College Football Futures Betting Guide

College Football Futures Betting Guide. Futuries bets are wagers on future events. They are usually on end-of-season results.

Futures markets offer a wide variety of betting opportunities. Most common bets for college football are the National Championship winner, conference winners, and the Heisman Trophy winner.

Oddsmakers assign a probability to every event in the futures market. This provides opportunities to find value for bettors. For example, if Oklahoma has implied odds of 15% to win the National Championship, but you give them a 20% chance, there is value on betting the Sooners in futures.

There are many ways to bet on the college football futures market. Futures markets often have heavy juice but if you consistently make futures bets with positive expected value, you will win in the long run. My favorite market is the win total market, because it's easier to go through a team's schedule game-by-game and project records than it is for the NFL. The wide gap in talent in college Football makes it easier for bettors to pick out the sure wins and losses. There is also a wider selection of teams to choose from. It's better to find an edge on teams you find a large edge and give yourself a better chance at being profitable in season-long win-total bets.