NFL Power Rankings Week 5
by Robert Ferringo - 9/30/2014

Of 12 spreads on the board in Week 4, only three of them were posted at a touchdown or higher. Two others were posted at 5.5 and 4.5. But the remaining seven spreads were at a field goal or less, which is generally an indicator that even the sportsbooks are unsure of who is going to win.

NFL Power Rankings Week 4
by Robert Ferringo - 9/23/2014

A cluster of bye weeks sucks the life out of the NFL Week 4 card and offers an early-season challenge for bettors that are just starting to get into a groove. I also suspect that the teams that have been granted the week off aren’t all that happy about it as last week was the first time that, league-wide, it looked like things were clicking for most groups.

NFL Power Rankings Week 3
by Robert Ferringo - 9/16/2014

Since we last spoke the NFL has provided us all with a hellacious week of self-realization. You don’t need me to recap it for you. But I didn’t feel right starting off this week’s Power Rankings with some snappy intro or witty, humorous analysis.

NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/10/2014

The Ray Rice debacle has muted what is usually one of the most entertaining weeks on the football calendar: Overreaction Week. There is an almost comically large build up and anticipation for the open to the NFL season. And the results of the first games invariably lead to an irrational overreaction by fans and gamblers alike on the following Monday and Tuesday after Week 1. The sportsbooks know this, and they generally use the rush to judgment against desperate bettors in Week 2.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2014

As I pointed out in my initial offering, the first month of the season is by the most difficult for our profit-power rankings because it is impossible to real know what you’re going to get out of teams – and subsequently what people expect out of them – until you see them play a couple games. But I expect a big bounce back this week and more success going forward.

Bettors Must Adjust to the New NFL
by Robert Ferringo - 9/5/2014

Football, as we know it, is dead. Brute force and physicality are now scolded, rather than rewarded, and sophisticated, pass-first offenses now dictate and dominate the game. The resulting scoring explosion has forever altered the landscape of the sport. And from its ashes a simulacra of the game I grew up obsessing has risen.

NFL Power Rankings Week 1
by Robert Ferringo - 9/3/2014

We are on the eve of destruction, waiting, anxiously, to unleash the fury of a thousand backdoor covers on unsuspecting sportsbooks in our attempt to dominate another NFL season. The six-month sojourn of professional football has come to close, and we are ready to begin another six-month-long football gambling odyssey as the 2014 NFL season commences this weekend.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 9/2/2014

It was another brilliant start for the Ferringo 15, which went 11-4 the opening week of the season. However, two of those losses were actually to other teams in the F-15 (Cal-Northwestern and Georgia Southern –N.C. State). So the teams on our list actually went 9-2 against unique opponents, a fantastic 81.8 percent winning mark to start the year.

College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 8/26/2014

How many professional handicappers do you know that have hit 60 percent of their college football picks each week over the past two years and, let’s say, about 250 plays? And even if you did know of someone that managed to accomplish that feat, were they giving those picks out for FREE?

2014 SEC Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2014

There exists the idea in college football that there is the SEC and then there is everyone else. The idea is that this conference is some kind of behemoth, playing at a level above and beyond the rest of the nation. Well, that idea is a media-driven falsehood. It is myth, like Southern Hospitality. And now that ESPN has a hefty financial stake in this myth, you can expect several more years of hype-fueled fellatio directed at the South’s most far-reaching social contribution of the last 30 years.

2014 ACC Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2014

It’s a new year but the same story for the ACC: parity or mediocrity? The conference does boast the defending BCS National Champion with Florida State. But they have gone just 4-13 in BCS bowl games and still have too many 7-6-caliber teams populating the league.

2014 Big Ten Conference Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2014

One thing that the league does have going for it is experience. Five of the Top 20 most experienced teams in the nation hail from the Big Ten. However, the five most storied programs – Ohio State, Penn State, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Michigan are rated No. 75 or worse in terms of lettermen returning. So talent vs. experience will be a theme all season long around this topsy-turvy conference.

2014 Big 12 Conference Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2014

Pass happy and hungry, the Big 12 is set for another exciting season in 2014. No conference in the country has suffered as much at the hands of realignment. But as opposed to other leagues like the Big East, the Big 12 has held firm and soldiered one as one of the power leagues in all of college football.

2014 American Athletic Conference Predictions and College Football Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2014

The American Athletic Conference is an imposter. It is a hobo, formerly known as Conference USA, with a stolen tuxedo and a $50 haircut. And this hodgepodge of third-rate programs, from New England to Texas, has linked up to created a wannabe power football conference.

2014 NFC South Predictions with Odds and NFL Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/13/2014

In one of the stranger streaks in all of football, the NFC South still has never had a back-to-back division champion. That is 11 straight years of complete and utter chaos, worst-to-first shenanigans, and general Southern unpredictability. Given that Carolina, last year’s where-the-hell-did-they-come-from winner, has undergone a sizeable roster turnover this offseason I think it is reasonable to expect the South’s streak to be extended.

2014 NFC East Predictions with Odds and NFL Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2014

The NFC East has been a puddle of mediocrity over the last two seasons and has sent just one representative to the NFC Championship Game over the last five years. The East has experienced back-to-back worst-to-first finishes. They’ve had just two teams in the last three years win double-digit games, and it has been four years since a team has won more than 10 contests.

2014 NFC West Predictions with Odds and NFL Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2014

It was just four short seasons ago that the NFC West became the butt of national sports jokes by producing the first division winner with a 7-9 record in league history. That was rock bottom for what had been the worst division in the league for nearly a decade.

2014 NFC North Predictions with Odds and NFL Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2014

Change is in the air in the NFC North. One year after rookie coach Marc Trestman took over in Chicago, two more fresh headmasters join the fray. Jim Caldwell and Mike Zimmer have been brought in to inject life into sagging Detroit and Minnesota teams, respectively, in an attempt to dethrone the Green Bay Packers from atop the North standings.

2014 AFC West Predictions with Odds and NFL Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2014

Statistically speaking, the two best divisions in football last year were the AFC West and the NFC West. Teams from those two divisions accounted for five of the 12 postseason slots (and that doesn’t include a 10-win Arizona team), and the Super Bowl representative for each conference hailed from out west.

2014 AFC South Predictions with Odds and NFL Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2014

Much like the AFC East, the AFC South is ostensibly a one-horse race. With one franchise dominating this division for over a decade and three floundering organizations scrambling to catch up, the South is a pretty cut-and-dried example of how parity has not completely enveloped the NFL.