Many have already dubbed Clemson’s upset of Alabama on Monday night “the greatest National Championship Game ever played,” but bookies in Las Vegas have a few different adjectives they would used to describe it.
Not only did the Tigers pull off a stunning last-second upset of college football’s dynasty team, but the “over” was hit, triggering a worst case scenario of sorts for the house.
In a Tuesday morning interview series published by ESPN, one bookie went as far as to say it could not possibly have been worse.
“It was as bad as a result as humanly possible,” William Hill director of trading Nick Bogdanovich, a veteran Las Vegas bookmaker, said.
Bill Sattler, director of specialty games for Caesars Entertainment, doubled down on Hill’s assessment with a little added doom and gloom.
“[It was] the worst loss in any college football game I can remember,” Sattler said.
After closing as 6-point underdogs despite most early money being placed on them, Clemson’s upset victory cost MGM a loss in the “high six figures.” Other sportsbooks, including Wynn race and sportsbook, said their losses were similar and closed in the low six figures.
As exciting a game as it was for fans, and as fruitful as it may have been for some gamblers, Vegas took quite a beating.
