Oregon State Beavers Football: Little Line Shift Despite Heavy Action
With all the love going towards the Oregon State Beavers football side in their game against the TCU Horned Frogs Saturday night, it is indeed interesting that the oddsmakers haven’t tried to get more betting action coming TCU’s way. This is your Gambling911.com Betting Edge.
Oklahoma State is a rare underdog getting the most action in a particular College Football game. They were listed at +13 at Bookmaker.com as of Saturday evening (7:45 pm EST). The amount of action going towards the Beavers, however, was close to 70 percent. One has to wonder why the online sportsbooks like Bookmaker.com wouldn’t try to encourage a little more action to come TCU’s way. Could they be anticipating a blowout greater than say 13 ½ points?
The line history for Oregon State vs. TCU was as follows:
08/03/10 6:45:13 PM
-13.5/-110 (Open)
53.5 -110 (Open)
08/03/10 7:35:12 PM
-14.5/-110
49.5 -110
08/03/10 7:45:12 PM
-14/-110
49.5 -110
08/03/10 7:55:12 PM
-14/-110
50.5 -110
08/04/10 5:25:11 PM
-13.5/-110
50.5 -110
08/04/10 6:55:11 PM
-13/-110
50.5 -110
08/16/10 1:25:11 PM
-12.5/-110
50.5 -110
08/16/10 3:55:13 PM
-13/-110
50.5 -110
08/24/10 11:25:12 AM
-13/-110
51 -110
08/25/10 6:35:14 PM
-13.5/-110
50.5 -110
09/04/10 11:45:12 AM
-13/-110
Here is something interesting to consider: We know by the time frame when Bookmaker.com had the line over 14 points (August 3 from 7:35 pm to 7:45 pm) they managed to get some heavy action from “sharps”. This we can surmise since the line quickly moved back to 14 points. It wouldn’t surprise us here at Gambling911.com to see the Oregon Beavers football squad lose by 14 points here (or two touchdowns).
There are no significant recent betting trends involving either of these two teams to discuss here.
Should Oregon State cover here, Bookmaker.com will find itself on the losing end of this game.
A similar outcome was still in the Cards (so to speak) with bookies wanting Louisville to cover a +3 spread against Kentucky Saturday afternoon. The game was in its third quarter at press time. More significantly than either of these two games, online sportsbooks are desperately hoping for a badly depleted North Carolina to cover a +10 point line against LSU. Don’t count on that happening. They have been scrambling to move the line in an effort to keep up with action, which is currently 90 percent favoring LSU.
Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
