Each season it appears as if we get one sportsbook releasing school soccer traces for vital video games — “video games of the 12 months” as they’re typically identified within the sports activities betting business — earlier and earlier.
This 12 months, we haven’t even made it out of January and already FanDuel Sportsbook has posted odds on 12 video games, together with necessary matchups like Georgia-Alabama, Michigan-Ohio State and Ohio State-Oregon.
Georgia is a 3-point favourite at Alabama on FanDuel, which is critical as a result of Alabama has been favored in 110 consecutive residence video games, and clearly simply misplaced Nick Saban to retirement. What number of different gamers at Bama will enter the switch portal?
The Michigan-Ohio State rivalry recreation takes on slightly completely different that means within the new Large Ten, and FanDuel has Ohio State listed as a 6-point favourite. The Buckeyes will probably have a brand new beginning quarterback in Will Howard, whereas Michigan will lose many gamers and probably head coach Jim Harbaugh as properly from this 12 months’s nationwide championship crew.
Listed below are a couple of different fascinating traces:
North Dakota State at Colorado (-7.5)
Clemson at Georgia (-12.5)
Texas (-1.5) at Michigan
Ohio State at Oregon (-1.5)
Alabama at LSU (-1.5)
Really feel like the percentages are off for a matchup? There are months till the video games are performed, nevertheless it’s by no means too early to get a place down.
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