Live Bet Saturday | October 17, 2026 | Hour 3

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Live from the Circus Sportsbook here in beautiful Franklin, Kentucky, at the Midgaming Hall.

Big shout out to our friend, Dustin Swedelson. Not feeling his best today. He played through some pain the first couple hours this College Football Saturday, but we are here to try to take you through the rest of the day.

With some winners here on VSiN, I am Brad Taylor. Follow me on Twitter at BottomLineLex, along with our friend as always, Will Hill. Follow him at not the Will Hill. Too easy in that vein, of course, the Should Have Bet More podcast, as we are watching college football here, Will. And the big one going on right now in Bloomington, Ohio State at halftime. They score right at the end of the first half. They are now up 10 to 7 in this one. Live betting line, kind of sort of what it was before the game started, minus two and a half for Ohio State. The live total here now, 40 to half. Have we learned anything from this big top 10 battle, Ohio State in Indiana so far here, Will?

Will Hill (1:13)

Brad, what's up, man? Good to see you as always. Fun to do these shows with you and have all these games to watch. And it's a great college football Saturday.

I just bet second half under, I think I got it in, is we're trying to try to bet and talk and do everything at once. I just don't see a lot of big plays in this game. It's a lot of, you know, the defense has really controlled it. The offense, even when Ohio State got their only touchdown of the half, I know you were driving in, maybe you were settled in at that point. It was really tough. They got it the first and goal with the two. And usually in that situation, you get in and you get in pretty easily. They got stuffed. They got stuffed again. They threw it in completion. They finally, I questioned the decision to go for it because I didn't think they were going to get it, but they got it, but bottom line, these teams have not been moving the ball with ease. So 23 and a half, ideally I'd like a 24 I want to shop here in a minute, but it's under or nothing for me in the second half. You could always get burned by overtime, all of those things. That's obviously part of doing business when you bet these unders, but it's been a struggle here. More of a, yeah, you see this, which isn't surprising, top five matchup. You see this a lot of times in boxing, back when boxing used to be a big thing, back when we were kids, Brad. Little sparring early. You don't want to get knocked out early. You don't go for the knockout early. There's just a little feeling out process. That's what this game's felt like, and just not a lot of big plays each side. So I'm looking at second half under Brad. How about you? How much of this game have you watched? What have your takeaways been?

Brad Taylor (2:31)

Yeah, like you said, I was on the road kind of getting here during a lot of this game, but the goal line stand at the end of that first half, that was something you said they should have kicked a field goal there. I was like, well, hey, if you're Goliath, like Ohio State thinks they are, maybe you should kick that field goal, but they went for it and they got it, and they are now winning this game 10 to 7

The total before this game started was 49 and a half. So I'm not sure that I would be looking forward to going under after a 17-point first half. But like you said, you haven't seen anything in 23 and a half, the total for that second half so far. And if you're looking at the stats of this game so far, the total yards, we have Ohio State 176, Indiana 138 So neither team really running up and down the field. So I might co-tail you on that 23 and a half, second half total, Ohio State, Indiana. We have some other games going on right now, Will, including Florida is at Texas. Florida had to start a backup quarterback. They're down 17 to 10 right now, early the third quarter. Florida now on the Texas side of the field, though, and they're at the Texas 38 yard line going in. So that might be a spot for them. LSU up big on Mississippi State, a battle of ranked teams there. Current live betting line, Mississippi State is getting 30.5 points. Seems like a lot to me. And yes, Northwestern is at Michigan State. They're losing 14 to 10 Ranked team losing to the unranked team. Michigan State was one of my best bets going in.