2019 South Carolina Gamecocks College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

It is tough to find a sleeper in the SEC. All of the programs in this league are massively overrated - even the good ones - and they all enter each season with inflated expectations. However, if you are looking for an underrated squad that could wreak some havoc for the top teams in the conference, I would look no further than the Gamecocks.

2019 Tennessee Volunteers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

It seems like every August I am reading stories about how this is the year that Tennessee is poised to burst back through into the top tier of the SEC. And it never happens. So, when I sit and read preseason articles propping up this year's team, I take them all with a grain of salt the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

2019 Syracuse Orange College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

Syracuse has been so bad for so long that it is easy for college football fans to forget what a legacy program the Orange have. Prior to last season, it had been over 15 years since Syracuse had been relevant on a national stage. But prior to that, the Orange had been right there with Penn State as the most dominant programs in the entire northeastern portion of the country.

2019 Miami Hurricanes College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Miami has been one of the most overrated and overhyped programs in the country for the better part of the last decade. And despite having one of the strangest offseasons in college football this year, they are still one of the favorites in the ACC entering the season.

2019 Virginia Cavaliers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Rebuilding is the very clear theme of this year in the ACC. No fewer than seven teams are in the first or second year of major overhauls, including new coaches, new schemes and a whole bunch of new players. That level of turnover and uncertainty has created an opportunity for Virginia, which is in the fourth season of the Bronco Mendenhall regime. This is kind of a put-up-or-shut-up season for the Cavaliers, who have increased their win total each of the past two seasons under Mendenhall.

2019 NC State Wolfpack College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

We'll find out just how much Ryan Finley meant to this program now that the Wolfpack's star quarterback has moved on to the NFL. Finley guided the Wolfpack to an 18-8 straight up record the last two seasons, including a 9-4 mark last year when he was one of just nine returning starters on one of the ACC's youngest rosters.

2019 Louisville Cardinals College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

If anything positive can come out of last year's Louisville disaster, it could be that maybe now no one will ever hire human dumpster fire Bobby Petrino ever again. Petrino drove this team completely off the rails in his second stint in the Bluegrass State. In 2016 and 2017 the Cardinals spent time in the Top 20. But after losing Lamar Jackson, the team went right over a cliff, and Petrino couldn't do anything to help them out.

2019 North Carolina Tar Heels College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Mack is back. Mack Brown is back in college football after a six-year hiatus. He will begin his 30th season as a head coach while taking over a North Carolina team program that has fallen off a cliff the past two years. In 2015, just four short seasons ago, North Carolina was 11-1, No. 8 in the country, and trading blows with Clemson in the ACC Title Game.

2019 Wake Forest Demon Deacons College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

With an enrollment of just 5,100 students, it is nearly impossible for Wake Forest to be competitive in college football. Somehow, Dave Clawson has kept them competitive during his five seasons in Winston-Salem, dragging the Demon Deacons to three straight bowl games following a four-year drought.

2019 Boston College Golden Eagles College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

At this point we should just pencil the Eagles in at 7-6 and call it a day, right? Steve Addazio has gotten Boston College to seven wins five times in the last six years. Last season they had a chance to break through to that eight-win plateau but had to watch as their First Responder Bowl matchup with Boise State was unceremoniously cancelled.

2019 Pitt Panthers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Last year's Pitt Panthers were left for dead after a 45-13 drubbing at Central Florida left them at 2-3. However, Pat Narduzzi waved his magic wand and the Panthers won five of the next six games, securing the school's first ever ACC Atlantic title and a slot in the conference championship.

2019 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

I feel bad for Paul Johnson, even though I shouldn't. The man had a severely contentious relationship with local and national media and, frankly, was always kind of a jerk. But Johnson could coach. Boy could he coach. Georgia Tech fans finally got tired of Johnson's triple-option and erratic results. Johnson had seven winning seasons in the last 10 years - including a pair of 11-win seasons.

2019 Duke Blue Devils College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Somehow, David Cutcliffe continues to do more with less, coaxing five of six winning years out of the boys in Durham. This will be one of Cutcliffe's most difficult challenges yet, though, as the Blue Devils undergo a clear retooling this season. Duke has to replace 85 percent of its passing yards and 80 percent of its receiving from last year.

2019 Oklahoma Sooners College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

This year is all about mental hurdles for the Sooners. Can they win their third straight Big 12 championship? Can Oklahoma get over the hump and win a bowl game after losing four of their last five? Can the Sooners finally beat an SEC team in the College Football Playoff after losing to Georgia and Alabama the last two years? Can Lincoln Riley, now in his third year at the helm and working with more of his own players after taking over Bob Stoops recruits, put his stamp on this program?

2019 Oklahoma State Cowboys College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

Oklahoma State is kind of the prototypical Big 12 team. They can score 50 points or allow 50 points on any given Saturday and are capable of beating or losing to any team in the country in any given week. They are every stereotype that every SEC and ACC fan uses to rag on this high-scoring league, wrapped in one erratic program.

2019 Texas Longhorns College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

Last year Texas won 10 games for the first time in nearly a decade, and now the assumption is that they are somehow "back" to being a national powerhouse. However, I think we should pump the brakes a bit on the Longhorns. I know there are a lot of people that want the Longhorns to be "back". But I don't think they are quite there yet.

2019 Iowa State Cyclones College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

I'm still getting used to the fact that Iowa State is good at football and an actual player in the Big 12. For the better part of the last two decades, this team has been somewhere between cannon fodder and a complete afterthought. But Matt Campbell is doing excellent work in Ames and has guided this group to back-to-back 8-5 seasons.

2019 TCU Horned Frogs College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

Gary Patterson has been down this road before. In both 2013 (4-8) and 2016 (6-7), the Horned Frogs were coming off rare seasons with fewer than 10 wins. They rebounded to go 12-1 and 11-3, respectively, in their follow-up seasons. And after last year's 7-6 slog, Patterson has his Horned Frogs in a perfect position to bounce back once again.

2019 Texas Tech Red Raiders College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

Last year, I mused about how much more rope the Texas Tech athletic department would give Kliff Kingsbury. The answer was apparently, "not much". I predicted an easy 'under' winner on this shoddy program in 2018. Kingsbury was then fired (as predicted), only to fail himself upward by stealing an NFL head coaching slot.

2019 West Virginia Mountaineers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2019

For the first time in years, West Virginia football begins a season without Dana Holgersen on the hot seat. The only reason that's the case is that Holgersen bolted for Houston this offseason. Holgersen left the WVU roster in shambles, and now new head coach Neal Brown is left to pick up the pieces.