College Football Handicapping Articles
2016 San Jose State Spartans Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
A scan over the last 15 years of San Jose football shows a pretty clear trend of steady peaks and valleys. Over the last 14 years, SJSU football has either increased or decreased its win total in back-to-back years five times. Only once during that time - when they dropped from nine wins in 2006 to five wins in 2007 only to bounce up to six wins in 2008 - did they buck that trend.
2016 Fresno State Bulldogs Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
Fresno State football could be becoming a cautionary tale for mid-major college football programs. Once a well-respected, will-play-anyone-anywhere team under Pat Hill, the Bulldogs have backslid in a major way the past two seasons. They are still trying to figure out life after Derek Carr (and Hill). And as I look at this team I don't see a lot of cause for optimism.
2016 Hawaii Warriors Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
Poor old Norm Chow, who was simply lost in four years on the Hawaii sideline, was finally put out to pasture. Hawaii went the complete opposite way for its new head coach, hiring a guy (Nick Rolovich, 36) that is nearly half the age of their former coach (Chow, 70).
2016 New Mexico Lobos Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
I was one of the few football handicappers in the country that was buying into New Mexico last season. And they came through in a big way, posting their highest win total since 2007 and earning their first bowl bid of the decade. They pulled the upset of the year in college football, beating Boise State outright as a 31-point underdog, and cashed as a nine-point underdog while almost upsetting Arizona in the New Mexico Bowl.
2016 Utah State Aggies Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
For the first time in what seems like 12 years, Utah State enters the season with someone other than Chuckie Keeton projected to be under center. The six-year Aggie was one of the best players in school history, even with injuries sabotaging his final few seasons.
2016 Nevada Wolf Pack Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
After back-to-back 7-6 seasons Nevada could be ready to lurch forward and throw itself back into the discussion of the top teams in the Mountain West. They have quietly been one of the most consistent programs in the league the last 10 years, posting eight winning seasons and making a bowl game in nine of the last 10 campaigns. So it says something when some claim that Brian Polian is working with one of the best teams that he has had in Reno.
2016 Wyoming Cowboys Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/18/2016
Craig Bohl's squad took a big step back in 2015, winning just two games and posting their most losses in over 10 years. But teams typically show improvement in a coach's third season at the helm. And for the sake of Bohl's job security, he better hope the Cowboys at least find a way to be competitive this fall.
College Football Betting Advice: Teams Over-Ranked in Coaches Poll
by Trevor Whenham - 8/17/2016
The Coaches Poll has issues. There is no denying that. It seems ridiculous to ask guys who work on Saturdays to vote on Saturday night on how teams played when it is very unlikely that they saw more than two actually play. And then there is the whole fact that so few coaches actually fill out their own ballots, or the fact that some coaches aren't even subtle about using their votes to air grievances. Still, for whatever reason, the poll is one of the two most important in existence.
2016 Oklahoma Sooners Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
If we've learned anything about the Sooners the past decade it is that they have trouble handling success. The last four times that Oklahoma has entered the season in the Top 5 - and this year they opened at No. 3 in the Coaches Poll - they have finished No. 16 or worse. And twice, 2009 and 2014, they started in the Top 5 only to finish the season unranked. We will see if they can live up to the hype this time around.
2016 Baylor Bears Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
I don't know if any program in the country had a worse offseason than Baylor. Lack of institutional control and a litany of sexual assault allegations and cover-ups doomed Art Briles, who was fired this spring. Now Baylor, whose ascent from laughingstock to college power over the past 10 years has been remarkable, enters the 2016 with a major black cloud over its head.
2016 Texas Longhorns Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
It is always tough to handicap a powerhouse program that has fallen on hard times. On the one hand, you have to know that big-name programs are always going to be overvalued by the books and the public, so we should pick the bones clean while a team is down. On the other hand, it is hard not to assume that these top-tier schools with big budgets and loaded recruiting classes are just one season away from getting back on top.
2016 TCU Horned Frogs Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
Much like it took Utah awhile to acclimate itself in the Pac-12, TCU needed a few seasons to catch up with the speed and talent in the Big 12. But now that they have, the Horned Frogs are a perennial threat to win the league championship and are one of the favorites to do so in 2016.
2016 Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
I was bullish on Oklahoma State last year, and they did not disappoint. I correctly predicted that Oklahoma State would win 10 games, and they did just that, surging into the Top 5 before back-to-back tough late-season losses to Baylor and Oklahoma undercut OSU's attempt at winning the Big 12 title. With 17 starters back, including 10 from one of the nation's top offenses, I see more big things in store for Mike Gundy's crew this season.
2016 Kansas State Wildcats Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
Bill Snyder is a goddamn national treasure. Snyder is one of the best coaches in college football history, and I don't think he gets nearly the credit he deserves. Snyder has won two of every three games for 25 years in Manhattan, serving two tours and building up this Kansas State program from scratch. His teams are notoriously tough to predict because of his reliance on transfers and JUCO players. But one thing is for sure: Kansas State will be a tough out no matter whom they line up against.
2016 Texas Tech Red Raiders Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
Kliff Kingsbury has kept Texas Tech somewhat relevant in the Big 12. But to this point the young coach has been more hype than production. Kingsbury's record after three years (19-19 straight up) is actually worse than the man that he replaced, Tommy Tuberville (21-17 SU). But in his fourth season, now with all of Kingsbury's own players, we will see if the Red Raiders are capable of more.
2016 West Virginia Mountaineers Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
It seems like every fall Dana Holgorsen enters the college football season coaching for his job. He's been able to stay the execution each of the past two years. But Holgorsen hasn't been able to vault WVU into the top tier of the conference since the Mountaineers joined the Big 12 in 2012. At some point you have to wonder when WVU brass and boosters will pull the plug.
2016 Iowa State Cyclones Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
Hey, every conference needs some fodder. And in the Big 12 that is Iowa State. The Cyclones do a great job of being bad enough that none of the top teams in the league ever have to worry about losing to them while also being good enough to steal some nonconference games and play The Big Boys tough every once in awhile. Not that anyone noticed or cares, but Iowa State brought in a new coach, Matt Campbell, from Toledo. Now it is Campbell's turn to steward the program through another few years of servitude.
2016 Kansas Jayhawks Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2016
I know this might sound crazy, but I actually think Kansas is going to be much better this season. Of course, there is really nowhere to go but up after an 0-12 season, so "better" is relative. But Kansas is a team that might actually be able to compete this year and could even match their highest single-season win total of the decade (three).
2016 UCLA Bruins Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2016
UCLA entered last season as one of the Pac-12 favorites and a legitimate playoff contender. The Bruins worked their way into the Top 10 early in the season, and the hype on this team was through the roof. But it is as if people have forgotten what I have said for years: Jim Mora Jr. is a bona fide loser.
2016 Washington State Cougars Football Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/12/2016
Last year I loved me some Washington State. The Cougars responded with nine wins straight up and an outstanding 10-3 record against the spread. Wazzou closed the season with four of five wins, including a bowl victory over Miami, and as shocking as it is to believe, these guys were really just a few plays away from winning 12 games. They choked away a game to FCS foe Portland State and then took losses from Cal and Stanford in the final seconds.
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