Sports betting value can be found in a number of places if you are willing to think a little differently than the average sports bettor. One area that you can often find value in sportsbetting is on the college football betting board.
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Sportsbetting for many gamblers can be all about betting the popular teams. Gamblers tend to focus on the traditional power teams and marquee games. The masses have no problem laying big numbers on the big name teams against lesser known and respected opponents no matter what the actual merits or value of such wagering are, which means that the masses are, more often than not, making overlays with these traditional power teams in sports book betting.
The reason that the overwhelming majority of those that get involved in sports betting lose money is that they are so predictable. The public likes to get involved in sportsbetting from a comfort zone, from a position of easy familiarity. There are three main ingredients to this sports book betting comfort zone for the public. First, they like traditional power teams, second they like home teams and third they love favorites. It may, or at least should, interest you to know that the traditional power home favorites are often one of the worst values and ways to look at sports betting. Teams such as Notre Dame, Tennessee, Miami-Florida, and Michigan, for example, have all been amongst the worst home favorite plays on the board in college football betting.
And the reason for this is easy to explain. The sports book betting oddsmakers know that the masses that bet football are highly inclined to take such programs as home chalks, especially against less respected or celebrated programs. Since the sportsbetting oddsmakers job is to attract equal betting action on both sides, they know they have to “sweeten the pot” to get sports betting gamblers to wager on the road dogs against these traditional power teams, which means that the traditional power programs more often than not end up as overlays while the lesser celebrated road dogs often end up as added-value bargains for the savvy sports betting gambler.
This is where you would want to begin to develop a contrarian approach when you get involved in sportsbetting. You have to suck it up and do what is difficult in sportsbetting. That means going against the favorites, the home teams and the marquee teams as you look at sports book betting.