Notable bets: Behind the Ohio State-Georgia opening line and more

Opinions varied connected however overmuch Georgia should beryllium favored by implicit Ohio State connected Sunday wrong hazard rooms astatine Las Vegas sportsbooks.

Shortly aft the College Football Playoff semifinal matchups were announced, Caesars Sportsbook opened the Bulldogs astatine -7 implicit the Buckeyes and rapidly took a $110,000 and a $55,000 stake connected Ohio State. Las Vegas sportsbook Circa Sports, which is known to cater to nonrecreational bettors, installed Georgia astatine -6. The SuperBook astatine Westgate Las Vegas opened astatine Georgia -6.5 and took aboriginal tiny bets connected the Bulldogs.

"We were each little than 7 [on Georgia]," Ed Salmons, vice president of hazard for the SuperBook, said of his team's opinions connected dispersed for the College Football Playoff semifinal. "We were arsenic debased arsenic 4.5 to arsenic precocious arsenic 6.5."

A week ago, earlier the Buckeyes mislaid to Michigan, the enactment betwixt Ohio State and Georgia might've been arsenic debased arsenic Bulldogs -3, according to immoderate bookmakers. Even entering this weekend, immoderate oddsmakers thought the Buckeyes mightiness beryllium lone 3.5-point underdogs against Georgia.

"All year, I would've had this crippled astatine three, possibly adjacent a small spot less," said Salmons, who added that helium wouldn't beryllium amazed to spot the enactment driblet successful the weeks starring up to the Dec. 31 game.

Shortly aft the Michigan-Ohio State game, Caesars Sportsbook moved the Buckeyes to 50-1 to triumph the nationalist championship. That terms wouldn't past long. Bettor who correctly assessed that manager Ryan Day's squad inactive had a morganatic changeable to marque the last 4 pounded the Buckeyes astatine the agelong odds. In conscionable implicit 5 hours past Saturday, Ohio State went from 50-1 to 14-1 astatine Caesars Sportsbook.

On Tuesday, a bettor successful New York and different successful Colorado each enactment $10,000 connected the Buckeyes to triumph the nationalist title astatine 14-1 with Caesars.

"I wasn't amazed to spot those large bets connected Ohio State," Joey Feazel, pb assemblage shot trader for Caesars Sportsbook, said. "If they get successful the Playoff, they'd person adjacent little rubric odds, truthful I recognize the imaginable value. Those were 2 well-respected bettors who stake it beauteous adjacent unneurotic [Tuesday]."

Ohio State winning the nationalist title is the worst-case script for Caesars Sportsbook entering the playoff, Feazel said.

Michigan opened arsenic a 9-point favourite implicit TCU successful the different College Football Playoff semifinal.

NFL notables

• Approximately an hr earlier kickoff of the primetime crippled betwixt the Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys, a bettor successful New Jersey placed a $97,309 stake connected CeeDee Lamb to people the archetypal touchdown of the crippled astatine 8-1 odds. The bettor won a nett $778,472 erstwhile Lamb caught a walk connected a crossing way astatine the Colts' 17-yard enactment and managed to debar a tackle by landing connected Indianapolis antiaircraft backmost Rodney McLeod Jr., keeping his equilibrium and scampering into the extremity portion for the game's archetypal touchdown.

• Favorites went 11-1-1 consecutive up and 8-4 against the dispersed successful the day games Sunday, helping the betting nationalist to 1 of their amended weeks of what's been a costly NFL season. Yet, heading into the primetime crippled betwixt the Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys, immoderate sportsbooks were inactive up connected the day.

"It was a bully time for the favorites, but amazingly we're up a small bit," Adam Pullen, adjunct manager of trading for Caesars Sportsbook, said. "It's going to travel down to the nighttime game, truthful possibly the Colts tin marque a crippled retired of it. Even with each the favorites, we inactive made it retired of the day games with our caput supra water."

BetMGM was successful a akin presumption entering the primetime game.

"We've got our chemoreceptor successful front," Jason Scott, vice president of trading for BetMGM sportsbooks, said successful a substance connection to ESPN arsenic Colts-Cowboys was kicking off. "Bengals winning was a precise beardown effect for us."

The Bengals covered the dispersed arsenic 2.5-point underdogs successful a 27-24 triumph implicit the Kansas City Chiefs. Cincinnati improved to a awesome 17-3 against the dispersed successful its past 20 games.

The Cowboys got a antiaircraft touchdown successful the 4th fourth and covered the dispersed successful a 54-19 triumph implicit the Colts, sending immoderate sportsbooks to a uncommon losing week.

Entering the Monday nighttime game, favorites are 12-1-1 consecutive up and 9-4 against the spread.

• Craig Mucklow, manager of trading for Caesars Sportsbook, said retired of the 5 biggest NFL decisions of the week, lone the Philadelphia Eagles covering the dispersed successful a 35-10 rout of the Tennessee Titans was bully for the house. "The Lions, the Bills connected Thursday, the Rams and the Giants were each large for the public," Mucklow said.

• More bets were placed and much wealth staked connected Cleveland Browns moving backmost Nick Chubb to people a touchdown against the Houston Texans than immoderate different subordinate prop astatine PointsBet. Chubb, who was a -180 odds-on favourite to score, failed to get into the extremity portion successful the Browns' 27-14 triumph implicit the Texans.

• The Green Bay Packers improved to 23-7 against the dispersed successful Aaron Rodgers' starts against the Chicago Bears with Sunday's 28-19 triumph implicit the Bears.

• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are 3.5-point location favorites implicit the New Orleans Saints connected Monday Night Football. Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady is 2-11 against the dispersed successful primetime games since joining Tampa Bay.

Letting $900,000 thrust connected USC

A large stake from a blistery gambler successful The Bahamas turned the Pac-12 Championship Game betwixt USC and underdog Utah into 1 of the most-heavily stake games of the season, assemblage oregon pro, astatine Caesars Sportsbook. Last Sunday, according to Caesars, a bettor astatine the Atlantis Resort successful The Bahamas deed a brace of NFL teasers:

• $408,787.90 to triumph $291,991.35 connected Jaguars +10.5 and Jets prime 'em.
• $224,000 to triumph $160,000 connected Titans +7 and Jets -0.5.

The bettor elected to fto it each thrust and placed a $901,350.65 money-line stake connected USC (-130) for a accidental astatine winning a nett $693,346.65. It's the largest shot stake Caesars has taken this play - and it would spell down successful flames, arsenic the Utes, aft falling down 17-3 successful the archetypal quarter, steamrolled the Trojans successful the 2nd fractional en way to a 47-24 win.

Bolstered by the large bet, the Pac-12 Championship became the second-most heavy stake shot game, assemblage oregon pro, of the play astatine Caesars. Only the NFL opener betwixt the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams attracted much money.

More wealth was stake connected the Pac-12 Championship Game betwixt USC and underdog Utah than was stake connected immoderate different shot game, assemblage oregon pro, this play astatine Caesars Sportsbook, but one. The NFL opener betwixt the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams is the lone game

• Notable vessel crippled opening lines and question via Caesars Sportsbook: [Number successful parenthesis represents opening line]

Clemson (-3) -5 vs. Tennessee
Kansas State vs. Alabama (-6) -5
Tulane vs. USC (-3.5) prime 'em
Utah -1.5 vs. Penn State (pick 'em)

• TCU entered the play astatine 200-1 to triumph the nationalist rubric astatine Caesars Sportsbook. According to ESPN Stats & Information, that's the longest preseason rubric likelihood for a squad that reached the College Football Playoff.

• Ohio gaming regulators acceptable Jan. 1, 2023, arsenic the motorboat day for the state's upcoming ineligible sports betting market. Ohio State plays Georgia connected Dec. 31, 2022.