Florida and Houston made stunning comebacks to set up a clash of No. 1 seeds in the 2025 National Championship Game on Monday. Florida (35-4) rallied from an eight-point halftime deficit to defeat SEC rival Auburn, 79-73, and enters Monday's game having lost only once since February 1. Houston (35-4) stunned Duke, scoring the final nine points to defeat the Blue Devils, 70-67. The Cougars enter the title game on an 18-game winning streak. The teams have only met twice, both in the 1970s in matchups won by Houston.
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Now, the two teams will go head-to-head with a national title on the line, and tipoff is scheduled for 8:50 p.m. ET on Monday on CBS. The latest Florida vs. Houston odds list the Gators as 1.5-point favorites, while the over/under is 140.5. Florida is the -115 favorite (risk $115 to win $100) on the money line.
Before making any college basketball picks or making any 2025 National Championship Game score predictions, you NEED to see what the college basketball experts at SportsLine have to say.
Thomas Casale and Bruce Marshall have been making college basketball picks for SportsLine throughout the season and they all enter the Final Four on dominant winning streaks. Casale is 61-38 entering the final game of the college basketball season while Marshall is 105-73-1. Anybody who's followed their advice during those stretches is WAY UP!
We can tell you that our experts are split on the winner of Monday's game but both experts tend to favor a higher scoring contest than the oddsmakers predict. When discussing the total, Marshall adds: "As the Gators have also roughly maintained their 85 ppg scoring pace thus far in the Dance, expect this one to crawl above 141 as well."
Additionally, both of SportsLine's college basketball experts have revealed their exact score predictions for the 2025 National Championship Game, with one expert giving out a score that could pay almost 300-1! You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see them before making any college basketball picks of your own!
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