College Football Betting: Heisman Trophy Odds Update

Tua Tagovailoa has been here before. Tagovailoa was the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy at this time last season, but he ended up losing out to Kyler Murray after stumbling down the stretch. Alabama’s quarterback is out to win the award this year and establish himself as the first quarterback in Crimson Tide history to win the Heisman Trophy. He is a slight favorite over Jalen Hurts according to the current Heisman Trophy odds.

ODDS TO WIN 2019 HEISMAN TROPHY

TUA TAGOVAILOA +175
JALEN HURTS +180
JOE BURROW +400
JUSTIN FIELDS +500
JONATHAN TAYLOR +1000
JAKE FROMM +2000
TREVOR LAWRENCE +2200
CHUBA HUBBARD +3300
SAM EHLINGER +3300

Tagovailoa has had an incredible start to the season. He set Alabama’s record for career touchdown passes against Ole Miss last week, and he has thrown 86 touchdown passes in just 20 starts with the Crimson Tide. His stat line this season is absurd as Tagovailoa is on pace to finish with even better numbers than he did last year. He has yet to throw an interception, and he has completed 76.4 percent of his passes for 1,718 yards and 23 touchdowns.

He has been helped a lot by Alabama’s excellent receivers. Jerry Jeudy, Henry Ruggs III, and DeVonta Smith make up the best receiving trio in the country, and both Jeudy and Ruggs have been pegged as first round picks in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Miami Dolphins are probably casting a longing eye on all three players, and maybe they will reunite them on South Beach with their bevy of picks.

Alabama has yet to face a top defense this season, and that’s the primary thing working against Tagovailoa at this point. He struggled against Mississippi State and Georgia last year, and those performances cost him the Heisman Trophy. The Crimson Tide face Texas A&M next Saturday, and a great performance there could lead to Tagovailoa becoming an odds-on favorite.

Jalen Hurts is out to make history. Hurts is the second favorite according to the Heisman Trophy betting odds, and he is hoping to become the third straight Oklahoma quarterback to win this award.

His numbers have been out of this world. Hurts’ 249.9 QB rating is the highest in the country, and his 15.2 yards per attempt is also tops in the nation by a comfortable margin. He hasn’t had to throw the ball much with Oklahoma routing opponents, but he has been making some great moves with his legs. Hurts is averaging 9.4 yards per carry this year, running for 443 yards and five touchdowns.

Voter fatigue is Hurts’ biggest concern in his quest to win the award. He is going to put up video game numbers against the laissez faire defenses we see in the Big 12, so will voters want to reward an Oklahoma quarterback for dusting hopelessly outgunned opponents for the third straight season?

When’s the last time that an LSU quarterback was considered a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate in October? Joe Burrow’s fantastic start to the 2019 season has catapulted him into the conversation as the best player in the nation. Burrow leads the nation in completion percentage (80.6 percent), and he has already set multiple school records in just four games.

Burrow’s odds to win the Heisman Trophy at the start of the year were 150-1, so anyone that placed a bet on him to win the award could be in for a huge payday. He is now down to 4-1, and he already has a marquee performance against a quality opponent to his credit after LSU’s 45-38 win over Texas.

The next six weeks will make or break Burrow’s candidacy. LSU has a daunting stretch where the Tigers face Utah State, Florida, Mississippi State, and Auburn in consecutive weeks before getting a week off prior to their rivalry game with Alabama.

Justin Fields is the final player on the board with odds to win the Heisman Trophy that are under 10-1. Fields and Ryan Day have kept Ohio State humming along, and Fields has thrown for a touchdown and run for a touchdown in all five games this year.

Ohio State has waxed all five of its opponents, winning each game by at least 24 points, and four of the Buckeyes’ five victories have been by 40 points or more. Fields doesn’t have the same eye-popping numbers as the other top candidates, but he might be the best player on the most dominant team in the country. He has yet to throw for more than 235 yards in a game this season, so that must be change if he is going to be supplant the three quarterbacks ahead of him.

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