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.
2026 March Madness Bracket Predictions: South Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/18/2026
Chaos or chalk? Last year was the most, I don’t know, organized, NCAA tournament in recent memory and one of the least chaotic in modern history. Only four teams seeded 11 or worse won their opening round game. Only one double-digit seed (No. 10 Arkansas) made it to the Sweet 16. No team lower than a No. 3 seed made the Elite Eight, with three of the regions having No. 1 versus No. 2.
2026 March Madness Bracket Predictions: West Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/18/2026
Momentum or major letdown? Momentum is a crucial, yet fickle, component to the NCAA tournament. Any massive March run involves a certain bit of propulsion through the tournament field. Teams get hot – and stay hot – at the right time of the year and it could lead to a magical surge through the bracket.
2026 March Madness Bracket Predictions: Midwest Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/18/2026
The Midwest Region feels like a place where The $#it Is About To Go Down. There are simply too many teams that look shakier and shakier the deeper you analyze them. Maybe a team’s rotation has been blown up by injury (or an FBI-led marijuana bust). Maybe a team’s coach, with a history of March failure, is just waiting to do something stupid to cost his team. Or maybe, just maybe, another team is just a fraud to begin with and is about to get exposed.
2026 March Madness Bracket Predictions: East Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/17/2026
For the third straight season, the No. 1 overall seed will hail from the East, with the Duke Blue Devils enjoying the honor of trying to navigate this minefield. The Blue Devils can take solace in the fact that the top seed has been able to escape this region each of the past two years. But the third time may not be a charm for a Duke team that was done no favors by the selection committee.
2026 Big East Tournament Predictions and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2026
It has been a disappointing, transitional year in the Big East. And unless we have a surprise champion (think Georgetown in 2021) then this venerable league may settle for just three teams in the NCAA tournament. That would tie 2024 for the fewest teams in the NCAA tournament from the Big East over the past 40 years.
2026 SEC Tournament Predictions and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2026
Last year the SEC broke college basketball. They sent 14 of 16 teams to the NCAA tournament, provided half of the Elite Eight and Final Four teams, and featured the eventual national champions, Florida. It was a historic year for a league in which basketball has always been second fiddle to football.
2026 Mountain West Tournament Predictions and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2026
The MWC has sent at least four teams to the NCAA tournament – the conference winner and at least three at-large teams – for four straight seasons. The Mountain has sent 18 teams to The Big Dance over the last four years, and 2021 was the last time that they didn’t send at least three teams to the tourney.
2026 Big Ten Tournament Predictions and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2026
There are 18 teams in the Big Ten tournament! This bloated league will (eventually) crown a champion this weekend, with the winner coming through one of the most convoluted brackets you will ever see. To wit, if Oregon or Northwestern were to make a Cinderella run to the title they would need to win six games in six days. Yet, the league’s top four teams – Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska and Michigan State – will play their first Big Ten tournament games three days after the tournament’s opening games.
2026 ACC Tournament Predictions and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2026
The ACC ain’t what it used to be. But the league is still one of the most high-profile conferences in college basketball and setting up for one of the most intriguing and consequential ACC tournaments in recent memory. While Duke leads a group of six teams squarely in next week’s NCAA tournament field, there are several desperate underachievers trying to claw their way into The Big Dance.
NFL Power Rankings Week 18
by Robert Ferringo - 12/30/2025
Get out of here with that Drake Maye nonsense. According to Bill Barnwell, New England has played the 10th-easiest schedule of any team since 1970 and the second-easiest schedule of any team in the 21st century. Josh Allen is the best player in the NFL and he is literally carrying the Bills every week. The same can be said for Herbert, who has gotten physically abused every week while playing behind the NFL’s worst offensive line.
NFL Power Rankings Week 17
by Robert Ferringo - 12/23/2025
I know that the NFC West has been the best division in football this year. But you know what hasn’t been talked about enough regarding these teams: they have gotten to crossover with the AFC South and the NFC South, two of the worst divisions in football.
NFL Power Rankings Week 16
by Robert Ferringo - 12/16/2025
Don’t get rattled by the stakes. This is a simple, yet important bit of advice for sports bettors. Just because a sporting event is taking place on a grand stage – the Super Bowl, the World Cup, the NBA Finals, etc. – that shouldn’t change the way that you handicap the game. Don’t get swept up.
NFL Power Rankings Week 15
by Robert Ferringo - 12/9/2025
Well, I didn’t see that coming. There was an offensive eruption in Week 14, with 11 of the 14 games going ‘over’ the total. The high-scoring outburst came despite quarterback injuries, bad weather, and heightened stakes across the league. It also reversed a trend of the ‘under’ cleaning up across the league. In Weeks 11-13, the ‘under’ went a healthy 29-16 (64.4 percent).
NFL Power Rankings Week 14
by Robert Ferringo - 12/2/2025
“Who is the best team in the NFL?” Over the past two weeks, everyone that I have come across that wants to talk football asks me that question. My honest answer is, “there isn’t one.” That’s kind of surprising, right? I mean – these are NFL power rankings, after all. There has to be a No. 1 team, doesn’t there?
NFL Power Rankings Week 13
by Robert Ferringo - 11/25/2025
I’m not going to lie. Thanksgiving week is probably my favorite week of the year. It’s also one of the most difficult weeks of the year for any handicapper. There is a ridiculous amount of high-stakes sports action going on this week across the full gamut of sports. There’s college basketball morning, noon and night all week. There are big NBA and NHL matchups all week, along with Premier League and Champions League soccer.
NFL Power Rankings Week 12
by Robert Ferringo - 11/18/2025
Oh my god, just take the goddamn points. I understand that analytics revolution has forever changed the way that coaches execute game management in football. Teams are going for it on fourth downs at rates that the NFL has never seen and two-point conversions at seemingly odd times are now the norm. I get all of it and I’m cool with it.
NFL Power Rankings Week 11
by Robert Ferringo - 11/11/2025
The facts are the facts: over the last 25 years in the NFL – so we’re talking well over 6,000 games – the team that wins the game outright covers the spread roughly 80 percent of the time. That means that the number only comes into play in one of every five games, or two or three times a weekend.
NFL Power Rankings Week 10
by Robert Ferringo - 11/4/2025
Weeks 7 and 8 were a bounty for the betting public. After Baltimore came through as a hefty favorite on Thursday night, NFL favorites were on a ridiculous 24-6 run against the spread heading into the weekend. Week 8 was one of the worst weekends for the sportsbooks this decade, with favorites going 12-2 and the books getting crushed on straights, teasers, moneyline parlays and all manner of nonsense.
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.
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