Rutgers Scarlet Knights Odds

Rutgers Scarlet Knights Football 2025 Season Preview 

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights enter the 2025 college football season with cautious optimism. After a 7–6 finish in 2023 and a trip to the Pinstripe Bowl, head coach Greg Schiano now has the Scarlet Knights aiming for sustained success in a tougher-than-ever Big Ten Conference that includes new additions like USC, Oregon, Washington, and UCLA.

The offense underwent big changes in 2024 with the arrival of Minnesota transfer Athan Kaliakmanis at quarterback. He took over for Gavin Wimsatt and struggled early but showed flashes down the stretch, finishing the season with over 2,000 passing yards and 13 touchdowns. He’ll continue working with OC Kirk Ciarrocca, who also came over from Minnesota, making this year critical for continuity and development.

The offense is still built around Kyle Monangai, the Big Ten’s leading rusher in 2024. He returns for his senior season after eclipsing 1,300 yards and scoring 11 touchdowns, and he's expected to once again be the focal point of the Scarlet Knights’ attack.

Defensively, Rutgers brings back several key contributors, including Robert Longerbeam, who steps into the CB1 role after Max Melton departed for the NFL. Florida State transfer Malcolm Ray will anchor a defensive front that showed promise but wore down in Big Ten play. With a soft early schedule, Rutgers has a real shot at reaching back-to-back bowl games for the first time since joining the Big Ten. 

Rutgers Scarlet Knights Point Spreads

Surprisingly, betting on the Scarlet Knights against-the-spread was actually a little profitable, with a 7-5-1 ATS record. For a team to win against the spread, they just need to win by more or lose by less (for favorites and underdogs, respectively) than sportsbooks had predicted.

A Rutgers spread might look like this:

• Rutgers +11 (-110)
• Michigan -11 (-110)

With Rutgers losing, 42-48 — a margin of only six points — it covered the spread while losing the game. Of course, if it had won, that would also be a cover. The favored Wolverines would need to win by at least 12 for spread bets on them to win.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights Over/Unders

Over bettors won 6 out of 12 Rutgers games last season. The over is one part of a totals bet, also called an over/under, that involves betting on how many points will be scored in a game. You can bet on either team or the game as a whole.

Say the total for the Rutgers game against Michigan was set at 52 points. The final score last year ended up 48-42, an extremely comfortable win for the over. For unders to win, both teams would’ve needed to combine for 51 or fewer points. Whether you bet on team totals or the game total, which team wins doesn’t matter — just the amount of scoring.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights Moneylines

You might think betting on Scarlet Knights moneylines would be a surefire way to burn through your hard-earned cash, given that moneylines are just bets on who wins a game, but it’s not that simple. Since Rutgers was such a heavy underdog in many games last year, books were willing to pay out far more on Rutgers winning than its opponents, making the Scarlet Knights slightly profitable if you bet them each game.

As an example, Rutgers was a +360 underdog against Purdue, but it won the game, so a $100 bet profited $360. If it had been a -360 favorite, that $100 bet would profit about $28.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights Props

If you want to follow your favorite Scarlet Knights players but don’t have a lean on how the whole game will go, player props are for you. These are bets on individual player performances for the game, typically in an over/under fashion. For example, you could bet over or under on QB passing yards, completions, touchdowns or interceptions.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights Futures

If you want to take the +15000 odds on the Scarlet Knights winning the Big Ten in 2024, that’s called a futures bet (but we don't advise it!). Futures are just what we call any kind of bet on whole season outcomes.

Other than conference champion odds, you could bet over or under on the Knights' number of wins for the season or bet on certain players to win various awards.