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The Alabama Crimson Tide and Ohio State Buckeyes are the last two teams standing for tonight’s CollegeFootball PlayoffNational Championship.

A class-action lawsuit filed last Thursday by a DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship (SBNC) contestant, regarding the controversial outcome and the company’s handling of the inaugural contest, assures that discussion of the bold event will continue for the wrong reasons. Nobody enjoys litigation except the law firms billing hours. How does this thing work and what are the rules? It runs three days from Friday, Jan.

Like the Westgate and Circa Sports contests, the DraftKings Championship is a $1,500 entry fee tournament, where contestants pick five NFL games per week against the spread. Standings are determined based on the contestants’ correct number of picks throughout the season. As part of the Sports Betting National Championship, DraftKings will offer a number of feature events. In March, the mega-event will be the $1,500,000 guaranteed Spring Sports Betting Championship. Between now and March 19, there will be a series of qualifying contests.

One team was a season-long front-runner while the other overcame COVID-19 issues.

And here they are, highly favored Alabama and underdog Ohio State, both undefeated and clashing for the national championship title. Both have significant wagering cache with the NJ sports betting crowd.

Here is a closer at the matchup and NCAA National Championship Game odds.

Breaking down Alabama vs. Ohio State

Alabama is 12-0 and favored in the nine-point range across NJ sportsbook apps. Besides being at the top of the rankings most of the year, they are the BCS No. 1 seed. The Crimson Tide defeated Notre Dame 31-14 in the semifinals.

Ohio State, 7-0, almost didn’t qualify for the BCS because it had only played five games entering the final regular-season weekend. It notched No. 6, entered the four-team championship and then scored a significant upset over Clemson, 49-28, as a seven-point dog.

The Crimson Tide attracted the early love of the bettors even at high odds. Here are some key numbers:

• Alabama garnered 68% of the DraftKings Sportsbook handle entering the weekend.
• Alabama also secured a majority on the moneyline at 56%, despite its seemingly prohibitive line of -315.
• Ohio State is an attractive +240 if it can deliver the upset.
• The over-under of 75.5 has appealed to the under crowd, with 65% thinking the total will go under.

Alabama averages a little more than 48 points per game compared to 43 for Ohio State.

Alabama gives up 19 points per contest, Ohio State 22. The betting crowd seems to be of the belief that defenses will rise to the occasion in this game.

Ohio State has a decided rushing advantage of 272 yards per game compared to 185 for Alabama.

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From an NJ sports wagering perspective, bettors have a number of options, including a number of different props.

At DraftKings, Alabama quarterback Mac Jones is expected to throw at least three touchdown passes. The over 3.5 was paying -103 and the under was -125 as of early this morning.

Justin Fields of Ohio State has a -129 marker for over 2.5 touchdown passes, while the under was +120. He threw a whopping six in the game of his life in Ohio State’s thrashing of Clemson.

If you take the under in either case, you are hoping for a running back or even a quarterback sneak to steal one of the tallies.

Seeking value for the big names? They will have to be the first touchdown scorer.

On the FanDuel Sportsbookside, Fields’ over-under passing yardage is set at 290.5, with the price at -113. This is a playable bet, especially if you believe he can duplicate the 385-yard total from the Clemson game.

Jones has a standard of 365.5 yards. The over is -120, and the under is -106.

Note the difference between FanDuel and DraftKings if you like the yardage prop. Fields is 309.5 at DraftKings and 290.5 at FanDuel. Jones is 380.5 at DraftKings and 365.5 at FanDuel.

On the touchdown end, Jones has a standard of 3.5, with the over at -128 and the under at -102.

Fields has a playable number at 2.5 touchdowns, with the over at -120 and the under at -106.

Johnny Avello says betting is going well

Ohio State has been the Cinderella team in this matchup.

After making the postseason, the Buckeyes turned in a masterful performance against Clemson. They were unstoppable, amassing a whopping 639 yards. Pretty high numbers for a team getting more than a touchdown in the final.

All that did was spike wagering expectations for this showdown. Johnny Avello, the director of race and sportsbook operations for DraftKings, told NJ Gambling Sites the betting for this game is really going well.

“This is probably going to the biggest handle for a single college football game of all time,” said Avello. “The reason is because the matchup is great. Any time Ohio State is involved in a game, that team seems to be a money magnet. People just love to bet Ohio State, especially with points. We expect to see plenty of Ohio State action.”

The betting sentiment bears him out. The Sugar Bowl, involving Ohio State and Clemson, was DraftKings’ most-wagered bowl game of the season. Alabama-Notre Dame was second.

Ohio State gets the opportunity to complete a season-long redemption mission. The Buckeyes were beaten in the BCS semifinal 29-23 last year by Clemson after having a 16-0 lead. They avenged the Clemson loss and now seek the Holy Grail.

“They could not stop thinking about that earlier Clemson game since they lost it,” Avello said. “And then some experts came out and called them the 11th best team in the country, and you know they didn’t like that.”

Looking at Justin Fields and Ohio State

There’s another interesting element to this game from a wagering standpoint.

Fields had an outstanding game against Clemson

It was the game of his career. He tossed six — count ’em, six — touchdown passes. Two of them were bombs.

“Fields is a talented kid,” Avello observed. “I like him a lot. He has a good presence on the field, and he has an awareness of his receivers, and yet there’s another way to look at this. He threw some passes in that game against Clemson in which a fingernail could have separated whether the pass was complete or incomplete. …

“The question is whether he is going to be able to duplicate that against this Alabama team.”

Bettors will soon find out.

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As far as watching the game goes, we are hours away from kickoff.

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Daily fantasy sports and sports betting titan DraftKings is offering players throughout the US the chance at $1,000,000 in January 2019. The DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship will bring several lucky contestants to New Jersey to hash out a three-day sports betting frenzy.

How the DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship works

Players who win entry to the championship will receive $5,000 in their sports betting accounts to use during the weekend. The players will compete with each other on a special leaderboard made for that weekend.

The players with the largest bankrolls at the end of the weekend will receive cash prizes. The prize schedule is as follows:

• 1st place – $1,000,000
• 2nd place – $350,000
• 3rd place – $250,000
• 4th place – $175,000
• 5th place – $100,000
• 6th – 7th place – $75,000
• 8th – 10th place – $50,000
• 11th – 15th place – $25,000
• 16th – 25th place – $15,000

The championship will pay out at least $2,500,000 in prize money. The contest will occur from Jan. 11 through Jan. 13, which coincides with the NFL Divisional Playoff round.

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In order to gain entry, players can either play their way in through special DFS contests onsite or buy directly into the championship. DFS players could potentially get a ticket for as little as $0.10, although a direct buy-in costs $10,000.

Players must wager at least $1,000 on Friday and Saturday, and at least $2,000 on Sunday. Wagering on Sunday also needs to occur on the NFL games in order to maintain eligibility for the leaderboard prizes. However, players who do not meet the requirements will get to keep the remainder of their bankrolls.

The qualifier structure may draw the wrong attention

There’s no denying that a chance at a $1 million payday is enticing. However, the manner that players use to get to the championship may create some unnecessary legal concerns in the process.

One of the selling points about daily fantasy sports has long been that it is definitively not gambling. There have even been academic studies that tend to support the idea of DFS as a game of skill.

Sports betting, on the other hand, is definitively gambling. Even with the application of proper skill, losses can and will occur.

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With this contest, players are now going to use DFS to enter a sports betting contest. The conflation of the two concepts is precisely what the industry doesn’t need right now.

If the Congressional hearing two weeks ago proved anything, it’s that sports betting still garners a healthy dose of suspicion from both lobbyists and lawmakers. DFS, on the other hand, has mostly slipped by state and federal governments’ collective attention.

In fact, at present, only nine states disallow daily fantasy sports. DFS operates freely in most parts of the country, including in places where resistance to other gambling is quite strong.

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The worst thing for the industry to do would be to flaunt itself and make lawmakers feel like saps. In many cases, it would not be difficult for legislators to pass a new law or reinterpret an existing one.