Vegas oddsmakers set over/under for Vanderbilt at 6 wins

Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY SportsUnlike your average talking head at ESPN, Las Vegas oddsmakers can’t just make bad predictions and suffer no consequences. They lose money if they’re wrong.

So perhaps it’s a good sign that the sharps in Vegas have posted an over/under of 6 wins for the Vanderbilt Commodores in 2017. It means that, unlike hot-take artists, people with a real stake in this think that Vanderbilt could be pretty good.

What’s more, and this is key, the price on the over is -130 while the price on the under is +110. What this means is that a bettor would have to lay down $130 to win $100 on the over; while you’d need to wager $100 to win $110 on the under. That means that…