How can a $1 bet turn into $500,000 when so many football/basketball games are so lopsided?

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I’m talking specifically about [something like this](http://statsandshots.com/freaking-out-rn/) where there are 20 games picked. Couldn’t you just pick 20 games in the first few weeks of the college football season when all of the really good teams play really crappy schools? Same goes for something like college basketball. What’s the catch?

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The bets are not for the crazy good team to win against the crazy bad team, the bets are for the crazy good team to win by +X over the bad team. Alabama will crush Southern Mississippi 95% of the time, but they aren’t good enough to crush them by 38 points every single time.

Point spreads are made to try to get the odds to be 50/50, so your link isn’t describing a bet of 20 instances of good teams over bad teams, but more like flipping the coin 20 times and getting heads 20 straight times….it is very hard.

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