While betting on who will win a game, especially if your favorite team is in action, is the most popular form of college football betting, player prop betting is a fun, high-upside way to enjoy watching a star, no matter who they play for.

From Kansas State QB Avery Johnson and Iowa State QB Rocco Becht in the first game of the 2025 Week 0 slate to Hawaii QB Micah Alejado in the final game of the night out in Hawaii, plenty of talented passers, running backs and receivers look poised for big games this weekend.

Now, without further ado, let’s get into our favorite college football Week 0 player prop bets.

Hawaii QB M. Alejado 300+ Passing Yards

Odds: (+108 at FanDuel)

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Alejado has started just one game for the Rainbow Warriors, but he looked like a future star, torching New Mexico for 469 yards and 5 touchdowns in the 2024 regular season finale.

He’s also facing a Stanford defense that was bad at pretty much everything last fall in its first season as an ACC member. The Cardinal had one of the worst passing defenses in the country, allowing 280 passing yards per game, and they finished dead-last in the ACC in scoring defense, giving up 33.7 points per game.

Hawaii head coach Timmy Chang has always been a believer in spreading the football around and letting it fly, and Alejado could be the best player Hawaii has had under center during the Chang era, which is entering Year 4.

Last year’s starter, Brayden Schager, started almost every game from 2022-24, but he finished his career with underwhelming passing stats (completion percentage: 59.3; yards per attempt: 6.3; TD-to-INT ratio: 60-42) and he also took a total of 78 sacks in ’23 and ’24.

Despite Schager’s struggles, Hawaii still threw the ball 40 times a game last year. If Alejado gets anywhere near that many attempts vs. Stanford, he should breeze past 300 yards, especially if this game ends up being as competitive as oddsmakers expect it to be.

Fresno St. QB EJ Warner o29.5 Pass Attempts

Odds: (-120 at bet365)

The Bulldogs acquired Warner, the son of former Rams star Kurt Warner, this offseason via the transfer portal.

It’s tough to project how much success Warner — a career 60 percent passer — will have against a Big 12 foe like Kansas. But if nothing else, he’s a safe bet to get plenty of passing attempts in a game Fresno enters as a heavy underdog (the Bulldogs are +400 on the moneyline at bet365).

Warner comes to Fresno after two years at Temple (’22-23) and one season at Rice (’24). He averaged 39.9 pass attempts per game in 11 starts last year for the Owls. Remarkably, his 439 attempts in 2024 marked the fewest passes he has thrown in the last three years.

With his new team expected to be playing from behind on Saturday, a 35- or 40-pass-attempt night from Warner shouldn’t surprise anyone.

So, while player props priced at -120 are typically be easy to resist, Warner to go over 29.5 pass attempts offers a ton of value, even at that price.

Remember, last year, he threw at least 30 passes in 10 of 11 contests for Rice, and he had at least 40 attempts in eight (!) games.

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