College Football Handicapping Articles

College Football Props: Team’s Chances to Play in Their Conference Championship
by Mike Allen - 8/25/2023

Opening Saturday for the 2023 College Football season is nearly upon us. Many of you guys have already jumped on season-long futures betting odds. Over/under betting for team wins is popular. So is predicting a particular conference winner. That can be risky when you think the season hasn't even started yet, and we are already crowning a conference winner.

Season Win Total Picks for Four College Football Independents
by Matt Zitt - 8/25/2023

Seven teams lived the independent life in 2022, but only four remain for this upcoming season. BYU jumped to the Big 12 after being independent for 12 seasons. Liberty and New Mexico State joined Conference USA. That leaves Notre Dame, Army, UConn, and UMass as the last four independent squads. A new TV deal with NBC could keep Notre Dame independent for the foreseeable future or the money associated with conference play could entice the Fighting Irish to join a major conference.

2023-24 Mountian West Football Predictions with Betting Odds and Expert Picks
by Matt Zitt - 8/24/2023

The race to win the Mountain West will look a lot different in 2023. The West and Mountain Divisions are gone, with a 12-team, one-division setup in its place. The top two teams in the standings will meet for the conference title game. The Mountain West hopes one of its frontrunners can return the league to a New Year’s Six Bowl for the first time since 2014. Doc’s Sports will break down the Mountain West Conference below.

2023-24 MAC Football Predictions with Betting Odds and Expert Picks
by Matt Zitt - 8/24/2023

The Toledo Rockets are looking for a rare repeat in the MAC. Despite being the clear favorites in the West Division, the outlook in the East is way more competitive. Nine of the MAC’s 12 teams recorded at least five wins in ’22. It seems likely that Toledo, Ohio, and Miami (Ohio) are the top dogs, while there should be another year of parity in the middle with teams fighting to get bowl eligible at the six-win plateau. Doc’s Sports will look in-depth at the MAC below.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 0 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Joey House - 8/23/2023

After months of hype and hoopla, spring games and transfer portals, college football is back. In a creation that only the NCAA could come up with, Week 0 features a handful of games to get you primed for the upcoming season. Since they usually play in the final regular season game against Army, it's only fitting that Navy kicks off the season taking on No. 13 Notre Dame in Dublin, Ireland. Elsewhere in Top 25 action, No. 6 USC begins their final season in the Pac-12 when they host in-state rival San Jose State. One of the big questions of the preseason is if Trojan QB Caleb Williams can win a second Heisman and join Buckeye great Archie Griffin as the only two-time winner.

2023-24 Conference USA Football Predictions with Betting Odds and Expert Picks
by Matt Zitt - 8/23/2023

Realignment in college football has disintegrated the Pac-12 and has changed the Power 5 Conferences for the future landscape of the sport. Smaller conferences, such as Conference USA, have been hit just as hard. The league lost three teams to the Sun Belt prior to 2022 and had six teams bounce for the American Athletic Conference this offseason. A pair of FBS newcomers joined Conference USA; Jacksonville State and Sam Houston, while Liberty and New Mexico State ditched the potential independent route in favor of Conference USA. Doc’s Sports will break down the conference below.

College Football Free Picks: Weekly Mid-Major Report and Predictions for Coastal Carolina (2023 Season Preview)
by Matt Zitt - 8/22/2023

With the start of the college football season right around the corner, we will be taking an in-depth look at a school just down the road from Myrtle Beach -- Coastal Carolina University from the Sun Belt Conference. It has been quite the ride for CCU over the last six seasons since joining the FCS world. There were growing pains the first three seasons building the program up, followed by a 31-3 record over the next two and a half seasons before ending last year on a three-game losing streak.

2023 Sun Belt Conference Football Predictions with Season Win Total Picks
by Joey House - 8/14/2023

Most of the college football previews cover, understandably, the bigger conferences like Power 5, the Mountain West, etc. At Docs, we look for value EVERYWHERE, and as such, while we cover the big boys too, we recognize some of the smaller conferences are amazingly profitable. One of those markets is the Sun Belt, stretching from Virginia to Texas. One of the key members of the SBC is Appalachian State, who every good football fan knows upset the #5-ranked Michigan Wolverines in the Big House back in 2007.

2023 College Football Season Win Total Best Bets
by Mike Allen - 8/12/2023

The 2023 College Football Regular Season is just a couple of weeks away. I don't know about you, but the anxiety is killing me. I need to do something in the meantime to alleviate these jitters. I don’t have to tell you, though. That’s why you’re here!

Which Teams will Make College Football Playoff in 2023? Odds and Betting Predictions
by Mike Allen - 8/11/2023

There is so much to love about football. To me, the college game is more fun. There are more passionate college football fans than any other major sport in America. One factor that makes CFB exciting for me is the constant turnover of talent. Some teams' jerseys don't even have the names on the back. NCAA football is about the team/system/program before any individual.

College Football Free Picks: Weekly Mid-Major Report and Predictions for James Madison (Season Preview)
by Joey House - 8/10/2023

We will be releasing picks for James Madison games each week of the college football season here on Doc’s Sports homepage and tracking the results. We will be using Doc’s Sports Unit System for each and every prediction. We might bet the side, total or moneyline, or a combination of the three. If we think the odds are solid, we could pass for that week (we will still publish an article stating so). Our goal is to help you, the reader, earn a profit over the course of the season by zeroing in on a small school that doesn’t see a lot of action at the betting window.

College Football Division Winners Best Bets with Betting Odds
by Mike Allen - 8/10/2023

Here are some much harder-to-find betting odds on two of the division winners. We couldn't take up all of your time today with odds on, let's say, the SEC West. The No. 1-ranked Georgia Bulldogs are the favorites to take it down, but as you can imagine, the juice is far too thick at (-430).

College Football Matchup Betting Odds: Who Wins More Regular Season Games
by Mike Allen - 8/10/2023

The 2023 College Football Regular Season is rapidly approaching! It won't be much longer until Saturday, August 26. Navy and Notre Dame, a rivalry game seemingly as old as time, will get us started. After that, we won't be able to come up for air until 2024. Y'all ready?

2023 College Football Undefeated Teams: Odds and Betting Predictions
by Mike Allen - 8/9/2023

As 2023 the College Football season draws near, I wanted to give you guys some fun plays to last you, hopefully, throughout the regular season. We have "Yes or No" betting odds and predictions for you today on whether or not a team will go undefeated in the regular season.

2023 Florida State Seminoles Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Matt Zitt - 8/8/2023

Under the late legendary head coach Bobby Bowden, Florida State won 10 games or more in every season from 1987 to 2000. Under Jimbo Fisher, Florida State won 10 games or more in six of seven seasons from 2010 to 2016, with the one outlier a 9-4 2011 campaign before winning the national title two years later. And then soon after, there wasn't a whole lot to brag about.

2023 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Matt Zitt - 8/4/2023

There’s Georgia, there’s Alabama, there’s Ohio State. Those three are the epitome of college football right now. Because they're on another level of talent, they’re the givens. They’re the ones that anybody can predict will be in the College Football Playoff -- the four-team version -- and probably not be wrong.

2023 Michigan Wolverines Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Matt Zitt - 8/4/2023

Michigan was always very, very good under head coach Jim Harbaugh, and then it started blocking and tackling better, the next-level talent kept flowing in, and shock of shocks, it all worked. Ever since the second half of the 2020 finale loss to Penn State -- when Michigan, in a lost game in a lost season, seemed to say “enough is enough” and played one of its most physical offensive halves of the year -- a switched flipped. It hasn't stopped since.

2023 College Football Regular Season Win Totals Best Bets
by Matt Zitt - 6/22/2023

Believe it or not, we are only two months away from the start of the 2023 college football season. Last month the sportsbooks trickled out the over and under win totals for the 130 teams in the FBS. The win-total markets only count the 12 regular-season games played by each team. Conference championships and bowl games do not factor into the over/under totals. There are a handful of numbers that jumped out on the list, so let us dive in to see if we can find some value for some of these squads.

How College Football Rule Changes Could Affect Bettors
by Joey House - 5/26/2023

Every offseason, sports leagues discuss rule changes for a variety of reasons. In Major League Baseball this year, the pitch clock and base enlargement were introduced with the hopes of speeding the game up and increasing scoring by encouraging more stolen base attempts.

NCAA Football Predictions: Championship Week Report, Best Bets and Picks
by Christopher Delgado - 11/29/2022

Let's quickly start with a recap of this past weekend in college football. This was a weekend to be hyped for as Michigan took on OSU. That was one of the blockbuster games that we covered in our predictions last week. We had OSU covering their -7.5 at home against Michigan. Michigan arrived in Columbus with a plan to cause mayhem. This is the first time Michigan has beat OSU in back-to-back games since Tom Brady graduated from Michigan.