houston Texans and were the most-selected team in Circa Sports Survivor for Week 3, with 2,421 entries, a massive 40.9 percent of remaining entries. The Texans beat the Jaguars 37-17.

The Ravens were also 7.5-point home favorites against the Indianapolis Colts — starting a backup QB in Gardner Minshew — and saw 621 entries (10.9 percent) of the field choose them. The Ravens suffered a bad 22-19 defeat in overtime to Indy.

And to add insult to injury, the Arizona Cardinals (+11) dominated the Dallas Cowboys 28-16 to knock out another 367 entries.

In other words, three of the four teams that were the biggest favorites in Week 3 not only didn’t cover the spread, but lost outright. The Kansas City Chiefs (-12.5) had no such issues in a 41-10 dismantling of the Chicago Bears.

For those still standing, the good news is that anyone still left in a survivor pool after this week probably has eliminated more than half the field already.