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The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a dominant force in the Big Ten, winning six conference titles since 2008 and recording double-digit win tallies each of the last three years. However, despite their success within the conference, they’ve fallen short on the national stage, failing to qualify for the College Football Playoff in each of those seasons. As the 2024 College Football betting season approaches, only the Georgia Bulldogs have shorter odds to capture the national title than Ohio State. Consequently, OSU is currently a heavy -637 favorite to qualify for the 12-team playoff, with a win total set at 10.5 games. Under Ryan Day’s leadership, Ohio State has gone 2-1-1 against its win totals, with last season’s 11 wins narrowly surpassing the 10.5-game mark. Representing the only team in the Big Ten that returns 15 starters from the prior year’s team, along with several key additions from the transfer portal, Ohio State is clearly aiming for a championship run, and oddsmakers' expectations reflect that. Let's take a closer look at how the Buckeyes have prepared for the upcoming campaign to make an informed decision on how to attack their win total odds. ... 

South Bend has consistently enjoyed a winning brand of football, regardless of the coaching staff. Although this success hasn't translated into national championships, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish has only endured four losing seasons since the turn of the century. After Brian Kelly's departure, the program continued its strong performance, with Marcus Freeman leading the team to eight and nine-win regular seasons. Now entering Freeman's third year, and with a favorable schedule in tow, the team is projected to be a contender in the expanded College Football Playoff, with sportsbooks setting 10.5-game win total odds. Despite only eight returning starters from last year’s 10-win team, which capped the year off with a dominant victory over Oregon State in the Sun Bowl, the Irish are still favored at -175 to make their first CFP appearance since 2021. However, their last two trips to the Final Four revealed shortcomings. Will the 2024-25 College Football betting season be any different? ... 

The second tenure of Mack Brown with the North Carolina Tar Heels has been as consistent as his first, with the team achieving winning seasons in four of five tries. Though it hasn’t translated into much success in the bowl season, UNC’s football program is established enough to buy into a sixth straight bowl appearance. However, the upcoming College Football betting season presents a new challenge as the team will be without a Heisman-caliber quarterback for the first time since the current coaching staff took over the reins. While Max Johnson, who has experience at LSU and Texas A&M, takes over, he is no Drake Maye. Bookmakers do not expect UNC to compete for bragging rights with top dogs like Florida State, Clemson, or Miami based on the current ACC futures odds. The Tar Heels' win total is set at 7.5, down from last year's 8, after pushing against the closing number. Under Brown's current regime, UNC is 2-2-1 against their win total. Despite losing key players, the team has a manageable schedule and returns seven defensive starters, supplemented by transfer portal additions, along with one of the conference's top running backs. As they enter the sixth year of Brown's second stint, the program appears stable and grounded. Will that be enough to exceed linemaker’s expectations? ... 

Not to date myself, but there once was a time I would lay 40+ points with the Nebraska Cornhuskers without batting an eye. Those times have unfortunately come and gone for a once proud College Football program that racked up 10+... 

If asked to describe the North Carolina State Wolfpack under Dave Doeren’s watch, the first adjective that comes to mind should be "consistent." Except for his inaugural campaign in Raleigh and the 2019 season, NC State has won at least seven games and punched a ticket to the bowl season nine times. That same consistency occurred last year w... 

Though the Missouri Tigers qualified for bowl seasons the prior two years, it wasn’t until last year that the Eli Drinkwitz era truly took shape in Columbia. Mizzou logged its first double-digit winning campaign since 2014 and capped the stellar season off with a Cotton Bowl triumph over a disinterested Ohio State Buckeyes team. With the College Football Playoff expand... 

Never in the 119-year history of the Ole Miss football program had the Rebels achieved an 11-win season. That milestone was reached last season when Lane Kiffin led the team to an 11-2 record, culminating in a 38-25 outright Peach Bowl victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions as near touchdown underdogs. This marked the second double-digit win tally in four years and the third consecutive winning campaign since Kiffin took over in 2020. Now for the exciting part: the 2024-25 version of the Mississippi Rebels might just be the best in program history, entering the season ranked No. 6 overall. With heightened expectations, the team’s season win total odds are set at 9.5 games at the online sportsbook. Additionally, with the College Football Playoff field now expanded, the Rebels are -136 favorites to secure a ticket to the show. Things are certainly looking up for Ole Miss as they enter the regular season, aiming to take another step forward and possibly bring a national championship back to Oxford for the first time since 1960. ... 

Jim Harbaugh has left a lasting impact at every level of football he's been involved in. He made his mark with the Stanford Cardinal in Palo Alto, led the San Francisco 49ers to success over four seasons, and recently returned the Michigan Wolverines to national prominence, winning the national championship. Unfortunately for the folks in Ann Arbor, Harbaugh re... 

It’s tough to swallow, but the Miami Hurricanes’ program can no longer be relied upon to produce memorable teams like “The U” did during its heyday from the early '80s to the turn of the century. Seriously, what’s the most memorable edition of the team you can think of over the last 20+ years? Since leaving the Big East for the ACC, the Canes have been a major let... 

The Memphis Tigers haven’t skipped much of a beat since Mike Norvell took his whistle to Tallahassee to call the shots for the Florida State program. Ryan Silverfield stepped in and has led the team to three winning campaigns through four tries. The other saw the team finish 6-6 and miss out on the bowl season. Despite this, the Tigers have yet to compete in the American... 

The first go-round of the Brian Kelly regime saw the LSU Tigers exceed expectations by winning nine regular season games, smashing the linemaker’s 6.5-game posted win total. Though the Heisman Trophy winner came out of Baton Rouge in the second go-round, the "Bayou Bengals" failed to live up to their win total odds, matching the prior season’s nine regular season wins and fallin... 

Though Scott Satterfield ended his Louisville coaching tenure with an 8-5 season, highlighted by a Fenway Bowl win and cover per the closing College Football odds against Cincinnati, his overall performance as the program’s shot ... 

The Liberty Flames didn’t miss a beat in Jamey Chadwell’s inaugural season leading the program. Some College Football bettors expected a learning curve after Hugh Freeze's departure to the SEC, but the Flames defied expectations by going un... 

The Kentucky Wildcats have been a successful program under Mark Stoops since his first season in Lexington back in 2013. Though it took three seasons to achieve a winning record, the progression was noticeable, with the team improving from 2-10 to being on the brink of bowl eligibility. Since 2016, the Wildcats have secured bowl invitations eight consecutive times,... 

Coming off a 9-4 campaign that concluded with a 28-19 win and cover as 3-point favorites against NC State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, the Kansas State Wildcats enter the 2024 College Football betting season as one of linemakers’ favorites to win the newly expanded Big 12 title. With Texas and Oklahoma no longer members of the conference, the Wildcats' odds of pulling of... 

It’s strange writing about the Kansas Jayhawks during the summer. Normally, I don’t start thinking about anything crimson and blue until later in the year when Bill Self and the basketball team start firing up the ‘ol engine in preparation for another potential trip to the Final Four. Be that as it may, the calendar has turned to August and the Jayhawks rate out amongst the top-25 teams in the nation entirely due to the job Lance Leipold and his staff did resurrecting the program from the ashes ... 

With the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners no longer serving as road blocks to the Iowa State Cyclones' path to competing for the Big 12 title, the outlook for Matt Campbell and his staff is much brighter heading into the 2024 College Football betting season. To capitalize on this opportunity, the Cyclones must avoid the slow start they got out to last season an... 

For the past 25 seasons, Kirk Ferentz has roamed the sidelines in Iowa City calling the shots for an Iowa Hawkeyes program that’s experienced much success under his watch. Last season proved to be no different, with the black and gold logging 10 regular-season wins to exceed their 8.5-game win total odds and represent the B1G West in the title game, where they were blanked... 

Since Kirby Smart took over the reins in Athens, the Georgia Bulldogs have been a force within the College Football betting landscape. If not for dropping a tough 27-24 decision to Alabama in last year’s SEC title game, the Dawgs would’... 

Along with the nauseating season-ending injury incurred by Jordan Travis against a cream puff opponent he likely shouldn’t have taken a single snap against late in the season, a number of things went against the Florida State Seminoles, ultimately preventing the program from making its second appearance in the College Football Playoff. Either way, the s... 

Having never partaken in the College Football Playoff and enduring losing seasons for the past three years, the city of Gainesville enters the 2024 College Football betting season questioning what it will take to revive the “Gator Chomp.” Following consecutive double-digit win seasons and bowl game victories under Dan Mullen in 2018 and 2019, the Florida Gators have compiled a 25-25 record over the last four years, disappointing CFB bettors with a 19-30-1 ATS record. Excluding the COVID season, the Gators have endured a number of losses, consistently failing to surpass their listed season win total odds at the online sportsbook in the process. Florida football appears to be at a low point, with Billy Napier’s kids staring back at a 4.5-game win total—the lowest expectations in recent memory. However, the Gators return 15 starters from last year’s squad, making them one of the more experienced teams in the SEC heading into the 2024 college football betting season. Despite a daunting schedule on paper, the games still need to be played. Can it really be this bad? ... 

Despite Boise State controlling its path to bowl eligibility after logging a decisive 42-14 victory over conference rival New Mexico late last season, the program opted for change by parting ways with longtime player, assistant, and head coach Andy Avalos. The bar for success at Boise State has been set high due to the achievements of past coaches like Dan Hawk... 

No longer the powerhouse it once was, the Clemson Tigers enter the 2024 College Football betting season looking to bounce back from their worst campaign in over a decade. Winning nine games, capped by a Gator Bowl victory over Kentucky, isn’t what ... 

Things have grown stale for the Auburn Tigers with the program logging just one double-digit winning campaign dating back to 2017. During this period, they have exceeded their season win total odds expectations set by online sportsbooks a grand total of two times. Hugh Freeze's arrival from a successful stint at Liberty was expected to bring change to the 2023-24 campaign,... 

Last season, the Arizona Wildcats emerged as one of the Pac-12’s most significant surprises. Following consecutive midseason losses to Washington and USC, the team rallied to win six consecutive games (5-1 ATS), ending a five-year bowl drought. In his third year as head coach, Jedd Fisch guided Arizona to its fourth double-digit win total in program history, culminat...