NFL Week 4, CFB Week 5 action report: Books say public ‘got us good’ on Georgia-Bama

Patrick Everson

FOX Sports Betting Analyst

Sure, the NFL drives the American sports betting bus. 

But no question, college football betting took the wheel this past weekend — specifically, Georgia vs. Alabama.

It was a massively-bet game and, after seemingly being doomed to blowout status — with Bama up 28-0 early in the second quarter — it ultimately became an unbelievable game, with equally unbelievable betting swings, as the Crimson Tide held on for a 41-34 victory on Saturday night.

“We were losing big for 3.5 quarters,” BetMGM Nevada’s Scott Shelton said. “Then it got close. Then we were winning and on the verge of a big cashout. Then it was over, and the bettors cleaned up.”

Oddsmakers at sportsbooks across the country help recap the weekend that was in NFL and college football betting.

Game of the Year

Georgia-Alabama was easily the biggest game on the college football Week 5 oddsboard. 

It was easily the biggest game of the season, for that matter.

But Jalen Milroe & Co. exploded for four touchdowns in the first 17-and-a-half minutes, giving the Crimson Tide a 28-0 lead. 

Bama was up 30-7 at halftime, and it was over.

Until it wasn’t. 

Alabama still led 33-15 well into the fourth quarter, but Carson Beck and the Bulldogs put up three straight touchdowns to shockingly take a 34-33 lead with 2:34 remaining. Georgia’s final TD was a 67-yard bomb from Beck to Dillon Bell.

Almost as shocking, on the very next play, Alabama got a 75-yard TD pass from Milroe to Ryan Williams. That gave the Tide a 41-34 lead, and that’s how it finished, when Georgia’s final drive ended with an interception in the end zone. Bama covered as a 2-point home underdog and cashed a ton of moneyline bets by winning outright.

“We had six-figure wagers on both Alabama and the Over. Some of the big bettors piled on. So we got killed on Bama and the Over,” Shelton said of the outcome at BetMGM’s Las Vegas sportsbooks.

The total…

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Publish date : 2024-09-30 16:41:51

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