College Football Handicapping Articles
2012 Florida State Seminoles Football Predictions and ACC Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/24/2012
For the second year in a row, Jimbo Fisher’s Florida State Seminoles are the overwhelming favorites to win the ACC Championship – something the school has done just once since switching the league switched to divisions – as well as the Atlantic Division (FSU has only won that twice). And many believe this club very much could play for the BCS Championship, which no ACC school has done since FSU lost to Oklahoma following the 2000 season.
2012 Kansas State Wildcats Football Predictions and Big 12 Odds
by Aaron Smith - 7/23/2012
In 1989, “Sports Illustrated” labeled Kansas State as “Futility U.” Later that year the Bill Snyder era began. In the span of 10 years, Snyder turned a team that hadn’t won a game for three straight seasons into a team that went 11-0 in 1998. He retired from coaching in 2005, but he came back to the program at the beginning of the 2009 season. In 2011, the team returned to national prominence with a 10-3 record. Bill Snyder was named 2011 National Coach of the Year by several publications.
2012 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Predictions and Big 10 Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/21/2012
“The” Ohio State University football program is coming off quite a season, and I don’t mean that in a good way. The Buckeyes were a program in disarray heading into 2011 in the wake of the Jim Tressel/Terrelle Pryor mess and with a few key players suspended for the first handful of games. So perhaps it wasn’t a huge surprise that the Buckeyes finished 6-7 (3-5 in Big Ten), their first losing season since 1988, and saw their streak of six straight Big Ten titles end.
2012 Virginia Tech Hokies Football Predictions and Odds to Win ACC
by Aaron Smith - 7/21/2012
Virginia Tech has won the ACC Coastal Division five out of the last seven years. The Hokies have been a model of consistency over the last decade. Since 2004, Virginia Tech has a record of 65-16. The Hokies hold the nation’s longest streak of 10-plus win seasons at eight years. Clearly, this is a program that is doing a whole lot of things right.
2012 Michigan State Spartans Football Predictions and Odds to Win Big Ten
by Aaron Smith - 7/21/2012
Mark Dantonio has done a lot to rebuild the Michigan State football program in his first five years in East Lansing. The Spartans are 44-22 in his time at the helm. Twenty two of those wins have come in the last two seasons. Michigan State football is back on the map, but Dantonio isn’t letting anyone feel like now is a time to relax and feel comfortable.
2012 Oklahoma Sooners Football Predictions and Odds to Win Big 12
by Alan Matthews - 7/20/2012
Expectations aren’t quite as high in Norman this season for the Oklahoma Sooners as last year, which is saying something considering that OU will be in the Top 10 of the preseason polls, is the Big 12 favorite and one of the national title leaders.
2012 Texas A&M Aggies Football Predictions and BCS Futures Odds
by David Schwab - 7/20/2012
It will be a season of change and transition for Texas A&M as it moves from the Big 12 to the high-powered SEC. In their last season in the Big 12, the Aggies went out with a whimper after losing four of their last six games to finish 7-6 on the year. The one consolation was a 33-22 victory over Northwestern in the Meinke Car Care Bowl to salvage a winning season. However, they did end the year with a losing record in conference play at 4-5.
College Football: Top 10 Conference Games
by Robert Ferringo - 7/18/2012
More than any other sport, college football success and failure is measured by how teams perform in their own backyard. All of the major North American sports have some version of divisions or leagues. But in college football, a team’s season is defined overwhelmingly by how it plays against it’s rivals, against the teams that are trying to occupy and dominate the same space, and against the teams in its conference.
College Football Betting: Top 10 Rivalry Games
by Robert Ferringo - 7/18/2012
According to the mouth-breathers that I am surrounded by in the Deep South, which is the heart of SEC Country and by extension the heart of the college football world, rivalry games are what set apart college football from all other sports.
College Football Handicapping: Best Revenge Games for 2012
by Robert Ferringo - 7/18/2012
Revenge is one of the best motivational angles that any college football handicapper can wager on. The added focus, the added energy, the added electricity from the crowd, and the added WANT can give a team a massive boost. And those intangibles, when accurately anticipated by someone betting on college football, can lead to a major profit on the gridiron.
2012 Wisconsin Badgers Football Predictions and Big Ten Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/18/2012
With all due respect to Ohio State, Michigan State, Michigan or any other Big Ten powers, the best program in the conference right now is in Madison, Wisconsin. Those other schools can’t claim back-to-back Big Ten titles and Rose Bowl berths like the Badgers can.
2012 Nebraska Cornhuskers Football Predictions and Big Ten Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/18/2012
Nebraska entered its first season in the Big Ten in 2011 as the preseason favorite in the Legends Division and a dark-horse national title contender – a Rose Bowl berth at a minimum was expected. Thus, last year has to be called a disappointment as Nebraska finished 5-3 in the Big Ten, good for third in the division, and 9-4 overall after losing handily to South Carolina in the Capital One Bowl.
2012 Missouri Tigers Football Predictions and BCS Futures Odds
by David Schwab - 7/18/2012
The Missouri Tigers decided to take the plunge in an effort to upgrade their football program by defecting from the Big 12 to play in the ultra-competitive SEC. Hopefully they will not live to regret this decision in the long run, but it is probably safe to say that season will be a bumpy ride.
2012 Kansas Jayhawks Football Predictions and Big 12 Futures Odds
by David Schwab - 7/18/2012
The Kansas Jayhawks football program closed out the 2009 season with seven-straight losses after winning their first five games. They never seemed to recover from this free fall with a 3-9 record in 2010 and an even more dismal 2-10 campaign in 2011 that included a 0-9 record in the Big 12. While Kansas has nowhere to go but up this season, the prospect for any kind of dramatic turnaround remains cloudy at best.
2012 Indiana Hoosiers Football Predictions and Big Ten Conference Odds
by Adam Richard - 7/16/2012
The University of Indiana has long been known for its basketball legacy and the football team has done nothing to alter that perception. Indiana has had only one winning season (7-6 in 2007) since the start of the century. Last season, Indiana was the only BCS team to not defeat an FBS opponent. The lone victory for the Hoosiers was against South Carolina State on Sept 17.
2012 Florida Gators Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/13/2012
I’m starting to think it was Tim Tebow and not Urban Meyer who made the Florida Gators the nation’s premier program from the 2006-09 seasons. In that stretch, with Tebow as the full-time starter in three of those seasons (Chris Leak was the official starter in ’06), the Gators won two national titles and a Sugar Bowl, played in three SEC Championship Games (winning two) and went a combined 48-7. The Gators didn’t lose to Florida State in any of those four seasons and blew the Noles out in three of them.
2012 Georgia Bulldogs Football Predictions and SEC Betting Picks
by Alan Matthews - 7/13/2012
If you disregard their first two games and final two games, 2011 was a rousing success for the Georgia Bulldogs. Unfortunately, this isn’t a dream world. Calls for Head Coach Mark Richt’s head were very loud after the Dawgs opened with losses to Boise State and South Carolina, both home games – although the Boise game was technically in Atlanta.
2012 Auburn Tigers Football Predictions and SEC Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/13/2012
If you didn’t see Auburn’s fall from grace last season, you just weren’t paying any attention. Of course, the Tigers won the National Championship in 2010 behind superstar quarterback Cam Newton, the Heisman Trophy winner, and stud defensive tackle Nick Fairley, the Lombardi Award winner. Pretty much everything went right that year, including a stunning comeback over Alabama in the Iron Bowl.
2012 Tennessee Volunteers Football Predictions and BCS Championship Futures Odds
by Alan Matthews - 7/13/2012
When is a 5-7 overall record and a 1-7 last-place mark in the SEC a reason for optimism? When you have a whopping 20 starters returning the following season. Indeed, the 2012 Tennessee Volunteers do have 20 starters back if you include both kickers. That is tied for the second-most in the nation.
2012 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Predictions and Futures Odds
by Adam Richard - 7/13/2012
Iowa beat up on all of its weaker opponents last season. The Hawkeyes only real quality win of the season came in a big home victory against Michigan. Iowa finished with a 7-5 record. The Hawkeyes were completely overmatched against the faster, more powerful and more athletic Oklahoma Sooners in the Insight Bowl and lost, 31-14.
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