College Football Betting Odds and NCAA betting lines at SBG Global
These college football betting odds are what the public bets into each week during the college football season. The job of the college football betting oddsmaker is to put out betting lines that will attract action on both sides of the game.
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2007 College Football Top 25 |
College football betting oddsmaking is a lot of numbers and statistics but it is also partly a feel. A good college football betting oddsmaker will be able to see which way the public is likely to bet and make his odds accordingly. That does not always mean the line will be perfectly balanced as it should be. The line will probably be shaded toward the favorite in many instances because the public usually bets the favorite.
It will also be shaded toward the popular Top 25 teams like USC, LSU, Texas, Michigan, West Virginia, etc. It may also be shaded toward the power conferences of the ACC, SEC, Big East, Conference USA, WAC, MAC, Mountain West, Big 10, Big 12, Sun Belt, Pac-10 and even the Independents Team conference.
There are many college football betting oddsmakers that use power ratings to set their betting lines, but the good ones go beyond the numbers and include their feelings as to where the line should actually be. This applies more to the NFL than it does college football since the NFL is a huge public sport. College football betting odds have their public games, especially those that are on TV involving popular Top 25 teams like Wisconsin, Florida, Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Ohio State and others, but nearly every NFL game is like that.
Very often in college football betting you will find that the oddsmaker will actually use more than one opinion before setting the official college football betting lines. They will get three or four opinions on what the line on a game should be and then the main oddsmaker will make the final decision.
Usually the big time bettors or wise guys will hit the college football betting lines first and that helps the oddsmakers because they then will have an idea of where they might be weak in the line. The official opening line only comes from a couple of sources offshore and perhaps one source in Vegas and that college football betting line has been bet into before the public sees it. The college football betting offshore lines are what people mainly refer to, while the Vegas lines are just copycats.
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