re: OFFICIAL Week 1 College Football Bet Thread

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I am small time. My season bankroll is 600 bucks. My standard unit is 20 dollars.

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I am too, nothing wrong with that. Lost my bookie this summer and wasn't comfortable throwing my usual bankroll on a betting site. I'm having just as much fun though.

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I see. I weigh it as well. I don't know the stats regarding this, but it seems like it has more of a bearing on NFL games. My buddies will see the Colts being 6.5 point favorites at Jacksonville(made this up) and flip their shite, saying the Colts will win by 35. I don't bet on the NFL but I'm really mindful of the lines and home dogs and public money and shite. I feel like sharp bets and square bets don't hold AS much weight in college football, though.

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One thing to keep in mind is that oddsmakers can shade lines in favor of a team they know will get a lot of public action

When I was in Las Vegas a guy at the Luxor book joked how they could set the line at USC -100 and they would still get 75% of the bets, because USC is a popular public team in Las Vegas due to the proximity to Los Angeles

That's an exaggeration, but oddsmakers will intentionally shade a line for a popular public team knowing they will get a majority of the action regardless of what the line is at. For example they know they can set the line at Oklahoma -31.5 even though the line should be Oklahoma -28 knowing that Oklahoma will get a majority of the money regardless. They have to still be careful because sharps will hammer the bad line, but its a reason to fade the public to be on the right side of the shaded lines.

Glad I didn't wait to make my bet, that entrance would have made me double up on VT

Update:

I went 2-1 over the weekend. Luckily, the game I lost was with $25.00 in free money from sportsbook.

dude i was still bitching about it at work today

I teased it up to -21.5 on bovada an took OSU i believe they steam roll V Tech

What are you getting with those crazy large balls?

+175

Its gunna get ugly