College Football Handicapping Articles

2022 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Cameron McQuade - 7/6/2022

Last season Iowa made it to The Big 10 Championship, and they also got to the Vrbo Citrus Bowl. Things may have not ended the way the Hawkeyes wanted them to. However, with a crazy good defense retuning, and coach Kirk Ferentz entering his 24th season (the longest-tenured head coach in college football), it looks to be a promising 2022 season. Here we will offer some predictions on what we think might happen.

2022 Utah State Aggies Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Cameron McQuade - 7/5/2022

Under new head coach Blake Anderson, Utah State had a historic season, finishing 11-3 and winning the Mountain West for the first-time school history. They even ended the year defeating Oregon State in the LA Bowl. This year Logan Bonner and the Aggies look to repeat and capture another championship. Following, we will offer some Utah State football predictions for the new season.

2022 San Diego State Aztecs Football Predictions and Betting Odds
by Cameron McQuade - 6/29/2022

Coach Brady Hoke was at San Diego State in 2010, resulting in a good season. He then went to Michigan in 2011, returned to San Diego in 2020, and last year it all came together with a historic 12-win season. After going 12-2 while only allowing only 19.8 points per game in 2021, the San Diego State Aztecs defense should rank among the top in the league with seven starters returning.

College Football Odds and Predictions for Top Games of Season
by Devon Rymarchuk - 6/15/2022

It is never too early to start talking about college football. After Georgia absolutely steamrolled the 2022 College Football Playoff and went onto their first National Championship since 1980, they will be looking to defend their title in a tight SEC. With many coaching changes, new portal rules, and recruits committing across the nation, 2022 will not disappointment as the 131 FBS teams prepare for Week 1.

Current Coaches with Best College Football Bowl Game Record
by Chris Vasile - 12/14/2021

It’s often said that the most integral part of any team is the head coaching position. The head coach is someone – depending on the sport – who puts the game plan into place, motivates his players and puts his players in the best possible position to succeed. The head coach is also the first line of defense in terms of deflecting criticism off his players and directing it at him. When you really think about it, being a head coach is putting yourself in a lose-lose situation unless you turn out to be one of the greats like Bill Belichick or Nick Saban.

2021 College Football Bowl Season: Best Underdogs to Bet On
by Chris Vasile - 12/13/2021

If you are the type of bettor who loves betting on favorites, this article is not for you. Unless you want to fade me, of course. But that’s your prerogative. This article is about me giving you my best underdog bets for the upcoming bowl season. These selections have exactly what I look for in teams during bowl season, and we are getting some pretty great lines to boot. I hope if you tail these selections that we can make some money together and have a very profitable Bowl Season. Good luck.

Bowl Season Winning Betting Strategies
by Chris Vasile - 12/13/2021

We are now entering the most exciting time of the College Football season. Don’t get me wrong, the first 15 weeks of the season are all fine and dandy, with college games going off on Friday and Saturday to start the year. However, there is something about having games kicking off in the afternoon in the middle of the week as we approach the holiday season.

Esparza Goes Bowling: Doc’s College Football Handicapper to Release Picks for Every Bowl Game (Amazing Profits!)
by Docsports.com - 12/7/2021

Doc’s Sports expert college football handicapper Raphael Esparza knows a thing or two about college football bowl game betting. That’s because he has expertise on both sides of the counter. Not only does he have vast experience as a bettor for the last three decades, but he also spent years in the sportsbook industry and was the director of the sportsbook at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

NCAA Football Predictions: Championship Week Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/29/2021

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Opening Line Report: Championship Weekend edition. I cannot wait for this weekend’s action, and I’ve taken the liberty to run through each one of the 10 games on the board to give you an idea of who might be worth backing this weekend. Let’s finish the college football “regular-season” strong and build some momentum as we head into my favorite time of the year, Bowl Season.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 13 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/22/2021

Ladies and gentlemen, we have made it. We’ve made it to the final regular-season week of the college football season. And to say it is a bit sad would be an understatement. We’ve seen pretty much everything you can think of from blown leads, to big comebacks, to crazy catches and runs, to blown calls and poor officiating. We’ve seen “good teams” majorly underperform, and we’ve seen “afterthoughts” do damage and have great seasons.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 12 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/16/2021

We have reached the penultimate week of the college football season, and we’ve witnessed more twists, turns, and uncertainty than I can remember seeing in any season over the last handful of years. These final two weeks offer teams that are either 4-6 or 5-5 two final chances to win out and become bowl eligible. There are plenty of spots where motivation will be a deciding factor in the outcome, and it’s imperative that you find the edge and be on the right side.

NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 11
by Chris Vasile - 11/10/2021

I mentioned this last week, but I have the urge to mention it again. Besides winning bets and making money, there is nothing more satisfying than handicapping a game, expecting it to go a certain way and then watching that exact scenario play out.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 11 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/8/2021

I don’t know about you, but I must have missed the memo before last weekend that informed us bettors to prepare for an absolute wild weekend of football. The upsets yesterday in the NFL were insane, but it all started on Saturday when eight of the top-25 teams in college football lost outright.

NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 10
by Chris Vasile - 11/4/2021

I wrote about this earlier in the season, but sometimes the best bet you can make is the one you don’t place. In this instance, I was so confident last week that UTEP getting double-digit points was a gift and that FAU was not equipped to cover that spread against a good offensive team. I eventually talked myself out of betting UTEP. And low and behold, they covered. I’m not mad that I didn’t win the bet. I am happy that the process and research that went into the game was validated and that I am on the right track with this Florida Atlantic team.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 10 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 11/2/2021

For as long as I can remember – at least during the era of the College Football Playoff – there has always been a trio of teams that were head and shoulders above the rest. How they were ranked heading into the semi-finals was depending on their schedule, but you knew for the most part which bowl game teams were going to land in.

NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 9
by Chris Vasile - 10/27/2021

I’m still a little bit baffled by this Florida Atlantic team. The whole purpose of this article was to help specialize by following one team and understand the ebbs and flows and show that it’s possible to make money following one specific team and/or conference. The Owls are doing their very best to disprove that theory, and I’m a little annoyed that the results have not been better.

Biggest Comebacks in College Football History
by Mike Pruitt - 10/26/2021

There aren’t many other sporting events in the United States that carry the amount or type of energy that a college football game does. A lot of this is because student sections are large, and these kids have been playing beer pong with Aristocrap vodka since 7 a.m. This is a level of energy that I think we all wish we still had. I am not saying I ever want to live that life, again, but you have to respect it.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 9 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 10/25/2021

There are around four games left in the regular season for most teams, and now is the time that teams start to get desperate for wins to reach the coveted six-win mark and earn a bowl bid. With that information, it’s time to start paying close attention to a team’s motivation and bet accordingly. A team that is down and out at say, 2-5 or 3-4, may not give that extra effort depending on who they are playing and how disappointing the season has been.

NCAA Football Mid-Major Free Betting Picks: Florida Atlantic Owls Week 8
by Chris Vasile - 10/20/2021

As we enter Week 8 of the College Football season, it’s now time for Florida Atlantic to put up or shut up. The Owls have been the model of inconsistency this season as they have a middling 3-3 record and have won all three games at home while getting destroyed in all three games on the road. It has been hard to back the Owls this year as their play is so sporadic.

NCAA Football Predictions: Week 8 Opening Line Report and Picks
by Chris Vasile - 10/18/2021

Last week, before the real rankings came out, I went on record to list Georgia, Iowa, Cincinnati, and Michigan as the top-four teams in the country. Then the standings came out, and I was nearly spot-on, with the committee choosing to place Oklahoma in the four-hole instead of Michigan. That’s fine and dandy. However, once again, the top-four is going to be shaken up as No. 2 Iowa laid an egg on their home soil and lost outright to the Purdue Boilermakers as 11.5-point favorites.