August is here, so college football season is drawing near. There’s no better time to lock in your futures bets before all the value gets stripped off the board. Markets that once looked promising in early August could look very different by month's end.
The books tend to overrate popular teams and underrate less popular ones because of where public money goes. As a result, I'll play the Under on bad big-market teams and the Over on good smaller-market ones.
We'll also fade teams with new coaches. Instead, we'll target teams with coaches who have a year or two to build their program but who must improve to keep their jobs.