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A caller No. 1? Bama dropping successful the rankings? Finebaum reveals his apical 4 teams (1:08)
After an eventful Week 6, Paul Finebaum reveals his top-four rankings, including a alteration astatine the No. 1 position. (1:08)
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David PurdumESPN Staff Writer
- Joined ESPN successful 2014
- Journalist covering gambling manufacture since 2008
There's a caller favourite atop the likelihood to triumph the nationalist title astatine sportsbooks, and for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 years, it doesn't hail from the SEC.
Ohio State moved past Alabama and Georgia this week to go the statement favourite to triumph the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes are +200 astatine Caesars Sportsbook, followed by the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs each astatine +220.
It marks the archetypal clip since November 2020 that a squad different than Alabama oregon Georgia has been the statement favorite.
The Buckeyes, Bulldogs and Crimson Tide person been atop the nationalist title likelihood each play and relationship for astir 60% of the wealth wagered connected BetMGM's likelihood to triumph the nationalist championship. They are the lone teams with single-digit rubric odds. Clemson is 12-1 and USC is 16-1, followed by Michigan astatine 20-1. Tennessee, which hosts Alabama this week, is astatine 40-1.
Ohio State got disconnected to a dilatory commencement successful an opening triumph implicit Notre Dame but has responded with 5 consecutive blowout victories -- albeit against mediocre competition. Since being held to 21 points by the Fighting Irish, the Buckeyes person averaged 54.4 points with an mean borderline of triumph of 37.6.
Georgia and Alabama, meanwhile, person each had to past adjacent calls successful games successful which they were heavy favored.
The Bulldogs had to travel from down successful the 4th fourth to bushed Missouri 26-22 connected Oct. 1. The Crimson Tide, arsenic a three-touchdown location favourite contempt the lack of injured prima backmost Bryce Young, had to clasp disconnected a precocious rally from Texas A&M successful a 24-20 triumph this past Saturday.
"Besides that archetypal crippled against Notre Dame, Ohio State has looked invincible," Joey Feazel, pb assemblage shot trader astatine Caesars Sportsbook, said successful a institution release. "But I deliberation truly the determination to get Ohio State to the apical of the committee was due to the fact that Georgia and Alabama person shown hints of being beatable."
At the SuperBook astatine Westgate Las Vegas, the likelihood of an Ohio State-Alabama nationalist title crippled are 4-1.
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