Football is Football is Football so they say:
When asked, a lot of sports bettors would identify themselves simply as football bettors. They may prefer college football to the NFL or vice versa, but they are probably just as likely to have some action on Saturday as on Sunday or Monday. For most people, especially casual bettors, that makes sense – more action is better after all.
There are differences:
Betting on both college football and the NFL makes sense for anyone as long as they keep in mind the differences between the two. The rules are the same, and virtually all of the players in the NFL have played college football, but in some key and fundamental ways the two options are very different. Some of those differences are obvious, and others are less so, but it’s important that you keep them all in mind when you approach betting on the two. The most prominent difference could be the college football portal. Eventually you’ll need an IBM Mainframe to follow the rosters.
There are ways that betting on college football is different than betting on the NFL. There are many more as well so look for more articles on this.
NFL lines are tighter:
NFL lines are much more heavily bet, so more likely to be tight – The betting volume on even the least popular NFL game of the week is higher than all but the most marquee of college games. That means that oddsmakers are going to put more effort into setting NFL lines than they might for some college games, and that any mistakes in the lines are very quickly going to be corrected by the market in the NFL. Sports bettors may be able to find success in college football by trying to spot lines that pack a lot of value, but they can’t in the NFL.
More public action on NFL:
On the flip side to the last point, the heavier NFL betting action means that there is more public action. There are teams out there that the public loves, and others that they just don’t. The Cowboys and the 49ers will almost always draw more action than their opponents, for example. In some cases public action can force oddsmakers to adjust the line in order to try to keep action balanced and their exposure limited. That can provide opportunities for astute bettors, and those opportunities can be more common in the NFL. The algorithm(s) used be the oddsmakers is far ahead of the betting public.
Try finding an obscure game in the NFL:
In college you can often find a good opportunity by focusing on games that most people aren’t focusing on. Obscure football college games don’t draw much betting action, so they don’t get as much attention from the oddsmakers. That means that you can often find a very soft line. As we said before there is no such thing as an obscure NFL game, so this opportunity doesn’t exist in the same way.
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