Tulsa Golden Hurricane Odds

Tulsa Golden Hurricane 2025 Season Preview

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane enter the 2025 season under the guidance of first-year head coach Tre Lamb, who aims to revitalize the program following a challenging 2024 campaign. With a significant roster overhaul and a demanding schedule, Tulsa faces an uphill battle but remains determined to make strides in the American Athletic Conference (AAC).

Offensive Outlook

The offense will be led by sophomore quarterback Kirk Francis, who steps into the starting role after a season of development. He'll be supported by a dynamic backfield featuring senior running back Braylin Presley and junior running back Ajay Allen, both known for their explosive playmaking abilities. The receiving corps includes veteran wide receiver Jeremiah Ballard and promising talents like Zion Booker and Micah Tease, who will look to make an impact in the passing game. 

Defensive Outlook

Tulsa's defense aims to rebound from a challenging 2024 season where they allowed nearly 497 yards per game, including 316 yards through the air. The defensive line features newcomers like Byron Turner Jr. and J'Dan Burnett, who are expected to bolster the pass rush. In the secondary, cornerbacks Champ Lewis and JD Drew will play pivotal roles in improving pass coverage. 

Schedule Overview

Tulsa's 2025 schedule presents a challenging mix of non-conference and AAC matchups. The season opener against Abilene Christian on August 30 sets the tone for the year. Subsequent games against Oklahoma State and Oregon State will test the Golden Hurricane's resilience early in the season. AAC play begins with a critical home game against Navy on October 4, known as the "Battle for the Belt." Other key conference games include matchups against Memphis, UTSA, and Tulane.

Betting on Tulsa

There are tons of different markets when it comes to Tulsa football. If you’re interested in something laidback, you can try your hand at futures. You can keep it general with college playoff futures, wins futures or get more granular with AAC futures or break it down further with Heisman futures.

Those are season markets in that they take place across the eternity of the season. If you want something a bit more active, you can try game-to-game markets like moneylines, point spreads or totals.

Betting the Tulsa moneyline

Moneyline wagers are simply a wager on the winner of a particular contest. The odds for the expected favorite are displayed as a negative number while the odds for the underdog are displayed as a positive.

When wagering on sportsbooks like ESPN BET, or Caesars Sportsbook, you’ll see odds displayed like this:

- Tulsa Golden Hurricanes (+375)

- SMU Mustangs (-400)

Based on the example above, you can see that Tulsa is an underdog here. The actual numbers correspond to the payout. So with the Mustangs, you’d need to wager $400 to win $100. Conversely, with the Golden Hurricanes, a $100 wager would earn you $375 in profit.

Prices like this are not hugely popular with bettors unless they’re deploying some kind of bet insurance promotion. That said, moneylines often make for a solid leg of a parlay where you’ll combine multiple markets to create one larger bet. To win a parlay, all the legs — the term for each individual market — must hit.

If you’re inclined to parlay bets, check out the parlay calculator for a little more information. You can also compare parlays across the board with one of Action’s unique tools.

Tulsa point spread

Betting the spread is intensely popular on college football markets in large part because the score is predictable. There are always variables, but by and large you can predict the score. That’s important because a spread bet is a wager on the difference between the winning and losing teams’ scores.

Even dominant teams lose consistently on the spread and conversely, bad teams can outperform in spread markets.

Take this example:

- Tulsa Golden Hurricanes +6.5 (-110)

- Memphis Tigers -6.5 (-110)

To understand these markets, it’s best to break them down into two parts. The first is the actual spread. In this example the spread is +6.5 for Tulsa which means betting on the Golden Hurricanes to cover is a wager on Tulsa to lose by six points or less. Betting on the Tigers to cover is a wager that they’ll win by seven or more.

The parenthetical number is the payout. In this case, you’d have to wager $110 in either case to get $100 in profit. Or, to make it simpler, you’d need to bet $1.10 to win $1 in profit.

Calculating odds can be a pain, so you can take a look at this overview for more information or even use the odds calculator on Action.

Tulsa totals

Another major market is betting the total, often called the over/under. In practice, it’s a bet on the collective score and you’ll wager on whether it goes over or under the expected total.

To use a game from Tulsa’s 2023 season as an example. The Golden Hurricanes faced off against Tulane on November 11, 2023 and the expected total was 52.5. So betting the over would be a wager that point teams points added together will be 53 or over while betting the under would be a wager that the total score would be 52 or under.

Over: 53.5 (-115)

Under 53.5 (-105)

As is the case with betting the spread, the parenthetical number corresponds to the payout. So here, if you bet the over, you’d need to wager $1.15 to earn $1 in profit. With the under, you’d need to wager $1.05 to get $1 in profit.

Tulsa player props

Finally, we have player props. In short, these are wagers on a specific player’s statistical category. It can be as broad as passing yards or receiving touchdowns or get more nuanced with bets on the amount of receptions in the fourth quarter.

One important note, many states that allow for online sports betting — even on college games — don’t allow for player props.

However, the addition of PrizePicks are Underdog to the American betting landscape has opened the door to new micro betting trends like player props. The former is regulated as DFS which has also changed the nature of sports betting as a whole.