Bowl Season

No, the under isn’t a “lock” in every snow game that’s ever been played, but it’s always in your best interests to know the forecast before placing any bets on a football game.

And that comes into play today, with West Virginia meeting Syracuse in the Pinstripe Bowl in the midst of what could turn into a heavy snowstorm at Yankee Stadium.

Bowl season is a ton of fun for college football bettors, but it can also be fairly overwhelming. Now that the bowls are really picking up with some noteworthy games every day, here’s our “Bowl Season Betting Guide,” featuring five tips for gambling in college football’s postseason.

Jim Mora and the 17th-ranked UCLA Bruins got smoked by Baylor in the Holiday Bowl on Thursday night, and perhaps it shouldn’t have come as much of a shock. Mora—who had immense success in his first season by taking the Bruins to the doorstep of the Rose Bowl—became the latest first-year college coach to no-show in bowl season. (They cover the spread just 36.1% of the time.)

Will Rutgers’ Kyle Flood fall victim to this same trend on Friday night against Virginia Tech?

Before bowl season began, we tried to identify five college football teams that might be disinterested and struggle to “get up” for lower-tier bowl games.

Tops on that list was USC, and now we get the news that Lane Kiffin and his players didn’t even have the courtesy to show up for a joint team dinner with Georgia Tech.

Everyone knows that Washington is a 5.5-point underdog to Boise State in the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl this weekend, but did you know that it pits one of the best first-half teams in the country against one of the worst?

There are multiple ways to win during bowl season betting, and we’re firm believers that live betting is the way to go.

Read on for a “Live Betting Strategy Guide” for all four games in the next three days.

Bowl season begins on Saturday with the New Mexico Bowl between Nevada and Arizona. From there, it’s the Potato Bowl, followed by the Poinsettia Bowl. And then 32 more bowls after that. It’s a fun time of year, and if you’re a self-proclaimed bowl expert, put your skills to good use by competing in bowl pick ‘em contests. As usual, there are a handful of sites offering cash and prizes, and a Las Vegas sportsbook is also hosting a contest. Read on for a list of contests.

The Big Ten Conference is an annual bowl-season punchline, the butt of every joke because the league has a false sense of self and believes it’s better than the SEC and Big 12 even though it isn’t and never will be.

Bovada.lv released odds for each conference’s cumulative bowl wins on Monday. The SEC’s over/under: Six. The Big Ten’s? Divide by three.

In the latest edition of the BTB Mailbag, a reader wonders how much of an effect travel has on bowl season betting.

Going into last year, teams that traveled further for their bowl games were actually 45-20 against the spread over the past two seasons. Did that trend hold up, or was it just a mere anomaly?

There are a lot of strategies that sharp bettors use when approaching college football’s bowl season. Some of the normal handicapping theories from the regular season don’t apply as directly, and new ones—like motivation and bowl experience—can play a huge role.

But here’s where it gets tricky. Inexperience could actually be more of an advantage than experience.

All seven Big Ten teams that qualified for a bowl game are listed as an underdog, but the biggest dog of them all, the one perceived to have absolutely zero bite, is unquestionably Purdue.

The team’s starting quarterback doesn’t seem to agree.

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