2016 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/3/2016

The Hawkeyes lived a charmed life in 2015, enjoying somewhat of a dream season while also serving as one of the most controversial teams in college football. Iowa was 12-2 and just a few points shy of knocking off Michigan State in the Big Ten title game, which would've vaulted the Hawkeyes into the college playoff. Instead they settled for an unceremonious thrashing in the Rose Bowl at the hands of Stanford.

2016 Clemson Tigers Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

So close, yet so far away. Perpetual bridesmaid Clemson nearly stole the veil, bouquet and rings in the National Championship Game while upsetting Alabama. But the Tigers came up one quarter and five points short of winning the title last January. And now they will attempt to work their way back into the playoffs and take another shot at winning it all.

2016 Florida State Seminoles Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

FSU is reloaded and ready to roll after winning the NCAA championship in 2013, making the playoffs in 2014 and then settling for the Peach Bowl last year. The talent is there. The coaching staff is stable. And everyone in this program is focused on getting back to the mountaintop.

2016 Miami Hurricanes Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

I have bad news for Miami football fans and Axl Rose: the 80s are never coming back. I feel that every fall for the past 10 years I have been forced to listen to and read stories declaring that this is the year that Miami football is BACK! Alas, it is always sound and fury, and the Hurricanes have not had double-digit wins in a season since 2003.

2016 North Carolina Tar Heels Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

I predicted last year that North Carolina would easily beat their season win total and that if I was wrong about this team it would be because they were even better than I thought, rather than worse. That was exactly the case as North Carolina blasted its way to an 11-1 start and a Coastal Division title.

2016 Louisville Cardinals Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

Bobby Petrino is a consummate scumbag in a sport that is full of depraved sociopaths. But there is no denying one thing: he can coach. And after a bizarre set of circumstances led to his second go-round in Louisville, Petrino is ready to get back to business in building this team back up as a Southern power.

2016 Pittsburgh Panthers Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

A bowl game loss to Navy robbed Pittsburgh of its first nine-win campaign in this decade, but the Panthers are primed to top last year's accomplishments in coach Pat Narduzzi's second year. Narduzzi had the unenviable responsibility of being Pitt's seventh coach in four years. But the players responded to his even-handed style, and the Panthers were able to execute at a very high level while wining four straight games by a touchdown or less last fall.

2016 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

If there's one thing I've learned about Paul Johnson, it's that he always does his best work when the expectations are the lowest. Well, it's hard for expectations to be much lower for the beleaguered coach, who could be set for his final season on the Yellow Jackets sideline.

2016 North Carolina State Wolfpack Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

I felt that N.C. State was the biggest disappointment in the ACC last season. Granted, the Wolfpack didn't get to dodge any of the top teams in the league, taking on Clemson, Florida State, Louisville and North Carolina. But with underrated quarterback Jacoby Brissett and 15 returning starters, the Pack went just 0-6 against bowl-eligible teams and couldn't top their modest 7.5 win total.

2016 Virginia Tech Hokies Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

For the first time in 29 years Frank Beamer won't be on the Virginia Tech sideline. One of college football's truly outstanding coaches has moved on, and no one knows exactly what to expect from the Hokies moving forward. Tech was generally praised for nabbing Memphis coach Justin Fuente, who breathed life into a moribund Tigers squad the past four seasons. But Fuente's coaching record the past four seasons (28-23) is almost identical to Virginia Tech's straight-up mark over the same period (29-23).

2016 Virginia Cavaliers Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

Here is how irrelevant Virginia football is: despite playing in a major conference, almost no major offshore sportsbooks offer season win total odds on the Cavaliers. It can't be that surprising; Virginia is just 49-73 SU in its last 10 years and has just two winning falls during that stint. Mike London was given the axe after six completely uninspired seasons. Then the Cavs pulled a stunner by coaxing Bronco Mendenhall away from BYU to take over this decrepit program.

2016 Syracuse Orange Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

For about 25 years Syracuse and Penn State were THE preeminent college football programs in the Northeast. But Syracuse has endured a horrible fall from grace over the last decade, seeing a once-proud team flop its way to a 48-75 straight up mark the last 10 years.

2016 Illinois Fighting Illini Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

Well, Lovie is coming to Champagne. Lovie Smith, former coach of the Chicago Bears, has left the NFL and made his return to Illinois as the Illini's new coach. There's no doubt Smith's bona fides will give Illinois football a little jolt of credibility, something that's been desperately lacking while the program has wallowed in the Big Ten basement for most of the past decade.

2016 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2016

Mostly, watching Wake Forest football just makes me sad. The ACC already feels like the off-brand SEC; like buying generic cereal instead of the real thing. And this feeble little Wake program just tries so gosh darn hard to be relevant within this second-tier conference. But Wake Forest is not a football school - at all - and they simply can't compete with the bigger universities in this conference.

2016 Duke Blue Devils Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/29/2016

David Cutcliffe doesn't get the credit that he deserves. This guy is one of the best coaches in the country and has been propping up a Duke program that should be nothing more than lint in the belly button of the football powerhouses in the Southeast. Cutcliffe's squad has gone 27-13 straight up and 26-13 against the spread the last two seasons, and he's guided Duke to four straight bowl games after the school endured a nearly 20-year bowl drought.

2016 Boston College Eagles Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/29/2016

Boston College is looking to bounce back from a dreadful 2015 campaign that saw them go winless in ACC play. The Eagles won just three games last year despite fielding maybe the best defense in the country. With seven starters back on that dominating stop unit, along with some key additions on offense, the Eagles are looking to vault themselves into the ACC Atlantic race.

2016 South Florida Bulls Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/28/2016

South Florida was a big-time surprise in the AAC last season, doubling Las Vegas' projected season win total while closing the regular season with seven wins in their final eight games. Willie Taggart, formerly of Western Kentucky, seems to have found his footing in Tampa and will be looking to increase his team's win total for the fourth time in four seasons at the helm.

2016 Temple Owls Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/28/2016

Temple was yet another team that experienced unprecedented success in 2015. Fielding one of the most experienced teams in the country, a squad that went 2-10 just two seasons prior exploded for 10 wins and became a staple of the Top 25 in October and November. Temple's season also included a marquee win over Penn State to open the year.

2016 Memphis Tigers Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/28/2016

Memphis is hoping that the loss of quarterback Paxton Lynch and coach Justin Fuente doesn't signal the swift and sudden return of the Tigers program to national irrelevance. Memphis is just a year removed from a banner season in which the Tigers beat Mississippi and had a four-week cup of coffee in the Top 25. But they now face the tall order of maintaining momentum under a new regime.

2016 Tulsa Golden Hurricane Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/28/2016

The Golden Hurricane were a pleasant surprise in Philip Montgomery's first season in Tulsa. The former Baylor offensive coordinator was able to build on what has been a proud, successful program by getting Tulsa back to a bowl game following a two-year absence. Last year's six wins topped the meager five that they put up in 2013 and 2014, and now Montgomery is looking to continue the ascent.