College Football Betting BCS Bowl Mania

Sports betting aficionados have already had a wacky bowl season, and BetUS Sportsbook will have all of the football betting action covered from now through the final snap of the Florida/Oklahoma game.

So far this bowl season, the oddsmakers haven’t come particularly close to the number. Only three of the 12 games have finished within six points of the football betting line. Underdogs and favorites have been evenly split at six games apiece against the spread. Southern Mississippi, Colorado State, and Florida Atlantic all pulled outright upsets in their bowl bashes. The ‘totals’ have been split as well, going 6-6. (592 points)

The average score of bowl games so far this season is lagging behind last year’s clip. The 12 bowl games this year have averaged just 51.6 points per game after averaging 57.7 points per game a year ago.

Rose Bowl

Though there have been plenty of appetizers for the holidays, the main courses of the bowl season have yet to be served. The BCS games begin on New Year’s Day with the “Granddaddy of them All,” the Rose Bowl.

Penn State and Southern Cal will hook up in the first BCS showdown to kick off 2009. The Trojans will be playing in their fourth straight Rose Bowl. They’re 2-1 SU and ATS in those three games, and haven’t lost a game to a Big Ten team since 1996, when they lost to these Nittany Lions 24-7. This will be PSU’s first Rose Bowl since 1995. Expect to see a lot of defense to kick off the New Year. The two squads have only combined to average giving up 20.2 points per game this season.

Orange Bowl

Later that night, the Orange Bowl will kick off in the first of two showdowns at Dolphins Stadium. Two red hot teams will take the field when the Cincinnati Bearcats duel with the Virginia Tech Hokies. The last meeting between these teams was in 2006, a game that V-Tech knocked the Bearcats off 29-13. Tech will hope to avenge last year’s Orange Bowl loss to Kansas, while Cincy will hope to snap back-to-back ATS losses in bowl games. It has won three straight bowl games, but has never played in a BCS bowl.

Sugar Bowl

The only undefeated team remaining in America will be on display in January 2nd’s Sugar Bowl when the Utah Utes clash with the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Utes are most known for their 35-7 destruction of Pittsburgh in the ’04 Fiesta Bowl. They became the first non-BCS school to play in, and win a BCS bowl game. Alabama came up just short of playing for the National Championship by losing to Florida in the SEC title game. The Tide has alternated wins and losses in bowl games for the last four years. Don’t count the Utes out of this one even though they’re double digit underdogs.

Fiesta Bowl

Texas may feel snubbed from a shot at the BCS crown, but a trip to the Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State isn’t a bad consolation prize. These teams met in 2005 and 2006, with the road team winning both meetings. The Buckeyes have had no luck in the BCS lately, as they are the losers of back-to-back National Championship games. It’ll be OSU’s fourth straight season playing in the BCS. As for the Longhorns, they have won five straight bowl games, and are heavy favorites to continue that stretch on the 5th.