There are more than 130 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams nationwide, and you can bet on any of them at the best NCAA football betting sites in the US.
College football betting sites offer plenty of betting options for every game from Week 0 through the bowl season and the College Football Playoff National Championship. From game lines to props and parlays to futures, the top NCAA football betting sites in the US offer it.
Here’s how you can get in on all the college football betting action online, including a look at the country's top NCAA football betting sites. Check here for this week's college football betting lines.
Best college football betting sites
DraftKings Sportsbook
DraftKings Sportsbook posts some of the country's best College Football Playoff National Championship futures odds alongside its highly competitive college football game lines. The NCAA football betting odds markets available at DraftKings include:
- Game spreads, moneylines, and totals
- Live micro-betting markets
- Quick same game parlays
- Team, player, and game props
- Team and championship futures
FanDuel Sportsbook
FanDuel Sportsbook is one of the best sports betting apps in the country for betting on college football. Standard college football game lines and futures at FanDuel include:
- National Championship futures
- College football parlays
- Spreads, moneylines, and totals
- Team, player, and game props
- Half and quarter betting
BetMGM Sportsbook
BetMGM Sportsbook offers every college football game line and futures bet you'd expect from a gaming giant such as MGM. The NCAA football lines and odds at BetMGM include:
- Spreads, moneylines, totals, and alternates
- Scoring and game props
- Winning margin bets
- Team point totals
- Same game parlays
Caesars Sportsbook
Caesars Sportsbook’s NCAA football lines and odds may be the country's best. Point spreads are often up to 2.5 points better than the competition’s, and moneyline odds can be more favorable to bettors. Standard lines and odds at Caesars include:
- Spreads, moneylines, totals, and alternates
- Team, player, and game props
- Same game parlays
- Double result bets
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How to bet on college football online
Using a college football betting site is easy. Plus, you’ll find the same functionality, game lines, props, and futures on NCAA football betting apps, which you can download and install on most mobile devices.
Follow the instructions below to get one of these apps on your phone or tablet.
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Once the installation is complete, you can bet on college football with the app or the sportsbook’s website. Either way, you must open an account, deposit, and fill out a bet slip first. Follow the instructions below to get all that done.
- Open the app or website and click the “register,” “sign up,” or “sign me up’ button.
- Fill out the registration forms with your name, email, last four digits of your Social Security number, and any other information the forms require.
- If we list a bonus or promo code for the sportsbook on this page, enter it in the field provided to claim the best sports betting bonus available.
- Accept all terms and conditions.
- Make a deposit using any available method listed under the “cashier” button, including debit and credit cards, PayPal, and online banking.
- Browse through the NCAA football odds.
- Click on any odds you want to bet.
- Add more bets to the instantly created bet slip by clicking the odds, keeping each bet separate, or combining the bets into a parlay.
- Fill out the rest of the bet slip with the amounts you want to bet.
- Click the button at the bottom of the slip to confirm and place all bets on the slip.
College football odds boosts and promos
The best NCAA football betting sites run various odds boosts and college football betting promos, offering serious value. The top odds boosts and promos available often surround kickoff games and the College Football Playoff National Championship.
However, other NCAA football odds boosts and promos are available all season long. Here’s an example of the top college football betting promos we’ve come across.
- DraftKings Sportsbook’s bet $5, win $150 (in bonus bets) on any NCAA football game, win or lose
- FanDuel Sportsbook’s $5 no sweat bets, offering bonus bet refunds on losing college football bets with at least -200 odds
- BetMGM Sportsbook’s $25 National Championship bonus bets when you bet $50 or more on each College Football Playoff Semifinal
- Caesars Sportsbook’s underdogs cover parlay boosts, offering boosted odds on specific all-underdog spread parlays
Live NCAA football betting
In most states, you can bet on college football games in the middle of the action on all of the best sports betting sites. That means various NCAA football betting options are available after kickoff at odds that change with the action on the field.
Bets include standard game lines and props, alongside current-drive and next-play-results bets. Live NCAA football betting turns your phone (and college football betting app) into a must-have, game-watching companion all season long.
How to bet on standard college football game lines
Standard NCAA football game lines include spreads, moneylines, and totals. Spreads handicap the favorite, evening the odds between both teams. Moneylines let you pick winners with no handicap, offering more significant odds differentials.
Then, totals offer close-to-even-money odds when you bet on the total combined score in a game against the latest line set by sportsbooks.
You can make picks for all three standard college football game lines based on the current lines and odds posted at your favorite NCAA football betting site or line shop for the best available.
Placing a bet is as simple as clicking on the odds, entering a bet size, and confirming your interest in placing the bet. Once you place a bet, you lock in the odds and line, even if these things change ahead of kickoff.
See more: NFL betting lines
How to bet NCAA football props and futures
In most states, you can bet on team and player props for almost every college football game. Most props involve betting on team and player scoring or stat lines. They ask yes-or-no questions or ask you to bet against a line set by sportsbooks.
You can also bet on NCAA football futures, which mainly involve betting on teams winning specific titles, such as a conference, conference championship game, bowl game, or the National Championship.
College football futures also include bets on the four teams that make the College Football Playoff and player futures like the winner of the Heisman Trophy.
With NCAA football futures, the odds are available all year long, and they’re more favorable the earlier you bet. You place all bets at the currently posted odds.
Even though sportsbooks will change the odds throughout the year, winners get paid at the odds as posted when they wagered.
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Betting on bowl games and the College Football Playoff
National Championship and bowl game futures are the most popular NCAA football futures markets. This is where you make your picks on teams winning the national title, making the College Football Playoff, or winning a particular bowl game (non-CFP bowls included).
The odds are long on most teams in these markets during the offseason and shorten throughout the season based on performance and probability. Once the favorites emerge, the odds shorten significantly, so betting early might offer the best chance to win big.
Bowl game and National Championship odds will be quite different once the matchups are set. Betting early means you could end up with a loser before the game plays out, but early CFP and bowl game bets offer the best odds.
See more: Super Bowl betting odds
Are alternate NCAA football lines available?
Most college football betting sites will make alternate spreads and totals available for a select number of big-time NCAA football games. This allows you to bet against alternative lines at different odds.
Betting with alternate lines improves your chances of winning or the size of your potential payday. Just remember, sportsbooks are pretty good at setting the initial NCAA football lines. Betting alternate lines often means betting against their expertise.
Can I bet against the public in college football games?
Look around at a few different NCAA football betting sites, and you might find a different line for the same NCAA football game. This is usually because big money came in on one side of the bet at that particular site. In turn, the online sportsbook tries to balance the betting and realize the profit built into the odds without sweating the result.
The majority of the betting public might be backing one side, forcing the sportsbook into action. This allows you to bet on what oddsmakers originally predicted, and that’s referred to as betting “against the public.” It’s a common practice among serious bettors.
For instance, all NCAA football betting sites might have Oregon as 10-point favorites over Colorado, but if the overwhelming majority of the public bets on Colorado at DraftKings Sportsbook, DraftKings might change that line to -6.5.
The expert oddsmakers at DraftKings still think Oregon will win by at least 11, but they only need to win by a touchdown for you to win the bet with the new line. In this case, and in most, betting against the public improves your chances of winning the bet.
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