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Before The Snap: Latest Heisman odds with Alabama QB Bryce Young as the favorite going into Week 3

Before The Snap breaks down the latest Heisman odds with Bryce Young’s stock on the rise.

Welcome to Before The Snap, For The Win’s college football series where we’ll break down the sport’s trending storylines, examine each week’s biggest matchups and track the College Football Playoff and Heisman Trophy races.

This week, Before The Snap was joined by Caroline Darney, the managing editor for our newly launched site, BetFTW, For The Win’s home for sports betting and fantasy coverage. So this week, we’re all about the odds.

Specifically, let’s look at the 2021 Heisman Trophy race. Now, it’s early in the season, but that’s never stopped the college football world from speculating and debating about anything really.

Going into Week 1 of the season, Oklahoma quarterback Spencer Rattler was the Heisman favorite — followed by Clemson quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei and Alabama quarterback Bryce Young — but as FiveThirtyEight previously noted, just once in the last 12 years has the player favored in the first week ended up winning it.

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After the first two weeks of college football, Rattler has dropped to the third-best odds to win the Heisman (+900), as of Wednesday according to Tipico Sportsbook.

And ahead of him are now-favorite Young (+185) and Ole Miss passer Matt Corral (+450), and the top-3 players are followed by Liberty quarterback Malik Willis (+1300), Cincinnati quarterback Desmond Ridder (+1500) and Uiagalelei, Georgia quarterback J.T. Daniels and Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud — all at +2000.

Here’s a brief look at how the top-3 favorites have played so far this season.

Bryce Young +185

Week 1 Heisman odds: +750
Completion percentage: 70.8
Yards/pass: 8.8
TDs: 7
INTs: 0
Sacks: 2

Matt Corral +450

Week 1 Heisman odds: +2000
Completion percentage: 66.2
Yards/pass: 10.2
TDs: 6
INTs: 0
Sacks: 4

Spencer Rattler +900

Week 1 Heisman odds: +550
Completion percentage: 76.9
Yards/pass: 8.4
TDs: 6
INTs: 2
Sacks: 2

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Soccer bettor amazingly turns $66 into $11,250 on 12-leg soccer bet

Wowwwww!

We just saw a 14-leg parlay full of unders on a bunch of college football games hit last week.

And now? Here’s 12 legs, all money-line round-robin bets on a group of soccer games, with some MLS contests, some from the USL Championship league and more.

The bettor on Tipico Sportsbook took (deep breath) the Revolution, Inter Miami, Club America, Charlotte Independence, Phoenix Rising, Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Indy Eleven, Orange County Soccer Club, El Paso Locomotive, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Orlando Pride and Union Omaha.

The payoff? After an investment of $66, the bettor won $11,250. A seriously impressive performance that deserves a reward like that.

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The 6 best darkhorse AFC bets to make before the 2021 season

Some underrated picks for a Super Bowl appearance.

As NFL opening day — THURSDAY NIGHT! — approaches, we’re running through some of the best bets you can make on players and teams this season before Week 1 so you can maximize value.

After our Super Bowl picks, MVP choices and NFC darkhorse selections, we’re focusing next on the underrated AFC teams who could pay off big for you, with odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook.

Our list of possible squads who could surprise and reach Super Bowl LVI  includes one squad with a second-year QB and yes, we had to go with the Patriots as another one.

Here’s our breakdown of our favorite picks:

NFL picks against the spread, Week 1: Can the Browns cover against the Chiefs?

Here are our Week 1 picks.

We’re on to Week 1 in the NFL (!!!!), with the first game of the 2021 season being played on Thursday between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys. That means it’s time once again for our weekly look at the point spreads in order to help you win some money.

Last year, Charles Curtis went a dismal 111-124-7, and this year, we’re bringing in Charles McDonald to make some picks too.

We now go to each of them for comments before their picks.

Charles C: It’s an all-Charles picks party! Maybe that means people won’t actually know how bad I am this year because they’ll be so confused by all the Charleses (or is it Charlesi?).

Charles M: I’m coming for souls this year. One Charles to rule them all!

(All bets courtesy of  Tipico Sportsbook.)

The 6 best NFL bets you can make on a Super Bowl winner before the 2021 season

A look at some of the best bets you can make.

The NFL season starts in about a week, which means it’s your last chance to take advantage of a completely clean slate before we get to know teams in 2021.

There’s an advantage there when it comes to betting on possible Super Bowl winners, and that’s what we’re focused on today: Six of the best bets you can make on who will win it all in February, with odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook.

Even the favorite — spoiler alert, that team is one of our picks — has pretty good odds, and the rest could end up earning you a lot of cash.

Let’s break them down:

Welcome to BetFTW!

Welcome to BetFTW, For The Win’s home for betting and fantasy coverage.

Hey all. Welcome to BetFTW.

What’s BetFTW, you ask? Fantastic question, friend.

BetFTW will be For The Win’s home for sports betting and fantasy coverage, with exclusive odds provided by our presenting sponsor, Tipico Sportsbook.

(Speaking of Tipico, if you live in Colorado or New Jersey, you can join Tipico and earn a $750 welcome bonus while doing so.)

As to what we’re going to cover here, well, a lot of that depends on what you all tell us. We know we’ll cover the NFL through the lens of betting and fantasy. After that … we’re going to find out. Maybe college football? WNBA? UFC? Cricket? Let’s go on a journey together and see what happens.

We hope this is a place to learn, to laugh, to make some memories, to experience those wild moments that only occur when you’ve got something riding on the game.

We’ll be building out the team over the coming weeks, and we’re so excited for you to get to know our writers and editors who will be joining us. In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter and check back in on what we’re covering. And you should definitely follow along with our friends at Sportsbook Wire.

That’s it. That’s the spiel. Let’s have fun with it.

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