When do games go over, and when is the cover settled?

Pick a season and week, then choose when the game went over to see those games. FBS games from the past four seasons with quarter scores and a closing line.

When did they go over?

12 games · 2024 · Old Dominion · pick one to list those games
58% went over. Of the 7 overs, 0% had cashed by halftime and 71% by the end of the 3rd quarter. Covers were settled only in the 4th quarter or overtime in 8% of games.

All 12 games

2024 · Old Dominion · newest first
GameLineTotalPoints by quarterOverCover settledFinal
2024 · Week 14
ODU -5.5 58.5 21356972 Q3 ODU Q1 40–32
2024 · Week 13
ODU -2.5 51.5 3245577 Q3 MRSH Q1 42–35
2024 · Week 12
JMU -1.5 50.5 14455267 Q3 JMU Q3 35–32
2024 · Week 10
ODU -2.5 58.5 10314148 U APP Q3 20–28
2024 · Week 9
GASO -0.5 51.5 13375766 Q3 ODU Q1 19–47
2024 · Week 8
TXST -10.5 59.5 7142138 U ODU Q1 14–24
2024 · Week 7
GAST -2.5 53.5 7142135 U ODU Q1 21–14
2024 · Week 6
CCU -4.5 51.5 14385982 Q3 CCU Q3 37–45
2024 · Week 5
BGSU -11.5 51.5 21313857 Q4 ODU Q1
Late over
30–27
2024 · Week 3
VT -15.5 47.5 14243054 Q4 VT Q4
Late over
37–17
2024 · Week 2
ODU -1.5 53.5 6133134 U ECU Q1 20–14
2024 · Week 1
SC -20.5 48.5 17203242 U ODU Q1 19–23

When was the cover settled?

From the end of that quarter on, the side covering never changed
Q1 67% 8
Q2 0% 0
Q3 25% 3
Q4 8% 1
OT 0% 0
The team leading at halftime won 73% and covered 64% of 11 games
The team leading after 3 quarters won 82% and covered 82% of 11 games

Going into the 4th quarter

Points the game still needed after 3 quarters, and how often it got there
Points neededGamesWent over
Already over5100% 5
11–141100% 1
15–1710% 0
18–21250% 1
22+30% 0
Quarter scores from ESPN for the past four seasons; closing lines from the ESPN odds feed. Timing is to the quarter: an over that cashed with 10 seconds left in the 3rd counts as Q3. “Settled” means the team covering at the end of that quarter covered the closing spread at the end, with no change in between. Last 5 minutes (4th quarter, plus overtime) compares the score with 5:00 left, from ESPN scoring plays, with the final. History, not a prediction: none of this has shown an edge against the market.