College Football road favorites

Similar to the last couple of entries, today’s entry deals with road favorites. In the NFL, road favorites are dangerous, and can easily cost nfl betting players a lot of money. However, the level of talent from first to worst in college football is a significantly bigger drop than in the NFL. As always, a big thanks to Phil Steele for coming up with this information so that I could easily digest it and break it down for you.

The Texas Longhorns own the best road record in the last 10 years, finishing an impressive 36-5 on the road, good for 87.8 percent. Of those 41 games, Texas was the road favorite 37 times. If you blindly bet on the Longhorns to win outright for every home game in the last 10 years, you’d have made a pretty penny.

After Texas, the list continues with several of the usual suspects: Georgia, Oklahoma, Boise State, Ohio State, Southern Cal, Virginia Tech, Miami (FL), LSU and Florida. All of those teams were contending for a National Championship at some point in the last decade. 

Checking in far down the list is Louisiana Tech in 94th place. Louisiana Tech is 17-45 in the last 10 years as a road favorite. However, the Bulldogs have been favored 17 times during that span. Conceivably, all 17 wins could have come when they were favored, though that is not likely. 

At the bottom of the barrel is Duke. The Blue Devils are an up-and-coming team, but it’s been a tough decade for them, as they have compiled a 4-46 road record, winning just 8 percent of their road games. Amazingly, they have been a favorite on the road exactly one time in the past 10 years.