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Conference Domination in Bowl Games
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/16/2009

With the structure of the current bowl system, college football fans are given a clear indication of how conferences truly stack up to one another. Bowl games are tied into deals with conferences to take a certain placed team and pit them against a certain placed team from another conference. It has been this way for years and, luckily for bettors, this may be the easiest way in all of sports betting to track trends.
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2009 New Mexico Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 12/11/2009

The 2009 NCAA football bowl season starts far from the heart of college football in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the oh-so creatively named New Mexico Bowl. This is the fourth edition of this bowl game, and the second straight for Fresno State - the Bulldogs lost, 40-35, to Colorado State last year.
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Ranking the Bowl Games
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/10/2009

Throw out the implications, the BCS or non-BCS factor, when it comes right down to it, what are the most intriguing, watchable, entertaining games on the bowl game schedule for this Holiday season? To be find out we will factor everything in including unintentional comedic potential, stadium, coaches and players involved, inspired or indifferent fan bases, awkward bowl sponsors, color of the turf, dome or outdoors, channel the game is on, potential announcers and of course, what else fans could be doing at that time on that day.
Read more about College Bowl Game Rankings.

Brian Kelly Likely In as Notre Dame Coach
by Trevor Whenham - 12/10/2009

After months of speculation, it seems like Notre Dame has a new coach. Though it hasn't officially been announced yet, it seems as if Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly will be the next to helm the historic school in South Bend, Indiana. The schools aren't expected to make an announcement until after Thursday's football banquet at Cincinnati.
Read more about Brian Kelly New Notre Dame Coach.

College Bowl Betting: Coaches to Trust and Avoid
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/9/2009

Some coaches treat bowl games as rewards for their players, some coaches treat them as must-win games and some do not stick around long enough to see their team through them. There is no other game in sports that has any many different preparation techniques. Most Big Ten schools stopped playing three weeks ago while other teams were slugging it out on Championship Saturday just this past week.
Read more about College Bowl Game Coaches.

Heisman Trophy Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 12/8/2009

This is the most wide open Heisman race we have seen in years - any one of the finalists could win it. Thanks to the switch to an entirely online balloting system for the first time this year the finalists were announced just over an hour after the votes were due on Monday. Because of the lack of a clear winner, five different players earned enough votes to warrant an invitation to New York for the ceremony on Saturday.
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Six Best Bowl Matchups
by Trevor Whenham - 12/7/2009

The bowl game schedule is set, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who sat down this morning to track out my viewing plans. Who am I kidding - I'll watch all of them. Still, some of them have me more excited than others. Here are the six that immediately struck me as more intriguing that the rest.
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Thursday Night NCAA: Oregon State at Oregon
by Matt Severance - 12/2/2009

The final Thursday night game of college football's regular season is the best matchup of the season on that night and certainly has the most on the line: the 113th Civil War between No. 16 Oregon State and No. 7 Oregon is a winner-take-all for a Rose Bowl berth opposite Ohio State. It's the first time in the Civil War's history that a Rose Bowl spot is on the line for both teams.
Read more about Civil War Football Preview.

2009-10 College Bowl Projections
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/2/2009

Heading into Championship Saturday a few bowl invites have been trickling out and some bowl rumors are surfacing. However, much is still to be decided by what happens between Thursday and Saturday. The Florida-Alabama SEC Championship Game works as a semifinal of sorts with the winner advancing to the BCS National Championship Game and the loser likely headed to a Sugar Bowl consolation prize.
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College Football Handicapping: Conference Championship Games
by Trevor Whenham - 12/1/2009

It's Conference Championship season in college football. I think you're either a fan of conference championship games or you're not. Personally, I think they are ridiculous, but then again I'm a Big Ten fan.
Read more about College Football Conference Championship Game Handicapping.

Thursday NCAA Football Preview : Texas at Texas A&M
by Matt Severance - 11/25/2009

There are a handful of potential trap games on the NCAA football schedule this week, matchups between teams heading to a conference title game next week against a fierce in-state rival with nothing to lose. I'm talking Georgia-Georgia Tech, South Carolina-Clemson, Florida State-Florida, Auburn-Alabama and Thanksgiving night's lone NCAA game, No. 3 Texas (11-0) at Texas A&M (6-5).
Read more about Texas at Texas A&M Preview.

College Football Handicapping: Stanford Surging
by Trevor Whenham - 11/19/2009

Stanford. Wow. What else is there to say? A team that couldn't find a way to beat Wake Forest, Oregon State, or Arizona earlier in the season has now had the biggest upset of the week two weeks in a row. Both Oregon and USC were thought to be the prime contenders for the Rose Bowl, but Stanford beat them both - destroyed them, really.
Read more about Stanford Cardinal Football Handicapping.

TCU Probably Won't Get Chance to Play For National Title
by Trevor Whenham - 11/19/2009

TCU - the little school that could. The undefeated program has climbed to the unprecedented heights of 10th in both the AP Poll and the BCS rankings. They haven't gone halfway in their efforts, either - they have won their 10 games by an average of more than 26 points per game while allowing just 13 points per game. This is a team which can score and which plays even better defense.
Read more about TCU Football Handicapping.

Thursday Night NCAA Preview: Colorado at No. 12 Oklahoma State
by Matt Severance - 11/18/2009

Some might say that Oklahoma State doesn't have a lot to play for with the Big 12 South title all but out of reach - Texas would need to collapse in the final two games - but the Cowboys would be a very attractive BCS bowl at-large team if they can win out and finish 10-2, beginning Thursday night against Colorado, which is an 18-point dog on Bookmaker (+650 on the money line).
Read more about Oklahoma State at Colorado Preview.

Thursday Night NCAA: South Florida at Rutgers
by Matt Severance - 11/11/2009

Frankly, if you are going to watch or bet on just one Big East game this week, Friday's ESPN matchup between West Virginia and Cincinnati is the key conference game of the year to this point. But that's not to say there are no storylines for Thursday night's ESPN matchup of South Florida (-1 on JustBet) and Rutgers - it's just that the storylines aren't quite as nationally relevant.
Read more about South Florida at Rutgers Thursday College Football Preview.

College Football Handicapping: Under-The-Radar ATS Gems
by Trevor Whenham - 11/11/2009

When it comes to college football most bettors focus on the big name teams playing the high-profile games. That only makes sense given the coverage that those games get in the media. The problem, though, is that increased betting attention means that the lines just don't have the potential for value that under-bet lines can.
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Oregon Ducks Looking Like One Of Nation's Best
by Trevor Whenham - 11/5/2009

I sat through every painful minute of Oregon's opening debacle at Boise State. I'm not an Oregon fan, and I am only marginally a Boise State fan, but by the end I just couldn't change the channel - it was like an impossibly ugly car wreck. My eyes were glued to it. If you had told me then that at the Ducks may very well be the best team in the country by the beginning of November I would have, without hesitation, had you committed.
Read more about Oregon Ducks Betting.

College Football Handicapping: Teams That Have Thrown in the Towel
by Trevor Whenham - 11/4/2009

We're into the final stretch of the college football regular season. For teams in contention this is when the pressure gets ratcheted up and every game matters even more than ever before. For some teams, though, the season can't end soon enough. Those teams have had a very rough season, and probably aren't having much fun anymore.
Read more about College Football Quitters.

Thursday Night NCAA Preview: Virginia Tech at East Carolina
by Matt Severance - 11/3/2009

Virginia Tech's ACC title and BCS bowl hopes all but vanished last Thursday night when North Carolina's Casey Barth kicked a field goal with no time left to give the Heels the very surprising upset as 16.5-point dogs in Blacksburg.
Read more about Virginia Tech at East Carolina Preview.

Thursday Night NCAA Football Preview: North Carolina at Virginia Tech
by Matt Severance - 10/28/2009

It's the second Thursday night game in a row for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and it's hard to imagine this one against Virginia Tech going any worse than last week's did against Florida State. UNC was dominating FSU last week to the tune of 24-6 early in the third quarter but was then outscored 24-3 in the final 22 minutes.
Read more about North Carolina at Virginia Tech Preview.

College Football Handicapping: What The Future Holds for Unbeaten Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 10/28/2009

There are seven unbeaten teams remaining in college football. We know for sure that there won't be that many by the end of the season - Alabama and Florida will play in the SEC Championship Game if they don't lose first. But how about the rest? Here's a look at each of the teams, their chances of staying undefeated, and what an undefeated season would likely do for them:
Read more about Undefeated College Football Teams.

College Football Handicapping: Idaho One of Betting's Biggest Surprises
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 10/22/2009

There are programs in the midst of downturns and programs that are turning things around and then there is Idaho, who is completely remaking itself. The Vandals are 6-1 straight up this season and 7-0 against the spread and they find themselves as a big underdog this weekend against Nevada.
Read more about Idaho Vandals Betting.

College Football Handicapping: Unranked Teams That Could Finish Strong
by Trevor Whenham - 10/22/2009

We have now made it through seven weeks of the current college football season. We probably feel like we have a pretty good sense of which teams are for real and which ones are pretenders by now. History tells us that that's not the case, though. There were nine teams ranked in the AP Top 25 after seven weeks last year that were not still ranked by the time the final poll came out.
Read more about Unranked College Football Teams.

College Football Handicapping: BCS Conference Rankings
by Trevor Whenham - 10/21/2009

We are just over halfway through the college football season. That means that this is a good time for us to assess what has happened so far, and what could happen going forward. One way I like to do that - both because it is useful and it is fun - is to rank the BCS conferences based on the strength they have shown this year.
Read more about BCS Conference Rankings.

Thursday NCAA Football Preview: Florida State at North Carolina
by Matt Severance - 10/20/2009

This Thursday's ESPN game between Florida State and North Carolina looked like a potential ACC title game preview before the season but now is just two schools looking to get out of the cellar of their respective divisions and perhaps looking forward to the start of basketball season.
Read more about Florida State at North Carolina Preview.

Thursday NCAA Preview: No. 8 Cincinnati at No. 21 South Florida
by Matt Severance - 10/13/2009

The number of unbeaten teams in college football, currently at nine, will for sure dwindle by at least one on Thursday when Big East contenders Cincinnati and South Florida face off in Tampa. The Bearcats are currently 3.5-point favorites.
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Heisman Trophy Race Update
by Trevor Whenham - 10/8/2009

The Heisman race this year was supposed to be so simple. Former winners Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford were supposed to duel with Colt McCoy in a fight for the ages. Like always seems to happen in these cases, though, it hasn't quite worked out like that. Sam Bradford has been out with a shoulder injury, Tim Tebow is questionable for his next start after getting his bell rung, and and Colt McCoy hasn't looked particularly crisp despite continuing to win.
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Disappointing College Teams Against the Spread
by Trevor Whenham - 10/7/2009

With so many high profile college football teams out there it is inevitable that there will be several that wind up being big betting disappointments. Some teams win but aren't as dominant as people expect so they can't cover spreads. Others just struggle when people expect them to excel. Here's a look at five teams that have been particularly frustrating and damaging to the bankroll this year:
Read more about College Football Against the Spread.

Thursday Night Football Preview: No. 21 Nebraska at No. 24 Missouri
by Matt Severance - 10/6/2009

Last year, Mizzou scored 52 points and crushed Nebraska, 52-17. It was the most points the Tigers had scored against the Cornhuskers since 1943 and was the Huskers' most lopsided home loss in 53 years and fifth-worst in Lincoln in the program's 119-year history. And if you go back two seasons, Mizzou has outscored Nebraska 95-23 in the past two meetings. Yet the host Tigers are three-point dogs this week on BetUS.
Read more about Nebraska at Missouri Thursday Night Football Preview.

College Football Handicapping: West Virginia Seeks Revenge
by Matt Severance - 9/30/2009

West Virginia's defense has been even worse than Colorado's so far, at least points-wise, allowing an average of 27.0 per game. The last time out the Mountaineers were beaten 41-30 by Auburn. The reason for that was six turnovers, including five by QB Jarrett Brown. But when WVU wins the turnover battle it has won 50 of the past 53 games.
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College Football Handicapping: Betting Large Spreads
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/30/2009

College football is the home of rivalries, rankings, upsets and the four-touchdown plus point spread. As more and more teams open their season with sacrificial lamb opponents scattered throughout the first two months of the schedule, oddsmakers have been forced to inflate lines all the way up to 72 this season. Likewise bettors looking for action in these frays have had to wager while calculating things like second team defenses and a coaches tendency to run up the score.
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College Football Handicapping: Iowa Heads To White House
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/24/2009

It will be no different at 8 p.m. this Saturday inside college football's largest stadium when Penn State, a 9.5-point favorite, hosts Iowa. The Penn State faithful, the players, and Joe Paterno himself might have a little something extra for Iowa after the Hawkeyes dealt Penn State its lone defeat last regular season and what possibly cost JoePa his last chance at a national title.
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College Football Handicapping: After The Trojans Break
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/24/2009

These midseason hiccups are almost a rite of autumn. Besides USC's two trips to the National Championship game in 2004 and 2005 each Pete Carroll season has featured a major upset. Here is a recap of each one and what became of the Trojans the next week and the remainder of the season.
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College Football Handicapping: Nonconference Vs. Conference Betting Differences
by Trevor Whenham - 9/23/2009

It's overly simplified and inaccurate to say that the nonconference schedule is like the preseason, but there is no question that games carry a bit more weight when they are against conference opponents. Teams approach the conference schedule differently than the rest of their games, and that means that successful handicappers need to make adjustments to thrive as the season progresses. Here's a look at five ways that you need to adjust to find success in nonconference play:
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Football Betting: Early Week Line Movements
by Robert Ferringo - 9/22/2009

Once again, those people late to the party came up short on the early line movements. Last week the college teams we tracked went just 2-4 against the spread while the NFL teams went 1-1. For the season, the heavy line moves are just 7-13 ATS in college and 10-15 ATS overall. Here is this week's action:
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College Football Handicapping: West Virginia in an Uncommon Situation
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/17/2009

In case West Virginia was not in for enough culture shock when it ventures down south to take on the Auburn Tigers of the SEC in 87,451-seat Jordan-Hare Stadium under the lights at 7:45 p.m. Saturday night, it has to deal with another unlikely scenario.
Read more about West Virginia Football Betting.

College Football Handicapping: Big 12 Top Teams Take Step Back
by Trevor Whenham - 9/16/2009

We came into the current college football season with positively giddy expectations for the Big 12, but the first two weeks of the season have significantly challenged those expectations. First, Oklahoma not only lost to another upstart non-BCS team but also lost their Heisman Trophy-winning QB in the process.
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College Football Betting: Week 3s Best Non Top-25 Matchups
by Strike Point Sports - 9/16/2009

College Football is all about prestige and power rankings. Florida, USC, Penn State, etc.: Everyone is tuning in to see how the best in the land fare each Saturday and how they stack up against each other. But rarely is that the case, because most of the time these Top 10 powers are playing competition that never usually measures up.
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College Football Handicapping: Michigan Resurgence
by Trevor Whenham - 9/16/2009

I bleed Maize and Blue, so the last two weeks have been blissful relief after two years of increasing agony. Michigan hasn't proven anything yet, and there is still ample time for this season to fall way off the rails, but what we have seen in the Wolverines' first two weeks is enough to give even the most defeated pessimist hope.
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Thursday NCAA Preview: No. 14 Georgia Tech at No. 20 Miami
by Alan Matthews - 9/15/2009

The Hurricanes, who are 4.5-point favorites on JustBet, are in the midst of the toughest opening four-game stretch in college football this season. UM went up to Tallahassee and upset Florida State last Monday, and they follow this game with tough matchups against Virginia Tech and Oklahoma.
Read more about Miami at Georgia Tech Preview.

College Football Teams That Start Off With Cupcakes
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/11/2009

Some teams like to schedule huge conference or inter-conference games to kick off the season. Just last week two Top-10 ranked teams, Alabama and Virginia Tech, squared off on national TV in front of 75,000 fans. On Monday night Florida State and Miami put on a classic in a 38-34 thriller that has been a Labor Day tradition for over two decades now.
Read more about College Football Easy Schedules.

College Football Handicapping: Can Oregon Recover?
by Trevor Whenham - 9/11/2009

The first game of the Chip Kelly era at Oregon pretty much couldn't have gone worse, could it? Oregon got systematically manhandled by Boise State, the much-praised Oregon offense was nowhere to be seen, and then things really got ugly after the final whistle.
Read more about Oregon Ducks.

Where Does Oklahoma Go From Here?
by Trevor Whenham - 9/11/2009

What's the worst thing that could possibly have happened to the Oklahoma Sooners? Not much question that that would be losing Sam Bradford for an extended time to injury. What's the second worst thing? Perhaps losing tight end Jermaine Gresham, a potential All-American who was likely to be the pass-heavy team's likely leading passer.
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Thursday NCAA Preview: Clemson at No. 15 Georgia Tech
by Matt Severance - 9/9/2009

If you like running games, tune in for Thursday night's ACC battle between Clemson and Georgia Tech (-5½ on Bodog), which features the two best running backs in the conference if not the country in the Tigers' C.J. Spiller and Tech's Jonathan Dwyer.
Read more about Clemson at Georgia Tech Preview.

Notre Dame at Michigan Betting Preview
by Strike Point Sports - 9/8/2009

There's no second-guessing which premier matchup takes the cake in college football's second week. Southern Cal travels to Columbus to take on Ohio State at the Horseshoe, so there will be enough coverage of this Top-10 collision.
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College Football Handicapping: Week 1 Surprises
by Trevor Whenham - 9/8/2009

One of the biggest of the many, many joys of college football is that we can never really know what we have until we see the teams play. We can spend the whole offseason analyzing the players that have left the team and those that have joined it, the ways the coaching staff has changed, and so on. The problem, though, is that so much of what we think we know is just pure speculation.
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Sunday College Football Betting Preview
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/4/2009

It has been all Ole Miss recently in this series with the Rebels winning eight of 10 dating back to 1995. This game will also mark the 10th time out of the past 11 games where they have played the role of the favorites. The over is 4-2-1 in recent meetings between Ole Miss and Memphis.
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College Football Player Props Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 9/3/2009

With the NCAA season just around the corner, now's the time to look through the props to see if any value jumps out. Without further ado, here are my college football player props predictions (odds are from Bodog):
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Thursday NCAA Preview: No. 16 Oregon at No. 14 Boise State Predictions
by Matt Severance - 9/3/2009

Last year, Boise State went to Eugene and shocked the Ducks, 37-32. Oddsmakers at Bodog expect something similar, with the Broncos listed as 3 1/2-point favorites (the total is at 64); the line has moved somewhat to Oregon. I fully expect the over here because Oregon plays at a very fast pace and the Broncos like to spread the field out.
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College Football Betting: Early Season Time to Pad Bankroll
by Trevor Whenham - 9/2/2009

For a lot of people, college football can be a more attractive betting prospect than the NFL. The lines are often less accurate when they are set, lower betting volumes mean that the value can remain in lines longer, lower profile games can have really inaccurate lines for astute bettors, and the huge number of games means that there are sure to be attractive games each week regardless of what you like to bet.
Read more about Early Season College Football Betting.

College Football Handicapping: True Freshman Quarterbacks
by Trevor Whenham - 9/2/2009

When USC opens their season on Saturday against San Jose State they will be doing it as the No. 4-ranked team in the country. They'll also be doing it with Matt Barkley, a true freshman, at quarterback. They were destined for a change at quarterback no matter what with Mark Sanchez now starting for the Jets, but the significance of a team this highly ranked starting a true freshman cannot be overstated.
Read more about College Football True Freshman Quarterbacks.

Doc's Sports College Football All-American Team
by Robert Ferringo - 9/2/2009

Money players are the guys who come through. Money players are the guys who make a difference. Money players are the guys who move the line depending on if they are healthy, angry, or motivated. Money players are the guys that turn everything around when you are in your most desperate, distraught, distressed state each weekend.
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Week 1 College Football Preview
by Trevor Whenham - 8/31/2009

January was a long, long time ago. If you believe, like I do, that college football is the best team sport there is then these last eight months have been painfully endless. Finally, though, the season is here once again, and we can enjoy all the highs and lows that this sport presents like no other. In anxious anticipation of the first week of college football action, here's a look at 12 games that I find to be particularly intriguing:
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College Football Betting: How To Handle Florida This Season
by Trevor Whenham - 8/28/2009

The Associated Press has released their preseason Top 25, and with it they have made some history - no team has ever been named No. 1 by a wider margin than Florida was. Fully 96.7 percent of first place votes in the poll went to the Gators. The two of the 60 voters who did not back the Gators had Texas as their top team.
Read more about Florida Gators Betting.

College Football Handicapping: Top 25 Surprises
by Trevor Whenham - 8/28/2009

The Associated Press has put out their preseason Top 25, making Florida No. 1 by the widest margin ever. Trying to determine where teams are at at this point in the year is a thankless, virtually impossible task, but that doesn't make it any less fun to do. Instead of trying to create a Top 25 of my own I'd rather just pick apart the AP version. Here's a quick look at the issues I have with the preseason list:
Read more about College Football Top 25 Surprises.

College Football Handicapping: Teams with Deceptive Schedules
by Trevor Whenham - 8/20/2009

It happens every year - a few teams get out to a hot start in college football, and people start to think that they are something special. But then comes the inevitable crash back down to Earth. Last year it was East Carolina. After three weeks they were undefeated and people were talking about them as a potential BCS buster.
Read more about College Football Easy Schedules.

College Football Handicapping: Impact Of Today's Coaches Poll
by Robert Ferringo - 8/7/2009

The first USA Today Coaches' Poll for college football was released today, which officially marks the start of the Hype & Bitchin' Season. Now all of the two-bit hack writers that like to bitch about playoffs and the BCS have some fresh ammo. And for those who like to brag up their team/player/conference, well they can surely point now to the infallible poll rankings as "proof" of their boasts and assertions.
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NFL Preseason Betting Tips
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2009

So I'm here today to give you some tips, tricks, indicators, and strategies for betting the NFL Exhibition Season. Again, preseason football wagering is a bit different than how you would approach a regular season bet. But in a lot of ways it's still the same. I mean, they aren't playing jai alai at the two-minute warning or anything. It's football: may the most violent and unrelenting man win.
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Toughest 2009 College Football Schedules
by Trevor Whenham - 7/31/2009

A college football team needs to have a whole lot of talent and even more luck if they want to be a serious contender. They also need to have a friendly schedule. An easy schedule can make an average team look good and a tough schedule could make that same team look terrible. The strength of schedule is also very important for handicappers. As we get ready for another college football season, here's a look at four teams that are facing fairly brutal schedules this year.
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BCS Title Winners Share Common Traits
by Justin Johnson - 07/01/2009

Sorry Alabama fans, you are not destined for a national title in 2009. Neither are you, Sooners, Utes, and Trojan-backers. However, if you are a fan of Virginia Tech, Texas, or the Iowa Hawkeyes you may just have something to cheer about.
Read more about BCS National Championship Contenders

College Football Handicapping: Teams Poised For Success
by Trevor Whenham - 7/16/2009

It's been several months since I have written regularly about the sport, so it's time to start to shake off the rust - kind of like my own summer practices. With that in mind, let's look at six teams that have the potential to take a big step forward this year:
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Big 12 Football: Conference Futures Odds and Predictions
by Justin Johnson - 07/06/2009

The Big 12's reputation took a bit of a hit at the end of 2008 as the conference that held almost half of the Top 10 spots at one point in the season fell flat in the postseason as they went a combined 4-3 in bowl games - including yet another BCS title game loss for Bob Stoops and Oklahoma.
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ACC Football: Conference Futures Odds and Predictions
by Justin Johnson - 07/06/2009

The ACC may not receive the recognition it deserves on the national level as a legitimate power conference, but last season it produced 10 bowl teams out of the 12 in the league. This season it looks as though the battle for the top spot will be just as tight as last year with many of the teams improving from last season.
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