2025 Big Bets Report: Bettor Hits on 16-Leg Parlay, Turns $1 Into $10k

2025 Big Bets Report: Bettor Hits on 16-Leg Parlay, Turns $1 Into $10k

Patrick Everson

FOX Sports Betting Analyst

College football odds have given the public betting masses one more market to add to their crazy lottery-ticket parlays.

It’s rare that these wagers actually cash. But over the first weekend of college football, one got to the pay window. 

Then, another that entirely avoided college football, going all in on MLB, also nabbed a nifty payout.

Read on for more on those bets and other notable wagers.

Funding Favorites

Time and again, sports prove that betting on favorites is an extremely inexact science. Betting on a lot of favorites in a parlay is even less exact.

Still, on Saturday, a Caesars Sports customer put together this 16-leg parlay, going with mostly solid or even huge favorites, while combining college football moneylines, MLB moneylines/totals/player props, European soccer and WNBA player props:

And it was a sweat up and down that betting card. 

In college football, UNLV — a massive -7000 moneyline favorite vs. Idaho State — dug itself into a 10-0 hole early. It was a back-and-forth battle the rest of the way, with the Rebels hanging on for a 38-31 victory.

In Spain’s La Liga, Barcelona was a heavy -450 favorite, yet trailed Levante 2-0 at halftime. Barcelona netted two goals early in the second half to tie it. Barca then won 3-2 on a Levante own goal in injury time.

The Blue Jays needed extra innings to edge the Marlins 7-6. And to get that Mets-Braves Over 9 total required New York to score two runs in the top of the ninth, in a 9-2 victory.

The Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso kept the parlay interesting, too. The bettor needed Reese to have 10 or more rebounds and Cardoso to have seven or more. 

They finished with 11 and seven, respectively.

That parlay, with odds just shy of +12881 (almost 129/1), could’ve gone sideways multiple times. Instead, the bettor turned $100 into $12,880.97.

MLB Money

Over at Hard Rock Bet, another 16-leg parlay got to the finish line. But in this case, it was all on baseball, and almost entirely on moneylines, meaning each team just had to win its game.

And the bet amount was just a single dollar. The ticket included every game on Friday’s schedule:

• Padres moneyline +105 vs. Dodgers
• Cubs moneyline -140 vs. Angels
• Mets moneyline +100 vs. Braves
• Brewers moneyline -170 vs. Giants
• Rangers moneyline -150 vs. Guardians
• Blue Jays moneyline -170 vs. Marlins
• Pirates moneyline -190 vs. Rockies
• Pirates -1.5 (+105) vs. Rockies
• Twins moneyline -135 vs. White Sox
• Rays moneyline -140 vs. Cardinals
• Nationals moneyline +155 vs. Phillies
• Mariners moneyline -220 vs. Athletics
• Tigers moneyline -145 vs. Royals
• Astros moneyline -105 vs. Orioles
• Red Sox moneyline +155 vs. Yankees
• Diamondbacks moneyline -135 vs. Reds
• $ 300,000 Texas +500 to win the CFP
• $ 200,000 Penn State +750 to Win the CFP
• $ 115,000 Clemson +1300 to win the CFP

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