Super Bowl Line Back Down to Colts -5 ½

Carrie Stroup here.  Gambling911.com continues to monitor all the latest line movements involving the upcoming Super Bowl game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts. 

Here is an interesting little twist:  Make of it what you may.

The folks at Sportsbook.com yesterday had moved the Colts line up from -5 ½ to -6 for a good 24 hour period before moving it back down to -5 ½. 

The curious question is: Why move the line down?

The peak action actually came in when the number was -6.  Nearly 75 percent of those betting this year's Super Bowl were taking the Colts at that number.

With this in mind, you would think that Sportsbook.com was going to either hold the line at -6 or move it up to -6 ½ in an effort to get more balanced action.

The -6 ½ line is a dangerous one as the book will take quite a hit should the number fall on "6", and there are some of us who think it will do just that. 

But it is interesting that they have elected to move the line back down to -5 ½.  Other recreational online betting sites were still holding at -6.

Betting on the Super Bowl has been brisk already at Sportsbook.com.  The top 5 bets in fact are all pertaining to the Super Bowl.

Carrie Stroup, Gambling911.com Senior Reporter