NCAAF Best Bets: National Championship Odds after Week 5

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00:00We'll be right back with more live right here to end out this

00:07Monday in our final segment here on the early line on sports

00:10grid. We start sadly with some news around basketball legend

00:15NBA Hall of Famer Dekembe Mutombo. He has sadly passed

00:18away at the age of just 58 years old following a battle

00:24with brain cancer. The eight-time NBA All-Star the Hall

00:28four times one of the legends of the game known for wagging the

00:32finger when he would block a shot and a really really great

00:36humanitarian around the sport and around the world has sadly

00:39passed away at the age of 58 again following a battle with

00:44brain cancer. Sad news in the basketball and sporting

00:47community. Now as we look back on the weekend that was in

00:51college football. You mentioned or you heard Donnie and I

00:54mentioned it in our breakdown and our recap of the game of

00:58the year in Tuscaloosa between Alabama and Georgia a game that

01:02we hyped up with a ton of excitement and atmosphere that

01:05match the occasion and that's a beautiful thing on Saturday a

01:09tale of two halves Alabama off to a very early lead 28 zip

01:14scoring a touchdown on each of its first four opening

01:17offensive possessions. But then you saw the resilience of a

01:20Kirby smart Georgia team. They didn't run away. They didn't

01:24back down from the challenge. I'll be it inside Brian Denny.

01:27They were down 1835 3315 entering the fourth and final

01:31quarter scored on three consecutive possessions took the

01:34lead with two and a half minutes remaining only for some poor

01:38tackling and Ryan Williams brilliance for Alabama to win

01:41the game 4134. There are times I think where you could look at

01:46that game and question if either of the two teams are tops in the

01:50country, but I think your overall assessment should be

01:52both of these teams are two of the five best two of the three

01:55best two of the two best teams in college football this year

02:00and we made this point a few times at the end of a season

02:03ago. This was just the third regular season matchup between

02:07the Bulldogs and the tide since the start of 2015, but we had

02:11seen them meet three times in the postseason prior to

02:14Saturday night since the start of 2021 twice in the SEC

02:18championship game once in the national title game and because

02:22of Alabama knocking off Georgia in an upset last year

02:25in Atlanta in the SEC championship game. It was the

02:28Crimson Tide onto the college football playoff Georgia left

02:32on the outside looking in some would tell you what do you need

02:35an expanded college football playoff for that was a playoff

02:38game for a conference championship at stake and I

02:42understand the argument but now in the regular season. Did you

02:46feel as though the significance was diminished on Saturday

02:50watching that thrilling game? Did you feel as though? Hey,

02:53what a great game? I watched for three and a half hours, but

02:55it didn't really matter. Did it? Did you feel that obviously

02:59the answer is a resounding? No, the game was important. The

03:03game was significant. The game was masterful. The game was

03:06magnificent and we are going to see both of these teams still

03:10have an outstanding opportunity to qualify for the college

03:13football playoff and have the chance to compete for a

03:17national championship. That is the beauty of the expanding

03:21college football playoff and that did not leave us on

03:25Saturday night watching that game Georgia last year when

03:30being left out of the CFP had lost one football game in its

03:34last 30 by a field goal and a conference championship against

03:39Nick Saban in Alabama. There's a really good argument to say

03:43that Georgia was the best team in the country last year and

03:46never had a chance of winning the national title beyond that

03:51conference title matchup. That's no longer the case. We

03:55knew there was going to be movement. How drastic the

03:58movement from the odds perspective that was the

04:01question following the result on Saturday night in Tuscaloosa,

04:05Alabama is now the national championship favorite at plus

04:09370 closer to a seven to one price on the Crimson Tide

04:13entering that matchup. The Crimson Tide also now ranked the

04:16top of the country as the number one team in the AP

04:20poll plus 370 the price for Alabama, Ohio State 10 cents

04:24back at plus 380 Texas third best number at five to one, but

04:29look at Georgia plus 550. We have seen the Bulldogs get as

04:34low as plus 270 plus 280 to win a national championship this

04:38year. The preseason favorites who had the market worked

04:41against them ever so slightly after the narrow win in

04:44Lexington now two Saturdays ago or three Saturdays ago, but

04:50they are not now 50 to one or plus 55 to one or even 10 to

04:55one or 15 to one. They have an accurate price to win a

04:59national championship at plus 550. The odds will tell you

05:04what we saw on Saturday was a matchup in a brilliant football

05:08game between two of the four best teams in the country, at

05:13least in hopes of winning a national championship, and that

05:18is a good thing for college football. The early line

05:21returns tomorrow 8 AM Eastern here on sports.

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