New Year's Football Betting: Ring In 2023 With These NFL & CFP Specials

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Sports bettors will ring in the New Year over with a loaded football slate featuring a variety of betting specials.

A pair of College Football Playoff semifinals and the penultimate weekend of the NFL season loaded with playoff implications? Sounds like a captivating gridiron weekend for casual fans and sports bettors alike. And the fact that football-mad Ohio launches both retail and mobile sports betting on Sunday? The icing on top of the pigskin cake.

Saturday features four bowl games. The College Football Playoff semifinals highlight the day. Michigan will square off against TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. Meanwhile, Georgia will clash with Ohio State in the Peach Bowl. In the NFL on Sunday, four teams will fight for playoff berths.

As for Monday, there will be four more bowl games, including the Cotton and Rose. Meanwhile, on Sunday, an NFL game between Buffalo & Cincinnati could determine the top playoff seed.

So yeah, it’s a big New Year’s football weekend. And as usual, the top legal and licensed U.S. sportsbooks have all kinds of specials and other unique wagers to help sports bettors grab a piece of the action. Here’s a look at the top specials for this weekend.

New Year’s College Football Betting

FanDuel has loads of specials listed on Saturday’s two national semifinal games, which begin with No. 2 Michigan against No. 4 TCU in Glendale, Ariz.

The book is offering +900 odds on Horned Frogs QB Max Duggan to finish with 300 or more passing yards and three passing TDs. The Heisman finalist outdid those numbers four times this season. You can grab Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy to have 300 passing yards and three passing TDs at +1100. Unlike the opposing signal-caller, the sophomore has only cashed that ticket once in 2022.

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The sportsbook is offering +420 odds on Duggan and McCarthy combining for at least 400 passing yards and four passing touchdowns. Want to double down? Get +1200 odds on the two quarterbacks combining for at least 550 passing yards and five passing TDs.

If you’re feeling particularly bold, FanDuel offers +10000 odds on TCU receiver Quentin Johnson scoring the game’s first two touchdowns. Adding on, it lists +11000 odds on Michigan wideout Ronnie Bell doing the same.

Think either Duggan or McCarthy can eclipse 500 passing yards? You can get that for +26000.

As for the other semifinal between No. 1 Georgia & No. 4 Ohio State, you can find more unique bets. FanDuel is offering +500 odds on Bulldogs QB Stetson Bennett finishing with at least 300 passing yards and three TDs. The Heisman finalist has yet to accomplish either this season. There are also +440 odds on Buckeyes QB C.J. Stroud eclipsing 300 passing yards and three TDs.

Expect both QBs to go off? You can get +900 odds on them, combining for 600 passing yards and six touchdowns.

Lastly, FanDuel is offering +6500 odds on either Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison Jr. or Georgia TE Brock Bowers scoring each of the game’s first two touchdowns. Or, you can grab +7000 odds on Bowers scoring the first and Harrison the second.

Do you know who will win the title and who they will beat? You can bet on the exact matchup for the national championship game. The odds range from -125 for Georgia vs. Michigan to +950 for Ohio State vs. TCU. You can wager on the exact result, too. Odds range from +140 for Georgia to beat Michigan to +1200 for Ohio State to beat TCU.

New Year’s NFL Football Betting

Meanwhile, DraftKings has released its usual platter of specials for this weekend’s NFL games. They include +700 odds on Steelers RB Najee Harris & Ravens RB Gus Edwards finishing with 100 or more rushing yards when Pittsburgh visits Baltimore on Sunday. You can also find +550 odds on Buffalo’s Gabe Davis & Cincinnati’s Tee Higgins finishing with at least one receiving touchdown when the Bills visit the Bengals.

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DK is offering +350 odds on Tampa Bay QB Tom Brady & Carolina QB Sam Darnold each finishing with at least 250 passing yards when the two signal-callers square off. You can also grab +550 odds on Green Bay receiver Allen Lazard and Minnesota receiver Justin Jefferson each finishing with at least 100 receiving yards when the Vikings visit the Packers.

DraftKings released odds on Sunday’s highest-scoring game, which includes +850 on the Denver Broncos at the Kansas City Chiefs and +700 on Minnesota at Green Bay. The Chiefs are also the +475 favorite to be Sunday’s highest-scoring team, a list that also includes Detroit at +550, Philadelphia at +1000, Green Bay and San Francisco at +1100 each, and the Los Angeles Chargers at +1500. As for Sunday’s lowest-scoring team? Denver leads the way at +750, ahead of Pittsburgh and Las Vegas at +800.

Of course, there’s more than one type of football on tap this weekend. The English Premier League has its first big weekend of matches since returning from its World Cup hiatus on Monday, and BetMGM has loads of unique wagers available on all eight matches scheduled for this weekend.

That includes first-place Arsenal traveling to Brighton on Saturday, where Brighton’s Leandro Trossard and Arsenal’s Eddie Nketiah both have +550 odds of scoring the first or the last goal of the match. BetMGM also has +320 odds on Nketish scoring and the Gunners winning, +350 on Bukayo Saka scoring and Arsenal winning, and +400 on Trossard scoring and Brighton pulling the upset.

Manchester City also hosts Everton on Saturday, where BetMGM offers odds on a raft of City players to score either first or last in the match: Erling Haaland at +160, Phil Foden at +350, Riyad Mahrez at +450 and Kevin DeBruyne at +550. And Anthony Martial has +210 odds, Marcus Rashford +260, and Antony +280 to score in a winning effort for Manchester United on Saturday at Wolverhampton.

Also Saturday, second-place Newcastle looks to continue its winning ways against Leeds United, where Callum Wilson has +280 odds of scoring first or last and +300 odds of scoring first and the Magpies winning the match. And Sunday, Christian Pulisic has +210 odds of scoring at any point for Chelsea and +260 odds of scoring in a winning effort for the Blues at Nottingham Forest.

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