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2018 Wyoming Cowboys Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

The Cowboys are being written off as a contender in the Mountain West this year thanks to the loss of first-round NFL pick Josh Allen. Call me crazy, but I actually think that this year's Wyoming team can be even better despite the loss of their big-armed quarterback.

2018 Temple Owls Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

If you're looking for a potential sleeper in the AAC this year then look no further than Philadelphia. Temple played in back-to-back AAC title games in 2015 and 2016, meaning that the Owls' senior class will be gunning toward a second potential title and third championship game in four years.

2018 Utah State Aggies Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

Utah State had its third consecutive losing season in 2017 after enjoying four straight winning years from 2011-2014. On the surface, last year's sub-.500 record should be a disappointment and cause for concern if you're interested in coach Matt Wells' job security. However, if you dig a little deeper it becomes clear that Utah State's effort last fall was more impressive than it seemed and could be the springboard for a fantastic 2018.

2018 Big Ten Football Predictions with Betting Odds and Expert Picks
by Chris Vasile - 8/14/2018

In just two short weeks, college football will drop the curtain on what should be another season filled with many memorable moments such as upsets, instant-classic games, injuries, suspen-sions and everything in between. Based on the title of this article, the Big Ten will by my focus once again this year, and once again it may be one of the most competitive conferences from top-to-bottom. Last season, the Big Ten had as many as three teams in the Top 10 at several points with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State leading the way.

2018 Central Florida Knights Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

No one saw Central Florida's 2017-18 National Championship season coming. But when the dust settled last year, the Knights were the only unbeaten team in college football and (self-proclaimed) champions. Of course, I'm only half-joking when I refer to the Knights as "National Champions". The school and ex-coach Scott Frost made that declaration on their own after beating Auburn - the lone team to beat Alabama - in the Peach Bowl to complete an unblemished season.

2018 Navy Midshipmen Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

Navy has been one of the most consistent college football programs in the country in this young century. The Midshipmen have posted a winning record in 14 of the past 15 years, playing in six straight bowl games. But I have a feeling that the bloom is off the rose in regards to Navy's addition to the AAC. And this will be a telling season when it comes to the Middies staying power.

Silver Seven: College Football Teams to Fade or Follow 2018
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

If I've said it once I've said it 1,000 times: gambling isn't magic, it's mathematics. The mathematics of college football offers gamblers one of their most daunting challenges. Football's scoring structure, unique among all non-football sports, is one example of football's distinct properties. The limited number of betting opportunities, because football has the shortest schedule, is another.

2018 Tulane Green Wave Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

Tulane came up one tantalizing inch short of a bowl game last year. The Green Wave haven't made the postseason since 2013 and have played in just one bowl game since 2002. Willie Fritz has this team pointing in the right direction, and last year's close call should serve as the perfect motivator for this year's group.

2018 Cincinnati Bearcats Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

Prior to Tommy Tuberville's hiring in 2013, Cincinnati had gone 65-26 over a seven-year stretch while serving as a springboard for Mark Dantonio, Brian Kelly and Butch Jones. How badly did Tuberville screw up this program? They have gone 33-31 since he stepped on campus. And now it is up to second-year coach Luke Fickell to continue to pick up the pieces of this program.

2018 East Carolina Pirates Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

As recently as three or four years ago, East Carolina was a feisty small-conference program just salivating at a chance to knock off an unsuspecting regional foe from the ACC or SEC. They beat Virginia Tech in back-to-back seasons (2014-2015) and had near-misses against schools like Florida and South Carolina. But right now the Pirates are the shell of the program that they were. And this team has barely showed an ability to be competitive in their own league, much less against teams from power conferences.

2018 Connecticut Huskies Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2018

The Huskies have barely been a D-I college football team over the past five years, going 16-43 against FBS opponents. Randy Edsall was brought back in an attempt to build the Huskies back up to the level of respectability on which they perched before his 2011 departure. But last year didn't give any indication that this team is even close. And a quick scan across the roster heading into fall camp doesn't instill any confidence in the short term.

2018 Clemson Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

The Clemson-Alabama rivalry has developed into one of the defining rivalries in this entire era of college football. These two top-tier programs have met in the College Football Playoff in three consecutive seasons, with Alabama winning twice. And as we enter the 2018 season it looks likely that these two teams are on a collision course once again.

2018 Louisville Cardinals Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

Louisville has been somewhat of a fraud over the last three years. They have spent 18 of the past 24 weeks in the Top 25 over the past two seasons, getting all the way up to No. 3 in 2016. However, Louisville is a pathetic 1-9 against other Top 25 teams over the course of the last four years, including back-to-back bowl losses.

2018 Syracuse Orange Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

It is just about time for Dino Babers to put up or shut up. Full disclosure, I am a Syracuse graduate. So I know my team. And I like Babers. I feel that if he is given enough time that he will bring back excitement and competitiveness to what has become one of the worst programs in the country. But if he is going to do something, he needs to do it fast.

2018 Florida State Seminoles Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

The Seminoles lost their starting quarterback, Deondre Francois, while also losing their game against the Crimson Tide. They went on to lose a slew of other players to injury while dropping five of their first six games. And it took a three-game winning streak to close the season for FSU to barely become bowl eligible for the 36th straight year. They ended the season not in the college playoff, but in the Independence Bowl against Southern Miss.

2018 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

Paul Johnson always does his best work when expectations are lowest. And his teams have exploded for some out-of-nowhere seasons, including an 11-win campaign and ACC title game appearance as recently as 2014. Johnson has a team bursting with experience in the trenches, and after a rare losing year - and with major questions about his job security - I look for the Jackets to bounce back in a big way.

2018 Pitt Panthers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

Pittsburgh had a nine-year bowl streak snapped last season when it struggled through a 5-7 campaign. Pat Narduzzi is entering his fourth year at the controls and has brought some stability to a program that has had seven coaches (including interims) in eight seasons this decade. But he will need to dig deep this season if he wants to avoid another bowl-less winter.

2018 Duke Blue Devils Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

When people talk about the best college football coaches in the country, I'm sure a lot of names come up before people get to David Cutcliffe. But this guy might be the most underrated coach in the country, and he has done a phenomenal job building up a Duke program that had been a laughingstock prior to his arrival.

2018 North Carolina Tar Heels Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/11/2018

After winning 19 combined games in 2015 and 2016, including a trip to the ACC Championship in 2015, North Carolina fell off a cliff. The Tar Heels started 1-8 last season and failed to extend a four-year bowl streak. Now coach Larry Fedora will look for a big rebound season as he tries to step back up into the ACC's second tier.

2018 Miami Hurricanes Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2018

Mark Richt has had two successful seasons in Coral Gables. That includes guiding the Hurricanes to their first double-digit win total since 2003. But I've been hearing about how the Miami dynasty is coming back for nearly 20 years, with none of the results to back it up. So excuse me if I'm still a little skeptical after one good season in South Beach.

2018 Virginia Tech Hokies Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2018

After a brief lull towards the end of the Frank Beamer Era, Virginia Tech is trying desperately to cling to its spot among the ACC's elite programs. The Hokies won nine games again last season and were a loss at Miami away from making back-to-back ACC title games. However, in Justin Fuente's third season this Hokies team seems to be at a bit of a crossroads.

2018 Virginia Cavaliers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2018

Bronco Mendenhall was given nearly 18 million reasons to leave BYU and take over the Virginia program. But that doesn't mean that it was the right decision. Mendenhall was 99-43 in his career at BYU before being lured to Charlottesville. He is just 8-17 in his two years at UVA. And as I look at this year's team, I don't see a lot of reason for optimism.

2018 USC Trojans Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2018

I know that people continue to wait for USC to be "back" and to once again contend for national championships. But as I look at this Trojans squad I see one of the more overrated programs in the country. So when I see a season win total posted this low, when the books just KNOW that the public is going to pound the 'over' for the Trojans, it starts setting off alarm bells and I start to hear Admiral Ackbar's voice in my ear yelling, "It's a trap!"

2018 Stanford Cardinal Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2018

Stanford had a roller coaster season in 2017. They started by getting crushed at USC in Week 2 and then losing a stunner at San Diego State the following week to open 1-2. But David Shaw righted the ship, and Utah won eight of its next nine, including a crucial home upset over Washington in November. Stanford capped the regular season with another Top 10 upset by thrashing Notre Dame 38-20.

2018 Utah Utes Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2018

If you are looking for an X-factor in the Pac-12 this season then you should cast your gaze to Salt Lake City. Kyle Whittingham has a squad full of 23-year-olds that are lurking as a potential spoiler for a lot of the big-name players in the conference. And anyone that's not careful will get smacked by this rugged, veteran squad.

2018 NC State Wolfpack Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2018

I know that N.C. State won't ever be anything better than a second-tier football program. But that's been good enough over the last four years as the Wolfpack have posted four straight winning seasons and gone four straight bowl games (winning three). So maybe Dave Doeren does know what he's doing?

2018 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2018

After slogging through back-to-back three-win seasons during a rebuild, Dave Clawson has gotten this Wake Forest program going. The Demon Deacons won seven games in 2016 and eight last year. And with 14 starters back and a favorable home schedule, the Deacons are hoping to do more than take up space in this year's ACC race.

2018 Boston College Eagles Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2018

Despite being overmatched from a talent standpoint, year-in and year-out, Boston College has remained competitive in the ACC under Steve Addazio. His old-school, punch-them-in-the-mouth brand of football is a breath of fresh air in this pass-wacky, scoring-crazed sport. And this year's Eagles team should be ready to lay some more lumber on unsuspecting foes.

2018 Washington Huskies Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

A stunning upset loss at Arizona State last year, losing 13-7 as an 18-point favorite, kept Washington out of the Pac-12 title game and may have cost the Huskies a shot at a second straight trip to the College Football Playoff. But Chris Petersen has proven himself as one of the best college coaches in the country (129-29 career record), and he has the Huskies on the short list of national title contenders entering the 2017 season.

2018 UCLA Bruins Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

Chip Kelly is back in college football. In a major surprise, Kelly was hired last November to take over for career loser Jim Mora. The irony of this is that if Kelly had simply waited a couple months he could have slid back in at Oregon, the school at which he built his career.

2018 Oregon Ducks Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

Mike Bellotti took over this Oregon program in 1995. He stayed there until 2008 and in that time turned the Ducks into a national brand and a true college football powerhouse. But in the decade since Bellotti's departure, Oregon has seen an alarming amount of coaching turnover, with first-year head coach Mario Cristobal becoming the fourth head coach in Eugene in the past six years.

2018 Arizona Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

The tumultuous era of Rich Rodriguez is over as Arizona made a clean break this offseason after six turbulent and underachieving seasons. The Wildcats made a surprise move and grabbed Kevin Sumlin off the SEC scrap heap. And Sumlin's hiring is the type of boom-or-bust maneuver that will make this Wildcats team one of the more intriguing stories in the country.

2018 Arizona State Sun Devils Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

I will be honest: I have no idea what the hell Arizona State is doing. I understand that they had to pull the plug on the failed Todd Graham experiment. But Herm Edwards? Seriously? Edwards has never coached at the college level before. And he wasn't all that good as an NFL coach, a position he hasn't held in a decade. In the meantime, Edwards found a niche for himself as Crotchety Old Person Yelling At People On TV While Wearing Funny Socks.

2018 Cal Golden Bears Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

Justin Wilcox could potentially make some big moves in Year 2 at Berkeley. Wilcox was able to coax a competitive season out of a young Golden Bears team last year, squeezing out five wins and a hearty 8-4 record against the spread. But now with one of the most experienced teams in the Pac-12, the Bears could be a surprise team.

2018 Colorado Buffaloes Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

The Buffaloes couldn't build on their dream 2016 season. After winning 10 games and earning a surprise trip to the Pac-12 title game, the Buffs came back down to earth last season. They opened the year with three straight wins before collapsing to a 2-7 mark in league play.

2018 Washington State Cougars Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

In the eight seasons between 2007 and 2014, Washington State won a combined 26 games, an average of slightly more than three per year. Mike Leach has matched that total over the last three seasons, winning 26 games and averaging nearly nine per year.

2018 Oregon State Beavers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2018

This program is a total mess. Gary Anderson turned out to be a dreadful hire, and the Beavers have moved on to Jonathan Smith, a guy in his first head coaching job. Smith will be tasked with rebuilding a roster that is completely bereft of talent. And the fact that Oregon State's season win total is so pathetically low shows just how bad this team is right now.

2018 Ohio State Buckeyes Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

The Urban Meyer debacle has thrown any attempt to forecast Ohio State's season into chaos. So any projection here has to be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not here to cast aspersions. Most college football coaches are terrible people. But the show will go on, with or without Meyer, and as a handicapper I need to be able to assess where this team may be heading.

2018 Michigan Wolverines Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

It's easy to hate Jim Harbaugh. There's the hyper-intensity. The self-importance. The smack-talking. And the khakis. But count me among the minority of people that think it is absolutely ridiculous to question whether or not Harbaugh is the right guy to get things going at Michigan.

2018 Wisconsin Badgers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

The Wisconsin Badgers were absolutely and completely screwed out of a spot in the College Football Playoff last year. The Badgers went undefeated (12-0) in the regular season before coming up just six points short against Ohio State in the Big Ten title game. They were then passed over by Alabama, a team that didn't win its division OR its conference championship because it didn't go undefeated despite playing in a weaker conference.

2018 Michigan State Spartans Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

Mark Dantonio heard the haters calling for his head after his disastrous 3-9 season in 2016. And he answered the bell. Boy did he ever answer the bell. Michigan State came roaring back with a 10-3 season in 2017, going 9-4 against the spread and capping it with a 42-17 Holiday Bowl thrashing of Washington State.

2018 Penn State Nittany Lions Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

James Franklin has the Penn State powerhouse humming along. But after losing a once-in-a-generation talent at running back and his top assistant, and with unprecedented talent in the Big Ten East, Franklin's program will be pushed the to max this year as they attempt to get back to the conference title game.

2018 Iowa Hawkeyes Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

In sports betting, particularly in college football betting, stability and consistency are gold. There is so much insanity from week-to-week and season-to-season that I love some measure of predictability. And that's why I enjoy Kirk Ferentz and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

2018 Nebraska Cornhuskers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

Scott Frost is expected to be nothing less than a Savior. The former Nebraska starting quarterback, Frost is back in Lincoln. And he brings with him a lightning-fast offense that helped Central Florida to an undefeated season and a self-proclaimed National Championship, while earning Frost national Coach of the Year recognition.

2018 Northwestern Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

Every few years or so Pat Fitzgerald's squad explodes for 10 wins seemingly out of nowhere. Last season was the year. The Wildcats were able to tiptoe through a soft schedule and turn it into a solid campaign, which ended with a bowl win over SEC foe Kentucky in the Music City Bowl.