2015 ACC Predictions with College Basketball Conference Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/28/2015

In most conferences in the country there is one clear-cut favorite heading into the season. Kentucky is expected to win the SEC. Villanova and Kansas have stiff odds to win the Big East and Big 12, respectively. Maryland enters as the top team in the Big Ten and Arizona rules the Pac-12.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/28/2015

I think that this is a dangerous weekend in the NFL. Not just because of the dark, mystical forces that will be at work on All Saints' Day. But because the public seems to be crystalizing in its belief system about Who's Who and What's What in professional football.

2015 Big 12 Predictions with College Basketball Conference Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/26/2015

In the age of parity in sports, what Kansas has done in the Big 12 this century is astounding. The Jayhawks are the overwhelming favorite to win their 12th straight Big 12 regular season conference title this season. That's 12 straight. Twelve. Kansas' regular-season title streak is older than YouTube. Kansas' regular season title streak is older than a fourth grader. Kansas was just two months away its first title to start this streak when Barack Obama took office…as an Illinois senator.

2015 Big East Predictions with College Basketball Conference Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2015

The Big East has experienced as large of a fall from grace as there has ever been in college basketball. Three years ago it was the deepest and most competitive league in the sport. Now it is an afterthought, relegated to a second-tier status unbefitting its storied history.

2015 Pac-12 Predictions with College Basketball Conference Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/22/2015

It's no big secret that West Coast basketball gets short shrift in the national college hoops discussion. The late start times prohibit a lot of East Coast fans and gamblers from watching teams in the Pac-12, Mountain West, and the bevy of solid small conferences that play on Pacific Standard Time. The fact that these games are on Fox Sports, and therefore all but ignored by media behemoth ESPN, doesn't help matters. But that doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of great basketball being played on the Left Coast and that there aren't tremendous wagering opportunities in this part of the country.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/21/2015

I'm a big fan of NFL futures wagering. Rather than having to be the whim of a single individual event - like a side play or total - a futures wager encompasses knowledge and projections of a whole series of events. In a way it is a truer test of actual overall football knowledge, and I feel like there is a constant stream of value available to bold bettors.

2015 AAC Predictions with College Basketball Conference Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 10/19/2015

Too big to be a mid-major, too small to be a power conference; that is the limbo that the American Athletic Conference finds itself in. The AAC is still trying to find an identity and is struggling to gain respect, nationally. The fact that two of their most recognizable teams, Connecticut and Temple, failed to earn an at-large big in the NCAA Tournament field last year despite each topping 20 wins was a clear sign that this conference has a long way to go.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 6
by Robert Ferringo - 10/14/2015

Football is a terrible sport. Let me preface this by saying that I love football. I love watching it. I love handicapping and betting on it. I love Sundays and all the drinking, food and adrenaline that comes with it. All of the ancillary enjoyments are what has made football a pillar of our national economy. Football is a drug. And I am an addict.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 5
by Robert Ferringo - 10/8/2015

We have a month's worth of data in the NFL and now we're starting to see the ripples and the contours to how this season will shape itself. Statistical handicappers, like myself, need at least four games' worth of stats before we can make any reliable projections, predictions, or maneuvers. But no matter what your statistic of choice when it comes to NFL handicapping the one number that you should ignore at this point of the season is simple: wins.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 4
by Robert Ferringo - 9/30/2015

So many McCowns. So little time. Quarterback injuries have completely altered the landscape in the NFL. Add in the usual first-month freakouts associated with unpredictably and good/bad starts by certain teams, and the National Football League betting landscape seems as chaotic as ever.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 3
by Robert Ferringo - 9/23/2015

It takes absolutely everything in my power each Sunday to keep from putting my fist through my television by the time I've watched my 250th Draft Kings or Fan Duel commercial. Daily fantasy sports are gambling. They just are. I know that the Supreme Court pulled a semantic tap dance to carve out a niche for them when they outlawed online gaming. But these daily fantasy leagues are obviously gambling.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/16/2015

Overreaction Week is one of my favorite weeks of the NFL season. Those few days after Week 1 games come to a close is unlike anything else during the regular season. Because there are only 16 regular-season football games, compared to 162 baseball games and 82 games apiece to an NBA and NHL season, every win and loss is magnified.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 1
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2015

The National Football League is a monolith. It is an all-encompassing, all-enveloping, all-controlling pillar of our American sports and entertainment scene, and the league has become fundamental to our overall economy. It is Big Business. And over the last six months we've all borne witness to The Dark Side. Corruption, scandal, sexual violence, shady back-alley dealing and manufactured, hype-driven controversy have suffocated the national football scene.

Yards Per Point: One Simple Stat, Three Winning NFL Systems
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2015

The National Football League is state-sanctioned chaos. It's a weekly ritual of violence and speed featuring carbon-fiber-clad sociopaths with hyperactive pituitary glands mauling and maiming one another. It's a bizarre sport and senseless entertainment that has become a pillar of our national consciousness and economy.

Week 1 NFL Betting Advice: What to look for when Handicapping Matchups
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2015

Week 1 of the NFL season is finally here, and we are ready to rock. But a common mistake that amateur gamblers make is that they are so geeked up that pro football is back that they overexpose themselves and their bankroll in the opening weekend.

2015 Seattle Seahawks Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

The biggest obstacle facing the 2015 Seahawks is the mental baggage of their Super Bowl choke job. Seattle was one measly yard away from back-to-back titles and immortality. But instead have to settle for being infamous thanks to Pete Carroll's baffling call to end last season.

2015 Detroit Lions Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

I think that the Lions are becoming the new Bengals. And I mean that in a positive way. These two franchises spent the 1990s and most of the 2000s as the laughingstocks of the NFL. However, through savvy personnel moves and stability at the head of their organizations these two teams have become two of the most talented rosters in the NFL.

2015 Carolina Panthers Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Carolina became the first team in NFC South history to win back-to-back division titles last year. So that was positive. But when you consider the fact that they earned a playoff spot despite winning just seven games, you get an idea of just how pathetic this division was last year. The Panthers didn't improve their station this offseason, however, suffering one of the most crippling injuries of the preseason so far in 2015. And that has them behind the eight-ball heading into the regular season.

2015 Green Bay Packers Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Jordy Nelson's injury has certainly slowed down some of the hype surrounding the Packers heading into the 2015 season. But Green Bay remains one of the favorites to win Super Bowl 50 and has the look of a team hell-bent on avenging last year's epic NFC Championship Game collapse this time around.

2015 Dallas Cowboys Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

I was as wrong about the 2014 Dallas Cowboys as I have ever been about a team, predicting a total collapse for this overrated franchise heading into the season. But Dallas inexplicably banded together behind a suddenly solid coaching staff and turned in one of the best performances in the league last year. Dallas retained all its key pieces and added some more top-end talent in the offseason, and now they enter 2015 on the short list of teams favored to win the NFC.