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 · Old Dominion · pick one to list those games
38% went over. Of the 5 overs, 20% had cashed by halftime and 40% 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 · Old Dominion · newest first
GameLineTotalPoints by quarterOverCover settledFinal
2025 · Postseason
USF -4 52.5 10172734 U ODU Q1 24–10
2025 · Week 14
ODU -28.5 58.5 0203737 U GAST Q1 10–27
2025 · Week 13
ODU -10.5 62.5 14314855 U ODU Q1 45–10
2025 · Week 12
ODU -9.5 53.5 10202633 U ODU Q1 0–33
2025 · Week 10
ODU -16.5 55.5 17242437 U ODU Q1 31–6
2025 · Week 9
ODU -12.5 60.5 7173145 U APP Q4 21–24
2025 · Week 8
JMU -3.5 47.5 34557690 Q2 JMU Q3 27–63
2025 · Week 7
ODU -14.5 57.5 14345172 Q4 MRSH Q1 24–48
2025 · Week 6
ODU -18.5 53.5 10344454 Q4 ODU Q2
Late over
7–47
2025 · Week 5
ODU -14.5 53.5 0142128 U LIB Q1 7–21
2025 · Week 3
VT -5.5 50.5 7284571 Q4 ODU Q1 45–26
NCCU @ ODU
2025 · Week 2
ODU -21.5 48.5 9195060 Q3 ODU Q3 6–54
2025 · Week 1
IU -23.5 53.5 14243441 U ODU Q1 14–27

When was the cover settled?

From the end of that quarter on, the side covering never changed
Q1 69% 9
Q2 8% 1
Q3 15% 2
Q4 8% 1
OT 0% 0
The team leading at halftime won 92% and covered 67% of 12 games
The team leading after 3 quarters won 100% and covered 69% of 13 games

Going into the 4th quarter

Points the game still needed after 3 quarters, and how often it got there
Points neededGamesWent over
Already over2100% 2
4–72100% 2
8–101100% 1
15–1710% 0
18–2110% 0
22+60% 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.