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In an interview on the Vegas Sports and Information Network (VSiN) in August, DraftKings Sportsbook Director Johnny Avello revealed that the company was looking at dates for its major live sports betting event of the year.
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Avello has now confirmed that the second annual DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship (SBNC) will take place in the first week of December in 2019.
On Sept. 17, Avello told Matt Brown and Adam Candee on VSiN’s The Green Zone that the SBNC will have the same format as the first version — a $10,000 buy-in with $5,000 of that going toward a live bankroll. The other half of the entry will go toward the prize pool.
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January’s event took place in Jersey City but the location for the upcoming December contest is still to be determined.
Options galore in early December
There are still plenty of logistics to work out, but most of the key details appear to be set in stone. The main reason for moving the contest from January to December is simple — more action. One of the gripes about the first SBNC was there weren’t enough games to bet on.
Indeed, there were only four NFL games, plus a handful of NBA, NHL, soccer, and college basketball contests. That will change a lot when the date moves to the first week of December 2019.
The following college and pro football games are scheduled from Thursday, Dec. 5 through Sunday, Dec. 8:
December 5
- Cowboys at Bears
December 6
- Pac 12 Championship
December 7
- Big Ten Championship
- SEC Championship
- ACC Championship
- Big 12 Championship
- MAC Championship
- Sun Belt Championship
- Conference USA Championship
- American Championship
- Mountain West Conference (MWC) Championship
- SWAC Championship
December 8
- Colts at Buccaneers
- Ravens at Bills
- Lions at Vikings
- Redskins at Packers
- Lions at Vikings
- Broncos at Texans
- 49ers at Saints
- Bengals at Browns
- Panthers at Falcons
- Dolphins at Jets
- Chargers at Jaguars
- Chiefs at Patriots
- Titans at Raiders
- Steelers at Cardinals
- Seahawks at Rams (Sunday Night Football)
In addition to the football games, there will be numerous NBA and NHL games taking place between those dates. There will be plenty of games for participants to wager on during this timeframe.
Improving on the first edition
Earlier this year, DraftKings blazed a new trail in sports betting with the first annual Sports Betting National Championship. The $10,000 buy-in sports betting event took place from January 11-13 in Jersey City, NJ. The event guaranteed a $2.5 million prize pool with the winner receiving $1 million.
There were 242 participants in the first SBNC in January. Each player started with a $5,000 bankroll to use in the DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey. While the event was generally run pretty smoothly, there were some bumps in the road to crowning a champion.
The Chargers vs. Patriots game ran late on the final day of the competiton, ending just a few minutes before the start of Eagles vs. Saints game. Several bettors near the top of the leaderboard didn’t have their winning bets on the Patriots graded in time to get money down on the Eagles or Saints.
Participants were warned about this potentially happening, but the issues still clouded an otherwise successful event. The Lines had a live blog covering the SBNC as the drama was going down.
While the first SBNC ended with some controversy, it sounds like DraftKings listened to some ideas on how to improve the next SBNC. The new timeframe should help participants spread out there action. DraftKings has improved its technology often over the past year and that should also help participants in the next event.
“We have a few things to tighten it up, make it better, make the process easier when you sign up, all of those types of things,” Avello told VSiN. “When you do something for he first time, there’s a lotof improvement that can be made.
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How to Bet on College Football Futures
American Football is the most popular game among bettors in the United States and a large portion of that interest comes from College Football. Analyzing the Future Odds and predicting which school will become the champion every season continues to receive attention at the betting counter. Check out our online sportsbook directory to find the best and most secure places to make college football bets, as well as exclusive sportsbook offers.
College Football Futures can be bet on throughout the 12-month calendar year but to any betting market, we always have peaks and valleys for wagers. After each season ends in early January, oddsmakers send out their opening Future Odds for the following season in the second or third week of the first month. The main market is for the NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision or more widely known as the FBS. There are over 125 teams that are divided into 10 conferences, plus there is a group of independent schools that stand alone with no affiliation.
A handful of sportsbooks will set College Football Futures on every school that are eligible to win the championship but many keep the list at 50 teams, since some lower-tier teams just don’t have a competitive chance. The Future Odds market doesn’t receive as much attention in the spring but an increase of bets can often be placed in the summer when the student athletes report back for the fall semester. Coaching changes, suspensions, injuries and depth charts always affect the College Football Futures betting market.
2021 College Football National Championship Odds to Win
There are several good bets to win the NCAA football playoffs in 2021.
- Alabama: -250
- Ohio State: +175
College Football Championship Game Odds
The Future Odds on the College Football Championship Game receive plenty of attention, especially when the season begins. Unlike other popular American sports, College Football doesn’t have an automatic qualifying system for its postseason. At the end of the regular season, only four teams will have a chance to win the College Football Championship Game. The top four teams that are selected by a committee, subjectively, will meet in two semifinal matchups before the final.
The Future Odds on those four schools for the College Football Championship Game are available earlier in the year and as the regular season progresses, you’ll start to see the oddsmakers adjust their betting odds on who they believe will be playing in the championship. In the first or second week of the December, bettors will only have four schools to choose from and the Championship Game Odds don’t offer as much value compared to the initial opening numbers posted in January at the sportsbooks.
How do I bet on the College Football Championship Game?
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The Future Odds wager is very simple for the College Football Championship Game. Many bettors identify it as an “Odds to Win” bet or future wager. Like all other wagers, bettors must correctly select a team to win an event that takes place a later time – in this case the College Football Championship.
The money wagered will be tied up until there is an outcome and bettors will receive fixed odds when they place the wager. For college football, the most valuable odds and big payout tickets are scooped up before the season begins when a school is quietly going unnoticed.
To figure out how you win when betting on the College Football Championship Game, it’s just simple math. You take the odds and multiply by the amount wagered.
Ex. Ohio State Buckeyes (3/1) to win the National Championship.
The Buckeyes are listed as an 3/1 betting choice to win the National Championship. If you wager $100 on Ohio State to win it all and they capture the championship, then you would win $300 (3 ÷ 1 x 100). You would collect $400, which includes your win and stake ($100) or initial amount that you used to bet on the Future Odds ticket.
Bettors preferring to use American Odds would see Ohio State listed at +300 on their Future Odds market while the Decimal version on the Buckeyes would be 4.00.