Bovada's At Odds Podcast

With the regular season complete and the play-in games about to tip former NBA champ Vernon Maxwell joins the show to help preview the NBA playoffs. Which teams are legit contenders and who will be bowing out immediately? Are the Lakers getting hot at the right time? Can the Kings continue their Cinderella run? Patrick and Seth look back at the Masters and discuss the dominance of Jon Rahm and the...

It's Masters week and Seth and Patrick take a look at the favorites, the significant liabilities, and where the early money is at. Will the LIV golfers spoil the fun? Can Tiger Woods provide yet another improbable payoff for bettors? And if not, how many ways can you bet against him? The fellas look back at the NCAA Championship game and the overall highs and lows of this year's tourney that saw r...

We're down to 4 teams as Connecticut, FAU, Miami and San Diego State continue their improbable run in one of the most wide-open tourneys in recent memory. Mateen Cleaves once again joins the show to discuss the tourney's highlights and which players have now become household names among casual fans. Against the show's better judgment, we once again try and predict a tourney winner. And MLB's Openi...

Michigan State is on to the Sweet 16 which means Mateen Cleaves again joins the show to help us preview the second weekend's games. Patrick breaks down what the opening weekend of March Madness looked like for an oddsmaker, where the upsets were, and where the house lost big. Can anyone else challenge Houston and Alabama who appear to be on a national championship collision course? Can Drew Timme...

It's March Madness and Patrick and Seth are joined by former Michigan State star Mateen Cleaves to help break down this year's bracket and give the inside scoop as to how impactful a coach like Tom Izzo is in March. Mateen goes way off the board for a darkhorse pick and he and Seth reminisce about the Seattle Supersonics. Bovada debuts its Million Madness bracket with $1,000,000 in guaranteed Cryp...

Patrick has traveled south of the Canadian border, and the fellas have done their first-ever in-person recording of the podcast! Patrick and Seth record “live” from the Prudential Center in New Jersey where the Toronto Maple Leafs take on the New Jersey Devils in what could possibly be a future playoffs matchup. During the course of the podcast, Patrick breaks down the ins and out of NHL oddsmakin...

With the NHL trade deadline quickly upon us, Patrick and Seth take a look at the updated futures board. With so many Eastern Conference teams leveling up their talent, how tough will this year's path to Lord Stanley be? Conference tourney week is fast approaching and with the bulk of the season now behind us the fellas take a look at the top teams in college hoops, which teams have shocked oddsmak...

With the NBA All-Star weekend behind us Patrick and Seth catch their breath and look at how the season began and where we're at now including an updated look at the Bovada futures board. After an otherwise ho-hum event in Utah, the fellas discuss the practicality of these events (across all leagues) going forward and take issue with Adam Silver's load management questions. And after the first week...

Patrick and Seth take a look back at the big game and how the final result worked for and against Bovada. How likely are we to see a return of the Eagles and Chiefs next year? Is it too early for Mahomes to be discussed as the potential greatest of all time? And was that really worth a defensive holding penalty? With the game decided the fellas go discuss some of the crazier props, the brilliant g...

It's Super Bowl week! Patrick and Seth look at the updated line, where the action is, and what the final line could be come Sunday. How healthy will Patrick Mahomes be? How many of his offensive weapons will be able to play and at what capacity? And how many different ways can people bet the Super Bowl at Bovada? In the NBA the fellas discuss the Kyrie Irving trade to the Mavericks and the shiftin...

The Super Bowl is upon us and Patrick and Seth take an early look at where the line opened, where it's currently at, who's betting on what, and what the early prop betting action looks like. What will Patrick Mahomes' health status be for the game? How many of his receivers will be back at 100%? And do the Eagles have a single flaw in their game for Kansas City to exploit? Two-time Super Bowl winn...

It's conference championship weekend and the odds have never been tighter with all four remaining teams all within a (slightly weighted) coinflips chance of making it to the Super Bowl. How will Patrick Mahomes' ankle injury impact the Chiefs' offense and what would the difference in odds be for a Chiefs team with Mahomes out, limited, or at 100%? The NFC has come down to the two best-rated teams...

Patrick and Seth take a look back at a fantastic Super Wildcard Weekend (still no commission for that) where the big dogs punched above their weight and largely kept things close while Tom Brady and the Bucs saw their season end the same way it started with an offense that could just never get it together. What do we think of Doug Pederson's aggressive 2-pt conversion attempt? What would Lamar and...

Week 18 is wrapped and we're down to 14 teams left with dreams of hoisting the Lombardi trophy. What were the big surprises of the final week of the season? What could the NFL do better to avoid teams celebrating failure? And how much fun are Dan Campbell's Lions? While it's now win-or-go home Patrick and Seth breakdown which teams have a legit chance of making a deep playoff push and which ones w...

Patrick and Seth discuss the Damar Hamlin situation and what this means for the game, the players, the league, and most importantly, Hamlin and his family. Inside a night of tragedy what went right, who got it right and where did the league, miss? After brilliant semi-final games, how does the college football national championship look to shape up? Can TCU continue its Cinderella run against the...

Seth and Patrick tough it out through their respective sports hangovers after what was maybe the greatest weekend in sports history. Messi's trophy case is now complete, Matt Ryan broke his own record for futility, and...seriously, what WAS that from the Jakobi Meyers?! Looking ahead to Week 16 Patrick and Seth break down the evolving NFL playoff picture including must-win games for Green Bay and...

While fans and oddsmakers alike have gotten used to star players resting more and more during the regular season was the Nets resting 9 players on Saturday a bit of overkill? How meaningful is the NBA regular season if teams can feel comfortable resting the majority of their active roster? Looking at Qatar the fellas break down what has been an exciting (and upset-heavy) World Cup and look at what...

The World Cup has progressed to the knockout stage and while Canada and the United States are both out Seth and Patrick nonetheless continue with their breakdown of the tourney. Its Week 14 in the NFL and the 10-2 Vikings are road underdogs to the 5-7 Lions. Can the Vikings prove the haters (including Pat Morrow) wrong and live up to their record? Can the Dolphins bounce back against a Chargers te...

The fellas break out their post-Thanksgiving stretch pants and dig into whats leftover in the college football season. Its Championship Week and this might be the most intriguing one in years with two very tight win-and-youre-in games and a couple of outsiders looking for chaos. In the NFL the boys take a look at the Dolphins regaining their early season form against the NFC West-leading 49ers in...

Happy Turkey Week, folks! Patrick and Seth look at the buffet of betting options available as the World Cup joined the NFL and the NCAA's Rivalry Week ensuring that at seemingly all hours of the day we'll have meaningful, high-level athletic competition. In the NFL the fellas break down a Bills team that looks a bit out of whack, a Cowboys team that might be playing their best football in years, a...

The World Cup in Qatar is shortly upon us and Patrick and Seth air their grievances about a winter tournament being played and the impact it has on the various European domestic leagues. In the NFL the Bills lose one for the ages against Minnesota and suddenly find themselves in 3rd place in the AFC East. While they're still Super Bowl favorites is there cause for concern after two straight weeks...

The midterms are (mostly) all wrapped up and Senate control may once again be decided by a Georgia run-off. Patrick and Seth take a look at what went down Tuesday night and what exactly happened to turn a Red Wave into a Red Trickle. With many Donald Trump candidates failing to cross the finish line and with Ron DeSantis pulling off a blowout victory in Florida, how has the 2024 Presidential odds...

The US Midterms are upon us and Patrick and Seth break down the key races in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Can the GOP take back both the House and the Senate? How much will voter apathy drive next Tuesday's results? Despite their poor results will the Houston Texans outdraw the Houston Astros ratings-wise next Thursday? Pat and Seth dive in to the Bucs and Rams as both teams look to salvage their sea...

The Jets and Giants are a combined 11-3, as we all predicted, and the Bucs and Rams are below .500. Besides the Bills, Chiefs and Eagles are there any other contenders lurking out there? And how many teams are all of a sudden facing must-win games? In College Football, Clemson escapes thanks to some home cooking, leaving Syracuse and Seth Everett eyeing the Orange Bowl as consolation. But they'll...

Three 100-win teams have been eliminated from the playoffs (so far!) and Patrick and Seth discuss the implications of the expanded playoffs further diluting regular season success and what this means regarding the difficulty of MLB Futures trading. Over in college football, the boys take a look back at the incredible Tennessee/Alabama game as well as why a loss didn't really hurt Alabama's title h...