College football betting picks: Best bets for the first week of bowl games
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew shares their locks for the first week of bowl games in college football. After starting the show with further discussion around Travis Hunter’s landscape-shifting flip from Florida State to Jackson State, the bowl locks get rolling with the Toledo-MTSU in the Bahamas Bowl (12:15) and Coastal Carolina-Northern Illinois in the Cure Bowl (17:15). More game breakdowns, previews and picks included for Western Kentucky-Appalachian State in the Boca Raton Bowl (18:45), UTEP-Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl (23:20), UAB-BYU in the Independence Bowl (27:00), Liberty-Eastern Michigan. In the LendingTree Bowl (29:45), Oregon State-Utah State in the LA Bowl (32:15), Louisiana-Marshall in the New Orleans Bowl (35:50), Tulsa-ODU in the Myrtle Beach Bowl (38:20), Wyoming-Kent State int he Potato Bowl (41:15), San Diego State-UTSA in the Frisco Bowl (44:15), Missouri-Army in the Armed Forces Bowl (46:30), North Texas-Miami (OH) in the Frisco Classic (49:45) and Florida-UCF in the Gasparilla Bowl (51:30). Plus, underdogs to take straight up in MoneyLine Sprinkles (53:50).
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| 0:40.0 | Welcome back to the cover three podcast with your host chip panoron Tom for Nelly Danny canell and |
| 0:47.2 | Bod Elliott. It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the National |
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| 1:01.9 | And welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS sports. That's Tom for Nelly. That's Danny canell |
| 1:08.7 | I'm chip Patterson, but Elliot as |
| 1:12.4 | Submitted his bollox. So don't worry. You will be able to to come get all of these |
| 1:17.6 | Sicko locks. I've got them in hand as a but Elliot for those of you who watch the signing day recap show as you know |
| 1:24.1 | He was in Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, to make it all the way home |
| 1:26.7 | You know, he's he is being a real dad of the year |
| 1:30.6 | Recruiting analyst of the year. So I've got his picks to make sure that you're gonna be able to get them |
| 1:35.3 | And of course we've got all of our locks for you to come and get a reminder that we are using these Thursdays |
| 1:41.4 | We're trying to keep you in the regular rhythm and the rotation of 11 a.m. Eastern time |
| 1:46.0 | We're gonna come and do essentially like the next week's worth of games |
| 1:49.9 | So we're gonna take you all the way through the gasp or illa bowl |
| 1:54.2 | And we're gonna move chronologically for those of you who are jumping in and listening to this at different times |
| 1:58.7 | But before we do |
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