UNLV improved the best college football record against the spread in the country Saturday, and New Mexico State didn’t play the part of pushover at Auburn.
Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
Email: tdewey@reviewjournal.com
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Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
The Las Vegas Grand Prix is shaping up as a two-man race after Charles Leclerc’s odds were slashed for Saturday night’s Formula One race.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay went 5-0 against the spread last week and leads the contest with a 33-15-2 record (68.7 percent).
VegasInsider.com handicapper Mark Franco analyzes every NFL Week 11 Sunday and Monday game and makes predictions for each matchup.
After the Raiders won back-to-back games over two of the NFL’s lowest-scoring teams, they will take a step up in class against the Dolphins.
Handicapper Paul Stone believes Oregon State will derail Washington’s bid to make the College Football Playoff. Plus, more picks on college football and the NFL.
The vast majority of money wagered on the Las Vegas Grand Prix is expected at sportsbooks Friday and Saturday.
The Baltimore Ravens are consensus 3½-point home favorites over the Cincinnati Bengals on “Thursday Night Football” at Las Vegas sportsboooks. The total is 46½.
The Dutch drive has been so dominant, one sportbook is offering other betting markets on the race, including the odds on the winner without Verstappen.
A FanDuel sportsbook bettor hit a five-team underdog money-line parlay comprised of four college basketball teams and a college football team.
Buffalo, which lost for the third time in five games last week at Cincinnati, is a consensus 7½-point home favorite over Denver on “Monday Night Football.”
The Hard Rock sportsbook said a bettor hit a four-leg same-game parlay on the Houston-Cincinnati game that paid $5.5 million.
Fittingly, the bottom line for Las Vegas sportsbooks and bettors came down to the Raiders-Jets “Sunday Night Football” game at Allegiant Stadium.
The consensus total for the Iowa-Rutgers game Saturday was 27½ — and as low as 27 at the Westgate SuperBook. But under bettors got the money.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay went 4-1 against the spread last week and leads the NFL handicapping contest with a 28-15-2 record (65.1 percent).
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