Horrible take, rake. Vegas would lose their minds if there was no MACtion on Tuesday nights.
no, excellent take!
a tuesday night MAC football game probably registers a quarter of a percentage point tops on a vegas book's overall weekly handle. putting them in a lower level league (FBS+) doesn't mean you can't bet on them. every FCS game this year, for the first time ever, was lined. sides and totals. even teams from the crummiest leagues.
a 70-team CFB would be infinitely better than the crap we have now. every conference could schedule eight league games each and play four non-league - one from each conference per year, on a rotational basis. it would all be predetermined. so k-state would play wash st, purdue, clemson, tenn one year; then oregon st, iowa, duke, kentucky the next; then arizona, michigan, wake, georgia the next; and so on.
we'd see far more two and three-loss teams remain in the picture for a CFB playoff spot, and evaluating the quality of teams would be far easier after getting rid of all the crap directional schools and FCS's that water down the schedule. it would be a big win for TV, and returning to your original point, a big win for sportsbooks. the overflow of marquee matchups could be spilled into the weekdays, there would be far more games of interest on weekends, and everyone is happy.
looking forward to nicholls state in next year's opener though, should be a good one!