At least once a week I get an email from some guy named Jimmy Shapiro about gambling odds on all matter of sporting events and subjects. Because I’ve never gambled on anything more than Powerball numbers or a $2 show ticket at Keeneland or Churchill Downs, I don’t usually open them, much less pay attention to them.
But when Monday’s email from Shapiro arrived about the newest favorites to win the College Football Playoff I decided to check it out.
And because the wise guys at BetOnline seem to be on the same page as most of the rest of us on this second week of November, it seems that the general belief is that top-ranked Alabama (yawn), second-ranked Notre Dame, No. 3 Ohio State (double yawn) and Clemson are the prohibitive favorites to battle it out for the 2020 national championship.
To be fair, and because it’s pretty impossible for any person of common sense not to have two Southeastern Conference teams in the mix, BetOnline does give Florida the same odds as Notre Dame (12-1) to win college football’s top prize.
But before anyone bets too much of his or her own money on what a so-called expert has to say about this most unique and unpredictable of college gridiron seasons, may yours truly toss out one remaining stumbling block for all five of the above teams, going from bottom to top, starting with the Florida Gators, who pretty much ended Georgia’s championship dreams with last weekend’s 44-28 win over the Bulldogs in Jacksonville.