The college football offseason is upon us, but you can already place bets on who will win the national championship. Caesars Palace has released odds for every single FBS team in the country, and just look at how glorious it is:
You can now bet on UConn, Liberty, or Rutgers to win the national title
Or Alabama or Clemson, if you prefer boring bets.
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Sure, the odds that matter are probably ones like Alabama 5-2, Clemson 2-1, Georgia 6-1, Oklahoma 20-1, and so on. But folks, the real intriguing bets lie with the 10,000-1 teams.
Sure, there are probably a lot better things to bet on than something this far in advance ...
I won’t claim that there is never a good opportunity to bet a national championship future. However, I do not see anything in this group that I identify as value.
For me to put my money down on a wager 11 months in advance, it had better be something that screams value, almost to the point of having been mistakenly offered by the casino. Something like a team I believe should be the top favorite being offered at 10/1 or better, or a team with an excellent shot to actually make the Playoff being offered at 30/1. I do not see that opportunity here.
Keep in mind that on a normal game wager with -110 odds for each side, the house’s expected margin is 4.7 percent. However, with these odds, its expected margin is roughly 41 percent, 10 times that of a normal bet.
... but on the other hand YOLO, and look at all of these 10,000-1 teams you can bet on!
- Akron
- Ball State
- Bowling Green
- Central Michigan
- Charlotte
- Coastal Carolina
- Colorado State: Maybe this wouldn’t be the case if you RUN THE DAMN BALL, BOBO.
- UConn: Probably a little too low if you ask me, TBH. The Huskies gave up 50 points a game last year, just saying.
- Georgia State
- Kent State
- Liberty: No respect for Hugh Freeze and Jesus handling his junk in Year 1, SMH.
- UMass
- New Mexico
- New Mexico State
- Old Dominion: The Monarchs upset then-No. 14 Virginia Tech last season, come on, Vegas!
- Rice
- San Jose State
- South Alabama
- Texas State
- UTEP
- UTSA
- Western Kentucky
Other than laughing at these long-shot odds, this again shows how lopsided college football is, especially in FBS, and how hard it is to compete with the big programs if you’re a smaller school. With 130 teams and only five power conferences, your chances at winning a title are pretty slim. It’s a really small window to begin with:
The sport where teams only play 10 percent of the other teams at their level is the one with the smallest playoff of any major American league.
Look, I’m not saying that placing a bet on any one of these teams will yield any sort of positive result, but if you wanna brag about putting your money down on Texas State or UConn to win the national title, you now can.
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