Every one of us is monitoring social media because that’s where the information is. It’s going to be like this for the foreseeable future. “It started a few years ago with players sitting out, not wanting to hurt their draft status. “Constant news makes it difficult to book bowl season, you just have to get the info quickest and move accordingly,” Pullen said. With coaches changing jobs, players entering the NFL draft, players entering the portal, suspensions, weather, motivation and other factors, every bowl game is more difficult to handicap than a regular-season game.įor The Win asked a bookmaker (Adam Pullen, assistant director of trading at Caesars) and a pro bettor (Paul Stone) how they prepare for bowl season. With so many more teams to handicap than the NFL, opportunities exist for bettors, but they usually require more research and expertise to uncover.Ĭollege football bowl season, though, is a completely different animal - for both bookmakers and bettors. There’s no doubt that the college football regular season is a grind for bettors.
