2014 Big Ten Predictions and College Basketball Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/29/2014

The Big Ten can add as many teams as it likes – it’s not getting any better as a basketball conference. Maryland and Rutgers will be making their maiden voyages in the Big Ten this year, boosting the league’s total membership to 14 teams. However, both are expected to be bottom-tier finishers in the conference and will bring about the same amount of cache to the Big Ten as they have in football. (Which is to say: none.)

2014 ACC Predictions and College Basketball Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/29/2014

Despite its cumbersome construction, the ACC is becoming to college basketball what the SEC is to college football: the clear-cut No. 1 league in the land. The Tobacco Road Trio has joined forces with the upper crust of the old Big East to form another hoops mega-conference. And the battle for the league title will once again feature a who’s who of the sports elite players and coaches.

2014 Big 12 Predictions and College Basketball Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/29/2014

Spoiler alert: Kansas is going to win the Big 12 again this year. I’m not exactly going out on a limb with that college basketball prediction. The Jayhawks have won an astounding 10 straight Big 12 Championships and have dominated one of the premier college hoops conferences in the country. They are the definition of a powerhouse program, and it should be another banner year in Lawrence.

2014 Big East Predictions and College Basketball Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/29/2014

The Real Big East, the conference that redefined and dominated college basketball for most of the past two decades, is dead. What remains is a 10-team Catholic League. It is a who’s who of teams that haven’t been relevant in the NCAA Tournament the last 25 years.

NFL Power Rankings Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 10/28/2014

The Lions-Falcons and Seahawks-Panthers games were as disgusting of displays of football as I can remember this season; the winner in each game was simply the least incompetent team. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for everyone in attendance for the Vikings-Bucs game (it was 3-0 at halftime) or the Raiders-Browns (9-6 after three quarters). Most of the rest of the games were blowouts. Pittsburgh, New England, Kansas City and Houston each won going away. And at the end of the weekend it could be said that only two games (Eagles-Cardinals and Ravens-Bengals) were actually somewhat enjoyable to watch.

NFL Power Rankings Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/21/2014

Prior to the 2011 season, in an attempt make the public think it actually cared about the Concussion Crisis, the NFL decided to move the kickoff from the 30-yard-line up to the 35. The idea is that this would lead to less kickoff returns and thus less potential concussion-causing coverage hits. The ruse was a success, as the percentage of kickoffs resulting in a touchback increased from just 11 percent from 1994 to 2010 to a whopping 46 percent from 2011 to this year.

The Ferringo Method – Sports Betting System by a Proven Winner
by Robert Ferringo - 10/20/2014

The truly talented, moneymaking handicappers are a lot tougher to find. And when people do find handicappers like myself they think it is some kind of parlor trick or black magic. They think that we are somehow fortunetellers or soothsayers. But the reality is actually a lot more boring and simple than that.

College Basketball National Championship Betting Odds: Best Bets
by Robert Ferringo - 10/20/2014

The Connecticut Huskies, a team that started the season outside the Top 15 with no national buzz, cut down the nets at AT&T Stadium in Arlington last April as the 2013-14 National Champions. They seemingly came out of nowhere, and at the start of last season absolutely no one saw UConn as a realistic title threat.

NCAA Basketball National Championship Futures Odds: Sucker Bets
by Robert Ferringo - 10/20/2014

There are two ways to peg the most overrated teams in college basketball at the beginning of the season. The first is the preseason Top 25, which is usually based more on rewarding flagship programs and glad-handing big-name coaches than it is an attempt to actually project the best 25 teams in the country.

NFL Power Rankings Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/15/2014

I think that Week 6 of the NFL season was, without a doubt, the strangest week that we’ve seen thus far. There were surprising upsets (Dallas) and near-upsets (Oakland), thrilling last-second wins (Green Bay) and last-second losses (Houston), some blowouts (Philadelphia and Baltimore), and a tie for good measure.

NFL Power Rankings Week 6
by Robert Ferringo - 10/7/2014

One of the things I enjoy about hitting the meat of the NFL season is that now we’re starting to have enough information to identify macro-trends in the sport while still having enough time left in the season to capitalize them. It’s one thing to project paths prior to the season and another to assess results at the end of the year. But the middle of the season provides the opportunity to cash in on our hard-earned analysis.

NFL Power Rankings Week 5
by Robert Ferringo - 9/30/2014

Of 12 spreads on the board in Week 4, only three of them were posted at a touchdown or higher. Two others were posted at 5.5 and 4.5. But the remaining seven spreads were at a field goal or less, which is generally an indicator that even the sportsbooks are unsure of who is going to win.

NFL Power Rankings Week 4
by Robert Ferringo - 9/23/2014

A cluster of bye weeks sucks the life out of the NFL Week 4 card and offers an early-season challenge for bettors that are just starting to get into a groove. I also suspect that the teams that have been granted the week off aren’t all that happy about it as last week was the first time that, league-wide, it looked like things were clicking for most groups.

NFL Power Rankings Week 3
by Robert Ferringo - 9/16/2014

Since we last spoke the NFL has provided us all with a hellacious week of self-realization. You don’t need me to recap it for you. But I didn’t feel right starting off this week’s Power Rankings with some snappy intro or witty, humorous analysis.

NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/10/2014

The Ray Rice debacle has muted what is usually one of the most entertaining weeks on the football calendar: Overreaction Week. There is an almost comically large build up and anticipation for the open to the NFL season. And the results of the first games invariably lead to an irrational overreaction by fans and gamblers alike on the following Monday and Tuesday after Week 1. The sportsbooks know this, and they generally use the rush to judgment against desperate bettors in Week 2.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2014

As I pointed out in my initial offering, the first month of the season is by the most difficult for our profit-power rankings because it is impossible to real know what you’re going to get out of teams – and subsequently what people expect out of them – until you see them play a couple games. But I expect a big bounce back this week and more success going forward.

Bettors Must Adjust to the New NFL
by Robert Ferringo - 9/5/2014

Football, as we know it, is dead. Brute force and physicality are now scolded, rather than rewarded, and sophisticated, pass-first offenses now dictate and dominate the game. The resulting scoring explosion has forever altered the landscape of the sport. And from its ashes a simulacra of the game I grew up obsessing has risen.

NFL Power Rankings Week 1
by Robert Ferringo - 9/3/2014

We are on the eve of destruction, waiting, anxiously, to unleash the fury of a thousand backdoor covers on unsuspecting sportsbooks in our attempt to dominate another NFL season. The six-month sojourn of professional football has come to close, and we are ready to begin another six-month-long football gambling odyssey as the 2014 NFL season commences this weekend.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 9/2/2014

It was another brilliant start for the Ferringo 15, which went 11-4 the opening week of the season. However, two of those losses were actually to other teams in the F-15 (Cal-Northwestern and Georgia Southern –N.C. State). So the teams on our list actually went 9-2 against unique opponents, a fantastic 81.8 percent winning mark to start the year.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 8/26/2014

How many professional handicappers do you know that have hit 60 percent of their college football picks each week over the past two years and, let’s say, about 250 plays? And even if you did know of someone that managed to accomplish that feat, were they giving those picks out for FREE?