College Football Betting Online has its Advantages

College Football Betting Online has its Advantages by Mike Jones of 1800-Sports


There are many advantages when it comes to college football betting online. Here are just a few:

College teams have the ability to manipulate their own schedules. For instance, some of the top teams may select a "soft" opponent early on to get things off on the right foot so to speak. Others want to go up against a worthy competitor in hopes of winning and getting a big jump in the polls, not to mention extensive press coverage, improved TV revenues and help with ticket sales.

Because these teams do not have a pre season schedule either, there are no films to look at and this gives the sports bettor a tremendous advantage early on when reviewing college football betting online options.

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Furthermore, returning starters plays a critical role with college football. In the NFL, backup players can often compensate and sometimes even prove more reliable than the person they are replacing. Injuries, while important in both sports, need to be taken very seriously (your top priority as a sports bettor) when analyzing college games. There are a hundred different theories on how to use the number of returning starters to handicap early college games, way too many to discuss here.

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Let us now review the anatomy of a point spread as it applies to college football betting online.

Jeremy Martin, a columnist for Doc Sports, interviewed Bob Scucci, bookmaker for the Stardust Race Book. Martin states that although several offshore sportsbooks release their betting lines prior to the Stardust, it's the Las Vegas opening number that sets the tone for the betting action for the week, both offshore and in the "city that glitters."

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A Purdue/Arizona game where Purdue was favored by -21 had Scucci looking at three different numbers when trying to set his opening betting line. He told Martin the reason there was so much discrepancy was that Arizona had looked much worse than initially anticipated, as displayed in blow out losses to Louisiana State and Oregon the previous two weeks. And Purdue was hard to gauge because they opened up with a loss to Bowling Green, but they came back the following week with an impressive win at Wake Forest. As of 5:30 on Sunday, Scucci hadn't pinned down an exact spot where the teams should be. Hence, an opening betting line of Purdue -21 that quickly shot up to -24 Sunday night due to heavy action by the sharp bettors during Stardust's lottery session (bettors are allowed to bet into the opening line at the Stardust in the order of numbers drawn during the lottery). Purdue was supposed to be one of the teams that was in the Top 20 and they were supposed to cover a lot of spreads and they lose to Bowling Green straight up.

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For folks like Scucci, creating odds is like an art form. And like all good art aficionados, only a privileged few possess a wealth of knowledge in discovering true value early on. Hence, with the early lines, professional sports bettors relish the opportunity to grab hold of "soft" lines. When a line moves up dramatically early on this means the wise guys (sharps) are all over the favorite. A dramatic line movement in the opposite direction means the bookie is encouraging action on the favorite since heavy early sharp volume is applied to the dog. Pay attention to early line movements when it comes to college football betting online.

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And college football betting online has helped bring about tremendous value as opposed to the days when the Stardust once set a line. Today, you have a massive number of sportsbooks operating offshore, many of which set their own lines, some still cloning the Stardust betting line, but most importantly you have bookies that will be slow to move a line early on based on heavy sharp action. Maintain several sportsbook accounts for all your online college football betting needs and take full advantage of late reactions. It goes without saying, serious sports bettors should pay special attention to lines that first appear for the following week's college football games the first two days they are posted.

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--- by Mike Jones at 1800-sports.com on January 24, 2006


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