College Football Handicapping Articles
2013-14 Oregon Ducks Predictions and College Football Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 7/14/2013
It has been a rocky offseason for the Ducks. After seeing their regular season end in a far-from-ideal way, the team saw head coach Chip Kelly flirt with the NFL repeatedly before finally being unable to resist, then they found themselves hit with NCAA violations for shady recruiting practices. That’s a lot of distraction and bad karma an eternal contender needs to overcome here.
2013-14 Michigan Wolverines Predictions and College Football Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 7/14/2013
Brady Hoke has recruited far beyond anyone’s expectation after getting hired. He was the third choice for the Michigan head coaching job when he was hired — at best — yet he is recruiting like a superstar. His 2013 class was outstanding, and his 2014 class is currently tops in the country. Now all Hoke needs to do is start getting on-field results to match the recruiting momentum.
2013-14 Stanford Cardinal Predictions and College Football Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 7/14/2013
There are many signs that Stanford has moved into the established elite of college football. Most striking, though, is at QB. If the team was just a flash in the pan then the loss of all-World QB Andrew Luck would have been crushing. Instead, it only took half a season to identify Kevin Hogan as the QB of the future. Depth used to be a foreign word for the Cardinal, and talent was in short supply. It’s a whole new world.
2013-14 Florida State Seminoles Predictions and College Football Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 7/14/2013
Florida State has been so consistently frustrating recently that you can describe them just by using their name. Florida State: to have ridiculous amounts of talent, but to throw it away by losing a game you have no business losing. They could patent the concept.
2013-14 Boise State Broncos Predictions and College Football Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 7/14/2013
If I am being completely honest, I am getting a little bored of writing Boise State previews. After all, things really don’t change. They are a strong, deep team with exceptional coaching. They are superior to their conference foes by a wide margin, and the success of their season will be defined by how they fare in their biggest nonconference test early in the season. That is true of this year, but has also been true for the last several years. I really should just cut and paste.
College Football Handicapping: Johnny Manziel and the Aggies
by Trevor Whenham - 6/20/2013
Over the last week we have had a good indication of just how crazy things could be with sophomore and defending Heisman winner Johnny Manziel and his Texas A&M Aggies this year. There isn’t a college athlete under any more scrutiny right now — and it’s not even close. In fact, there hasn’t been anyone even in the same stratosphere since Tim Tebow left Gainesville.
This Week in College Football Betting by the Numbers
by Aaron Smith - 12/27/2012
With Christmas in the rearview mirror and New Year’s coming in less than a week, bowl season is now hitting full stride. We’re now hitting the time of the year where multiple bowl games will be scheduled each day. The biggest day of games still comes on New Year’s, but the BCS Championship Game will wait until Jan. 7.
This Week in College Football Betting by the Numbers
by Aaron Smith - 12/20/2012
If you like college football, there’s a good chance you love bowl season. Not all bowls are created equal, but bowl season is now underway. The biggest matchups will come as we near the end of this year and the start of 2013. Still, there are some early games that should be more exciting than many believe. Bettors should keep an eye out for games that aren’t getting attention from the public, because those might be the best betting opportunities of the entire bowl season.
Ranking College Football Bowl Games, 1-35
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/13/2012
As I do every year here at Doc’s Sports, I will rank the college football bowl games from 1-35. I have considered all things for these rankings from matchups to venue to betting angles and potential for drama. This looks like it has the potential to be a great bowl season. Click the links on some of these bowls for free betting predictions for that particular bowl.
College Football Bowl Trends: Conference Domination
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/12/2012
Conference realignment has shaken college football to its core, but certain trends still remain. Many college bowl games maintain traditional matchups, and perhaps there are no more valuable trends in college football to follow than college football bowl trends. Players and coaches come and go, but it always seems that conference strengths and weaknesses hold true, and those manifest themselves every late December and early January during bowl season.
Ranking the Best Bowl Games for 2012-13
by Trevor Whenham - 12/11/2012
I’m not a Bowl snob. Some people believe that a bowl isn’t worth watching unless it is a BCS Bowl or at least played in January. I’ll watch any bowl game, though, and I often enjoy games in mid-December as much or more than the ones that get all the headlines and attention from bettors. As I look at the schedule of bowl games this year, here are the 10 games that stand out as the most interesting both as a fan and a bettor. They are presented in chronological order:
College Football Bowl Handicapping: Departed Coaches
by Trevor Whenham - 12/11/2012
The coaching carousel has been spinning out of control in college football this year. At this point there are 10 programs that are heading into a bowl game after having made a coaching change, and with several big vacancies still open there could be even more before all is said and done. Each of these situations is a potential headache for handicappers. Sometimes the coach leaves the team as soon as he gets a new job.
2013 Rose Bowl Picks: Stanford vs. Wisconsin Betting Odds and Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 12/4/2012
This is probably no one’s definition of a dream Rose Bowl matchup. With their surprising upset in the Big Ten Championship Game the Badgers become the first five-loss team ever to play in this game. The conference championship game model may generate more revenues for the conference, but it is to blame for ugliness like this. Stanford had a much better regular season and is the deserving representative of their conference. Few would have expected them to be before the season, though, as nearly everyone expected Oregon and USC to battle for supremacy in the Pac-12.
2013 Fiesta Bowl Picks: Kansas State vs. Oregon Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 12/4/2012
It has seemed likely for several weeks that the Ducks and Wildcats would meet in the BCS. As soon as Alabama lost to Texas A&M, though, it seemed most likely they would meet in the BCS National Championship Game, not in the Fiesta Bowl. But then within an hour of each other both programs suffered huge losses. Oregon fell to Stanford in a close one, while Kansas State was crushed by Baylor. The Wildcats still won the Big 12 despite that setback, and they secured the Fiesta Bowl bid automatically as a result.
2013 Orange Bowl Picks: Florida State vs. Northern Illinois Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 12/4/2012
It didn’t seem likely for much of the season, but we have a BCS buster. Even more surprising, it isn’t an unbeaten mid-major squad, and it comes from the MAC — hardly the sexiest league in the country. Thanks to a big win over Kent State (another team that would have busted the BCS with a win) in the MAC Championship Game, and losses by UCLA and Nebraska in their championship contests, Northern Illinois was able to climb far enough in the BCS standings to make their selection mandatory. And that’s how we end up with an Orange Bowl pairing that precious few people will care about.
2012 Poinsettia Bowl Picks: San Diego State vs. BYU Betting Odds
by Trevor Whenham - 12/4/2012
The San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl is a game that doesn’t get a lot of attention since it is typically played on a weeknight before Christmas. This is the eighth year of the modern era of this bowl, though, and at least five of the previous seven games have been more than just a little interesting. In fact, last year’s TCU victory over Louisiana Tech was one of the more enjoyable games of the whole bowl season.
2012 New Mexico Bowl Picks: Arizona vs. Nevada Odds and Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 12/4/2012
The first bowl game of the year this year almost certainly won’t be the best one by the time they are all played, but it certainly is an intriguing one. And we can be certain of one thing — it won’t be boring. Nevada isn’t nearly as strong as they have been in recent years, but their offense is still potent and creative. Arizona is well ahead of where they are supposed to be in the first year of a bold and unrecognizable new era, and the Wildcats will be looking to end the year on a high note.
College Football Betting: Conference Championship Game Trends
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 11/30/2012
The first weekend in December has traditionally been known as Championship Saturday. The action now starts tonight with the MAC Championship Game and the Pac-12 Championship. With the rash of conference realignment over the past few years, there are now six conference championship games. Four games are played at neutral sites: Big Ten in Indianapolis, ACC in Charlotte, SEC in Atlanta and MAC in Detroit and two at campus sites, Pac-12 and Conference USA.
BCS Bowl Projections
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 11/29/2012
With championship Friday and Saturday upon us in college football, the bowl picture begins to sort itself out. A few college bowl bids have already been handed out. However, here are projections for the other major BCS bowls.
Reasons Notre Dame Will Not Win BCS National Championship
by T.O. Whenham - 11/28/2012
When it comes to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, there isn’t much grey area. You either believe in them or you detest them. They are the New York Yankees of college football. I decidedly fall into the group made up of doubters. I don’t even know who they will be facing in the BCS Championship Game yet, and I am confident they will lose, and lose decisively. Here are four of the many reasons why:
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