College Football Handicapping Articles

College Football Predictions: Week 5 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Joey House - 9/23/2024

Welcome back to the 5th week of the college football opening line report, where we look ahead to the upcoming slate of college games and give you an early lean toward sides and totals. A 4th-quarter Kansas collapse kept us from going 3-1 and made us break even at 2-2. Our year-to-date record is hovering around .500, at 4-5.

College Football Predictions: Week 4 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Joey House - 9/16/2024

It's Week 4 of the Opening Line Report, and congratulations are in order for all of the bettors who took the under 9.5 for Florida State's win total. With their third consecutive loss last weekend, this one to the Memphis Tigers, Florida State can only reach nine victories. The most exciting competition in the state of Florida is betting on which head coach gets fired first.

College Football Totals Picks Week 3: Over or Under Predictions for Saturday
by Joey House - 9/13/2024

Welcome back to Week 3 of the College Football Totals Tracker, where we analyze the totals market for the upcoming games and give out our selections and best bets. For the second consecutive week, we showed a small profit in units. Our picks went 2-2, but the winners were a five- and four-unit selection, while the losers were both four-units, thus giving us a small 0.2-unit profit. We won't be able to retire to the beach with that, but it doesn't drain our bankroll, either. After two weeks, we're up 3.8 units.

College Football Underdogs Week 3: Moneyline Best Bets
by Joey House - 9/12/2024

We're back with the third edition of the "Dawg Pound," where we look for underdogs of a touchdown or more who we feel have a chance of not only covering the spread but winning outright. Tulane took the lead in the first quarter and had a 10-point advantage at halftime before allowing Kansas State's defense to have a strip-and-score for the go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter. The Green Wave lost but covered the 9-point spread, 34-27. Marshall's trip to Blacksburg wasn't a happy one, losing 31-14 to Virginia Tech, but they did cover the 20.5-point line. Navy dominated Temple, 38-11, and easily covered the 12.5-point spread.

Weekly Public Action Football Betting Report with Predictions 9/11/2024
by Joey House - 9/11/2024

We're back for Week 3 of the Public Action Report, where we track reverse line moves in college and, starting this week, pro football odds. For those unfamiliar, a reverse line move is one in which the spread moves in the opposite direction of the betting market, often indicating "smart money" coming in on the opposite side. This insight can be valuable in your never-ending battle against the sportsbook.

College Football Predictions: Week 3 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Joey House - 9/9/2024

Welcome to Week 3 of the College Football Opening Line Report, where we look at the upcoming week of college football and identify early lines that might be vulnerable. Our humble apologies for the absence last week; we had personal issues arise. To recap our first week's worth of picks, we went 2-1, as North Dakota State easily covered against Colorado, as did Oklahoma State against FCS South Dakota State.

College Football Totals Picks Week 2: Over or Under Predictions for Saturday
by Joey House - 9/6/2024

Welcome to the second edition of our weekly college football totals best bets article. Last week, we were a solid 2-1 for a profit of 3.6 units. We nailed the bit 5-unit under 51.5 in the Penn State-West Virginia game when inclement weather delayed the game over 2 hours, slowing down a West Virginia offense that looked like they were gaining momentum. Our 3-unit win was by the hook, as the Akron-Ohio State game ended 52-6, and the total was 58.5.

College Football Underdogs Week 2: Moneyline Best Bets
by Joey House - 9/6/2024

Welcome to Week 2 of the "Dawg Pound," where we look for big underdogs in the college football slate that we feel have untapped value. We had a helluva ride last week, as North Dakota State and Central Arkansas had leads in the second half. Central Arkansas actually scored the go-ahead touchdown with 52 seconds left before they allowed Arkansas State to drive the length of the field and score the winning touchdown with 3 seconds left.

Weekly Public Action Football Betting Report with Predictions
by Joey House - 9/5/2024

Welcome to Week Two of the Football Betting Public Action Report. We analyze the lines for the upcoming football games each week, looking for "reverse line movement." A reverse line move is one in which the spread moves in the opposite direction of the betting market, often indicating "smart money" coming in on the opposite side.

College Football Totals Picks Week 1: Over or Under Predictions for Saturday
by Joey House - 8/30/2024

Welcome back to "Totally Totals" (what can I say, I'm a child of the 80s), where we dive into the world of college football totals and give you a handful of carefully selected plays each week. Our inaugural season was a mild success, as we went 17-15-2 (53.2%) and a profit of 5.7 units. The beginning of the 2023 season saw us jump to a fantastic start, going 8-5 and up 12.3 units over our first three weeks. Like many teams during a long season, we hit a brick wall a little over halfway through and gave much of our profit back. However, like any true champion, we rebounded nicely and went 4-2, winning 5.2 units.

Weekly Public Action Football Betting Report with Predictions
by Joey House - 8/30/2024

Welcome back to this year's edition of the Football Betting Public Action Report. Monitoring the odds market is an essential tool in the sports investor's arsenal of weapons. Having the ability to understand where the "sharp" money is going can help you in two different ways: it can allow you to find trends that can be exploited in slower-moving books and, just as importantly, help you identify situations where you can prevent yourself from making a bad wager.

College Football Underdogs Week 1: Moneyline Best Bets
by Joey House - 8/29/2024

Welcome to the world of underdog betting. Here each week, we delve into the heart of college football handicapping to find those hidden gems—teams that might not be favored but have the potential to shock the world. The only guideline we follow is the spread must be a touchdown or more for us to back the dog. Each pick we make is a single unit bet on the money line, but we'll also track how these underdogs stack up against the spread for those who prefer a more conservative approach.

FCS Championship Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Mike Allen - 8/29/2024

The Football Championship Subdivision, in this new era of college football, is seeing more and more higher-level talent each year, not to mention the upsets pulled off on FBS teams by the FCS. These smaller schools are getting larger and larger programs. As you will see below, the elite teams in the FCS are concentrated around one region. The top five betting favorites are from North and South Dakota, along with Montana.

2024 Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Joey House - 8/28/2024

After a rocky 2-2 start last season that saw them lose at home to South Alabama, Oklahoma State's season was at the crossroads of success and disaster. Twenty-year head coach Mike Gundy had his team take a turn onto the road of success, and they reeled off five consecutive wins and went 7-1 and earned a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game. While they fell short of that title, the Cowboys did defeat Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl to cap off the 8th double-digit win season.

2024 Clemson Tigers Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Joey House - 8/26/2024

While I'm sure the Tiger Nation rejoiced over Florida State's demise in Ireland this past weekend, the Clemson faithful know exactly how the Seminoles feel. Clemson was humiliated on the national stage a calendar year ago, losing as a 13-point favorite to fellow ACC foe Duke in prime time on Labor Day night. Even though the Tigers lost three more games throughout the season, each loss was a one-possession affair.

College Football Awards Futures: Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Mike Allen - 8/26/2024

Week 1 of the 2024 college football regular season is rapidly approaching. And, heck, we have already started the season. We've already seen our first big upset with the Florida State Seminoles going down to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on a late field goal.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 1 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Joey House - 8/26/2024

The long, cold (and sometimes hot) offseason is finally over. By the time you read this, Week 0 (what a concept!) will be behind us. The most "totally tubular" (shoutout to all the '80s surfers) time of the year has arrived: COLLEGE FOOTBALL. Welcome to Doc's college football "Opening Line Report (OLR)," where we dive in and analyze a few lines as soon as they hit the market. Being the first with the 12-team expanded playoffs, this season promises to be like nothing the college football world has seen before.

College Football Playoff Teams from Each Conference: Odds and Best Bets
by Mike Allen - 8/26/2024

The 2024 College Football Playoff is the dawn of the golden age. I'm more anxious about this than Black Friday, Christmas, and the Super Bowl combined! The best conferences in college football got even better, and I'm cool with that. Maybe we could change the names at one point to match the number of teams. However, either way, college football fans are in store for something they've never experienced in a 12-team playoff.

College Football Playoff Sleepers: Odds and Best Bets
by Mike Allen - 8/26/2024

Is there a magic number of wins a college football team needs to be selected to be a part of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff? I'm hearing many people say that teams who win 10 games will be invited to the playoff. That makes sense. Looking at several projections, however, has me scratching my head. That’s because only two teams, the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Georgia Bulldogs, are favored to win double-digit games.

2024 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Joey House - 8/23/2024

The first season of the Marcus Freeman era didn't start with a bang but rather a whimper, as Notre Dame limped through a 9-4 season in 2022. After just one lackluster season, Freeman found himself on the hot seat. However, the Fighting Irish rebounded nicely in 2923 with a 10-3 campaign, winning on the road against an upstart, ranked Duke squad. Notre Dame also demolished their long-time nemesis, the USC Trojans, by four touchdowns.