Football betting middles are one thing that scares sportsbooks to death. A middle occurs when the final score and spread of a game is a number that falls in between the opening and the closing football lines posted on that game. When this happens both sides in college or NFL football end up winning the bet and the house has to pay almost everyone that bet on that particular game.
Football middles will occur on occasion in both college and pro football. For example, let’s say that the NFL football betting lines had a game at minus 4.5 that was bet up to 5.5. This game then ended with a score of 35-30, a five-point margin in NFL football betting. The house must pay both the NFL football gamblers that laid the four and a half points on the favorite and who took the five and a half points on the dog.