BetAnySports College Football Betting Recap- Sept. 17

The first three weeks of the college football betting season is normally reserved for playing the nonconference portion of the schedule. Most Division IA (FBS) teams play a 12-game schedule with eight or nine of those games reserved for play within their own conference. This is why Week 4 traditional signals the start of conference play among the five majors and the five Mid Majors in the ranks of D-IA football.

Going back over some of the early betting trends at BetAnySports for the first three weeks of the 2018 season, home favorites have dominated play straight-up as expected. The home favorite has won 84.4 percent of their games SU, but that winning rate plummets to 48.6 percent when you factor in the pointspread. So far this year, the slight edge against the spread goes to home underdogs at 54 percent. Underdogs in general have won with the points 52 percent of the time.

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When it comes to betting the total line in college football at BetAnySports, the early edge goes to the OVER with a winning rate of 54.2 percent. The takeaway from these results is a slight lean towards home underdogs covering in high-scoring games.

Overall betting trends paint an overall picture. Individual team performances are still the biggest factor impacting how to bet the games. It would be hard to find a team any better than the SEC’s Alabama Crimson Tide across a wide spectrum of measures. They are the No. 1 team in the nation in every major poll. The Tide have the best odds on the board at BetAnySports to win another national title this season as +150 favorites. At the top of the list for bettors is the 3-0 start ATS to complement their 3-0 SU start behind a combined score of 170-28.

All told, there are nine teams in D-IA football with a perfect 3-0 start both SU and ATS. Joining Alabama from the SEC is the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The ACC has three teams on this list; Boston College, Duke and Syracuse. The Big Ten weighs in with Iowa and Minnesota and Washington State from the Pac-12 rounds out the group of eight teams from a major conference. The loan team at 3-0 SU and ATS from a Mid-Major conference is the AAC’s Cincinnati Bearcats.

If you are looking for worst start of the season among D-IA programs, the New Mexico State Aggies are 0-4 both SU and ATS playing as an independent this season. Conference USA’s Old Dominion Monarchs and the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks from the MAC are winless in three games SU and ATS.

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