College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/20/2013

Due to circumstances beyond my control there was no Ferringo 15 last week. I thought about just taking the two-week record of the last crop that we had posted, but decided against it because technically there wasn’t anything “on the record”.

NFL Power Rankings – Week 12
by Robert Ferringo - 11/19/2013

What did we learn this week in the NFL? Not that much, really — at least compared to most weeks. The Broncos are better than the Chiefs, but we already knew that. The Panthers are for real, but they were favored against New England on Monday night, so the public had already figured that out. New Orleans is better than San Francisco — as long as they are playing at home, at least. Knew that one, too.

NFL Power Rankings – Week 11
by Robert Ferringo - 11/12/2013

Can anyone play this game? Four weeks ago it looked like Ron Rivera was going to lose his job, and now his Panthers are coming off a convincing win over preseason Super Bowl favorite San Francisco, and Carolina is favored over Tom Brady on “Monday Night Football”.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/6/2013

Not much action for the Ferringo 15 last week as half of our clubs had Saturday off. The ones that did play went 5-3 against the spread. But if you discount the Florida Atlantic-Tulane game, which featured two of our F-15 teams, the official mark was a tidy 4-2 for the weekend.

NFL Power Rankings – Week 10
by Robert Ferringo - 11/5/2013

The public continues to take it on the chin this year in the NFL after another windfall week for the sportsbooks. Houston’s collapse against Indianapolis saved a lot of gamblers on Sunday. But overall it was another big winning week for the books. Ten of the 13 games on the board last week had lopsided action, with 70 percent or more of all betting coming down on one side. Only four of those square plays came through.

2013-14 ACC Basketball Predictions and Futures Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 11/1/2013

One of the most underrated stories in college basketball over the last five years has been the deterioration of the ACC. Once the premier conference in all of college basketball, the ACC had become a top-heavy mess. The ACC hasn’t finished higher than No. 4 in conference rankings in each of the past three years, and outside of Tobacco Road the level of play has fallen off drastically.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/30/2013

The difference between another winning and losing week for the Ferringo 15 came down to Missouri’s epic collapse against South Carolina. Missouri was clearly the right side on that game, but the Gamecocks pulled the plug on what was becoming one of the best stories in college football.

NFL Power Rankings – Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 10/29/2013

I pointed out last week that the end of October and early November is “separation time” for most of the teams in the NFL. This is the time of the year when the top-tier teams start to pull away from the muddled middle in the parity-driven league while the bottom feeders bumble their way to the basement in their respective divisions.

2013-14 Big Ten Basketball Predictions and Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/25/2013

The Big Ten enjoyed a fantastic 2012-13 college basketball season. They finished as the No. 1-ranked conference in the country, and Michigan carried the banner for the league all the way to the NCAA Championship Game. Indiana experienced a resurgence, and it was nothing but roses for one of the nation’s most stable and venerable leagues.

2013-14 Pac-12 Basketball Predictions and Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/25/2013

The Pac-12 is having a very good year. After years on the fringes of the national conversation in both college football and college basketball, the Pac-12 has come roaring back. The football conference might be the best in the country, and the basketball league heads into the 2013-14 season bursting with promise.

2013-14 Mountain West Conference Basketball Predictions and Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/25/2013

The Mountain West is the indefinable conference. The Mountain is too talented and too successful to be considered and dismissed as a “mid-major conference”. While the Pac-12 was sorting itself out over the last five years, the Mountain West produced some of the West’s best basketball. But the Mountain West also lacks the big-budget sizzle and overall pedigree of the BCS conferences like the Big East or the Big 12.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2013

The F-15 went 7-6 last week to follow up on its first dud of the year. Our No. 1 team (Oregon) and our No. 2 team (Washington State) actually played one another, so the rest of the F-15 went 6-5 for a slender profit. The betting public and the oddsmakers look like they have caught up to our top teams, but we’ll see if these ATS juggernauts can continue to produce.

2013-14 Big 12 Basketball Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2013

Kansas has won (or shared) an unprecedented nine consecutive Big 12 regular season championships. Those nine straight banners have been remarkable considering the level of basketball played in the Big 12, which for my money has been the second-best college hoops conference over the last eight years, behind the Big East. This isn’t Gonzaga winning nine straight West Coast Conference Championships. This is the Jayhawks dominating one of the best leagues in the land.

NFL Power Rankings – Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/22/2013

In a league devised for parity to reign supreme, there is becoming a very clear delineation between the Haves and the Have-Not’s in the NFL. We are seeing more double-digit spreads, and some teams are starting to gear up and work toward securing playoff positioning while others are already starting to cast a gaze to next year.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/16/2013

It was an ugly week for the Ferringo 15 last week, as it plunged to just 2-7, with two games featuring teams playing against one another. I knew things had been going a little too well, and that is the Catch-22 of the Ferringo 15: our teams have the most value in the country, but eventually the rest of the country will catch up to them and take that value away.

NCAA Basketball National Championship Picks: Value Plays
by Robert Ferringo - 10/16/2013

So if you’re going to make a NCAA basketball futures bet, then you might as well do it the right way. I already discussed which teams I thought offered the worst odds to win the National Championship. Below are the teams that I think that offer the best value for gamblers looking to take on this long-term investment.

College Basketball National Championship Picks: Sucker Bets
by Robert Ferringo - 10/16/2013

I think that the value of betting on which team will win the National Championship is limited, at best. But for those of you that like the challenge, the first thing that you need to do for a successful college basketball futures is figure out which teams ARE NOT going to win the National Championship.

NFL Power Rankings – Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/15/2013

It has become a disturbing trend across the league over the last several weeks; coaches are consistently eschewing chip-shot field goals on fourth down to make ill-conceived attempts at touchdowns. Off the top of my head, I can think of five times in the last two weeks where a coach went for it on fourth-and-short inside his opponent’s 10-yard-line instead of simply taking the three points. Not only did it almost never work out for the offense, but those three lost points went on to be a major factor in the outcome of the game both straight up and against the spread.

2103-14 American Athletic Conference Basketball Predictions and Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/11/2013

College basketball’s first mega-conference, the Big East, had been a dominant force on the national hoops scene over the last several seasons. But due to maneuvers motivated by college football revenue, this offseason the Big East splintered into what seems like 100 different pieces.

2013 Big East Basketball Predictions and Futures Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/10/2013

You can’t kill The Beast. The Big East has been the dominant college basketball league in the country over the last five to 10 years. But when several of its flagship members, including Syracuse, Connecticut and Louisville, abandoned the Big East to chase football money in other leagues, that was supposed to be the beginning of the end for the conference.