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Sugar Bowl Odds
2024/09/30
The Sugar Bowl is among the select few bowl games that play a role in determining which teams make the National Championship game. That said, its role is cyclical and varies by the year. Four teams make the college football playoff each season. It is difficult to predict which schools will secure the top four […]
Rose Bowl Odds
2024/09/30
The Rose Bowl is among the handful of college football bowl games that helps decide who's playing in the National Championship. However, this isn't the case every year. Six bowl games make up the college football playoff field—they're known as the New Year's Six—and they change on a rotating basis. Two get the nod each […]
ReliaQuest Odds
2024/09/30
As we alluded to earlier, ReliaQuest Bowl contenders do not abide by a specific formula. Initially, the game is scheduled to host champions from the SEC and Big 10, but that's subject to change and usually does change because select squads from each conference end up making higher-tier bowl games. These superior opportunities are known as the New […]
Music City Bowl Odds
2024/09/23
When making college football picks, the Music City Bowl doesn't receive the same level of attention as the New Year's Six, which is a collection made up of the following showdowns: Peach Bowl Rose Bowl Sugar Bowl Orange Bowl Cotton Bowl Fiesta Bowl The diminished interest in the Music City Bowl relative to the above competitions isn't […]
Peach Bowl Odds
2024/09/23
Betting on the Peach Bowl includes a special kind of prep because you first need to figure out whether it's part of the college playoff or acting as a standalone championship. See, the college football playoff is played by selecting the top four teams and pitting them against each other in two separate bowl games. […]
Best Bets for Preakness Stakes: Expert Tips and Strategies to Maximize Your Winnings
2024/09/23
Horseplayers all over the world look forward to betting on the Preakness Stakes because it is one of the most important races of the year, and it draws the best three-year-old thoroughbreds in the country. The Preakness Stakes was run for the first time in 1873 and is the second jewel of the most sought-after […]
Betting on the Belmont Stakes
2024/09/23
The Belmont Stakes is the final leg of the Triple Crown and the resting place of attempts to capture all three of these prestigious events. As a result, the Belmont has earned the nickname “The Test of the Champion”, as the entire field gets a final chance to deny the crown to winners of the […]
Las Vegas Bowl Odds
2024/09/03
The betting popularity on the Las Vegas Bowl has waxed and waned over its short life span, in no small part because it isn't among the matchups that make up the college football playoff or help determine who heads to the National Championship. Those stakes are reserved for the following high profile matchups, on a rolling […]
Holiday Bowl Odds
2024/09/03
This is a fair question. The Holiday Bowl is not part of the college football playoff—which simply includes the top four teams in the country as determined by a committee of impartial judges—and its participants have no chance at making the National Championship. On top of that, there are always non-college-playoff bowl games that will […]
Fiesta Bowl Odds
2024/09/03
As referenced above, the Fiesta Bowl plays a role in determining which two teams reach the National Championship—sometimes. Each year, the top four teams are assigned to match up across two different bowl games. First place plays fourth place; second place faces third place. The bowl games they partake in, however, change on a rotating […]