NASCAR at Darlington: Betting pioneer reveals 2023 Cook Out Southern 500 picks

Joey Logano begins his quest for a third NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday as the playoffs get underway with the 2023 Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Logano, who won his second title last year, is the 11th seed with eight playoff points and will have a tough time repeating as no driver has reached the Championship 4 with fewer than 11 points. He enters the first Round-of-16 race strong as he finished fifth at Daytona last week.

Logano is +1800 while Kyle Larson and regular-season champion Martin Truex Jr. are +500 co-favorites in the 2023 NASCAR at Darlington odds. William Byron and Denny Hamlin are +750 while Ross Chastain is +850 in the 2023 Cook Out Southern 500 odds. The green flag drops at 6 p.m. ET.

Before making any 2023 Cook Out Southern 500 picks, you NEED to see what SportsLine's Micah Roberts has to say. A former Vegas bookmaker, Roberts was the first to offer expanded NASCAR betting and now hands out NASCAR winners to his followers on SportsLine.

Roberts is the nation's premier NASCAR betting expert, and his top pick, Hamlin, won the HighPoint.com 400 on July 23 at +500. He also predicted Truex's victory at +650 in the Crayon 301 the previous week and Chastain's triumph at +1000 in the Ally 400 in June. In addition, Roberts correctly called Larson's win at +650 in the NASCAR All-Star Race in May and nailed the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix winner in March by hitting Tyler Reddick's victory at +1000.

In addition, the expert correctly predicted Chase Elliott to win the YellaWood 500 at +1200 last October and the Jockey Made in America 250 in 2021, nailed the 2021 Coca-Cola 600 winner by hitting Larson's victory at +550 and was on point by targeting Elliott as the winner of the EchoPark Texas Grand Prix at +160 the previous week. Anyone who has followed his picks has cashed ticket after ticket.

Now, Roberts has analyzed the field for Saturday's Cook Out Southern 500. We can tell you he's fading Larson, even though he is the co-favorite at +500. In fact, Roberts says Larson barely even cracks the top 10!

Instead, Roberts is high on a HUGE longshot who has the third-best average finish at Darlington among active drivers. This driver is being vastly underestimated by oddsmakers, and anyone who backs him could hit it BIG! You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before making any picks.