We’ve collected our best plays from the MLB, NFL, CFB and WNBA slates and made them our Thursday’s Sports Betting Best Bets. We start in the WNBA where we like one of the key players on her team to go over in points.
Thursday’s Sports Betting Best Bet: Arike Ogunbowale to go over 20.5 points
Ogunbowale has been incredibly consistent from a points standpoint of late. She scored 23 points versus this same New York team on Tuesday night and exactly 23 points at Chicago last Sunday. She has now scored at least 21 points in six consecutive games and has scored at least 20 points in seven consecutive matchups. Unless her minutes are cut dramatically tonight, then she should score the 21 necessary to cash the over on this prop.
Thursday’s Sports Betting Best Bet: Milwaukee Brewers over 3.5 Runs (-148)
Hayden Birdsong has had a ton of issues for the Giants. Over his last five starts, he’s 0-5 with a 5.95 ERA. During that span, he’s averaged 3 2/3 innings, 3.2 hits allowed and 2.6 runs allowed per game. That runs allowed number is slightly deceiving, however. In two of his last five starts, Birdsong allowed five runs. While he held the Diamondbacks to only two runs in his last outing, Arizona still scored six. In fact, he faced this same Milwaukee team back on August 29 and they knocked him around for the tune of five runs on four hits in an eventual 6-0 victory. They should get to him again tonight.
Thursday’s Sports Betting Best Bet: Tyreek Hill over 28.5 Longest Reception (-114)
Hill was in handcuffs before the Dolphins’ Week 1 matchup against the Jaguars and still managed to catch seven passes for 130 yards and a touchdown. That touchdown, by the way, went for 80 yards. Two defenders had Hill seemingly bottled up along the sidelines and instead, the “Cheetah” tight-roped it for a few yards and then raced to the end zone. Even though Hill catches a lot of short passes in Miami’s offense, this prop bet isn’t attached to air yards. So even if Hill catches a screen pass for a yard, as long as he turns that reception into 29-plus yards, we win.
Thursday’s Sports Betting Best Bet: Texas State over 30.5 Points
While the competition has been lackluster to start the season, the Bobcats have still turned heads offensively. Head coach GJ Kinne has a high-powered offense. It scored 34 points on Lamar in Week 1 and 49 against UTSA last week. James Madison transfer Jordan McCloud headlines a Texas State offense that returns nine starters. McCloud completed 18-of-27 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns last week versus the Roadrunners. Lincoln Pare also rushed 11 times for 109 yards and two scores.
WArizona State has impressed this season, as well. That said, their defense returns just four starters and will be tested tonight at UFCU Stadium.