Powerhouses and Potential Value
Shortly after every college football schedule is released, sportsbooks will come out with regular-season win total lines. These College Football lines are created to allow bettors to bet on how many wins a program may have. Instead of picking an exact number of wins, a betting line is constructed around one number, and you have to bet on whether a team will have more or less wins than that.
With how quickly NCAA Football odds come out, it gives bettors a lot of time to research teams and get accustomed to the new rosters. Some teams may have added five-star recruits or had crucial players leave for the NFL, affecting how many wins they will have. On top of that, coaching changes can play a massive part in how a school may do, along with future recruiting and possible transfers.
BetUS offers College Football odds on all the big schools from the Power 5 conferences: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, and Southeastern Conference (SEC). These tend to be the biggest and best programs in FBSl. However, other schools outside those conferences have odds and lines created for them as well.
Often the best, most reliable options to bet are the bigger schools, especially the top two from the SEC, Alabama and Georgia. Both have two of the best college football coaches and consistently bring in big-name recruits. Alabama’s win total line is set at 10½. That brings up the issue with betting on these big schools, which is often that the win total is set so high, meaning each team needs to play amazingly to reach it. Georgia’s line is set at 11½, with the sportsbook nearly having them set to win all 12 games in the regular season.
In the Big Ten, two more heavy favorites, Ohio State and Michigan, have controlled the conference recently. Each has their win lines are set at 10½, making them the favorites in the conference.
All four are also favorites to win the National Championship. They have some of the best teams in the country, making it a solid choice to parlay their win total, with them being one of the final four teams to compete for the National Championship Playoff.
While it is easier to go with one of the bigger schools, if you do the proper research as a bettor, you could venture out of the Power 5. For example, Toledo, a team that won the MAC last season, finished 9-5, with lines set at 9½ for 2023. Betting on smaller teams would be a little more risky, but with the correct information could have more value.
Saturday Games and Season Projections
The NCAA is filled with over 100 college teams that play 12 games during the NCAAF regular season. These games determine if a team will reach a college bowl game or sit at home without a championship game to play in.
While some teams have poor seasons, others can go on to undefeated seasons and even a National Championship victory.
No matter what, these teams play their hardest on Saturday to prove they are the best. Some do it to help their team, while others are attempting to impress NFL scouts.
However, no matter the reason, they still give college football fans and gamblers something to look at.
While each NCAAF team is in a different conference and faces a variety of opponents, they have their chance to win any given Saturday they suit up.
At the start of every NCAA football season, after the schedules of each team are made public, Vegas oddsmakers start their projections of how many wins each NCAA football team will have during the regular season.
These projections are then followed by NCAAF odds that Vegas assigns to the NCAAF regular-season wins of each college football team.
It then gives both fans and gamblers something to look forward to before the NCAA football season begins.
How do NCAAF Regular Season Wins Odds Work?
NCAAF regular-season wins odds are based on the chances of a team going over or under a set number of wins.
For example, if the Michigan Wolverines were projected to win 11 games for the NCAA football season, you might see an over/under set at 10½ wins or 11½ wins.
If your wager is the under, Michigan needs to win 10 or fewer games in the first option, or 11 or fewer games in the second option.
If your wager is on the over, you need Michigan to win 11 or more games in the first option or 12 games in the second option.
The reason the second option would only need 12 wins is that the NCAAF regular season only comprises 12 games.
Betting Strategy
The NCAAF regular-season wins give gamblers a couple of different options to use. One of those options is parlaying any wagers together.
Another option is for those betting early in the season who find better odds on the over/under on the number of wins.
If you find your wager on an over or under-looking good with plus NCAAF odds, but you see the other option at plus NCAAF odds, you can wager money on the other option to ensure you have a winning bet at the end of the season.
Prop Bets
During the NCAA football season, gamblers could find some props with each game to wager on besides their NCAAF regular-season wins wager.
Prop bets can range from a wager on a player to the race with which the team is the first to reach a certain amount of points.
A study of the teams and players involved with prop bets can give added value for gamblers wagering money on NCAA football games.