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The 2020 college football bowl season gets underway on Monday, Dec. 21 with the Myrtle Beach Bowl between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and the North Texas Mean Green. It runs all the way through Monday, Jan. 11 with this year’s College Football Playoff Championship Game.
All told there are 30 postseason games on the schedule. More than a few cancellations have trimmed the overall amount of bowl games this season. But you can bet that the betting action will be as big as ever at online sportsbooks.
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The highlight is the battle for this season’s national title. Following this past weekend’s various conference championships, the four teams in this year’s playoff are:
Alabama will face Notre Dame in this year’s Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 as one of two semifinal games. The Tide have been opened as heavy 19½ point favorites coming off an impressive 11- 0 run straight-up while going 8-3 against the spread.
Notre Dame’s only SU loss of the year came against Clemson in the ACC title game. The Irish were 5-6 ATS. They are just 1-8 SU in their last nine games played in January.
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The total line for this game has opened at 66 points. The total has stayed UNDER in four of Notre Dame’s last six games closing as an underdog. The total has gone OVER in seven of Alabama’s last nine January games. The Tide have gone 7-1 ATS in their last eight games closing as favorites.
Game time from Pasadena on ESPN is set for 4 p.m. (ET) on New Year’s Day.
The other semifinal will be played in this season’s Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on Jan. 1. Clemson has been opened as a 7½ point favorite against Ohio State. Kickoff on ESPN is slated for 8 p.m. The betting line for the total is 65½ points.
Clemson’s only SU loss came against Notre Dame in the regular season. The Tigers are 10-1 overall with a 5-6 record ATS. The Buckeyes only played six games in a limited schedule. They won them all SU with a 3-3 mark ATS.
Ohio State has won four of its last five January games SU but it falls to 1-5 ATS in its last six games against a team from the ACC. Clemson is 19-1 SU in its last 20 games closing as the favorite. The total has gone OVER in six of its last seven games played in January.
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While those two games should attract quite a bit of betting action over the next two weeks, there are some great showdowns on the rest of the 2020 bowl schedule.
An early matchup on Saturday, Dec. 26 pits two of the best Mid-Major programs this year against one another. The 9-1 SU (8-2 ATS) Liberty Flames face the 11-0 SU (8-2-1 ATS) Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in the FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl.
Coastal Carolina is a six-point favorite with the total set at 59½ points. Liberty is 5-1 ATS in its last six games against the Sun Belt. The Chanticleers are 4-1-1 ATS in their last six games closing as favorites.
The AAC’s No. 6 Cincinnati Bearcats made a strong case for a playoff spot this season at 9-0 SU (5-4 ATS). They will have to settle for a matchup against the No. 11 Georgia Bulldogs in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Jan. 1.
The Bulldogs are seven-point favorites and the opening total line is 50 points. Georgia has won 11 of its last 16 January games SU. The total has stayed UNDER in the Bearcats’ last five games as underdogs.
