College Football Handicapping Articles
Impact of Pac-10 Realignment
by T.O. Whenham - 7/1/2010
The biggest story coming out of the college football realignment frenzy when it comes to the Pac-10 is the conference’s failure to pull off the incredibly ambitious bid to form the Pac-16. They fell well short of the goal, and you could argue that they were masterfully used by Texas to get what they wanted and increase their own stature.
BCS National Championship Game Handicapping Factors
by T.O. Whenham - 1/6/2010
With the BCS National Championship Game between Alabama and Texas looming, one way we can work to handicap the game is by looking back to see what we can learn from the games that have already been played during this bowl season. Each bowl game is a unique entity, but patterns start to emerge the further in we get, and we can start to look for some theories or ideas based on what we have seen.
Conference Domination in Bowl Games
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/16/2009
With the structure of the current bowl system, college football fans are given a clear indication of how conferences truly stack up to one another. Bowl games are tied into deals with conferences to take a certain placed team and pit them against a certain placed team from another conference. It has been this way for years and, luckily for bettors, this may be the easiest way in all of sports betting to track trends.
2009 New Mexico Bowl Odds and Predictions
by T.O. Whenham - 12/11/2009
The 2009 NCAA football bowl season starts far from the heart of college football in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the oh-so creatively named New Mexico Bowl. This is the fourth edition of this bowl game, and the second straight for Fresno State - the Bulldogs lost, 40-35, to Colorado State last year.
Ranking the Bowl Games
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/10/2009
Throw out the implications, the BCS or non-BCS factor, when it comes right down to it, what are the most intriguing, watchable, entertaining games on the bowl game schedule for this Holiday season? To be find out we will factor everything in including unintentional comedic potential, stadium, coaches and players involved, inspired or indifferent fan bases, awkward bowl sponsors, color of the turf, dome or outdoors, channel the game is on, potential announcers and of course, what else fans could be doing at that time on that day.
Brian Kelly Likely In as Notre Dame Coach
by T.O. Whenham - 12/10/2009
After months of speculation, it seems like Notre Dame has a new coach. Though it hasn't officially been announced yet, it seems as if Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly will be the next to helm the historic school in South Bend, Indiana. The schools aren't expected to make an announcement until after Thursday's football banquet at Cincinnati.
College Bowl Betting: Coaches to Trust and Avoid
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/9/2009
Some coaches treat bowl games as rewards for their players, some coaches treat them as must-win games and some do not stick around long enough to see their team through them. There is no other game in sports that has any many different preparation techniques. Most Big Ten schools stopped playing three weeks ago while other teams were slugging it out on Championship Saturday just this past week.
Six Best Bowl Matchups
by T.O. Whenham - 12/7/2009
The bowl game schedule is set, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who sat down this morning to track out my viewing plans. Who am I kidding - I'll watch all of them. Still, some of them have me more excited than others. Here are the six that immediately struck me as more intriguing that the rest.
Thursday Night NCAA: Oregon State at Oregon
by Matt Severance - 12/2/2009
The final Thursday night game of college football’s regular season is the best matchup of the season on that night and certainly has the most on the line: the 113th Civil War between No. 16 Oregon State and No. 7 Oregon is a winner-take-all for a Rose Bowl berth opposite Ohio State. It’s the first time in the Civil War’s history that a Rose Bowl spot is on the line for both teams.
2009-10 College Bowl Projections
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/2/2009
Heading into Championship Saturday a few bowl invites have been trickling out and some bowl rumors are surfacing. However, much is still to be decided by what happens between Thursday and Saturday. The Florida-Alabama SEC Championship Game works as a semifinal of sorts with the winner advancing to the BCS National Championship Game and the loser likely headed to a Sugar Bowl consolation prize.
College Football Handicapping: Conference Championship Games
by T.O. Whenham - 12/1/2009
It's Conference Championship season in college football. I think you're either a fan of conference championship games or you're not. Personally, I think they are ridiculous, but then again I'm a Big Ten fan.
Thursday NCAA Football Preview : Texas at Texas A&M
by Matt Severance - 11/25/2009
There are a handful of potential trap games on the NCAA football schedule this week, matchups between teams heading to a conference title game next week against a fierce in-state rival with nothing to lose. I’m talking Georgia-Georgia Tech, South Carolina-Clemson, Florida State-Florida, Auburn-Alabama and Thanksgiving night’s lone NCAA game, No. 3 Texas (11-0) at Texas A&M (6-5).
College Football Handicapping: Stanford Surging
by T.O. Whenham - 11/19/2009
Stanford. Wow. What else is there to say? A team that couldn't find a way to beat Wake Forest, Oregon State, or Arizona earlier in the season has now had the biggest upset of the week two weeks in a row. Both Oregon and USC were thought to be the prime contenders for the Rose Bowl, but Stanford beat them both - destroyed them, really.
TCU Probably Won’t Get Chance to Play For National Title
by T.O. Whenham - 11/19/2009
TCU - the little school that could. The undefeated program has climbed to the unprecedented heights of 10th in both the AP Poll and the BCS rankings. They haven't gone halfway in their efforts, either - they have won their 10 games by an average of more than 26 points per game while allowing just 13 points per game. This is a team which can score and which plays even better defense.
Thursday Night NCAA Preview: Colorado at No. 12 Oklahoma State
by Matt Severance - 11/18/2009
Some might say that Oklahoma State doesn’t have a lot to play for with the Big 12 South title all but out of reach – Texas would need to collapse in the final two games – but the Cowboys would be a very attractive BCS bowl at-large team if they can win out and finish 10-2, beginning Thursday night against Colorado, which is an 18-point dog on Bookmaker (+650 on the money line).
Thursday Night NCAA: South Florida at Rutgers
by Matt Severance - 11/11/2009
Frankly, if you are going to watch or bet on just one Big East game this week, Friday’s ESPN matchup between West Virginia and Cincinnati is the key conference game of the year to this point. But that’s not to say there are no storylines for Thursday night’s ESPN matchup of South Florida (-1 on JustBet) and Rutgers – it’s just that the storylines aren’t quite as nationally relevant.
College Football Handicapping: Under-The-Radar ATS Gems
by T.O. Whenham - 11/11/2009
When it comes to college football most bettors focus on the big name teams playing the high-profile games. That only makes sense given the coverage that those games get in the media. The problem, though, is that increased betting attention means that the lines just don't have the potential for value that under-bet lines can.
Oregon Ducks Looking Like One Of Nation’s Best
by T.O. Whenham - 11/5/2009
I sat through every painful minute of Oregon's opening debacle at Boise State. I'm not an Oregon fan, and I am only marginally a Boise State fan, but by the end I just couldn't change the channel - it was like an impossibly ugly car wreck. My eyes were glued to it. If you had told me then that at the Ducks may very well be the best team in the country by the beginning of November I would have, without hesitation, had you committed.
College Football Handicapping: Teams That Have Thrown in the Towel
by T.O. Whenham - 11/4/2009
We're into the final stretch of the college football regular season. For teams in contention this is when the pressure gets ratcheted up and every game matters even more than ever before. For some teams, though, the season can't end soon enough. Those teams have had a very rough season, and probably aren't having much fun anymore.
Thursday Night NCAA Preview: Virginia Tech at East Carolina
by Matt Severance - 11/3/2009
Virginia Tech’s ACC title and BCS bowl hopes all but vanished last Thursday night when North Carolina’s Casey Barth kicked a field goal with no time left to give the Heels the very surprising upset as 16.5-point dogs in Blacksburg.
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