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?

13 games · 2025 · Clemson · pick one to list those games
31% went over. Of the 4 overs, 25% had cashed by halftime and 25% by the end of the 3rd quarter. Covers were settled only in the 4th quarter or overtime in 8% of games.

All 13 games

2025 · Clemson · newest first
GameLineTotalPoints by quarterOverCover settledFinal
2025 · Postseason
CLEM -2.5 47.5 39932 U PSU Q1 22–10
2025 · Week 14
SC -2.5 46.5 0313442 U CLEM Q1 28–14
FUR @ CLEM
2025 · Week 13
CLEM -43.5 55.5 17344155 U FUR Q1 10–45
2025 · Week 12
LOU -2.5 50.5 6193239 U CLEM Q4 20–19
2025 · Week 11
CLEM -1.5 57.5 8252834 U CLEM Q1 10–24
2025 · Week 10
CLEM -4.5 55.5 28567391 Q2 DUKE Q1
Late cover flip Lead lost
46–45
2025 · Week 8
CLEM -5.5 49.5 7234059 Q4 SMU Q1 35–24
2025 · Week 7
CLEM -13.5 54.5 13444451 U CLEM Q2 41–10
2025 · Week 6
CLEM -15.5 47.5 31383848 Q4 CLEM Q1 38–10
2025 · Week 4
CLEM -17.5 53.5 17384855 Q4 SYR Q1 34–21
2025 · Week 3
CLEM -2.5 49.5 3202745 U GT Q1 21–24
2025 · Week 2
CLEM -29.5 51.5 7193643 U TROY Q1 16–27
2025 · Week 1
CLEM -5.5 55.5 3132027 U LSU Q3 17–10

When was the cover settled?

From the end of that quarter on, the side covering never changed
Q1 77% 10
Q2 8% 1
Q3 8% 1
Q4 8% 1
OT 0% 0
The team leading at halftime won 83% and covered 83% of 12 games
The team leading after 3 quarters won 75% and covered 58% of 12 games

Going into the 4th quarter

Points the game still needed after 3 quarters, and how often it got there
Points neededGamesWent over
Already over1100% 1
4–71100% 1
8–102100% 2
11–1420% 0
15–1720% 0
18–2110% 0
22+40% 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.