Why are there no player props for this college football game?
On the slate we counted, the games with nothing had one thing in common: an FCS opponent. On the Friday evening before the 26 September slate, 12 of the 65 college games in our odds feed had no player prop at any book we track, and every one of them was an FBS team hosting an FCS team. Another 20 games had anytime touchdown props and nothing else. Only 33 of the 65 had a yardage prop at all. Big matchups had plenty: Oregon at USC had 66 props from 10 books.
You open your app on a college Saturday, find the game you care about, and there is nothing to bet on the players. It is not your app. On the slate we counted, nearly one game in five had no player props anywhere we track, and half had no yardage props at all.
Here is the whole Saturday, game by game.
The count: 65 games, 33 with a yardage prop
The college games of Saturday 26 September 2026, as listed in our odds feed, read on the Friday evening before.
| Games | |
|---|---|
| On the slate | 65 |
| With any player prop | 53 |
| With anytime touchdown props only | 20 |
| With a yardage prop (passing, rushing, receiving or receptions) | 33 |
| With no player prop at all | 12 |
The 12 with nothing
Every one of them was an FBS team at home to an FCS team:
| Bucknell at Pittsburgh | Lindenwood at Eastern Michigan |
| Central Arkansas at Florida State | Mercyhurst at Western Kentucky |
| Gardner-Webb at Marshall | North Carolina Central at East Carolina |
| Houston Christian at North Texas | Robert Morris at Buffalo |
| Incarnate Word at Texas State | Stonehill at Ohio |
| LIU at Florida International | William & Mary at Duke |
Florida State and Duke are on that list. What the 12 had in common was the opponent: every one was an FCS team. We did not check whether every FBS against FCS game that day was empty.
The 20 with touchdowns only
The next tier had anytime touchdown props and nothing else. The eight thinnest games on the board were all in it:
| Game | Props | Books |
|---|---|---|
| UMass at Sacramento State | 11 | 4 |
| James Madison at Old Dominion | 19 | 3 |
| South Florida at Bowling Green | 20 | 3 |
| Ball State at Kent State | 20 | 5 |
| Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State | 20 | 3 |
| UNLV at Akron | 21 | 4 |
| Kennesaw State at Arkansas State | 21 | 3 |
| Florida Atlantic at UL Monroe | 21 | 3 |
We do not know why a book posts touchdown props on a game and skips its yardage, and we are not going to guess. The pattern is what the board showed.
At the other end
The big matchups got the full menu: passing, rushing, receiving, receptions, passing touchdowns and anytime touchdowns.
| Game | Props | Books |
|---|---|---|
| Oregon at USC | 66 | 10 |
| Illinois at Ohio State | 58 | 8 |
| Kansas State at Cincinnati | 56 | 7 |
| Colorado at Baylor | 54 | 8 |
| Minnesota at Washington | 54 | 7 |
The median game with props had 42 of them from 7 books.
Which books had props on the most games
Of the 53 games with any props:
| Book | Games with props |
|---|---|
| DraftKings | 53 (anytime touchdowns only) |
| Bovada | 51 |
| BetOnline | 50 |
| bet365 (Ontario prices) | 41 |
| FanDuel | 33 |
| Hard Rock Bet | 32 |
| theScore Bet | 25 |
| Fliff | 24 |
| BetMGM | 11 |
| Courtside | 11 |
| BetRivers | 4 |
If your only app is FanDuel, you had player props on 33 of the 65 games. If it is BetMGM, 11. And on this slate DraftKings’ college props in our feed were anytime touchdowns only, on every game. Which of these books paid the most, market by market, is in which sportsbook has the best college football prop odds.
What to do about it
- Check a second and third book before you decide a game has no props. Coverage differed by more than four to one between the books above.
- Expect less on games against FCS opponents. All 12 empty games on this slate had one. That is the pattern in the empty games, not a rule about every such game, and it is one slate, not a season.
- Look again on Saturday morning if a game you want is thin. College props can keep arriving on game day, and this count is from the night before.
The Lab board lists every college game that has props, with each book’s price side by side, so you can see in one screen which games have a menu and which books are carrying it.
What we counted
The college games of 26 September 2026 as listed by our odds feed, which is where the 65 comes from, against our board as published on Friday 25 September, prices pulled at about 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern, bet365 through the day. A game “has a prop” if any book we track priced any player market on it. A prop is one player in one market, counted once however many books priced it. Books and games we do not track are not in this count.
No sportsbook was contacted. Numbers come from our own board for the 26 September 2026 college slate.
Quick answers
Why are there no player props for some college football games?
On the slate we counted, the games with no props at all were all FBS teams hosting FCS teams: 12 of 65 games by Friday evening. Another 20 games had only anytime touchdown props.
Which college football games have the most player props?
The biggest matchups. On our board for 26 September, Oregon at USC had 66 player props from 10 books, Illinois at Ohio State 58 from 8, and Kansas State at Cincinnati 56.
Which sportsbook has props on the most college games?
DraftKings, on the slate we counted, priced an anytime touchdown prop in all 53 games that had any props. Bovada had 51 and BetOnline 50. FanDuel had 33 and BetMGM 11.
Will more college props be posted on Saturday morning?
Some can be. This count is from Friday evening, and college props can keep arriving on game day. We have not measured how many, so check again on Saturday before you give up on a game.
Why does a college game only have anytime touchdown props?
We do not know each book's reasons, so we will not guess. What we measured: 20 of the 53 games with props on our board had anytime touchdowns and nothing else, and the eight thinnest games on the board were all among them.
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