2025 Big Ten Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/12/2025

It’s March. Which means it is time for the Big Ten’s annual NCAA Tournament humiliation. However, before we get to that, the conference should be able to give us one of the most entertaining and unpredictable conference tournaments of Championship Week.

2025 SEC Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2025

The SEC has designs on sending as many as 12 teams to the NCAA Tournament this year. The league is clearly the beneficiary of conference expansion as well as down seasons from the normally dominant ACC and Big Ten. That still doesn’t change the fact that the SEC is loaded with top coaches, star freshmen, and future NBA All-Stars.

2025 Big East Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2025

I am 100 percent biased, thanks to my formative years spent watching my favorite team (and eventual alma mater) Syracuse do battle with the beasts of the east in The Mecca of Basketball. The Big East Tournament is four days of rabid energy, bruising physicality, and relentless intensity, featuring some of the best basketball in the country played amidst the highest of stakes.

2025 Big 12 Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2025

Kansas who? Houston has bullied its way to the top of the Big 12 food chain with back-to-back regular season titles. But if the Cougars are going to truly usurp the Jayhawks as the Big 12’s new standard bearer, they will have to accomplish what Kansas did seemingly every year: win the Big 12 conference tournament.

2025 ACC Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2025

If you thought ACC football sucked in the fall, ACC basketball said, “Hold my beer” this winter. The ACC was awful this hoops season. The bloated 18-team conference, historically the best basketball league in the country, was a disaster from the start of nonconference play. Eleven of the 18 teams are currently rated outside of the Top 85. And as it currently stands, only three teams – Duke, Clemson, and Louisville – are locks to make the NCAA Tournament.

2025 AAC Tournament Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2025

I’ll forgive you if you don’t pay attention to American Athletic Conference basketball tournament. Heck, I bet half the people involved in AAC hoops don’t even care that much about AAC hoops. Such is life as a mid-major conference that has seen teams like Connecticut, Louisville, Cincinnati, SMU and Houston come and go through its 12-year history.

How to Bet Spring Training Baseball: Don’t Do It
by Robert Ferringo - 3/4/2025

When I tell people that NFL Preseason betting can be a great source of early season value, they usually look at me with an expression that is a mix of shock and horror. I can actually see the thought bubble with the word, “DEGENERATE” forming above their heads.

How to Bet Super Bowl Props
by Robert Ferringo - 2/6/2025

I don’t know that anyone can say with much certainty who is going to win Super Bowl LIX. But whoever wins, it will be historic. Philadelphia will take on Kansas City at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 9 at Super Bowl LIX at the Superdome in New Orleans. The Chiefs are currently a tenuous 1.5-point favorite and the total for this game is set at 48.5.

NFL Power Rankings Week 18
by Robert Ferringo - 12/31/2024

Welp, another regular season in the books. Week 18 is here to wrap up another wild, wacky NFL regular season. While we still have over a month of playoff action to savor, this is the last full card of the season. And as such, I am going to advise you all the same way I do every year heading into the final week of the season. Tread lightly.

NFL Power Rankings Week 17
by Robert Ferringo - 12/24/2024

It’s a big holiday week (mazel tov to those celebrating Hanukkah and “cool” to those celebrating Kwanzaa) so that means time is short. So rather than wasting your time with one of my witty, yet informative, introductions focusing on a trend, trait or zeitgeist of the NFL at the moment, I will let you get to the rankings.

NFL Power Rankings Week 16
by Robert Ferringo - 12/17/2024

NFL underdogs have covered the number in barely over 47 percent of all NFL games this season. And if you take out the league’s most dominant dog, the Pittsburgh Steelers, then NFL underdogs are beating the number in only 46.7 percent of all games this season. If the season were to end today, then that would be the worst showing for underdog in pro football this decade.

NFL Power Rankings Week 15
by Robert Ferringo - 12/10/2024

Scarcity equals value. The rarer something is, the more valuable it is. That’s one of the real powers (but not the only one) of the NFL and one of the reasons for its gargantuan popularity. Because there are fewer games than any of the other sports, every play, every quarter and every game receive enormous scrutiny and outsized analysis.

NFL Power Rankings Week 14
by Robert Ferringo - 12/3/2024

Mama told me there would be weeks like this. Just because I am a professional doesn’t mean that I am immune to the grotesque and indiscriminate whims of the Gambling Gods. And I have to say, last weekend was a doozy. I’ve had worse weekends. I’ve lost more money. But this one took a particular bite for some reason.

NFL Power Rankings Week 13
by Robert Ferringo - 11/26/2024

It’s Thanksgiving Week, which is the busiest gambling week of the season. As such, I’m going to keep this short and sweet. Also, this week we will be releasing our football picks at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27, to accommodate the Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to each of you and your loved ones and good luck this week!

NFL Power Rankings Week 12
by Robert Ferringo - 11/19/2024

It is time to pay homage to Mike Tomlin. I’m not going to deep dive into his coaching achievements and his career. I’m not going to stage the debate of whether or not he’s a “great” coach or why if he’s so great he hasn’t won more Super Bowls. I don’t really care about any of that. What I do care about, and what deserves to be recognized, is that Tomlin may be the greatest underdog coach in NFL history.

NFL Power Rankings Week 11
by Robert Ferringo - 11/12/2024

Does anyone remember way, way back in the good old days of Week 1 and Week 2 of this NFL season? Remember when big underdogs were absolutely crushing it for bettors through the first month of the season? Fifteen of the first 17 underdogs of 6.0+ this season beat the number. In the first five weeks of the season, these big dogs were absolutely an automatic play.

NFL Power Rankings Week 10
by Robert Ferringo - 11/5/2024

Choices have consequences. Don’t worry – I’m not here to give you some kind of half-cocked lecture about the election. Like you, I am looking forward to this rotten business being behind us. As much as I am going to miss daily e-mails from Gretchen Whitmer and Marco Rubio, nothing will bring me more joy this winter than being able to watch a full weekend of college and pro football without seeing a single political-oriented ad.

NFL Power Rankings Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 10/29/2024

I have been writing about football for more than two decades, and for me the bottom line has always been the same. Football is a violent, physical game. The team that is more violent and more physical is going to win more than they are going to lose.

NFL Power Rankings Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/22/2024

Parity has long been one of the NFL’s superpowers. A thin spectrum of talent and ability throughout the league helps keeps things interesting. The league wants close, competitive games. They want “any given Sunday” to ring true. They want upsets and intensity and surprises to keep people coming back for more.

NFL Power Rankings Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/15/2024

The North remembers. Last year the best division in the NFL was clearly the AFC North. The division sent three teams to the playoffs, including the conference’s No. 1 seed, Baltimore. All four teams in the 2023 AFC North finished above .500, and the group combined to go 43-25 straight up and 41-27 against the spread. This year the league’s best division is clearly the NFC North. And they may surpass all the gaudy numbers the 2023 AFC North produced.