Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners

The Roadrunners were underdogs 26 times in 2025-26 and won three, each at a long price: +440, +400 and +270. They then lost their final 15 games.

The three upsets

Cal State Bakersfield’s moneyline season comes down to three nights. On 30 November it beat Fresno State 76-71 on a neutral floor at +440. On 23 December it edged Idaho 64-63 at home at +270. On 3 January it won 81-79 at UC Davis at +400, the only road win of the year in 14 tries.

Those three paid 11.1 units between them. The other 23 underdog games were all defeats, and the 26 underdog moneylines together lost 11.9; only 19 Division I teams lost more as underdogs.

Fifteen in a row

After a 67-66 home win over UC Riverside on 8 January, the Roadrunners did not win again: 15 straight defeats through 7 March, including 0-7 in February. The spread kept some of them close enough: six of those 15 were covers, three of them in a row from 26 February to 5 March.

Home

The home floor was no refuge. The Roadrunners went 6-11 there, and two of the six wins were over Whittier and Nobel, visitors outside Division I with no line posted. One unit on each of the 15 priced home games lost 7.41; only ten Division I teams lost more at home.

The season line

Over 32 games the record was 8-24, with 11 covers in 29 lined games, 37.9%. Opponents scored 82.16 points a game, and just 15 Division I defenses gave up more. Big West sides Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton and Hawai’i each won both meetings without a Bakersfield cover.

The total split 16 overs to 14 unders across 30 games, even with that much scoring against them.

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