Las Vegas sportsbooks<\/a> didn’t offer a straight moneyline on the Howard and UNLV game, but some online books did. And they’re paying out on a few lucky bets. <\/span><\/p>\nOne Twitter user shared a $10 wager on Howard with the Bison at +42400. The fortunate ticket slip paid $4,240. Another person reportedly bet $25 on +55000, which won $13,750. <\/span><\/p>\nWeek One Upsets<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\nHoward wasn’t the only program to pull off the nearly unthinkable. Liberty University traveled to Texas to take on Baylor. The Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, topped the Bears 48-45 to cover a 33-point spread, another all-time top 10 college football upset. <\/span><\/p>\nIt’s certainly not the start new Baylor coach Matt Rhule wanted. But for Liberty University students, it extended their weekend. Controversial president Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that an approved after curfew welcoming home party would take place at 2 am on Sunday, and that Monday classes would be canceled in order to celebrate the team’s first ever win over a Power Five program. <\/span><\/p>\nFamed sports betting expert RJ Bell noted on Twitter that had a bettor placed a $100 parlay on both Howard and Liberty, the wager would have returned $4.1 million.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard University was a 45-point underdog entering Saturday night’s game in Las Vegas against UNLV. But that didn’t stop the small Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference team from pulling off the biggest spread upset in college football history. Just 10 miles from the Strip, Sam Boyd Stadium played host to the biggest sports betting upset Nevada’s legalized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":57760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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