College Bowl Odds

The most exciting time of the 2016-17 college football season is here. It’s bowl season, which means 80 teams get rewarded for their play throughout the regular season with one more game. Two of the teams in the four-team playoff will get to play two more games with a shot at the National Championship.

A total of 77 of the 80 teams who made bowl games got in with at least 6-6 records. The other three are the 6-7 Hawaii Warriors, the 5-7 Mississippi State Bulldogs and the 5-7 North Texas Mean Green. They didn’t have enough teams finish .500 or better, so they had to pull out a couple teams with losing records to fill the remaining slots.

Oddsmakers have posted spreads and totals for all 40 bowl games. These lines are sure to move rapidly based off the early action that comes in and could be several points off the opening lines by the time the games roll around. That’s why it is important for you to get your bets in early if you see some value now that might not be there by game time.

Clearly the most heavily-bet contests will be the four-team playoff games. No. 1 Alabama is a 16.5-point favorite over No. 4 Washington in the Peach Bowl on December 31st. Then No. 2 Clemson is a 3.5-point underdog to No. 3 Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl later that night on New Year’s Eve.

There will be no games on New Year’s Day since it falls on a Sunday in 2017. But we have several other big games on tap besides the playoff games. There is No. 8 Wisconsin (-7.5) vs No. 15 Western Michigan in the Cotton Bowl, No. 5 Penn State (+7) vs. No. 9 USC in the Rose Bowl and No. 6 Michigan (-7) vs. No. 11 Florida State in the Orange Bowl.

Below is a table featuring all 40 bowl games with the dates, start times, TV listings spreads and totals for every game. I will be adding betting previews of every game throughout the bowl season with my early leans on which way I’d bet them. Keep in mind that my early leans aren’t my final opinions, so they are subject to change as new information comes out as the games approach. Get my college bowl predictions featuring the straight up winner of each game.

2016-17 College Bowl Odds (From 5Dimes)

Saturday, December 17th, 2016

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Saturday, December 31st, 2016

Monday, January 2nd, 2017