College Football Wagering

College football wagering requires the same attention to detail that betting on other major sports required. Due to this fact, odds for college football are calculated in much the same way as the odds for professional football are calculated, with factors like weather, division, win-loss records among other things being heavily considered. However, college football wagering carries with it a certain unknown, an x-factor that doesn't necessarily exist in the world of professional sports. It is mastering this in addition to the other factors that will help determine your success in college football wagering.

The odds makers in both Vegas and in the off-shore online casinos calculate odds by taking a variety of factors into consideration, including, but not limited to, weather, home court advantage, injuries, momentum, win-loss record, division record, coaches and any external things that may be happening with the team, like a recently fired coach or some other drama unfolding that might have a negative or positive affect on a team. These are considered the most important factors when the bookmakers are determining the wagering odds of each game.

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As much as they may say it doesn't, team history also plays an important role especially in the early part of the season. This is true even if a team has lost a lot of key players in the off season. It should be remembered that the factors are not fixed but mutable. For example, in calculating the wagering odds, weather might be given more weight if a team from Arizona or Southern California is going to be playing in Michigan in late November, whereas weather might be less of a factor when, say, Florida and Florida State University play each other.

Further, although these things are all very important, it is also important to realize, when you are looking at the wagering odds, that you are not dealing with monetarily compensated adults like you are when you are betting in pro sports, but you are betting on a game that is being played by 19 and 20-year-old kids. Basically, in college football anything can and does happen. Remember that Fresno State, for example, went 8 and 6 last year and came within a field goal of beating Oregon and beat the spread against USC. The point is that these kids still love the game. They are not as cynical as their adult counterparts and by and large still believe they can win. It is something that the people computing the wagering odds take into consideration, and so should you when you are making your picks for college football wagering.

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by Mike Jones at 1800-sports.com on August 11, 2008


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