Odds to Win 2025-2026 College Football Championship

2025-2026 College Football Championship Odds

When the Georgia Bulldogs won the 2022 national championship, it was the end of an era. From 2006 through 2022, the SEC won 13 national championships, including the last four in that stretch. But for the past two years, the Big Ten has taken the crystal trophy with the Michigan Wolverines in 2023 and the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2024. At the onset of 2025-2026, the future market is betting that most of the historic, perennial big-name megabrands are at the top. Additionally, the SEC and Big Ten dominate the future market for the 2025-2026 national championship. College Football, like Major League Baseball, has become a game of Moneyball.

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*Odds as of Monday, July 21, 10:00 AM ET

2025-2026 Sees College Football’s New Era Expands

With the new era of NIL and the transfer portal, big-money schools with the largest number of donors, combined with TV network contracts, are dominating the sport. The SEC has the best fan support and the largest donor base with the most valuable TV contract. Only the Big Ten can compete with the SEC in terms of support, finances, and ability to compensate top players.

In the 2024-2025 season, college football expanded the College Football Playoff to 12 teams. It was such a financial success that there is serious talk of increasing the teams that qualify to 16 teams. Most of the automatic bids go to the SEC and the Big Ten conferences.

Meanwhile, the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference are still considered “power” but that is mostly in name only. The Clemson Tigers and Miami-FL Hurricanes are the only serious contenders in the future market from the ACC. Meanwhile, gamblers are ignoring the Big 12. The independent Notre Dame Fighting Irish are drawing future market attention as a traditional power and mega brand that boasts the financial resources of a top SEC school.

The Changing Dynamics of College Football Betting

With college football emerging as a lucrative business and player empowerment largely out of control, gamblers are having to adjust on the fly.

College football rosters are a revolving door now, with players coming and going from the transfer portal with little in the way of rules or control. If a key player gets upset at being coached hard or challenged for his starting job, he can leave in a huff for somewhere else. Additionally, there is the issue of poaching, where great players are offered more money to play elsewhere, leaving their programs high and dry in the process.

The portal and NIL have effectively wiped out the concept of player development, and building quality depth has become a relic of the past. A good backup can leave his school to start somewhere else and for more money.

Upper-middle-class schools that once could compete are falling behind rapidly. Programs such as Kansas State, Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, Louisville, Iowa, and others are now facing an increasingly difficult path to remain in the Top 25. Fallen powers like Nebraska, Oklahoma, Florida, Auburn, and Florida State are finding college football’s new landscape increasingly tough to navigate. At the same time, wannabe championship programs like Texas A&M are finding that everyone can stroke a big check in the current era.

But as much as things change, the more they stay the same. No sport has more predictable old-money neighborhoods than college football. The question is whether new powers can emerge and whether those old megabrands can regain their footing.

Gamblers will have to spend more time researching which programs the top players are joining, as well as the increasing frequency of changes in coaches and coordinators. Equally important will be identifying which programs are spending the most on players and poaching, as well as player retention.

The first month of the college football season will provide one of the biggest challenges ever in handicapping and gambling. It would be wise for gamblers to hit the books right now.

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