Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Odds

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 2024 Season Preview

After taking a big step forward in 2023, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets could be primed for an even bigger improvement in the third year of Brent Key’s tenure.

Athletic quarterback Haynes King is back for his second season with Georgia Tech, and his return could spur one of the best seasons for the Yellow Jackets in years. Another winning season would send Georgia Tech to back-to-back bowl games for the first time in a decade, so it appears things are on the right track in Atlanta. The Yellow Jackets get started early with a matchup vs. Florida State in Dublin on August 24. A win in Ireland would go a long way in setting the foundation for a successful season.

Check out this guide for betting on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Betting on Georgia Tech

You’ll find that there are lots of ways to wager on Georgia Tech in 2024.

Prior to the season, you can place futures bets on many different college football betting markets, such college football win totals, ACC championship odds, or even Heisman odds if you’re really bullish on King.

Moneyline bets, point spread bets, and over/under bets are the standard wagers for betting on college football games.

Betting the Georgia Tech Moneyline

Moneyline bets are wagers on which team wins. Margin of victory plays no role in a moneyline bet, it is just about who wins.

Here’s what a hypothetical Georgia Tech moneyline would look like:

• Wake Forest +250
• Georgia Tech -225
  

In this matchup, the Yellow Jackets are -225 moneyline favorites hosting Wake Forest. Moneyline favorites have minus (-) odds, while underdogs have plus (+) odds.

It’s better to win a moneyline wager on an underdog because the underdogs with plus odds pay out more money. Underdogs are far less likely to win because they aren’t considered as good, which is why they have much more value. Conversely, favorites with minus odds pay less than a ML underdog wager of the same amount.

If you won a $10 moneyline bet on Georgia Tech at -225, you’d win $4.44 and get your $10 stake back for $14.44 total. If Wake Forest won this game at +250, the bettor would win $35 ($25 in winnings + $10 stake).

Check out the Action Network betting odds calculator to experiment with moneyline betting odds.

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Betting Georgia Tech point spreads

A point spread wager is about guessing the margin of victory in a game. The favorite will be expected to win by a certain amount of points and the underdog is expected to lose by that same margin. The bettor’s goal is to predict whether the favorite wins by that margin, or if the underdog keeps the final score closer than expected.

Here’s what a hypothetical Georgia Tech point spread looks like.

• Wake Forest +5.5 (-110)
• Georgia Tech -5.5 (-110)
  

Georgia Tech needs to win by at least six points to cover this spread. If the Yellow Jackets only win by four points or just flat-out lose, then they would not cover. Just like moneyline bets, favorites are designated with minuses and underdogs are designated with pluses.

The point spread factors in the strength of each team, so a great team like Ohio State will be favored by huge margins but may not cover simply because the spread is so high. It’s why most spread bets are priced at -110. For every dollar you’d like to win, you would have to bet $1.10 on a -110 market. Spread bets will sometimes be priced at -105 or -115, but they usually hover around -110.

FAQ: Everything you need to know about point spreads

Betting the Georgia Tech total

Totals bets, also known as over/unders, are wagers on how many combined points will be scored in a game. The bettor needs to predict whether a game’s final score finishes above or below the sportsbook’s listed projection.

This game has a total of 51.5 points. Taking the over means you need 52+ total points to be scored in this game, whereas an under bet requires the game to finish with 52 points or fewer.

• Over: 51.5 (-115)
• Under: 51.5 (-105)
  
  Let’s say Georgia Tech wins this game 34-27. The over would hit because 61 total points were scored. If the final score was 24-20, then the under would have been successful.
  
  There are also corresponding payouts for overs and unders. For this hypothetical matchup, betting the over means you would need to wager $1.15 for every $1 you want to win, and a bet on the under takes $1.05 to win $1.

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Georgia Tech Player Props & other bets

Due to some recent scandals, college football prop bets cannot be found in every state with legal sports betting. However, some states do allow prop bets on college football.

Prop bets (propositional bets) are wagers on statistical outcomes. An example of a football prop bet would be a player’s total yardage in a game, like over/under 94.5 rushing yards, or an anytime touchdown prop. Prop bets are far more common for NFL games.

If you can’t make college football prop bets in your state, PrizePicks is a DFS platform that serves as a good alternative. PrizePicks lets you predict whether a player finishes above or below their listed statistical total. You can also group picks together for potentially higher payouts.