You hate to see that.
If history has told us anything, you should never, and I mean NEVER, put your money on any team in Georgia to win a big game. Just don’t do it.
One bettor clearly didn’t look to recent history, because if he did, he’d have almost $1 million still in hisa bank account today.
One high roller in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day is definitely drinking his sorrows away after he walked into MGM Resorts sports book and risked a total of $755,000 to win $311,000 riding on the Bulldogs to beat Texas in Tuesday’s Sugar Bowl to cash two money-line parlays.
“One parlay for $125,000 is to win $111,000 on Alabama, the Patriots, Chiefs, Seahawks and Georgia. The first four teams have come in.
The second is for $630,000 to win $200,000 on the Patriots and Georgia, with the Patriots, of course, winning on Sunday.
The Bulldogs are 12½-point favorites over the Longhorns and the gambler has Georgia at minus 550 on the ML, which takes the points out of the equation.”
The Texas Longhorns pretty much dominated the entire game and went on to win by a score of 28-21.
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That same bettor won a $525,000 ML wager to win $95,000 on Alabama when the Crimson Tide beat Oklahoma 45-34 in Saturday’s College Football Playoff semifinal. The bettor clearly wanted to keep the good times rolling, but it was not meant to be.