Football odds for most gamblers focus only on side wagers. Betting NFL odds and college odds in terms of totals will always take second place to betting sides but there are many opportunities to make money by focusing on the totals. Let’s look at the various factors that go into betting football over/unders.
Football over/unders are really easy to bet and to understand. You just add the score of both teams together to find out if you are a winner. No laying points or worrying about covering the spread. Betting football totals is not as popular as betting the pointspread because bettors like to cheer for a specific team rather than both teams but it is sometimes simpler. One thing that is more popular with bettors regarding football odds totals is betting the over. Fans like to see points scored and the over will always be more popular because of that fact. You will also see football odds makers hedge the total a little bit more towards the over.