Coming off its second consecutive BCS championship and third in four years, Alabama was installed as a way-too-early favorite to add another notch to its BCS belt.
Coming out of the spring, the gambling types are as high or higher on the Crimson Tide.
In the post-spring odds released by Bovada.lv, Alabama is a heavy 3/1 favorite to claim the 2013 (and last) BCS title. In mid-January, the Tide was a 5/1 favorite.
Ohio State (13/2) leapfrogged Oregon (7/1) from where the two programs were two months ago, which was 17/2 and 8/1, respectively.
A pair of SEC schools, not surprisingly, took the biggest jump up in odds, while another two from the same conference dropped. Texas A&M (12/1) jumped to 8/1, while Georgia (28/1) moved to 16/1. LSU went from 12/1, right behind Alabama, Ohio State and Oregon, to 18/1, while Florida went from 14/1 to 20/1.
Stanford, apparently, had one helluva spring as the Cardinal moved from the middle of the pack at 30/1 all the way to 16/1.
Those that didn’t have great springs? Oklahoma (25/1 then, 50/1 now), Nebraska (28/1, 50/1) and Florida State.
Below are the latest odds for the 2013 BCS title, again courtesy of Bovada.lv:
Alabama 3/1
Ohio State 13/2
Oregon 7/1
Texas A&M 8/1
Georgia 16/1
Stanford 16/1
LSU 18/1
Florida 20/1
Louisville 22/1
Clemson 25/1
Florida State 28/1
Miami 28/1
Notre Dame 28/1
South Carolina 28/1
Michigan 33/1
Oklahoma State 33/1
Texas 33/1
Nebraska 50/1
Oklahoma 50/1
UCLA 50/1
USC 50/1
TCU 66/1
Wisconsin 66/1
Boise State 100/1
Michigan State 100/1
Oregon State 100/1
Mississippi 125/1
North Carolina 150/1
Northwestern 150/1
Virginia Tech 150/1
Washington 150/1
Auburn 200/1
BYU 200/1
California 200/1
Cincinnati 200/1
Georgia Tech 200/1
Kansas State 200/1
Mississippi State 200/1
Pittsburgh 200/1
Rutgers 200/1
Arizona 250/1
Arkansas 250/1
Iowa 250/1
Tennessee 250/1
Missouri 300/1
West Virginia 300/1
Boston College 500/1
South Florida 500/1