College Football Handicapping Articles
College Football Mid-Major Conference Betting Preview
by David Schwab - 8/30/2011
The 2011 college football season gets underway this Thursday night and while much of the interest with the betting public is concentrated on the teams that comprise the six major conferences, there is a wealth of value and opportunity to be found in the mid-majors as well.
Doc’s Weekly Big Ten Betting Report
by Doc - 8/29/2011
The Big Ten Conference has a new look this season with the addition of Nebraska, and it is now split into two divisions, the Leaders and the Legends. With this addition the conference now has 12 teams and it will be able to offer a Big Ten Championship Game in December with the winner of this game getting an automatic BCS bowl game appearance. I will be offering my insights on the conference with this weekly article throughout the 2011-12 season.
College Football Handicapping: Conference Size Changes
by T.O. Whenham - 8/26/2011
It’s time for some pretty big changes in college football, which is something you are likely aware of by now. In a move that could only make sense in the brilliantly illogical world of college football, the Big 12 will have 10 teams this year (and fewer next year, it seems), while the Big Ten has 12 teams. The Pac-10 has also become the Pac-12.
NCAA Football Betting Tips: Specialize
by David Schwab - 8/26/2011
A new college football season is right around the corner, so it’s time to formulate a betting strategy that will help to ensure a positive return on your investment this season. College football makes up a substantial amount of the action a typical sportsbook handles in a given year, so there is tremendous opportunity to profit from the sport if you follow a few simple guidelines when engaging in college football handicapping.
NCAA Football Odds and Predictions: ACC Player Props
by Alan Matthews - 8/25/2011
Bodog has released literally hundreds of NCAA football player props for the upcoming season, and I will take a look at each BCS conference’s options here at Doc’s Sports. Let’s go alphabetically and start today with the options offered in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which has been in the news for mostly the wrong reasons this offseason with the issues/at Miami (which threatens to change the ACC for years), North Carolina and Georgia Tech. Of those three, really only UM had a realistic shot at winning the conference title in 2011.
2011 Indiana Hoosiers Predictions and Football Betting Preview
by Doc - 8/24/2011
New Coach Kevin Wilson is set to take over at Indiana and the former offensive coordinator at Oklahoma will have his hands full as he tries to get this program back to respectability. As was proven during the Bill Mallory era, wins are hard to come by for this program during conference play. It would no surprise me if this program wins three or four games in 2011, but winning a Big Ten game seems very doubtful.
Doc’s Sports 2011 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Betting Preview
by Doc - 8/23/2011
This year’s Ohio State team may be the most difficult team in the Big Ten to handicap. Some of their talent is suspended for the first five games of the season because of the big scandal involving NCAA infractions, and that does not include QB Terrelle Pryor, who left school for the NFL. The biggest fallout from this scandal, however, is that Coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign since he withheld information about his players instead of reporting it to authorities. Ohio State recently had their hearing in front of the NCAA and they may add additional penalties in a couple of months.
Betting Impact of Terrelle Pryor Draft Pick for Raiders
by T.O. Whenham - 8/23/2011
After a tumultuous offseason and a several stops and starts along the way, Terrelle Pryor is an NFL player. Given his attitude and behavioral issues it seems very fitting that he has landed in Oakland — the refuge for guys like him for years. The Raiders turned some heads when they offered a third-round pick for him in Monday’s Supplemental Draft, but they obviously felt that he was a player they needed and that they weren’t alone in their admiration of him.
Doc’s Sports 2011 Penn State Nittany Lions Football Betting Preview
by Doc - 8/22/2011
Coach Joe Paterno is returning for his 47th year, and that means he started just one year after I graduated high school! Does that ever put things into perspective. The Lions have 14 starters back and should once again field a very talented team. A September home game against Alabama will certainly test their talent, as Alabama beat Penn State, 24-3, last year in a game that Alabama could have won by 40 if they desired. Penn State will have a much better chance in this game and I look for it to go down to the wire.
College Football Predictions: Overrated Teams
by T.O. Whenham - 8/22/2011
I don’t know about you, but I am dying for the college football season to start. I can’t wait. We won’t really know how good teams are and what we can really expect until we have seen teams play a few games, but that shouldn’t stop us from speculating. When I look at the first of the preseason polls there are five teams that stand out as being obviously, and in most cases significantly, overrated. Here’s a look:
Five Betting Tips for Handicapping SEC Football
by Taylor Jordan - Strike Point Sports - 8/19/2011
The SEC takes the mantle as the toughest, deepest conference in the nation and represents the last five BCS National Champions. But from a gambling standpoint it might be the toughest cookie to crack for bettors. Because there is so much talent the disparity from the best team to the eighth-best team is as slim as any league in the nation. With all of these closely-grouped schools to sort through someone not well versed in how to bet college football could very easily get lost in the woods of the Deep South.
Doc’s Sports 2011 Purdue Boilermakers Football Betting Preview
by Doc - 8/18/2011
This is the third year under Coach Danny Hope, and as I see it, this will be his best Purdue squad by a wide margin. The Boilermakers return 16 starters, and I expect this experience to pay dividends. Last year Purdue was hit hard by injuries, including losing their top three quarterbacks early in the season. Freshman QB Rob Henry was forced into action and he did play better as the season progressed, but as a team they finished last in the Big Ten in passing statistics. Look for a major improvement in 2011, especially at the quarterback position, and expect a bowl bid come December.
Five Betting Tips For Handicapping Big Ten Football
by Taylor Jordan - Strike Point Sports - 8/18/2011
For as much criticism as the Big Ten seems to have received for their play in big games in recent years, the league is still a proven commodity. It has grit and its own personal swagger. But more than anything it has tradition – just don’t cite the newly and pretentiously coined ‘Legends’ and ‘Leaders’ division names as proof of that.
Five Betting Tips for Handicapping Pac-12 Football
by Taylor Jordan - Strike Point Sports - 8/18/2011
You can thank the money-hungry power suits for this new mishmash conference, where location means nothing for a league and greenbacks overrule logic. For Colorado and Utah, the dollar bills shipped into a mix of Pacific Coast universities and resulted in the North and South divisions the league now boasts. But while those odd divisions create a new look for this league, having a league championship game will end up being the biggest thing to come out of this realignment.
College Football Predictions: the Impact of True Freshmen
by T.O. Whenham - 8/18/2011
With fall practices underway we are getting a better sense of which true freshmen in college football are fitting in well and are going to get a chance to contribute from the start, and which ones are likely to take a while to find their place. Here are my college football predictions for six guys who have a chance to be a big factor for their teams -- and therefore for bettors -- right out of the gate:
Doc’s Sports 2011 Illinois Fighting Illini Football Betting Preview
by Doc - 8/18/2011
As the 2010 season came winding down for Illinois, few football experts felt Coach Ron Zook would be around for the 2011 season. There’s no question that the Illini’s bowl victory over Baylor, 38-14, kept Zook on the sidelines. That big win could also give this team a boast for the upcoming season. The talent is certainly there. But the question still remains can Coach Zook and his staff make a move up the Big Ten ladder? Few experts would believe that he could, but I feel that this is going to be the year of the Illini.
NCAA Football Odds: Fallout from Miami Hurricanes Scandal
by Alan Matthews - 8/18/2011
By now you know the name Nevin Shapiro. He is in federal prison on a 20-year sentence for fraud charges for his part in a $930 million Ponzi scheme. He is also the guy who may deliver the death penalty to the University of Miami football program even though the NCAA has basically said it was unlikely to ever take that drastic action again after pulling the plug on the SMU program in the mid-1980s.
Doc’s Sports 2011 Wisconsin Badgers Football Betting Preview
by Doc - 8/16/2011
The Badgers will enter this season as the defending Big Ten Champions, and on paper they look to be in great shape to defend their title. Through spring practice and most of the summer the big question surrounding this team was who would be the quarterback? Two-year starter Scott Tolzein now plays for the San Diego Chargers and he had an effective and underappreciated career at Wisconsin. The Badger quarterbacks who played in the Spring Game did not look very promising, and this was going to be a major concern until the arrival of Russell Wilson from NC State in July.
2011 Florida State Seminoles Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 8/16/2011
You may not find a more chic pick for a program set to join – or in this case rejoin – the elite of college football than with Florida State. With all due respect to the legendary Bobby Bowden, it appears the best thing FSU officials did was to gently push Bowden aside following the 2009 season. Last year, under Jimbo Fisher, the Noles won 10 games for the first time since the 2003 season. They played in only their second ACC title game, pretty well getting thumped by Virginia Tech, but then solidly beat SEC East champion South Carolina in the Chick-fil-A-Bowl.
2011 Miami Hurricanes Football Predictions and ACC Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 8/16/2011
Despite being in the most fertile recruiting area in the country, the University of Miami somehow hasn’t been in a BCS bowl since beating Florida State in the Orange Bowl after the 2003 season and hasn’t even won its division in the ACC since arriving in that conference in 2004. Last season the Hurricanes were the preseason ACC favorites thanks largely to having the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class in 2008 under Randy Shannon.
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