College Football Gambling Challenges

The first and most obvious challenge to address in college football gambling is the sheer volume of teams and games. College football has 118 teams that are regularly on the board compared to 32 pro football teams. College football will usually have 45 or more games on the board each week compared to no more than 16 games that are ever on the NFL board. But that's not all.

All 32 pro football teams are covered by major big city media outlets, making NFL gambling information easy to obtain. That is not at all the case in college football gambling, with many teams playing in rural areas or non-major media outlets. Sure, the traditional powers such as Notre Dame and USC will be easy for a handicapper to obtain information on, but try getting a lot of dope on Louisiana-Monroe, Arkansas State or Ohio University. To put it another way, gamblers have to dig deeper on their homework in college football gambling.

The challenges don't end there, however. Even in this era of free agency, rosters in pro football are far easier to track and get to know than is the case in college football. Even if there is roster turnover in the NFL the players that swap teams are still easy to be familiar with. That is not at all the case in college football betting, where raw recruits are a mystery and take time to get to know.

One of the traps that too many handicappers fall into in college football gambling is that they try and do too much; they bite off more than they can chew, and they work themselves into confusion by trying to get every piece of information on all 118 teams and all of that week's games. The harsh reality that many bettors end up learning, the hard way, is that less is more when handicapping the college football gambling board and that it is more important to develop reliable methodology that will point gamblers in the correct direction than it is to spend every waking hour digging up common knowledge.