Bowls Odds: Betting Expert Gives Golden Rules Of NCAA Postseason

The bowl games betting season is here. It’s time to discuss two major facets of handicapping that separate the professional gambler

That’s a Bowl of Crap

There are not many givens in gambling. One that’s almost etched in stone is the books make a windfall during the bowls.  The square players come out of the woodwork for the bowls and March Madness.  One of the biggest groupthink falsities is those who believe in betting the teams that enter bowl season the hottest.  While we do find that true for March Madness, in both the conference tournaments and the Dance, not only is it not true for football’s postseason, actually more times than not it’s the opposite.  But that’s why there are not many bookmakers in the breadline.  Conventional illogical separates the fool from his money.

Which team needs 20-30 days off the most—the team playing their best football at the end of the year, or the one playing their worst? Rest can often take a team out of their rhythm, be it good or bad pulse. Three weeks is a lot of time for mentally and physically tired teams to regroup. Also it’s the perfect trap for a peaking team to lose their edge.

Be a Fan of Fan Attendance For Bowl Games

Not all widely held conventions are based on illogic, though in many cases there is still more that meets the eye and the pocket.  A great example is most gamblers sharp and square realize if there is a huge difference in fan contingencies one team brings to a bowl game, there is without debate an advantage to the team that will have more partisans on a neutral field.  But this advantage is exploitable when it’s actually a symptom of a greater truth.  Especially when it comes to minor bowls, one of the biggest x-factors is analyzing which teams are truly interested and which are playing in a consolation game.

In that sense the fans and the players are congruent.  If there is less fan interest, there is less player interest and visa versa.  There’s a chicken/egg scenario in there somewhere. However if the dichotomy is better explained by one school being much physically closer to the site of the bowl or a larger school with more alumni then the advantage is lessened. However if one school is transporting a much larger contingent despite a geographical inconvenience, there we have an angle.  That’s a strong indicator one team considers the bowl a major contest while the other is in the proverbial kissing-your-sister game. 

Media reports and the teams’ and bowls press releases give the top football handicappers a big edge over the sports. They are sources for accurate information on which teams will have the bigger cheering sections.

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