Carrie Stroup here. This season's Bowl games continued to destroy online sports bettors as well as those gambling in Vegas, and Monday Night's Fiesta Bowl did not help matters.
In what could be deemed the worst bettors bloodbath in recent memory, Boise State managed a miraculous last minute overtime victory after Oklahoma crept up from behind.
70% of the betting public had been on favored Oklahoma to cover but Boise State managed to win outright by one point. Some sharp action was observed on Boise State early on last month, thus a few wiseguys made out big on this game in addition to probably most of the population of Idaho. The rest of the nation was likely on Oklahoma according to the folks at The ninth-ranked Broncos completed a perfect season with an exhilarating 43-42 overtime victory over No.
7 Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Monday night, leaving Boise State and top-ranked Ohio State as the only teams with perfect records.
Boise State blew an 18-point lead midway through the third quarter, then twice rallied from seven-point deficits. Yeah, another day at the office, huh?
said Boise State coach Chris Petersen, who remains undefeated as a head coach. It would have been easy to give up on us with a minute left, but we had a lot of magic left, Zabransky said. The magic came on a stunning 50-yard hook-and-ladder touchdown play on fourth-and-18 in the final seconds of regulation.
Zabransky hit Drisan James at Oklahoma's 35, and James pitched the ball to Jerard Rabb, who raced into the end zone with 7 seconds to play.
Only three games have truly gone in favor of the bettors - Rutgers, Central Michigan and South Carolina. There have been 7 Bowl games played thus far where more than 75% of the betting action was going to the losing side, including five of the games that followed South Carolina's win over Houston.
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