College Football
Books do well on Saturday
The monthly fall trend of casino?s being able to rely on the Sports Book?s College Football win contributing to the overall scheme continued in Week 9. The mix of action and indecisiveness of the small-money players on the marquee games has kept them guessing all year. Teams like Florida, Texas, and Alabama, who are on TV every week, are all undefeated and popular weekly plays, but have been the most unpredictable of all against the spread.
Middle of the Week
Many folks are skeptical about believing in No. 4 Iowa and it showed right away at the betting window last week when Iowa opened up an 18.5-point home favorite to Indiana. Why shouldn?t everyone question that many points, the Hawkeyes have only one convincing win all season, which was in week 2 against Iowa State where they won by 32.
Every one of their seven other games this season had been won by 11 points or less. In their last four games they had barely hung on, needing fantastic finishes to win, so it wasn?t surprising to see the first few large bets come in on Indiana taking the points.
The line settled at 17.5-points for all the weekend plays which is when most of the smaller money comes in, and in most cases, they like to play the favorites.
Indiana looked like they were not only going to cover, but get the straight up win as they took a 21-7 half-time lead.
The Hoosiers still had the lead going into the fourth quarter at 24-14, and then the tidal wave came. Iowa made big play after big play for a 28-0 run to close out the game giving Iowa a 42-24 win with a margin of 18 points, right in the middle of where the move went meaning the books got beat on both sides of the spectrum. Sharp money won with the early wagers and the small money won with their weekend wagers.
Books do well on Saturday
The monthly fall trend of casino?s being able to rely on the Sports Book?s College Football win contributing to the overall scheme continued in Week 9. The mix of action and indecisiveness of the small-money players on the marquee games has kept them guessing all year. Teams like Florida, Texas, and Alabama, who are on TV every week, are all undefeated and popular weekly plays, but have been the most unpredictable of all against the spread.
Middle of the Week
Many folks are skeptical about believing in No. 4 Iowa and it showed right away at the betting window last week when Iowa opened up an 18.5-point home favorite to Indiana. Why shouldn?t everyone question that many points, the Hawkeyes have only one convincing win all season, which was in week 2 against Iowa State where they won by 32.
Every one of their seven other games this season had been won by 11 points or less. In their last four games they had barely hung on, needing fantastic finishes to win, so it wasn?t surprising to see the first few large bets come in on Indiana taking the points.
The line settled at 17.5-points for all the weekend plays which is when most of the smaller money comes in, and in most cases, they like to play the favorites.
Indiana looked like they were not only going to cover, but get the straight up win as they took a 21-7 half-time lead.
The Hoosiers still had the lead going into the fourth quarter at 24-14, and then the tidal wave came. Iowa made big play after big play for a 28-0 run to close out the game giving Iowa a 42-24 win with a margin of 18 points, right in the middle of where the move went meaning the books got beat on both sides of the spectrum. Sharp money won with the early wagers and the small money won with their weekend wagers.
