College Football Handicapping Articles
2015 Clemson Tigers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Over the past half-decade the Tigers have really gone a long way to shedding the "perpetual underachievers" label that seemed to tail them for the previous two decades. (I'd say North Carolina has slid into that role in the ACC now.) Clemson has gone 42-11 the past four seasons, have won three straight bowl games, and have been in the Top 10 in two of the last three years. They are a model program in the watered-down ACC.
2015 NC State Wolfpack Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Dave Doeren's second season was night-and-day different from his first as transfer quarterback Jacoby Brissett was a revelation while helping the Wolfpack win eight games for just the third time in 11 seasons. This year's Pack faces a tricky schedule. But there is enough talent on this team for N.C. State to be a sleeper team in the Atlantic Division.
2015 Virginia Cavaliers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Not even God knows what Mike London is doing in Virginia. London - who I never thought was a bad coach - has gone 23-38 in his five years in Charlottesville and is coming off his third straight losing season. Virginia has made it to just one bowl game in the past seven years, and if the returning talent is any indication then things could get worse before they get better.
2015 Duke Blue Devils Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
I have to hand it to coach David Cutcliffe. The guy has made Duke football relevant in the ACC, something that no one thought possible as recently as five years ago. But Duke's success - they are 19-8 the last two seasons - is as much a product of comically easy schedules as it has been some significant bump in their talent and scheme.
2015 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Paul Johnson's group busted out for 11 wins and a blowout Orange Bowl win last year as one of the biggest surprises in college football. In fact, Tech was just two touchdowns away from an undefeated season, losing each of their three games by six points or less. They did benefit from a +11 turnover margin, one of the tops in the country, but if the defense improves they could be a major factor in the ACC again.
2015 Miami Hurricanes Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
At this point I think it is time to let go of the idea of Miami coming "back" and becoming a major player on the national level like they were in the 1980s and early 2000s. Miami hasn't won 10 or more games in 11 years and haven't won a bowl game since 2006. This absolutely won't be the year in which they snap either streak.
2015 Pittsburgh Panthers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Quick: name the Pittsburgh Panthers head coach. Can't do it? Don't feel badly. If you count interim coaches then new headman Pat Narduzzi is the sixth coach of the Panthers since the start of the 2010 season. That lack of cohesion and consistency is the main reason why they have been a .500 program over the last five seasons.
2015 Boston College Eagles Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Steve Addazio produced one of the best coaching efforts in the country last year, guiding a rebuilding B.C. team to a 7-6 record with a huge upset win over USC and two near-miss upsets against Florida State (20-17) and Penn State (31-30). Somehow the Eagles have even fewer returning starters (seven) this season than last. But after watching Addazio work last year, I'm not in a hurry to doubt him.
2015 Syracuse Orange Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Syracuse does have a senior QB in Terrel Hunt. However, he is one of the worst passing quarterbacks in the country. SU has four of five offensive line starters back. But this group averaged just 17.1 points per game last year (No. 118), and I don't see where they are going to improve in the attack. The defense was outstanding last year in spite of a horror-show offense. But Syracuse has just three defensive starters back and will be building from scratch.
2015 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2015
Coach Dave Clawson will have one of the youngest teams in the country - again - and it could be another ugly season in Winston-Salem. Wake Forest is obviously not a football school. But they love those football paychecks, so they will once again serve as fodder for the real teams in the rest of the sad-sack ACC.
Alabama Crimson Tide Odds to Win the 2016 College Football National Championship
by George Monroy - 7/10/2015
The Alabama Crimson Tide were two quarters away from making another national title game appearance and adding to the already legendary resume of Coach Nick Saban-that is until Ohio State came roaring back during the second half of the college football semifinal playoff game and eventually went on to win the eighth championship in the program's history . Heading into 2015, Alabama is still sitting near the top of the national title futures odds at Bovada, and the squad will be looking to extend one of the great football dynasties in college football history.
2015 Oklahoma State Cowboys Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
Last year I successfully predicted an easy 'Under' wager on Oklahoma State's season win total. They were in an obvious rebuilding year after a 10-win campaign, and their 8.0 total was overly ambitious. The Cowboys took advantage of an easy early schedule to fly out to a 5-1 start. But reality quickly snapped them back with a five-game losing streak. A huge upset over rival Oklahoma and subsequent bowl success, however, has given Oklahoma State's program momentum heading into this fall's campaign.
2015 Texas Longhorns Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
Charlie Strong came in and cleaned house in his first season in Austin. Texas struggled to a 6-7 record and ended the year with an embarrassing bowl blowout loss to Arkansas. But Strong appears to be laying the foundation for his program. Year 2 may not be significantly more successful than Year 1, though, and Texas is still very much a third-tier power at the moment.
2015 Baylor Bears Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
I felt that Baylor was a bit of fool's gold last year. I admit that Bryce Petty led an absolutely devastating offense that averaged nearly 50 points per game. And the defense was a little stronger than even its numbers suggest. However, Baylor only played four decent teams or tricky games last year - TCU, at West Virginia, at Oklahoma and versus Michigan State. They lost two of those games, and a third, against TCU, they won by just three points. Further, Baylor won 11 games in 2013, and that too was against a cupcake schedule.
2015 Oklahoma Sooners Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
Bob Stoops sees the writing on the wall in Norman. He knows that 8-5 seasons are unacceptable around those parts, so he made some offseason changes, most notably bringing in a new offensive coordinator to install a version of the Air Raid offense and adding a new starting quarterback to run it. The hope is that all this adds up to a big season and a vault back to the top of the Big 12.
2015 Kansas State Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
Don't bet against Bill Snyder. You just don't do it. Snyder is one of the best coaches in college football history, and he has been one of the best against the spread coaches in the sport over the last five years. This year's team doesn't look promising. But since Snyder acquires a lot of talent via junior colleges, this is always a team ready to exceed expectations.
2015 Texas Tech Red Raiders Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
Kliff Kingsbury's second year was a big step back after a solid 2013. But now the question is whether the Red Raiders are ready to leap back into the top tier of the league or if they are still punching over their weight class in a loaded Big 12.
2015 West Virginia Mountaineers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
I was on top of West Virginia going 'over' their season win total last year. Dana Holgorsen's squad quietly showed some progress and didn't take a bad loss on the season. They even played a bit of spoiler by knocking off Baylor. But, regardless, this season feels like a bit of a last stand for Holgorsen. He's reportedly a generally unlikeable person and hasn't been embraced by the Mountaineer faithful. And anything short of a breakout season could spell the end of his five-year run in Morgantown.
2015 Iowa State Cyclones Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
Paul Rhodes has kept Iowa State respectable for as long as he could. But the fact is that this program needs some new blood. They are coming off an ugly two-win showing last year, and with just 11 starters back I don't see a lot of upside this season. Iowa State has just one returning starter in the front seven on defense.
2015 Kansas Jayhawks Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/9/2015
I had the Jayhawks pegged last year, predicting that they would be more competitive (they almost knocked off TCU and Oklahoma State) but that they wouldn't make it to four wins. I feel even more confident this season predicting the Jayhawks to be one of the worst teams in any major conference in the country.
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