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AL.com All-Access: How is Tua Tagovailoa the Heisman betting favorite?

This time of year in college football is awash in preseason projections, watch lists and betting odds.

Ninety-nine percent of them you take with a grain of salt and move on to the next one. But some betting odds released over the weekend on Bovada.com resulted in not just a double-take, but something bordering on slack-jawed wonder.

Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who has never started a college game and is not even guaranteed the starting job this season, is the co-favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. He's listed at 7-to-1, the same odds as 2017 runner-up Bryce Love of Stanford.