During the NFL lockout, many football handicappers wagering on the biggest team sport in the world, wondered if they would have to make the jump to the MLB or NHL as their favorite league, may have been shut down for a season. One sport, not considered by many sports betting enthusiasts to wager upon, was college football. The casual fan tends to take Sunday’s off to watch the NFL, so wagering on college football, flew under many people’s radars. Here is a guide to college football betting tips from your favorite bookie software agents.
The main difference between the NFL and NCAA is that there are only 32 teams in the NFL and over 300 in the NCAA. Meaning to say, there isn’t as much parity in the NCAA as there is in the NFL, since the team’s aren’t as close in skill level, thus making the college football betting lines much higher then an NFL game. Early in the season, the NCAA point spreads could be as high as 40 points difference. Conversely, in the NFL, the highest line is rarely higher then 14 points.
One of the first tips we provide new NCAA handicappers is that they set themselves a spread limit. As the name suggests, a spread limit only requires that you take certain spreads and not large ones. For instance, if you are betting only the Pac 12, you will set yourself a spread limit of 20 points for Pac 12 games.
What’s more, because of the lack of parity n the college football world, it is rare that there will be hard lines on many games. College football lines are some of the softest, because a lot of the powerful teams are powerful, because of the ease of their schedule.
