Eight bowl games are kicking off on Saturday, so there are many player prop opportunities to dive into.
Read on for our college football player props for Saturday, Dec. 28, including picks for Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders.
College Football Player Prop Picks
In the table below, you'll find each of our college football staff's top player prop picks from today's slate of games. Click on any pick or team logo to navigate to a specific bet discussed in this article.
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BYU vs. Colorado Player Prop
Shedeur Sanders Over 399.5 Passing Yards (+400)
Deion Sanders will be coaching with a full deck on Saturday night, and his team appears to be hungry for its tenth win of the season.
In the NIL/Portal Era, it’s increasingly rare to see a team feature 90% or more of their starters in a non-playoff bowl game. But this game is about achieving a team goal (10 wins) while providing a national stage for two players vying to be the number one overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Having watched every Colorado game this season, there is a simple recipe for rattling Shedeur Sanders: Get to him without blitzing.
Nebraska did this perfectly during their September 28-10 beatdown of Colorado. They sacked Sanders six times while saddling him with a sub-20 QBR for the first time in his career. Kansas State pressured Sanders 22 times during a three-point win in Boulder.
If you get to him without leaving your corners on islands, you can make life difficult for the future NFL millionaire.
Here’s the issue in this game: BYU has a pitiful pass rush.
The Cougars rank 100th in pass rushing per PFF, which means they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Sit back and let Sanders operate from a clean pocket, and he’ll put on a passing display worthy of the old NFL Quarterback Skills Challenge. From a clean pocket, Sanders’ adjusted completion percentage is 86.6%, the highest in the country.
So Jay Hill could always dial up blitzes, right? Well, that’s not a good idea either.
Sanders has the third-highest adjusted completion percentage when facing the blitz, a 5-to-1 big-time throw-to-turnover-worthy play ratio, and a deep-shot mentality when staring down the barrel of a blitz.
When teams have challenged Sanders, he’s made them pay and pay dearly.
I mentioned Kansas State and their pressure rate above. Ultimately, the Wildcats could force a turnover on downs late, but Sanders still finished with 388 yards through the air.
He’s broken through the 400-yard ceiling twice, once against North Dakota State (a top 80 team in SP+) and in their season finale against Oklahoma State. He threw for 438 yards against the Pokes despite getting pulled with 11 minutes remaining in the game.
Deion Sanders would love to see his son come off the board as the first overall pick in the NFL Draft, and this is the last game that he has had any real impact on his draft stock. He’ll allow him to burn a BYU defense that will struggle to rattle Sanders.
I would play this prop down to +375.
Pick: Shedeur Sanders Over 399.5 Passing Yds (+400)
Louisiana vs. TCU Player Prop
Ben Wooldridge Over 1.5 Pass TDs & 199.5 Pass Yards (+260)
The Ragin’ Cajuns are the biggest underdog I like during bowl season (+350).
Their upset bid begins and ends with Wooldrige, the recently crowned Player of the Year in the Sun Belt. He was a revelation this fall for Michael Desormeaux.
In games that Wooldridge started and finished, he averaged 255.5 yards through the air. He threw two or more touchdowns in five of his nine full games and looked exceedingly competent when facing top teams. Against Tulane, as a short home dog, Wooldridge threw for 238 yards and a pair of touchdowns in a near upset.
He’s the real deal, and this staff will give him 30 or more opportunities to put the ball into orbit against the Horned Frogs.
Speaking of TCU, did you know that Sonny Dykes defense has the third-lowest pass-rush grade of any bowl team?
The Horned Frogs struggle to get to the quarterback, leaving clean pockets for opposing passers to slice and dice them on the backend. That’s bad news against Wooldridge, who was surgical from a clean pocket this season. His adjusted completion percentage when kept clean was 81.4%, the fifth-best mark among Group of 5 passers.
TCU will drop into deep zones and allow Wooldridge to work underneath. The Frogs played some form of zone on three-quarters of defensive snaps and haven't been burned much by the deep ball this year.
But those checkdowns add up, evidenced by recent performances from Arizona’s Noah Fifita (284 yards), Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson (242 yards), and Oklahoma State’s two-quarterback system (233 yards).
The number gives too much credit to TCU’s season-long pass defense numbers and does not respect the Sun Belt POY enough.
The Horned Frogs played three teams that couldn’t pass in the early going (Stanford, LIU, Houston), but since then, they’ve been simply above average and not elite against the pass. In a come-from-behind scenario for Wooldridge, cheap yardage through the air and a touchdown or two will be on the table deep into the second half.
I would play this parlay down to +240 and 209.5 yards on his passing total.
Pick: Ben Wooldridge Over 1.5 Pass TDs & 199.5 Pass Yds (+260)
