College Football Futures – Touchdown Catches and Rushing Yards

College football fans, you don’t need to wait until kickoff of next’s weeks games to get your first wagers in.

Quite the opposite actually, as the BetOnline.com Sports Book is offering some exciting head-to-head college football futures bets to wet your appetite before play on the field actually gets underway.

Let’s take a look at a few of those futures bets now!

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** Note these are regular season totals and don’t include conference championship or bowl games

Touchdown Catches- A.J. Green -1 ½ TD Catches (-125) or Julio Jones + 1 ½ TD Catches (-105): Looking at the raw numbers from last year, this college football futures bet seems like it would be an advantage to Green. After all, the Georgia receiver made six touchdown grabs compared to Jones’ four, and both are back for their junior years.

However, looks can be deceiving. For starters, Green has a bit of an injury history, as he missed three full games with a myriad of injuries last year, while Jones played in 13 of the Tide’s 14 games and stayed relatively healthy through SEC play. Secondly, Green will be catching passes from a redshirt freshman quarterback, while Julio Jones will be do the same with fifth-year senior, Greg McElroy.

Finally there’s this: With such a good defense last year, Alabama coach Nick Saban was able to focus his offense on the running game and shy away from McElroy, Jones and the passing game. With inexperience on that defense this year, Alabama will be need to score more points, and will almost assuredly have to throw the ball more.

So while the numbers might tell you to make Green your college football futures bet, instead take Jones. He may not have put up the numbers last year, but with Alabama’s new need for a passing game, he will become vital in 2010. He won’t disappoint his teammates, or bettors backing him.

Rushing Yards- Mark Ingram -15 ½ Yards (-115) or Ryan Williams +15 ½ Yards (-115): Speaking of Alabama players, lets look at how their Heisman Trophy winning running back Mark Ingram stacks up against Virginia Tech’s Ryan Williams.

Both are entering 2010 off monster years, with Ingram tallying 1,658 yards on 271 carries, with Williams coming off a true freshman year that saw him go for nearly the exact same yardage (1,655) but on 293 carries. Each enters 2010 knowing that they’ll split time in the backfield.

Trent Richardson emerged late last year for the Crimson Tide, and Virginia Tech will welcome back fellow 1,000 yard rusher Darren Evans after he missed 2009 with a knee injury.

However, despite it, the advantage here does go to Ryan Williams. 15 ½ yards really isn’t all that much over the course of this season, and it is this writers belief, that Williams will see more touches than Ingram. Remember, we still don’t know exactly what we’re going to get from Evans after a knee injury last year. Will he be healthy? Will he be limited?

At Alabama, Ingram will be fighting off Richardson, who has had no problem in the past with injuries, and didn’t get many carries simply because he was earning Saban’s trust as a true freshman. Saban has made it an emphasis to split carries so that both backs will be strong down the stretch of the season.

Finally, there’s that schedule. Alabama will have to navigate its way through the slippery slope of the SEC, and when you add in a game with Penn State out of conference, will face five teams that finished in the top 25 in total defense last year (PSU, Florida, South Carolina, Ole Miss and Tennessee.

Virginia Tech will face just two top 25 defenses, Boise State in their opener, and North Carolina later in the season.

Everything seems to point toward Williams winning this college football futures bet over Ingram.

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