College Football Handicapping Articles
College Football Season Win Totals Predictions: West Coast Teams
by Robert Ferringo - 7/28/2011
We already broke down some college football season win totals odds and predictions from the Las Vegas Hilton. That was my “East Coast” breakdown, and today we’re going to take a look at some of the top schools out West and what their long-term prospects are for this season against what the oddsmakers and Joe Public expect.
2011 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/27/2011
Make no mistake about it: Nothing short of a major bowl is expected in South Bend this season after Notre Dame finished 2010 on a roll, capped by a thumping of Miami (Fla.) in the Sun Bowl for an 8-5 overall record. With 18 projected starters back (one kicker), the Irish do appear poised to have a legitimate shot at their first BCS bowl game since the Sugar Bowl five seasons ago.
College Football BCS National Championship Odds
by David Schwab - 7/27/2011
The 2011 college football season does not get underway until the beginning of September, but the debate over which team will win this year’s national title is already in full swing. As with any new season, there are a couple of early front runners, but upon closer review of the futures odds to win the college football BCS National Championship this season as provided by Bodog, there is value to be found throughout the posted numbers.
2011 Cal Golden Bears Football Predictions and BCS Futures Odds
by Darin Zank - 7/27/2011
Even though Cal's Golden Bears hadn't broken through with a Pac-10 Championship or a big-time bowl, they had run off a streak of eight straight winning seasons and seven consecutive bowl appearances. Until last year, that is, when a late-season collapse meant the end of both those streaks. This year Cal will try to use a new offense, a new quarterback, and a decent defense to get back on the winning track in the newly-named and expanded Pac-12 Conference.
College Football Season Win Totals Odds and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/26/2011
Every year someone has to be the sportsbook that unveils the first betable, beatable numbers of the football betting season. Routinely, that is the Las Vegas Hilton, which prides itself in putting out the first numbers of the year for the sharps, sharks and big-action syndicates on The Strip to take advantage of. This season was no exception, as Sunday night the Hilton produced the first college football season win totals of the year for 35 of the top programs in the country.
2011 Arkansas Razorbacks Football Predictions and SEC Futures Odds
by Darin Zank - 7/26/2011
The Arkansas Razorbacks are a team on the rise, with an innovative coach and an offense that's fun to watch and tough to stop. Unfortunately, the Hogs play in the SEC, more specifically the SEC West, where Alabama, Auburn and Louisiana State, who have combined to win four of the last eight BCS National Championships, reside. So while 10 wins and a BCS bowl berth are all fine and dandy, the ultimate goal, an SEC Championship, is going to be hard to come by.
2011 Pitt Panthers Football Predictions and BCS Futures Odds
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 7/26/2011
If former Tulsa Head Coach Todd Graham revives a mediocre Pitt football program, very few will remember the botched decision process the university went through in December. If Graham struggles in his first season at the helm, then everyone will remember Dave Wannstedt being forced to resign on Dec. 7 but being allowed to coach a bowl game on Jan. 8.
2011 LSU Tigers Football Predictions and SEC Futures Odds
by Darin Zank - 7/25/2011
The LSU Tigers won two BCS National Championships in a five-year span awhile back. However, it has been a tough road back to the top while playing in the best football conference in the country. In fact, since ripping Ohio State on that January night three years ago, LSU is 28-11 – which is great for most teams, but those results have not helped the Tigers get back to the SEC Championship Game, let alone the BCS.
2011 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Predictions and BCS Futures Odds
by Darin Zank - 7/25/2011
Coming off an 11-win season in 2009, which included an Orange Bowl upset victory over Georgia Tech, and with 14 starters back, many “experts” thought Iowa had a good chance to win the Big Ten last year. They had a senior at quarterback, a good running game, a very good defense, and most of their tough games were at home.
2011 Arizona State Sun Devils Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 7/25/2011
During the offseason the Arizona State Sun Devils have lost more players than most teams lose during an entire season. The once presumed favorites of the Pac-12 South have been decimated by early retirements, both forced and not forced. If the season does not get here quick, Coach Dennis Erickson might have trouble fielding a team.
College Football Predictions: High-Value Betting Teams
by T.O. Whenham - 7/20/2011
As we count the seconds until the start of the college football season we need to find ways to make the time pass. The way we are going to do that today is to offer some college football predictions for teams that have a chance to exceed expectations. By this point people have a pretty solid sense of how they expect teams to perform. Every year, though, there are some teams that end up performing significantly better than those expectations. Bettors that have a sense of who those teams could be are positioned to make some nice money. Here are three teams that are candidates:
2011 UCLA Bruins Football Predictions and Pac-12 Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/20/2011
One would think that if UCLA is ever going to catch, much less pass, USC in the Los Angeles football sports landscape, that is almost has to happen in 2011. Why? The fallout from the Reggie Bush mess should be over for USC after this season, their second in a row where the Trojans can’t play in a bowl or be eligible to compete for a conference title (or, thus, play in the first Pac-12 Championship Game). But after a 4-8 record last season (2-7 in the Pac-10), the Bruins still seem miles behind their private school neighbors.
2011 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Predictions and BCS Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 7/19/2011
Everything…but. Everything…but; that’s the best way to describe the 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide. Right now they have everything they need to win the national championship, their second title in three years. That is they have everything…but a quarterback.
2011 Georgia Bulldogs Football Predictions and SEC Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 7/19/2011
The Georgia Bulldogs have an eight-day season. Not eight games: eight days. Because in the eight days between Sept. 3 and Sept. 10 we’re going to find out just about everything we need to know about how the Georgia season is going to go.
College Football Season Win Totals Odds and Predictions
by David Schwab - 7/19/2011
Sportsbooks like Bodog, BetOnline, and WagerWeb are getting ready to release their college football season win totals odds for some of the top teams in the nation, but to get an early jump on your college football handicapping efforts to project how many games teams such as Oklahoma and Alabama might win this season, we will take a look at the regular season schedules for four of the programs at the top of most of the 2011 preseason polls and offer some season win totals predictions for each.
2011 West Virginia Mountaineers Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Darin Zank - 7/19/2011
West Virginia has been home to one of the premier football programs in the country for quite awhile. But over the course of the last few years the Mountaineers have moved in the direction of disarray, at least at the management level. Coach Rich Rodriguez skipped town in favor of Michigan four years ago as he was just ahead of NCAA investigators, but he didn’t last long with the Wolverines. Coach Bill Stewart followed with some success, but when he got word he had to take on an heir apparent, he reacted by allegedly asked reporters to dig up dirt on the new guy, and he was later forced to resign. So new Head Coach Dana Holgorsen takes over a turbulent situation in Morgantown.
2011 Ohio State Buckeyes Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 7/18/2011
From Willie Lyles to Dana Holgorsen to Jim Donnan, it has been a banner year for college football’s scumbags. Top programs from across the country – USC, Georgia Tech, Oregon, Auburn, and West Virginia, among others – had to brace themselves amidst accusations, sensationalism, investigations, NCAA sabre rattling, and worse. But Tressel and the mess at Ohio State set the tone and was by far the biggest story of the college football offseason.
2011 Arizona Wildcats Football Predictions and Pac-12 Futures Odds
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 7/15/2011
The Arizona Wildcats have the unenviable task of opening their 2011 season by trying to snap a five-game losing skid. But that is exactly the challenge that has saddled Arizona ever since it’s November and December meltdown last season when it lost its final four regular season games plus its bowl game.
2011 Wisconsin Badgers Football Predictions and Big Ten Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 7/14/2011
College football teams don’t usually improve themselves in the offseason via free agency. However, the Wisconsin Badgers have solidified their position as Team To Beat in the new-look Big Ten over the summer because of the unlikely addition of one of the nation’s top quarterbacks, Russell Wilson.
2011 Michigan Wolverines Predictions and College Football Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 7/14/2011
I live and breathe Michigan football. There is very little that is more important to me than this team. Needless to say, then, I haven’t enjoyed the last three years much. There have been some bright spots — like the incredible emergence of Denard Robinson — but it generally has been a frustrating, depressing, horrifying era for the Maize and Blue.
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