College Football Handicapping Articles

Top 10 College Football Conference Games
by Robert Ferringo - 7/24/2010

Below is a look at the Top 10 conference college football games of 2010. These may not be the 10 most important college football games or the 10 best matchups of the college football season. But at the end of the year when we look back on the season the games on this list should be pretty well represented when we talk about 10 most influential games of the 2010 college football season.

College Football Teams With High Betting Value
by T.O. Whenham - 7/24/2010

It’s time to hunt for some college football sleepers - teams that aren’t going to start the season atop the rankings, but teams that I think have a high celieng for potential for the upcoming football season. These are teams that could surprise and shock, and be a major factor when the BCS invites are given out. Here are four teams that certainly fit that bill in my eyes:

College Football Handicapping: Teams With the Toughest Schedules
by T.O. Whenham - 7/22/2010

When we are thinking about college football we spend all of our time talking about things like the quality of the players, the coaching, the recruiting, and so on. While that’s all important, perhaps the biggest consideration of all is the schedule that teams have to play. An easy non-conference schedule can have teams heading into conference play undefeated and bursting with confidence.

Top 11 Nonconference College Football Games
by Robert Ferringo - 7/16/2010

Unlike college basketball, where teams play an extensive and expansive schedule that is packed with preseason tournaments, high-level meetings between regional powers, and neutral site matchups between teams from power leagues, in college football we don’t have much to work with to determine how conferences stack up head-to-head. Because the league schedule dominates college football we are forced to glean a lot from a little when teams from BCS leagues meet up in key nonconference clashes.

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.