College football odds, picks, predictions for 2024-25 bowl season, playoffs: Model backing Liberty

SportsLine's advanced computer model has revealed its 2024-25 college football bowl game picks and predictions, including projections for the College Football Playoff

By CBS Sports Staff

Jan 2, 2025 at 9:12 am ET • 2 min read

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The 2024-25 college football bowl schedule began on Dec. 14 and continues into January, culminating with the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 20. This year's bowl schedule features the inaugural 12-team CFP bracket, with the College Football Playoff quarterfinals almost complete. No. 6 seed Penn State, No. 5 Texas and No. 8 Ohio State all advanced to the semifinals, while the fourth quarterfinal game, No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 7 Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, will be played on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET after the New Year's attack on Bourbon Street pushed the game back a day.

Four other non-playoff bowl games remain, with No. 14 Ole Miss a 17.5-point favorite against Duke in the Gator Bowl on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. Before locking in any college football bowl picks on those games or others, be sure to see the latest college football predictions from SportsLine's proven model.

The model simulates every FBS game 10,000 times. Since its inception, it has generated a betting profit of well over $2,000 for $100 players on its top-rated college spread football picks, and it is 43-35 on top-rated picks during the 2024 season. It also nailed all of the winners in the first round of the College Football Playoff. Anyone following at sportsbooks and on betting apps has seen impressive returns.

Now, it has turned its attention to the latest college football odds and college football betting lines for the 2024-25 bowl season. Head here to see every pick.

Top college football predictions for bowl season

One of the college picks the model is high on during bowl season: Liberty (+2.5) pulls off the minor upset against Buffalo in the 2025 Bahamas Bowl, the final non-playoff bowl game of the season on Jan. 4. The Flames are dealing with some big personnel losses as quarterback Kaidon Salter is headed to Colorado via the transfer portal and star running back Quinton Cooley is an opt-out.

However that's moved the line from Liberty being favored to now getting points, and the model has found value at this number. The Flames ranked third in both scoring and total defense in Conference USA and most of that side of the ball remains intact for this matchup. The model projects that the Flames cover nearly 70% of the time. See the rest of its college football picks for bowl season here.

How to make college football picks for bowl season

The model has also made the call on who wins and covers in every FBS matchup during the 2024-25 bowl season, and it's calling for another underdog to win outright. You can only get every pick for every game at SportsLine.

So what college football picks can you make with confidence, and which underdogs win outright during bowl season? Check out the latest college football odds below, then visit SportsLine to see which teams win and cover the spread, all from a proven computer model that has returned well over $2,000 in profit since its inception, and find out.