Week 1 of College Football with Scooch and Connor O'Gara from Saturday Down South

The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Football

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Week 1 of College Football is here! Chad starts the show with bookmaker to the world, Bob Scucci. They discuss how the college football season seems bigger now than ever and how betting factors into the sport’s popularity. Scooch discusses how the unexpected retirement announcement of a high-profile player, such as Andrew Luck last weekend, plays into win total projections, point spreads, and fantasy perspectives. The guys look out some heavily bet games for this weekend. Then, Chad talks to Connor O'Gara from Saturday Down South. Can Georgia beat Alabama and go on to play in the National Championship? Connor gives some bold picks for betting against the spread in Week 1 of college football and then gives some early predictions for the College Football Playoff. Those topics and more on this week’s episode of The Favorites. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the favorites the podcast from the action network I am Chad Millman
0:15.8	Listen week one of college football is coming up and we have an amazing guest later on in the show
0:21.8	Connor O'Gera at CJ O'Gara on Twitter.
0:26.4	He is a columnist for Saturday down south.
0:28.6	He's got great insight into betting the week one games since he's been covering this thing non-stop and is all
0:36.0	over it for Saturday down south.com. But first up as always bookmaker to the world from Boyd Gaming. Here he comes Mr Bob Scoochy. My brother.
1:05.0	Jads, what's going on?
1:08.0	Scooch, week one of college football is here.
1:11.0	I feel like college football is getting bigger and
1:13.2	bigger every year.
1:14.3	And I know that sort of sounds weird, like, why do you feel that way when this sport has been
1:19.2	a massively popular sport for 150 years? but here's the truth.
1:25.0	The ratings for that Miami Florida game were massive.
1:30.0	Our numbers on the first Saturday of college football were massive.
1:34.7	They were rivaling what we had done during March Madness, which are the biggest days we ever had.
1:40.1	I would bet that the activity in your sports book for basically two prime college football games
1:46.7	was extraordinary and my take is that betting has a lot to do with it. What do you think?
1:52.4	I think absolutely. I think you know now that
1:56.4	sportsbooks are up and running in eight different states it that the mass appeal is
2:01.9	starting to to to really take effect in both betting and
2:05.6	viewership I think you know there's always been the relationship between
2:09.5	betting and watching you know particularly if there's a team that's supposed to win by 20 or 30 points,
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