I suffered an agonizingly tough loss on my college football parlay last week. I went for broke in the last week of the regular season, and it came so close to paying off. The ships were burned as I put together a six-team parlay, and of course, five of the six legs came in.
The week started off so well. UCF withstood the loss of star quarterback McKenzie Milton to hammer rival USF on Black Friday, and Washington upset Washington State in the Apple Cup to give me some extra juice with the college football betting odds on my parlay.
Those other three plays came in too. Florida hammered Florida State on Saturday afternoon, and Texas avoided the upset against Kansas. Baylor upset Texas Tech as a six-point underdog to add even more juice to the parlay, but then Michigan got housed in the Big Game to zero out all those wins. That loss really stung, considering it would have erased all my prior losses, but the only choice is to go forward.
Week 1: No Play
Week 2: +$267.68
Week 3: -$100
Week 4: -$100
Week 5: -$100
Week 6: -$100
Week 7: -$100
Week 8: -$100
Week 9: +$264.46
Week 10: -$100
Week 11: -$100
Week 12: -$100
Week 13: -$100
College Football Parlay Betting Odds (Courtesy of BetDSI)
Texas ML +249 vs. Oklahoma
Memphis ML +141 at UCF
Alabama ML -526 vs. Georgia
$100 to win $900.99
It’s Championship Week, so I’m going to put together a three-team parlay featuring conference championship games that I like.
The first one is a no-brainer. Alabama has been the best team in college football all year. Period. Full stop. For all the window dressing concerning which teams deserve to be in and out of the College Football Playoff, there is no doubt that the Crimson Tide are the best team in the country. Georgia has looked good against the lesser teams of the SEC East, but Alabama is a different animal and will be too much for the Bulldogs. I expect Tua Tagovailoa to put a stamp on his Heisman Trophy campaign with a great performance against this defense.
Now, on to the good stuff. Memphis is a short underdog against UCF due to the injury to Milton. The Tigers lost by just one point the first time they played the Knights this year, and that will give Memphis a lot of confidence heading into the rematch. Darriel Mack Jr. is a great athlete and could become a very good quarterback, but he is a freshman and is very inaccurate. Memphis has an offense that can put up a lot of points, and I don’t see UCF keeping up without Milton.
Another rematch of a regular season game is the third leg of my parlay. Texas dealt Oklahoma its one loss of the season at the Red River Shootout earlier in the year, and the Longhorns can be an even bigger spoiler in their second meeting. A Longhorns win would knock the Sooners out of the College Football Playoff picture, and they have the defense to do just that. Texas confused Kyler Murray the first time around and forced him into some mistakes, and I see them creating even more problems in a second meeting.
