Miscellaneous Articles

College Football Predictions: Penn State at Wisconsin Odds and Picks
by T.O. Whenham - 11/23/2011

For a few short hours on Saturday Penn State can focus on something other than the scandal that is ripping their campus and their football program apart. The stakes for this game are huge -- win and you head to the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game next weekend in Indianapolis.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/23/2011

The Ferringo 15 college football power rankings is my own twist on the obsessive ranking systems that pervade this sport. The Ferringo 15 is my profit-power rankings; a rating of the 15 teams that hold the most value in college football betting at the moment. It is a reflection of past, present, and projected future achievement against the spread in college football betting.

CFL Handicapping: Grey Cup Predictions and Betting Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 11/23/2011

From the window of my home office I can see a CFL stadium. I’d take the NFL, or especially college football, any day over my home league, but I can’t help but be intimately familiar with the quirks and charms of our national undertaking.

Patriots at Eagles Predictions and NFL Betting Odds
by Alan Matthews - 11/22/2011

Outside of Packers-Lions and 49ers-Ravens on Thanksgiving, Week 12 of the NFL schedule is pretty lame in terms of matchups. In fact, there is only one matchup on Sunday or Monday featuring two teams with winning records: Chicago, beginning life without Jay Cutler, at Oakland. I pondered previewing that game, but the New England-Philadelphia matchup is too tantalizing to pass up.

College Football Picks: Mid-Major Game Day Predictions Week 13
by David Schwab - 11/22/2011

As most of the Division IA teams wrap-up their regular season over the next two weeks, it provides a few more opportunities to capitalize on the tremendous value that can be found in the college football point spreads if you know where to look. This is especially true when it comes to games between teams in the mid-majors. Some of these ‘under-the-radar’ matchups literally jump off the page when properly handicapped.

College Football Picks: Texas at Texas A&M Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/21/2011

We get a break from the ACC on this Thursday’s ESPN national television college football game as Texas and Texas A&M face off in their annual Thanksgiving showdown. Well, it used to be annual. The Aggies, of course, are off to the SEC next season, pretty much because they were tired of being in UT’s shadow and envious of the Longhorn Network.

NFL Week 11 Player Props and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/17/2011

I looked at all end of the season props in my Week 10 story last week, so really no need to recap those since there wasn’t a resolution to any of them. So let’s get right to a few Week 11 specials that Bodog offers. First off, let’s look at a few Super Bowl prop bets for Super Bowl XLVI. The

NFL Picks: Chargers at Bears Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/16/2011

Could Sunday’s game in the Windy City be the beginning of the end for Chargers coach Norv Turner? Remember that in a Bodog props story a few weeks ago I recommended you take Turner not to be the Bolts’ coach at the start of next season, and a loss Sunday would be San Diego’s fifth in a row and drop the Bolts to 4-6 and grease the skids for Turner’s dismissal after the season.

Nebraska at Michigan Predictions and College Football Odds for Betting
by T.O. Whenham - 11/16/2011

It has been strange all year watching Nebraska play in the Big Ten. The strangest moment of all will come this week, though, when the Huskers visit the most iconic building in the conference, and perhaps in the country.

College Football Predictions: Oklahoma State at Iowa State Betting Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 11/16/2011

Thanks to the big missteps by Stanford and Boise State last week the Oklahoma State Cowboys are suddenly in the driver’s seat for a berth in the BCS Championship Game. Simply put, if they win out they are in. The first step in that challenging process — this trip to Iowa State for a Friday night showdown — is definitely not the most difficult.

NFL Totals Betting: Week 11 Over and Under Predictions
by David Schwab - 11/16/2011

Does three weeks make a trend? If so, than the ‘under’ remains the solid play after 28 of the last 43 NFL games have stayed ‘under’ the total, including 10 of the 16 games last week. Speaking of trends, for the 10th-straight week we came out on the plus side of our top plays on the total line; cashing in on two of three picks. This raised our year-to-date record to 20-10.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/16/2011

1. Stanford (9-1) –“He’s cut! The Russian’s cut!” The invincible Stanford money machine suffered its first setback in more than a year’s worth of games (14-1-1 ATS rush), and the question now is how do they bounce back? They are in a letdown spot this week against one of their fiercest rivals, Cal. But I can’t say that the current line (around 18.0) would scare me off the Cardinal.

College Football Picks: North Carolina at Virginia Tech Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/15/2011

No. 9 Virginia Tech was good to us last week in beating Georgia Tech on ESPN’s Thursday night college football telecast, easily covering the one point it was giving. Now the Hokies (9-1, 5-1 ACC) seem a near lock to win the ACC’s Coastal Division yet again.

College Football Picks: Mid-Major Game Day Predictions Week 12
by David Schwab - 11/15/2011

With just a few weeks to go in the college football regular season, teams such as LSU and Oklahoma State are trying stay on the path towards a National Championship, while the majority of the better teams in the mid-majors are simply trying secure a spot in a more prestigious bowl game.

Oregon at Stanford Predictions and College Football Betting Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 11/10/2011

The first ever Pac-12 Championship Game will be played on Dec. 2 in the stadium of the highest ranked team. That is technically when the BCS representative for the conference will be chosen. In reality, though, it is very likely that the champion of this conference will essentially be chosen on Saturday night in Palo Alto.

College Football Predictions: South Florida at Syracuse Betting Odds and Picks
by T.O. Whenham - 11/10/2011

Sometimes the Friday night game is a compelling one — not the highest-profile game, but an interesting one between good teams playing well. This is definitely not one of those times. These are the two worst teams in the Big East right now, and that conference isn’t exactly a murderer’s row.

NFL Week 10 Player Props and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 11/10/2011

I looked at three Week 9-specific props last week in my Bodog NFL props column and had success and two of the three – while also getting closer to winning one prop that probably won’t be decided until the end of the season.

NASCAR Betting: Kobalt Tools 500 Odds and Predictions
by Christopher G. Shepard - 11/10/2011

Despite winning the AAA 500 last week, his fourth win in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Tony Stewart is still three points behind Carl Edwards, who has yet to win a Chase race this season, as NASCAR heads to Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday Nov.13, at 3:15 p.m. (EST) for the penultimate race of the Sprint Cup season, the Kobalt Tools 500.

NFL Totals Betting: Week 10 Over and Under Predictions
by David Schwab - 11/10/2011

For the second week in a row points were a bit hard to come by as nine of the 14 games in Week 9 of the NFL regular season stayed ‘under’ the total. For the ninth straight week we came out on the plus side of our top plays; cashing in on two of three picks. This raised our year-to-date record to 18-9.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/10/2011

The Ferringo 15 has been exceptional over the past four years at pinpointing undervalued teams according to their college football odds. If you were to have bet every team in the Ferringo 15 the week that they appear in my college football power rankings then you would have hit over 58 percent of your wagers for a four-year period.