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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It isn’t just predicting which team will win, it is predicting that a team will win when they are heavily expected to lose to a much better team, and then being right.

If I try to bet you that the sun will come up tomorrow, you aren’t going to take that bet. But if I bet you that instead of the sun, a giant wheel of cheese will rise in the morning, you’ll take that bet and give me great odds, since you are pretty sure it’s not going to happen.

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