No. 3 Ohio State (-1.5 at BetMGM) hosts No. 1 Texas today at 12 p.m. ET in Arch Manning’s debut. The biggest game of college football’s Week 1 Saturday — and one of the biggest games all season — just got a little bigger for one bettor.
A bettor at Caesars Sportsbook in Nevada placed the first reported seven-figure bet of the college football season early on Saturday morning: $1 million on the Texas money line at -105 odds.
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The wager would win $952,380.95.
The line for this game has been on the move, opening this summer with Ohio State as a 3-point favorite, before Texas moved to a slight favorite at several books (and a pick-em at several others) based on outsized public support on Friday. On Saturday morning, Ohio State moved back to a consensus short favorite.
Circa Sports reported taking a $550,000 wager on Texas +1 on Thursday. At BetMGM sportsbooks, as of Saturday morning, Texas +1 was the most-bet college football wager (among Top 25 games) by both total bets and total dollars wagered, with 66% of the money on Texas to cover.
If the Longhorns close as an underdog, they would be the first No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 poll to close as an underdog in Week 1 since at least 1978, per ESPN research.
