College Football Handicapping Articles
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 11 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/8/2021
I don’t know about you, but I must have missed the memo before last weekend that informed us bettors to prepare for an absolute wild weekend of football. The upsets yesterday in the NFL were insane, but it all started on Saturday when eight of the top-25 teams in college football lost outright.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 10
by Chris Vasile - 11/4/2021
I wrote about this earlier in the season, but sometimes the best bet you can make is the one you don’t place. In this instance, I was so confident last week that UTEP getting double-digit points was a gift and that FAU was not equipped to cover that spread against a good offensive team. I eventually talked myself out of betting UTEP. And low and behold, they covered. I’m not mad that I didn’t win the bet. I am happy that the process and research that went into the game was validated and that I am on the right track with this Florida Atlantic team.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 10 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/2/2021
For as long as I can remember – at least during the era of the College Football Playoff – there has always been a trio of teams that were head and shoulders above the rest. How they were ranked heading into the semi-finals was depending on their schedule, but you knew for the most part which bowl game teams were going to land in.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 9
by Chris Vasile - 10/27/2021
I’m still a little bit baffled by this Florida Atlantic team. The whole purpose of this article was to help specialize by following one team and understand the ebbs and flows and show that it’s possible to make money following one specific team and/or conference. The Owls are doing their very best to disprove that theory, and I’m a little annoyed that the results have not been better.
Biggest Comebacks in College Football History
by Mike Pruitt - 10/26/2021
There aren’t many other sporting events in the United States that carry the amount or type of energy that a college football game does. A lot of this is because student sections are large, and these kids have been playing beer pong with Aristocrap vodka since 7 a.m. This is a level of energy that I think we all wish we still had. I am not saying I ever want to live that life, again, but you have to respect it.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 9 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 10/25/2021
There are around four games left in the regular season for most teams, and now is the time that teams start to get desperate for wins to reach the coveted six-win mark and earn a bowl bid. With that information, it’s time to start paying close attention to a team’s motivation and bet accordingly. A team that is down and out at say, 2-5 or 3-4, may not give that extra effort depending on who they are playing and how disappointing the season has been.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 8
by Chris Vasile - 10/20/2021
As we enter Week 8 of the College Football season, it’s now time for Florida Atlantic to put up or shut up. The Owls have been the model of inconsistency this season as they have a middling 3-3 record and have won all three games at home while getting destroyed in all three games on the road. It has been hard to back the Owls this year as their play is so sporadic.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 8 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 10/18/2021
Last week, before the real rankings came out, I went on record to list Georgia, Iowa, Cincinnati, and Michigan as the top-four teams in the country. Then the standings came out, and I was nearly spot-on, with the committee choosing to place Oklahoma in the four-hole instead of Michigan. That’s fine and dandy. However, once again, the top-four is going to be shaken up as No. 2 Iowa laid an egg on their home soil and lost outright to the Purdue Boilermakers as 11.5-point favorites.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 7 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 10/11/2021
I told you last week that the only thing scary about October is when ranked teams have to take on unranked opponents. It wasn’t a complete Friday the 13th massacre, but No. 1 Alabama went on the road to Kyle Field and lost to unranked Texas A&M as 18.5-point favorites. Fourth-ranked Penn State went to Kinnick Stadium to tangle with No. 3 Iowa and fell three points short in what was surprisingly a great game from start to finish.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 6
by Chris Vasile - 10/7/2021
If you aren’t familiar with the “zig-zag” theory in sports betting, I suggest looking it up. It’s most commonly used in the NBA Playoffs as the theory states to take exactly the opposite of what happened in the previous game. For example, if the underdog covered in Game 1, the favorite would be the play to cover in Game 2. In football, the Zig-Zag theory can hold water, but it’s a lot harder to predict as the games are weekly not every other day. I’ve been zigging and zagging on the Owls for over five weeks now, and we’ve made little progress.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 6 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 10/4/2021
If you’re a kid or a parent with a kid, the first thing you probably think of when October rolls around is Halloween. Decorating the house, candy, trick or treating and scary movies. What a wonderful time. If you’re a ranked team when October rolls around, you are probably not thinking about Halloween, but you should be very scared of what lies ahead. Look at Week 5 as a whole. No. 3 Oregon lost, No. 8 Arkansas lost, No. 9 Notre Dame lost, No. 10 Florida lost, No. 20 UCLA lost, and No. 21 Baylor lost.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 5
by Chris Vasile - 9/30/2021
Have you ever bet on a game and saw the first few minutes of action and thought that your bet was toast after a few plays or minutes of action? That was me last weekend when I decided to bet on Florida Atlantic to not only cover the spread but beat Air Force outright. The Owls got the ball first and took a delay of game penalty before they even snapped the ball and then proceeded to lose seven yards on that drive. Three plays in, and I knew my bet was toast. Air Force went down and scored on the next two possession, and just like that it was 14-0 and I was able to find something else to do with my time. I will be the first to tell you it was a dud of a pick, and we are going to do better this week.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 5 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 9/27/2021
For the teams that should have easily beaten their opponents last week, it was rather straightforward. No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Georgia combined to beat their foes by 125-14. Georgia won 62-0, and Alabama snuck by with a 63-14 win. No. 3 Oregon made light work of Arizona, while No. 4 Oklahoma was given all they could handle against a plucky West Virginia team and barely escaped with a 16-13 win.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 4
by Chris Vasile - 9/23/2021
If you’ve been in the sports betting industry as long as I have, you learn a few things in the process. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that sometimes the best bet you can make is to not make a bet at all. Take last week’s FAU game for example. I could have done a 900-word piece on why Florida Atlantic was going to thrash an FCS opponent; Fordham, and it would have sounded fine and dandy on paper.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 4 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 9/20/2021
It was a rather straightforward week in College Football over the weekend, with most ranked teams handling their business and coming away with a win. Three games featured two ranked opponents, so, rightfully, someone had to lose. The only game that a ranked team lost to an unranked foe was the UCLA/Fresno State game in which No. 13 UCLA lost, 40-37. The top four teams in the country remain unchanged with just one small tweak – Oregon moved up from No. 4 to No. 3, and the Oklahoma Sooners fell from No. 3 to No. 4.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 3 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 9/13/2021
Depending on which school you go to, which school you went to, or which school you actively cheer for, you’ll have a major bias towards your team and in particular when it comes to your team and their chances at getting into the College Football Playoffs. If you, like myself, are from Canada and don’t really have a “favorite team” or alma mater to cheer for, you should feel happy that Week 2 was a big win for the “we want different teams in the College Football Playoff” cheering section.
WynnBET Pays Out an Incredible $80,000 College Football Parlay Play
by Dave Schwab - 9/13/2021
The new season of college football is underway and it started out with a bang for one lucky sports bettor. Following the first full week of games, WynnBET mobile sportsbook tweeted out news of the big win involving a 14-game parlay play. While the winner of this wager has chosen to remain anonymous, WynnBET did mention that the wager was placed in Michigan. It was also noted that the return on the $10 parlay wager added up to $79,935.70.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 2
by Chris Vasile - 9/9/2021
I think my favorite days of the football season are the five days leading up to a team’s Week 2 game. During those days, you hear the most ridiculous statements and overreactions you will ever hear throughout the football season. People will say that Team X is toast and won’t win a game all season long, while others will be quick to anoint a team the next National Champion. The one basic principle that I try to follow throughout a long football season is that no team is as good or as bad as their last game. Each game is its own entity and should be treated as such.
NCAA Football Predictions: Week 2 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 9/6/2021
After the long-anticipated wait of a full Saturday of college football, we had 12 straight hours of madness, and we enjoyed every single second of it. We had upsets, near upsets, huge scores, dismal offensive performances (hello Penn State and Wisconsin), great defensive performances (hello Georgia) and we had perhaps the game of the year last night when Notre Dame survived Florida State 41-38 in overtime after blowing an 18-point fourth-quarter lead. We have one game left on the Week 1 card tonight, but that doesn’t mean the lines for the Week 2 haven’t been posted.
NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 1
by Chris Vasile - 9/3/2021
Football fans and bettors alike, welcome to the 2021 Mid-Major Betting Report. I am very excited to continue this annual piece that focuses on a select team from a smaller conference to help ensure a profit for the upcoming football season. For those of you who are new to the Mid-Major Betting Report, I will be taking you on a season-long journey with the Florida Atlantic Owls. The Owls are a team I have pegged to go “over” their season win total of seven. And be focusing on their day-to-day reports, we believe this content will give you the inside track to information pertaining to not only the Owls, but the rest of the conference.
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