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Before Fuller, Hnida kicked the door down. Katie Hnida was the first woman to score a point at the top level of college football when she kicked two extra points for New Mexico in 2003. This is a simple wager on which team will win a particular game. Odds compilers will weigh up the relative strengths and weaknesses of each team, factoring in head-to-head records, injuries.
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Compare odds across legal US sportsbooks at ScoreandOdds.com to help you profit throughout the college football season. Find out how to use the odds comparison tool, along with other college football betting tips below.
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Of course, if you are new to college football betting, or sports betting in general, you first need to understand what you are looking at in terms of NCAAF spreads, moneylines and point totals.
NCAAF Betting Glossary & Tips
Spread – The most popular way to bet on college football is by picking a team against the spread (ATS). You will either wager on the favorite or the underdog to cover the spread. The Favorite is the team giving or laying points (ex: Alabama -13.5). The underdog is the team getting points (ex: Notre Dame +13.5).
By betting on the underdog, the team does not have to win the game outright for you to win your bet. The team you bet on need to lose by less than the spread, i.e, the number of points they are getting. An outright win will cash your bet as well, but a win isn’t necessary. Example: If you bet on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish +13.5, the bet wins if the Irish lose by 13 points or less (or win outright. If the odds tool showed a sportsbook had the spread at +14, that’s where you want to place the bet. An extra half-point can be the difference between a losing wager and a push (a tie, in which a bettor neither loses nor wins money).
College Betting Tip: Key numbers are not as important in college football as they are in the NFL. College football games often have larger point spreads, and there’s more parity between teams. Still, finding the best lines by using an odds comparison tool and all the legal US sportsbooks available to you is vital if you want to profit betting against the spread.
Money Line – By betting on the moneyline, you are only wagering on what college football team will win. Large favorites require you to risk more money than you will win (ex: Oklahoma Sooners -450 requires you to risk $45 to win $10). Conversely, betting on underdogs will earn bettors more money than they risk (ex: Texas Longhorns +400, a $10 bet will earn you $40 profit).
College Betting Tip: Moneyline betting in college football is even less popular than it is in the NFL. For a lot of games with larger spreads, moneylines aren’t even available. With public bettors leaning towards favorites, there is generally more value betting on underdogs, specifically underdogs that are getting 2-6.5 points on the spread.
Total (Over/Under) – Betting on the Over/Under or point total means you’re placing bets on the total number of points scored by both teams. So if a game has a total (or Over/Under) of 65 points before kickoff, you can bet on Over or Under 65 total combined points between the two teams for the entire game. Points scored in overtime are included, which can really rack up in a college football overtime. Additionally, there are point totals for quarters and halves.
College Betting Tip: Focus on a conference or a few specific teams when handicapping college football point totals. With so many college football teams and games, oddsmakers are at a disadvantage. You don’t have to beat them on every game, you just need to pick a few spots where you think they’re wrong, which happens a lot more on a college football betting slate than say an NFL Sunday.
Vigorish (vig) or Juice – Ever wonder how sportsbooks turn a profit? It’s the vigorish or juice, i.e., the fee sportsbooks take when sports bettors place wagers. This fee is imbedded in the betting ling, giving sportsbooks a mathematical advantage. Sportsbooks typically have a vig of -110 on both sides of a bet, meaning you have to risk $110 for every $100 you want to win. Taking into account the vigorish, you need to win not half of your bets but at least 52.4% to break even. While -110 is typical, some sportsbooks are nicer than others when it comes to charging bettors juice. You will want to use SAO’s odds tool to find which sportsbooks are charging the least amount for all of your college football picks.
College Betting Tip: College football is a softer betting market than the NFL, making it easier to win over 52.4% of your bets.
Other College Football Betting Terms
Parlay – A parlay involves two or more picks, all of which have to win outright to payout. You have a five-team parlay, and all but one game wins? You hit 80% of your bets, but your parlay still loses just the same as if you went 0-for-5. Two-team parlays traditionally pay 2.6-to-1, three-team parlays pay 6-to-1, four-team parlays pay 10-to-1, etc. Though we refer to these as “two-team parlays,” parlays can consist of picks on the point totals and sometimes even props. Use our parlay calculator for your convenience.
College Betting Tip: Parlays attract bettors, especially beginning bettors, with large payouts. But don’t be fooled. Unless you’re confident you have a large edge in two or more games, betting parlays will eat away your sports betting bankroll.
Teasers – Like a parlay, teasers require more than one pick, and all picks in your teaser must hit. Teasers are a way college football bettors can move multiple point spreads (or totals) to their favor. Since the points are adjusted for the bettor, teasers do not have the large payouts that parlays do.
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College Betting Tip: College football games tend to have larger point totals and spreads than NFL games. You can find point totals anywhere from 60-80 points, especially in a pass-happy conference like the Big 12. College football scores are much more volatile than NFL scores, making college football teasers less advantageous.
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Live Betting – Live betting occurs after a game starts. Did you sleep in and miss the kickoff of an early 11 am college football game? Don’t tilt! Most US sportsbooks will have live lines available for you to bet on while the game is still in progress.
College Betting Tip:Your team takes an early lead, but an injury or specific scheme leaves you concerned about your bet? Use live lines to hedge your original pre-game bet, minimizing your potential losses. In some cases, you can use live lines to find “middling” opportunities. A “middle” is when you use two different spreads to bet on and against the same team. You can win both bets if the scoring margin falls in between the two spreads. Bettors can also use live lines to middle the Over/Under.
Less than 24 hours before kickoff on Sunday against the New York Jets, four of the Cleveland Browns' leading receivers were ruled out because of COVID-19 protocols.
The Browns were already expected to be without half of their offensive line and a couple of linebackers. Yet some sportsbooks still couldn't buy a bet on the Jets.
Cleveland was favored by 9.5 points before the news about the wide receivers. The line settled at Cleveland -6.5 after Jarvis Landry, Rashard Higgins, Donovan Peoples-Jones and KhaDarel Hodge were ruled out. That didn't matter to the majority of bettors, though. People bet on the Browns before and after the news, and by kickoff more than 80% of the money bet on the point spread was on Cleveland, at multiple sportsbooks.
'The Browns, even though they were at minimal strength, took a bunch of money on the money line and on the side,' DraftKings sportsbook director Johnny Avello said. 'Once we got under a touchdown, they started to bet the Browns again.'
That money remained with the sportsbooks after the Jets took down the Browns 23-16 for their second consecutive victory.
It was that kind of Sunday for the betting public, another losing one to cap what will go down as one of the most lucrative football years ever for U.S. sportsbooks. The good news for the betting public -- and, really, for all of us -- is that 2020 is almost over.
While we count down the final days of the year, here is this week's edition of Notable Bets, our recap of storylines from sportsbooks around the country.
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• The largest reported bet on Sunday was a $500,000 money-line wager on Carolina to beat Washington at -115, placed with BetMGM. The Panthers won 20-13, and the bettor won a net $434,782.60.
The Panthers' win produced one of the very few losing results suffered by sportsbooks on Sunday. 'We only lost one game in the morning,' Jeff Stoneback, sportsbook director for BetMGM in Nevada, said, pointing to the Bears' 41-17 rout of the Jaguars.
• The Cowboys' 37-17 victory over the favored Eagles produced another big win for the sportsbooks, but it also brought Dallas back into the mix for the NFC East title, which could prove costly for The Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
More bets were placed on the Cowboys to win the division in the preseason than were placed on the Eagles and Giants combined, including a $40,000 bet on Dallas at even money.
'I'm sure everyone thought they were left for dead on Thanksgiving when they lost to Washington,' Thomas Gable, sportsbook director at The Borgata, told ESPN of the Cowboys. 'There are some big tickets that are still live.'
• The SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas reported a break-even Sunday, after suffering a small losing day on Christmas. 'The handle on Christmas Day was very good,' John Murray, executive director of the SuperBook, said. 'A lot of sharp money on the under in the Vikings-Saints game. That didn't work out too well.'
The Saints pulled away from the Vikings for a 52-33 win on a Christmas Day full of favorites covering the spread. The favorites covered in all five of the NBA games on Friday, and Buffalo also covered the spread in the day's only college football bowl game.
'I was pleasantly surprised with how small the figure we lost on Christmas was,' Murray added. 'That was a recipe for disaster for the house, and we somehow managed to avoid it.'
• The most heavily bet Sunday games at sportsbook PointsBet:
Titans at Packers
Bears at Jaguars
Browns at Jets
Eagles at Cowboys
Colts at Steelers
• Lambeau Field was covered in snow for the prime-time game between the Packers and Titans. After opening around 55.5, the total closed at 52 at most sportsbooks. The Packers, who were 3-point favorites, won 40-14.
One of the most popular props on the Titans-Packers game at DraftKings was on Tennessee running back Derrick Henry to score the first touchdown. Avello said Sunday afternoon that the liability on the prop was approaching seven figures. Packers wide receiver Davante Adams caught a touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers on the Packers' opening drive for the first score.
• The Bills are 7-point favorites over the Patriots in the Monday night game. As of Sunday, 95% of the money bet on the point spread was on the Bills at PointsBet.
• A four-team parlay, with a final leg of the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, sold for $57,200 last week on PropSwap, a secondary market for sports bets that have already been placed.
The parlay was placed in August at Hollywood Casino in West Virginia. The first three legs -- Braves to win the National League East, Lightning to win the Stanley Cup, and Storm to win the WNBA championship -- have already cashed. If Kansas City wins the Super Bowl, the ticket will pay $171,360.
• Week 17 will decide season-win totals for three teams: Bears (8), Raiders (7.5), and Panthers (5.5). (Win totals via SuperBook.)
• DraftKings donated $1 for every entry into its free fantasy contest on the Titans-Packers game to The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to help residents and businesses affected by the explosion in Nashville on Christmas Day. The contest attracted 84,692 entries.
College football
• The early betting action on the Clemson-Ohio State College Football Playoff semifinal game has been lopsided on the favored Tigers at Circa Sports. Circa sportsbook director Matt Metcalf told ESPN on Sunday that the bets were 3-1 in favor of Clemson.
In the other playoff semifinal, Alabama is a consensus 20-point favorite over Notre Dame. Last week, Circa moved its line down a tick, to Crimson Tide -19. Metcalf said it's been 'all Alabama' since the move. Both semifinal games are slated for Jan. 1.
• Tuesday's Alamo Bowl pitting Colorado against Texas has seen significant line movement. The Longhorns opened as consensus 12-point favorites, but were down to -9.5 as of Sunday. Metcalf pointed to 'sharp anti-Texas money' as driving the line movement.
Odds and ends
• $131.4 million was bet with Tennessee sportsbooks in November. It was the state's first month with a regulated sports betting market.
• $231.2 million was bet with Colorado sportsbooks in November. The NFL accounted for $88.4 million of the monthly handle, followed by $22.2 million for college football. The third-most-heavily bet sport? Table tennis with $12.4 million.
• In the NBA, the Mavericks beat the Clippers 124-73 on Sunday. The Clippers, who were 3-point favorites, trailed by 50 points, 77-27, at halftime. The live line at halftime was Mavericks -40, which Dallas covered.
At William Hill U.S. sportsbooks, 62% of the dollars bet on the money line was on the favored Clippers.