2014 Oregon Ducks Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2014

The Ducks continue to be a college football juggernaut. And they may have the most gain from the expansion to a four-team college football playoff to determine the national champion. Oregon has been close to the BCS Title but was never able to break through. Regardless, this program is 47-6 over the past four years and will continue to be a national power.

2014 USC Trojans Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2014

The Trojans have floundered and been a massive disappointment in the post-Pete Carroll Era. But the return of one of his top former assistants, former Washington coach Steve Sarkisian, has injected life back into this program. It’s not like USC has slipped into the depths. But last year’s 10-4 mark only came after a midseason coaching change and plenty of drama.

2014 UCLA Bruins Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2014

The hype around this UCLA program is reaching a fever pitch heading into the season. Many prognosticators believe that Jim Mora has the Bruins positioned for a potential national championship run. And with 17 starters – including stud quarterback Brett Hundley – back from a team that went 10-3 last year it is tough to argue with all the hope around this program.

2014 Stanford Cardinal Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2014

The Cardinals have been one of the best programs in the country over the last four years, boasting an absurd 46-8 record during that span. Considering that as recently as 2006 these guys were 1-11 the turnaround is nothing short of remarkable.

2014 Arizona Wildcats Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2014

Coach Rich Rodriguez is still waiting for that breakout season down in Tucson and is hoping that things really click in his third season in the desert. Arizona has gone 8-5 the past two years under Rich Rod and has sported an 8-5 mark in four of the last six seasons. They are hoping to break through that glass ceiling this year.

2014 Oregon State Beavers Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2014

Mike Riley had a bizarre season last year, beginning with a stunning home loss to Eastern Washington and ending with a surprising blowout win over Boise State. In between Oregon State took advantage of a weak schedule to earn a bowl trip. Oregon State put a scare into Stanford and Oregon last year. But this team’s 7-6 mark was a bit misleading and we will find out what this team is all about this fall.

2014 Indiana Hoosiers Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

The Hoosiers were THAT close to reaching their second bowl game in the past 20 years last season, coming up just one game short of postseason eligibility. They will give it a go again this year against a schedule that is far less forgiving than last year’s slate.

2014 Purdue Boilermakers Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

The Boilermakers are a bad football team that went just 1-11 last year. That was partially due to the fact that they were undermanned last year. But it was mostly a byproduct of a ruthless schedule placed on a team that was breaking in a new coach and learning new schemes on both sides of the ball.

2014 Maryland Terrapins Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

Maryland joins Rutgers as the newcomers in the Big Ten. The Terps had a successful close to their stint in the ACC, going 7-6 and snapping a two-year funk. They bring a competitive team into the Big Ten. But the schedule makers did the Terps no favors, and this experienced team will have to claw its way back to bowl eligibility.

2014 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

The Scarlet Knights move to the Big Ten this year and the expectation is that Rutgers is going to struggle with a large step up in class. However, the Scarlet Knights are a good fit for the rugged style of football Midwest teams are known to play. And this program has managed three straight bowl games and a solid 64-39 overall record the past eight seasons.

2014 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

Notre Dame’s lucky trip to the national title game two years ago will be paying dividends for bettors for a decade. Long one of the most overrated teams in the country, the Irish will remain overvalued as the betting public buys into the storyline that this program is back among the nation’s elite.

2014 BYU Cougars Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

The wacky Mormons are still getting used to life as an independent and were really a non-entity in the 2013 season. Sure, their win over Texas in early September caught some headlines. But losses to Virginia and Utah, as well as a blowout loss to Washington in a third-tier bowl game, really puts things into perspective for the Cougars.

2014 Navy Midshipmen Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

Navy football is what it is. They continue to use the triple-option attack and remain one of the trickiest teams in the country to steal a win from. Outside of its annual clash with Army, Navy football is completely off the national radar and content with eight wins and a bowl game.

2014 Army Black Knights Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/25/2014

Army has been to just one bowl game in the past 15 years, a 2010 upset of SMU in the Armed Forces Bowl. But with one of the most experienced teams in the nation the Black Knights could break through for another appearance this fall.

2014 Ohio State Buckeyes Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/22/2014

A 10-point loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten championship game was the only thing standing between the Buckeyes and a shot at the national title last year. Urban Meyer picked up right where Jim Tressel left off and has Ohio State positioned as a perennial title contender. And this year’s version should be in the mix once again.

2014 Michigan Wolverines Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/22/2014

Michigan’s season comes down to talented quarterback Devin Gardner and how far he can carry the Wolverines. He is one of seven starters back on offense. However, the attack unit will have six freshmen or sophomores in the starting lineup and they will need to grow up in a hurry. The defense has eight starters back, including five seniors, and they will try to improve on Michigan’s No. 66 scoring rank.

2014 Wisconsin Badgers Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/22/2014

It has been an average couple seasons for the Badgers, who have gone just 17-10 after going 32-8 the previous three seasons. But thanks to being on the favorable end of Big Ten realignment the Badgers can be average and still dominate their bumbling competition in the limp West.

2014 Penn State Nittany Lions Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/22/2014

Former coach Bill O’Brien helped the Nittany Lions weather the immediate aftermath of the crippling Jerry Sandusky-Joe Paterno scandal. But new head coach James Franklin, formerly of Vanderbilt, is now the fourth head coach in 29 games for a program that had enjoyed the same head coach for 46 years prior to the scandal.

2014 Nebraska Cornhuskers Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/22/2014

Bo Pelini loses four games every year. It’s just the way it is. No matter how good or bad his roster is, Pelini finds a way to lose/only lose four games each season. So it was an easy call for the books to post Cornhuskers’ season win total at 8.0. And it’s an even easier call for me to pass on this total and predict a ‘push’.

2014 Michigan State Spartans Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/22/2014

The Spartans had an epic season in 2013, winning the Big Ten and then pulling an upset over Stanford in the Rose Bowl. That was the third time in four years that the Spartans have won double-digit games. And now prognosticators project this year’s team to the short list of contenders to make the new four-team playoff.