NCAA Football Betting – Orange Bowl Preview
Talk about a contrast in styles. While the Iowa Hawkeyes are about as plain-jane as you get for a football team, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have about as exotic an offense as you can find.
Talk about a contrast in styles. While the Iowa Hawkeyes are about as plain-jane as you get for a football team, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have about as exotic an offense as you can find.
Finally, it’s time. Say what you want about the Texas Longhorns’ right to play in the BCS Championship game, but the bottom line is that the matchup pits the nation’s top two ranked teams against each other. Ideally, that will make for an exciting football betting matchup.
It seems the Orange Bowl has something in common with the Fiesta Bowl this season. Like the Fiesta, the Orange pits a dominant offense versus a dominant defense. Also like the Fiesta, the Orange features at least one team that some people thought would end up in a different bowl. In this case, it’s the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Believe it or not, many college football fans are more excited for the Fiesta Bowl than they are for the BCS championship game. The Fiesta bowl pits two undefeated, top-six teams against each other, both of which field high-octane offenses.
So sports betting handicappers won’t get a story book ending for Tim Tebow and the Florida Gators and they also won’t see a happy ending for Brian Kelly and the Cincinnati Bearcats.
You know it’s been a strange year in college football betting when many people are anticipating secondary BCS bowl games like the Orange Bowl more than the BCS title game. The Rose Bowl, which pits Oregon versus Ohio State, may not give us the prestige of the national championship game or the fireworks of TCU/Boise State, but it could showcase an exciting Ducks offense at the very least.
While most sports wagering people may not notice this right off the hop, but if the TCU Horned Frogs blow out the Boise State Broncos and the Texas Longhorns barely squeak by the Alabama Crimson Tide, there is still a chance that the Horned Frogs could be voted as AP National Champions. That will be an underlying storyline as the game approaches.
How They Got Here: Ohio State Buckeyes
Early on in the season, it didn’t look like the Ohio State Buckeyes would be BCS-bound. Although the Big Ten had a down year with teams like Michigan, Michigan State and Illinois falling short of expectations, the Iowa Hawkeyes rose out of the shadows to start 9-0.