Robert Ferringo is one of the lead writers for Doc's Sports. He has been a writer with Doc's since 2004 and is regarded as one of the top talents in the industry both for his entertaining and informative content as well as for his unique handicapping style. A former New York sports reporter, Robert has written for and been cited in work with ESPN.com, GQ, Southern Gaming, several other national publications and well-respected industry publications, and dozens of other online outlets. Robert is also a member of the Football Writers Association of America as well as the Basketball Writers Association of America.
NFL Power Rankings Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 10/28/2025
See, now this is what I like with my power rankings. I like stasis. Equilibrium. I don’t like big, wild swings in my rankings. I like these power rankings to be more predictive than reactive, so the goal is to have weeks where I only have to make subtle shifts rather than major alterations.
NFL Power Rankings Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/21/2025
In-season trades are rare in the NFL. And impactful in-season swaps are even rarer. Outside of 2022’s Christian McCaffrey trade, which sent the running back from Carolina to San Francisco, I’m hard-pressed to think of another move from the past two decades that really altered the balance of power in any particular season.
NFL Power Rankings Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/14/2025
Through six weeks the field is wide open. Buffalo is currently the team with the shortest odds to win the Super Bowl and they are at a hefty +650. Green Bay (+700) and Kansas City (+700) are right behind them and there are only five teams (Detroit and Philadelphia are the others) that have odds of +1500 or better to win Super Bowl LX.
NFL Power Rankings Week 6
by Robert Ferringo - 10/7/2025
Jacksonville’s final play of the game - Trevor Lawrence falling down then scoring the game-winning touchdown – kind of summed the NFL weekend. The 49ers backups scored the biggest upset of the season to date. Jerry Jones was flipping off fans. Emari Demercado pulled off his best Adonai Mitchell impression and made me question if the NFL is involved in a Chad Powers crossover conspiracy.
NFL Power Rankings Week 5
by Robert Ferringo - 9/30/2025
It’s easy to get excited about making your bets when things are going well. When gamblers are running hot, bets come easy. Preparation doesn’t feel like work. Hours feel like days between games and you can’t wait to get back into the action. When you’re winning you feel like the Smartest Man Alive and everything just flows.
NFL Power Rankings Week 4
by Robert Ferringo - 9/23/2025
The first two weeks of the season saw exactly zero upsets from underdogs of 6.0 or more. There was still just one last week (Cleveland), but Carolina (+5.5) also shocked Atlanta, the Jets (+6.5) nearly knocked off Tampa Bay, and Detroit (which was at +5 earlier in the week) manhandled Baltimore.
NFL Power Rankings Week 3
by Robert Ferringo - 9/16/2025
You always hear bettors talking about “going against the public”. What they are really talking about is being wary of falling victim to groupthink or mental conformity. When Everyone thinks something about sports betting, that general consensus is usually wrong. Or at least overvalued in the betting market.
NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2025
Don’t let the Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football games fool you. Points were hard to come by in Week 1 of the NFL season. The clearest defining trend through the opening week of the year was that the teams combined to go 4-12 against the total. The ‘under’ was cashing left and right and the majority of the games weren’t even close to the number.
NFL Power Rankings Week 1
by Robert Ferringo - 9/4/2025
One of the great joys of football betting is the honesty of it. Someone wins. Someone loses. Someone is right. Someone is wrong. I don’t care what people think is going to happen. All that matters is what does happen. Your arrogance and bravery for dancing to the NFL’s symphony of savagery will either rewarded with riches or replaced with regret and shame. There’s nothing in between. There’s a purity in that.
2025 SEC Football Predictions with Odds and Expert Betting Advice
by Robert Ferringo - 8/28/2025
College football has always been messy business. And as much as we wish that it was all about what happens between the lines that has never been the whole picture. The SEC should have one of the most exciting races in the country this fall, with powerhouses Texas, Georgia and Alabama fighting for a trip to Atlanta and several second-tier spoilers nipping at their heels. But frivolous fighting over ancillary issues may once again muddle the product on the field.
2025 Big Ten Football Predictions with Odds and Expert Betting Advice
by Robert Ferringo - 8/21/2025
I hope Big Ten fanboys have enjoyed trolling SEC supporters over the past eight months. Because the reality is the conference’s back-to-back national championships are more of a fluke than they are some statement about the league’s dominance. That’s not to say that Ohio State was a fluke last season. Or Michigan the year prior.
2025 AAC Football Predictions with Odds and Expert Betting Advice
by Robert Ferringo - 8/20/2025
With four different champions in the past four years and eight unique winners over the past decade, the American Athletic Conference is a paragon of college football parity. So it makes sense that the league enters the 2025 season without a clear and prohibitive favorite. Instead, the AAC offers the best and worst of what this sport has to offer, depending on your perspective.
2025 Big 12 Football Predictions with Odds and Expert Betting Advice
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2025
I can’t say that I feel any more confident about surmising how this league will play out this year. With more questions than answers, and with parity throughout the league’s rosters, this conference really is anyone’s ballgame. There are too many teams in this league that can beat any team in the country or lose to any team in the country to feel confident projecting how things will sort themselves out.
2025 MWC Football Predictions with Odds and Expert Betting Advice
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2025
If you really love college football betting, then you have to love the Mountain West. The Smurf Turf. Midnight kickoffs in Hawaii. Handicapping home field advantages that range from snow and elevation to heat and desert. Triple option and fun-and-gun offenses. The Mountain West has been a weird and wonderful niche in the sport for nearly three decades.
2025 ACC Football Predictions with Odds and Expert Betting Advice
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2025
The existence of ACC football is one of the biggest reasons that SEC football and its troglodyte supporters have such inflated egos these days. Watching the ACC flop and flounder in the New Reality of College Sports has been a joy. And it has also elevated the status of their Southeastern rivals simply by comparison.
2025 Los Angeles Rams Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025
The Rams are a big buzz team entering the 2025 season. They followed a surprise 10-win playoff season in 2023 with 10 more wins and a division title in 2024. Now the assumption is that the team, with one of the league’s youngest rosters, will continue to ascend and threaten a third Super Bowl trip in the McVay Era.
2025 Green Bay Packers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025
Green Bay, with the No. 5 total offense and No. 5 total defense, was actually the only team in the league to finish in the Top 5 on both sides of the ball. And ironically enough, the last time the Packers boasted Top 5 units on both sides of the ball was the 1998 team that also lost in the Wild Card Round.
2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025
Tampa, which easily beat its preseason Las Vegas win total (7.5), underachieved its Pythagorean win expectation by 1.1 games. They finished with a negative turnover differential (-5) and they were just 1-6 in games decided by five points or less or in overtime.
2025 Washington Commanders Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025
In 2022, Houston won just three games and were a league pushover. They drafted a rookie quarterback No. 2 overall and that rookie took the league by storm, leading the 2023 Texans to 10 wins and a surprise playoff appearance. Then, prior to the 2024 season, Houston spent the offseason loading up on big-name veterans through trades and free agency in an attempt to build on their breakthrough season.
2025 San Francisco 49ers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2025
Last year my 8-Unit NFL Futures Play was on San Francisco 49ers to go ‘under’ their 11.5 Las Vegas season win total. In my writeup, I observed that, “Funny thing about championship windows. They normally don't close quietly; they slam shut.” And last year San Francisco’s window to win a Super Bowl title slammed shut.
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