College Basketball: Syracuse Orange Predictions with Futures Odds and Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 11/12/2010

Syracuse didn’t win a national title but they did finish 30-5 on the season and won the Big East regular season title. They fielded one of the best teams in school history and were a symphony of success and teamwork all season long. The encore begins at 7 p.m. tonight at the Carrier Dome against Northern Iowa. And man, does this year’s team have a tough act to follow.

College Football Power Rankings - The Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/11/2010

That is now two of three winning weeks for the Ferringo 15, as it put forth a subpar 5-6 ATS record last weekend. That is now a respectable 41-33 mark over the last five weeks for a 55.4 percent winning mark. Also, for the year that makes the F-15 teams a respectable 54-46 the week that they have been listed in these power rankings.

NFL Power Rankings Week 10
by Robert Ferringo - 11/10/2010

Indianapolis dropped down to No. 10 and was the biggest mover of the week. However, that was as much a function of good wins by the Packers, Falcons and Saints as it was anything that the Colts have done. Other than that I flopped Houston down a bit, swapped Jacksonville and Dallas, and moved the Giants up to the No. 3 slot ahead of the Jets and Patriots.

Big East College Basketball Picks With Projected Order of Finish and NCAA Bids
by Robert Ferringo - 11/9/2010

The Big East has been a 16-team behemoth over the last few seasons and is college basketball’s mega-conference. It’s the only conference whose odds include a wager on “The Field,” and the league’s setup mirrors its preferred style of play: menacing, overwhelming, deep, and physical. But quantity doesn’t always mean quality and mediocrity abounds in this league this season.

SEC College Basketball Predictions With Projected Order of Finish and NCAA Bids
by Robert Ferringo - 11/9/2010

As far as college basketball conferences go – the SEC sure is great at football. The SEC has left something to be desired on the college hoops scene over the course of the past several years. Perhaps, not coincidentally, the SEC’s slide to the bottom of the BCS-conference hoops ladder has occurred while the South’s football programs have taken a stranglehold on the college football landscape

ACC College Basketball Predictions With Projected Order of Finish and NCAA Bids
by Robert Ferringo - 11/8/2010

The Boys on Tobacco Road have to be feeling pretty good about themselves as we head into another college basketball season. One of their spawn, the Duke Blue Devils, is the reigning college basketball champion. That is now back-to-back title winners for the ACC and over the course of the past decade this league has produced five of the last 10 winners of the March Madness brackets. Surely that is the perfect symbol of this league’s dominance on the college basketball landscape.

Big 12 College Basketball Picks With Projected Order of Finish and NCAA Bids
by Robert Ferringo - 11/8/2010

A team from Kansas is the consensus preseason No. 1 in this league, which is no different than just about any other year. But this year it is the Kansas State Wildcats and not the Kansas Jayhawks that are enjoying the hype and plaudits that come from being the league favorite. To say that’s a significant change is an understatement.

College Football Power Rankings - The Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/4/2010

It was an excellent week for the Ferringo 15, as it went 8-5 ATS overall for a tidy profit. Actually, the record was 7-4 because Florida State and North Carolina State went up against one another. That is now back-to-back winning weeks for the teams listed in this space and over the last four weeks it has gone 36-28. Also, for the year that makes the F-15 teams a respectable 49-40 the week that they have been listed in these power rankings.

NFL Power Rankings Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 11/3/2010

While the entire football world is wasting time on the drama involving Randy Moss, Donovan McNabb, the Vikings, the Cowboys, and a bunch of other guys that haven’t produced much of anything this year, there are a lot of stories that are sliding under the radar. And if Joe Public wonders why he is a consistent loser when it comes to NFL handicapping he can partially thank the bobblehead media for force-feeding sensationalist stories instead of actually trading in fact and stat.

Pac-10 College Basketball Predictions With Projected Order of Finish and NCAA Bids
by Robert Ferringo - 11/3/2010

It's a good thing for the Pac-10 that plenty of attention is being paid on its impending realignment for 2011. All the focus on what the new league will look like in the future is keeping people from talking about how awful the league is in the present.

Big Ten College Basketball Predictions With Projected Order of Finish and NCAA Bids
by Robert Ferringo - 11/2/2010

For years and years I have been screaming about how overrated and unproductive Big Ten basketball has been on the national scene. Between Ed Hightower, Brent Musburger, and teams that score – literally – in the 30s, this conference has been college basketball’s idiot cousin for the better part of a decade.

College Football Picks: Missouri at Nebraska Betting Odds and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/30/2010

No. 8 Missouri heads to Lincoln on Saturday to face No. 12 Nebraska. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. for this critical Big 12 North showdown. The host Huskers are headed for the Big Ten next season so this will be the final game in what has bee one of the more unpredictable series in the history of the Big 12. Nebraska is presently a 7.5-point favorite.

College Football Power Rankings - The Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/28/2010

It was a slim winning week for the Ferringo 15, as our clubs went 6-5 for the week to turn an overall profit. That now makes these teams 29-24 ATS in the last three weeks that they have been posted in this section. Also, for the year that makes the F-15 teams a barely passable 42-36 the week that they have been listed in these power rankings. Remember: I’m not listing the 15 teams that I think will cover in a given week. This is just a list of 15 teams that I think present the best blend of immediate and long-term earning potential against the books, while also giving credit to teams for recent, past performances.

NFL Power Rankings Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/27/2010

As we head into Week 8 of the 2010 NFL season Minnesota (1-5), Dallas (1-5) and San Diego (2-5) are three of the worst teams in the league. In the meantime, Kansas City (4-2), Tampa Bay (4-2) and Seattle (4-2) are three of the best. (At least in the stat category that counts most: wins.) What the hell is going on in this league?

Mountain West Conference Predictions and MWC College Basketball Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/26/2010

Well, apparently The Mountain West didn’t make enough of an impression by dominating West Coast basketball last year and being one of the most reliable conferences in the country to make a profit betting in. Last year The Mountain had a coming out party with four teams earning NCAA Tournament bids.

NFL Picks: Patriots vs. Chargers Betting Odds and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2010

It was just two scant years ago that these AFC juggernauts were meeting in the conference title game. The Patriots were two sweet sips of victory away from the Greatest Season of All Time and the Chargers were a worthy impediment on the end of a 46-18 four-year run. But since that fierce game in Foxboro these two franchises have found the fight to be a little tougher. Neither team has won a playoff game in the two seasons since and neither currently leads its division. Most of the best players from that AFC Championship Game are no longer with these teams and both appear in the midst of a rebuilding effort.

College Football Power Rankings - The Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/21/2010

Yeah, I can’t believe it either. But the Hawaii Warriors have been the best bet in the business through the first half of the college football season. Right now they are 5-2 overall and they are actually a game up on Boise State in the WAC standings. You can’t say that this team is strictly an island bet. They are 2-1 SU and ATS on the mainland this year and this week they have a short line (-3) against Utah State.

NFL Power Rankings Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/20/2010

Save the violence. The big buzz in the NFL this week is the “outrage” over the vicious and savage play that we witnessed on the field last week. It was as if members of the bobblehead media suddenly realized: wow, football is a violent, angry, masochistic sport full of pain and punishment. And naturally, they had to bitch about it.

College Football Picks: Ohio State at Wisconsin Betting Odds and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/16/2010

Newly minted No. 1 Ohio State will take on No. 16 Wisconsin at 7 p.m. on Saturday in a crucial Big Ten battle. This game will be played in Madison in front of a rowdy, passionate home crowd that will be looking for the home underdog – Ohio State is a four-point chalk – to pull a big-time upset.

College Football Power Rankings - The Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/14/2010

If you count each of Central Florida’s two covers in the last eight days then the Ferringo 15 has posted a slim profit at 8-7 over the last week or so. That makes it 16-12 over the last two postings and it’s slowly but surely chugging along. For the year the F-15 teams are 29-24 the week that they have been listed in these college football power rankings.