When studying data in search of betting systems for our readers to use in their handicapping, I tend to look for specific line ranges, types of games and the point in the season in which games were played as the foundation. For instance, the opening week of the college football season presents interesting matchups every year, and the prices set by oddsmakers can give bettors valuable insight as to how the “experts” are evaluating the games. I first dug into this last year and had some success in playing the findings. I’m here now to update the analysis.
It’s typically believed that the bookmakers are the ones “in the know” and that they set their lines for specific reasons. In turn, those lines are bet heavily by the professionals, who put an equal amount of work into prepping for the season. You would think that by following the lead of these two groups, all bettors should be able to take advantage. Studying the results of games against the lines does that.
With that in mind, I wanted to find out whether there were any relatively simple systems or concepts that bettors can take advantage of in the opening weeks of the college football season. In other words the next two weekends. These systems are in addition to the College Football Stability System plays I will be releasing for this week and next in PSW. Note that there are three Stability Score plays for this week that I detail in a separate article.
After studying the Weeks 0 and 1 games for the last nine seasons, I came up with five betting concepts that you might want to consider. Note that most of the qualifying plays are next week, but there are some for this Saturday.