Football lines on marquee matchups are interesting to bet in both college and NFL football lines. Football odds in college football are the most popular on the marquee matchups. The big time teams like Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, LSU, Texas and others attract the most attention on the football odds board. It is similar to what happens with NFL football lines on teams like New England or Dallas.
Sometimes the best known college football teams are often the worst values on the football odds board, particularly as home favorites. Teams such as Georgia, Tennessee, Michigan, Miami-Florida, and Oklahoma all have had recent problems covering the football odds as home chalks, even while compiling fine records. Much of the problem that the traditional powers have in covering the football odds has to do with the “slaughter factor.” When such teams are hosting lesser known teams they are often made big favorites in football lines. This makes the public scared to take the other, weaker team, regardless of merit or value, and all that they can see is another slaughter or annihilation, so they lay the big football lines number, which more often than not are overlays.