Colorado attracts huge betting interest, dramatic Heisman odds movement - ESPN

Only a select handful of games last season generated as much betting interest as Colorado's upset of TCU on Saturday, and money was still showing up on the Buffaloes at sportsbooks Sunday.

Colorado opened the Deion Sanders era with a 45-42 victory over TCU as 21-point underdogs. Sanders became the first non-interim coach to win his FBS debut as a 20-plus-point underdog since the 1978 FBS/FCS split, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

Simplebet, which provides in-game odds to U.S. sportsbooks, told ESPN that Colorado-TCU accounted for 16% of all college football bets Saturday, the greatest percentage of any game on the slate and larger than all but six games from last season. DraftKings said more bets were placed and more money staked on Colorado-TCU than any other game on the day «by far.»

FanDuel reported new bets on Colorado to win the national championship at 300-1 came in Sunday, and at DraftKings, more bets and more money had been placed on the Buffaloes to win it all than any other team over the weekend.

Bookmakers aren't overly concerned with Colorado winning the national championship, though, at least not yet, and are still offering the Buffaloes at triple-digit odds. The Heisman Trophy odds are a different story.

Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the coach's son who passed for a school-record 510 yards, saw his odds to win the Heisman Trophy move from 100-1 to 28-1 at Caesars Sportsbook, while running mate and two-way star Travis Hunter's Heisman odds went from 80-1 to 22-1. By the end of Saturday's game, more bets had been placed at FanDuel on both Sanders and Hunter to win the Heisman Trophy than any other player.

Bookmakers first felt the «Prime Effect» in the winter as soon as they put up