Colorado is garnering unfathomable betting action
Colorado football is garnering unfathomable betting attention throughout the first two weeks of the 2023 college football season, reports the New York Post via BetMGM — who relayed that the Buffs are not only outpacing the rest of Division I football but also the NFL during the league’s opening weekend.
“BetMGM reported Friday that Saturday’s game between Colorado and Nebraska, which wasn’t exactly the most marquee game coming into the season, is attracting more bets than any other football game this weekend — including the NFL,” the Post’s Dylan Svoboda wrote.
“The matchup is blowing every other college football game out of the water, too, garnering three times more action than any other Week 2 game, per BetMGM. The game is even lapping Saturday’s primetime contest between two of college football’s biggest brands — No. 3 Alabama and No. 11 Texas.”
Colorado football is the perfect mismatch of wrong expectations and uneven betting lines
Maybe the sportsbooks and the media are in cahoots when it comes to the latter misleading the public and the former profiting from it. But coming into the season, the expectations of the Colorado football program were so distorted that it created completely uneven Week 1 betting odds.
A three-touchdown underdog against TCU? An eight-point underdog to Nebraska heading into the season? Talking heads completely overlooked the mass roster turnover of the Horned Frogs and the implementation of the nation’s No. 1 transfer class when it comes to Colorado.
Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, the betting odds evened out for Week 2; with CU now a field-goal favorite against Nebraska. That silent apology certainly lacks the volume of the disrespect to Deion Sanders and what he’s been building in Boulder, though.
The world is seeing what Sanders can do now, with the Buffs outpacing the NFL in betting interest and running laps around the rest of the country. But there should’ve never been so many bad takes to begin with; because it cost a lot of bettors big in Week 1.