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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.

2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

The excitement of Fleck's first season, after a phenomenal campaign at Western Michigan, fizzled pretty quickly. After opening with three straight wins, the Gophers lost at home to Maryland, were blown out at Purdue, and then blew a game against ranked Michigan State. It didn't get any better from there, and Minnesota finished 2-7 in the Big Ten and missed a bowl game for the first time since 2011.

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

After decades as an afterthought in the Big Ten, Indiana is now a program that teams have to take seriously. The Hoosiers are coming off a bowl-less season after making back-to-back postseason games for the first time since 1990-91. But even in a "down" season they still wound up and took serious swings at Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State, three of the best teams in the league. This team is no longer a pushover.

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

It didn't take long for Jeff Brohm to prove that he is an up-and-coming star in the coaching ranks. He took over a Purdue program that was a laughingstock under Darrell Hazell and got them to their first bowl game since 2012. In four years under Hazell, Purdue won nine games. Brohm won seven in his first season, including a bowl victory over Arizona.

2018 Illinois Fighting Illini Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

I have been a lifelong Chicago Bears fan. So I will always have a special place for Lovie Smith. But in two years at the helm of the Illinois program, Smith hasn't done anything to engender any confidence that he can be successful at the college level. Smith has gone 5-19 overall the past two years and just 2-16 in league play after a crushing 0-9 Big Ten mark last season.

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

The Terps have been an afterthought in Big Ten football since joining the league in 2014. They aren't expected to compete, really ever. But even their league "rivals" had to feel bad for what Maryland went through last year after the team was decimated by injuries.

2018 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2018

The Scarlet Knights have won just seven of 34 conference games since joining the Big Ten prior to the 2014 season. They've won just six games since hiring Chris Ash two years ago - with two of those wins coming against FCS opponents - and this year Rutgers will try to throw punches in what is by far and away the best division in college football. They can't compete. No way, no how.

2018 Auburn Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Auburn feels like it is at a crossroads season. Gus Malzahn's program should feel good about itself coming off a 10-win season and SEC West title. Yet, the Tigers are entering Malzahn's sixth season at the helm. And after watching in-state rival Alabama win yet another National Championship, the War Eagles feel as far away from the Tide as ever before.

2018 Mississippi State Bulldogs Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Former Penn State offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead is in an intriguing situation as he takes over in Starkville. This is Moorhead's first head coaching job at the FBS level. And while most new coaches have some leeway as they ease into stewardship of a new program, Moorhead takes over a talented, experienced Mississippi State team that is poised as a potential sleeper in the SEC West. Expectations are high. And Moorhead's learning curve will be sharp.

2018 Kentucky Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

For a basketball school, Kentucky has produced a couple of solid football seasons. After coming heartbreakingly close to bowl games in 2014 and 2015, the Wildcats broke through for back-to-back bowl appearances in 2016 and 2017. Now they will be gunning for their third straight bowl game, something the Wildcats have accomplished only twice in over 100 years of football.

2018 Florida Gators Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Things could not have gone worse for the Gators last season. Ten players, including several starters, were suspended before the season opener. Then their second game was cancelled because of a hurricane. They mustered a three-game winning streak. But then the bottom dropped out with five straight losses, a rash of injuries, several blowouts and a lame duck coach by November. When the dust settled the Gators had just four wins for the second time this decade. And those two four-win seasons were the only two since the 1970s.

2018 Vanderbilt Commodores Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Every now and again Vanderbilt is able to jump up and bite someone and prove that they do belong in the SEC. All things considered, the Commodores have done pretty well for themselves. Because, despite being the weakest program in the league, they've managed to keep from becoming total fodder that just gets run through and embarrassed every week.

2018 Ole Miss Rebels Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Ole Miss is still dealing with the fallout from the Hugh Freeze fiasco. And this year will be their second in a row impeded by a bowl ban. But I have to hand it to coach Matt Luke; he is plowing ahead with his rebuild and reshaping this team into a faster, pass-happy team that could be a potential spoiler in the SEC.

2018 Arkansas Razorbacks Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Admittedly, Bret Bielema was always a bit of an odd fit at Arkansas. That said, his unceremonious firing shows that the Razorbacks clearly have unrealistic expectations about where their program should be. Toiling in the SEC West, one of the three or four most difficult divisions in college football, Arkansas is not going to be a perennial championship contender. And after three of four winning seasons and back-to-back bowl wins (in 2014-15) for the first time in school history, Bielema was given his walking papers.

2018 College Football Betting Tips: Predictions for Worst ATS Teams This Year
by Chris Vasile - 8/6/2018

There are many unique words and phrases in the sports betting industry, but none of them are as prominently used as "good teams win, great teams cover." Unfortunately for bettors, college foot-ball teams don't care about whether they cover the spread or not. They are focused on one thing and one thing only, and that's winning football games. This is why betting on college football and the NFL is difficult. The point spread adds a degree of difficulty to an already-challenging task.

2018 College Football Betting Tips: Predictions for Best ATS Teams This Year
by Chris Vasile - 8/6/2018

With all due respect to the Major League Baseball season, thank god August is here and thank god football season is right around the corner. In just a few short weeks college football teams across the country will take to the field for Week 1 of the NCAA football season. Some teams have legitimate National Championship aspirations, while some teams will be hoping to make the most of their season and perhaps pull off a few memorable upsets along the way.

2018 Alabama Crimson Tide Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

History will show the Alabama dynasty as one of the greatest achievements in college football history. The Crimson Tide once again enter fall camp as the defending National Champions. They have won a stunning five titles in 10 years. And with all the impediments in major collegiate athletics, both on the field and off, this is a feat we may not see again for a long, long time.

2018 Georgia Bulldogs Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

Are the Bulldogs on the verge of a new SEC dynasty? This year's Georgia squad will attempt to pick itself up off the mat after a heartbreaking overtime loss in the National Championship Game last January. It was nearly a dream season in Athens, with UGA dominating the SEC East, easily winning the SEC Championship and taking a lead into halftime against rival Alabama in the title game.

NCAA Football Expert Predictions: Will Team Make College Football Playoff Props
by Trevor Whenham - 8/2/2018

I love breaking down prop bets in a search for value, and I spend a whole lot of time and a whole lot of words every year doing so. My favorite will always be Super Bowl prop bets for the sheer variety and creativity. Not far behind, though, is the group of props that emerge each August concerning whether given teams will make the College Football Playoff or not. They spawn endless debate and are never boring to consider. Here are some of the highlights offered by Bovada this year:

2018 LSU Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

Head coach Ed Orgeron enters his second full season as the head man in Baton Rouge and, frankly, things aren't looking great for the Tigers. Orgeron, who has a 31-33 career record, barely survived last season in a pathetically weak SEC. With just 10 returning starters and a dearth of top-end talent, I think that this year could be a watershed moment for the LSU program after running Les Miles out of town.

2018 South Carolina Gamecocks Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

Will Muschamp was in over his head and flopped as the head coach of Florida. But there is no denying that he's got something cooking up in South Carolina right now. The Gamecocks have overachieved in each of his first two seasons in Columbia. And they enter the 2018 campaign as a potential sleeper in a top-heavy SEC East.

Expert NCAA Football Predictions: Underrated Squads for 2018
by Trevor Whenham - 8/2/2018

In August every college football fanbase feels like their team is being disrespected. That they are better than people think and that they aren't getting the attention from the national media that they should be getting. Most of those fans are just being delusional, of course, and the sad reality will arrive once Labor Day comes and goes. But there are indeed fanbases out there that could actually have a case - their team could actually be better than it seems like people are perceiving them to be. Here are five teams that have a case for fitting in that category:

2018 Tennessee Volunteers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

The Butch Jones Era came to a comical, predictable end last season after a 4-8 debacle of a campaign. Jones and the Vols spent back-to-back years failing to live up to their trendy "sleeper" designation and are now a woeful 57-56 in the nine years since cutting Philip Fulmer loose.

Expert College Football Predictions: High-Profile Teams That Could Disappoint
by Trevor Whenham - 8/2/2018

Fall camps are about to get underway in college football, which means that hope springs eternal. Every fanbase believes that this is the year that everything will go their way and that the media will have to take back all of their negative words after their team shocks the world. And then the games will begin, and for most of those teams it won't turn out that way at all. Here are five high-profile fanbases coming into the season with high expectations that should perhaps brace themselves for some disappointment:

2018 Missouri Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

I've heard more than one prognosticator suggest that Missouri could be a potential sleeper in the SEC East this year. After all, the former Big 12 doormats managed to scam their way to back-to-back SEC title games as recently as 2013 and 2014. And with a quarterback that tossed for nearly 4,000 yards and 44 touchdowns last year, the Tigers could be some kind of run-and-shoot counterpoint to the rest of this ground-and-pound conference.

2018 Oklahoma Sooners Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Baker Mayfield's crotch grabbing and the Oklahoma defense's complete collapse in the second half against Georgia seems like ages ago. And with Mayfield's Heisman, a Big 12 title, and a College Football Playoff choke all behind them, the Sooners are now set to begin Year 2 of the Lincoln Riley Experiment in earnest.

2018 Texas Longhorns Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

There were several prognosticators that expected Tom Herman to glide into Austin last season and lead the Longhorns back to national prominence immediately. It didn't work out that way. Now in Year 2 we are again left to separate hype from happenstance regarding one of the nation's premier college football programs.

2018 TCU Horned Frogs Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

I feel like this year's TCU Horned Frogs are going to be one of the more volatile teams to bet on or against in college football. This team is scary. Not scary good or scary bad. But TCU seems like the type of team that is going to lose two or three games that they shouldn't and win one or two games that they shouldn't, with the public getting burned by them every time.

2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Were I an Oklahoma State fan, I couldn't help but feel a bit cheated by last year's campaign. Sure, the Cowboys won 10 games, including a bowl victory over Virginia Tech. But after starting the season in the Top 10 and harboring very real college football playoff dreams, last season has to feel more like a consolation prize than an accomplishment.

2018 Iowa State Cyclones Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Iowa State rode the lightning last year. And for a solid month they were the talk of college football. A stunning upset win over No. 3 Oklahoma as a 31-point underdog got everyone's attention. And underdog wins over Texas Tech and No. 4 TCU got the Cyclones all the way up to No. 14 in the country. They eventually capped the season with a third win over a ranked team, upsetting Memphis in the Liberty Bowl.

2018 Kansas State Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Snyder is one of the best coaches in college football history. But even more than that he is one of the greatest coaches in college football betting history. Over the course of his last nine years in Manhattan, Snyder's teams are a stunning 34-14 against the spread in the role of underdog. That's a 71-percent ATS success rate for nearly a decade! Kansas State is 7-1 ATS as a road underdog the last two years alone and 12-5 ATS as an underdog in the last three years overall.