2014 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/12/2014

This is a bit of a do-or-die season for embattled head coach Paul Johnson. Tech fans and boosters have had enough of Johnson’s option attack and stagnate results over the past four seasons (28-25 overall) have him on the hot seat. The transfer of starting quarterback Vad Lee certainly didn’t help.

2014 Duke Blue Devils Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/12/2014

The Blue Devils came out of nowhere to win the ACC Coastal Division and put a scare into SEC darling Texas A&M in a bowl game last season. It took David Cutcliffe five years, but he has built the Blue Devils program from scratch and created a group that should remain competitive in this fluctuating league.

2014 Central Florida Knights Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

The Golden Knights are coming off one of the best seasons in school history, which included a league championship and a Fiesta Bowl upset of Baylor. Central Florida will have a hard time replacing first round NFL draft choice Blake Bortles at quarterback. But if they do then the rest of the pieces seem to be in place for another strong year in Orlando.

2014 Connecticut Huskies Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

Randy Edsall’s departure after the 2010 Fiesta Bowl appearance marked the beginning of the end for both Huskies football and Edsall. Edsall has gone just 13-24 and is on his last life in Maryland while Connecticut suffered through a terrible effort by Paul Pasqualoni and a 13-23 mark the past three seasons.

2014 East Carolina Pirates Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

East Carolina barnstormed its way through its final season in Conference USA, winning 10 games and hammering Ohio in a bowl game. But now the Pirates are stepping up (slightly) in class as they start their maiden voyage in the American Athletic Conference.

2014 Memphis Tigers Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

The Tigers struggled through their first season after moving up from Conference USA to the American Athletic. They are just 12-48 in their last 60 games in the past five years, but if this year’s group can find a way to win on the road they could be a surprise bowl team come December.

2014 Temple Owls Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

Temple’s “Golden Age” of football, in which they went 26-12 and played in two bowl games while representing the MAC from 2009 to 2011 look all the more impressive after watching this team the past two years. Since stepping back up into the Big East and now American Athletic conferences the Owls have gone just 6-17 and have proven once again to be one of the worst programs in the country.

2014 Tulane Green Wave Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

Tulane lived a charmed life in 2013. They parlayed a miracle 6-2 start to a trip to the New Orleans Bowl where they lost to in-state foe Louisiana. But now it is time to pay the piper. And Tulane’s step up from Conference USA to the American Athletic couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Green Wave lost their top quarterback, running back and receiver and the defense is trying to replace six starters from a group that finished a surprise No. 25 in scoring, rushing and total defense.

2014 Tulsa Golden Hurricane Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

Tulsa’s farewell season in Conference USA, a conference it dominated for the better part of the last decade, did not go as planned. The Golden Hurricane struggled to a 3-9 season, its lowest win total since 2002, and now they are working their way into an even tougher league in the American Athletic Conference.

2014 Cincinnati Bearcats Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

Cincinnati has proven itself as one of the most consistent and versatile football programs in the nation despite seemingly constant turnover on the roster and the coaching staff. The Bearcats will again be relying on a newcomer at a critical position as they vie for the AAC’s top slot.

2014 Houston Cougars Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

The Cougars were a bit of a surprise in 2013, winning seven of their first eight games and positioning themselves as a player in the AAC. But three tight losses, all by a touchdown or less to Central Florida, Louisville and Cincinnati, put a damper on an otherwise successful season.

2014 SMU Mustangs Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

The Mustangs had a streak of four straight bowl games snapped last year as they slogged through a 5-7 rebuilding season. However, things don’t appear to be that rebuilt this season and I think it is going to be another nondescript season for June Jones’ bunch.

2014 South Florida Bulls Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/11/2014

To suggest that South Florida football has fallen on hard times is a massive understatement. This program won eight or more games every season from 2006 to 2010 and had a cup of coffee in the Top 10 in two of those seasons. But the Bulls are just 10-26 the past three years and don’t show many signs of improvement heading into Willie Taggart’s second season.

2014 Boston College Eagles Season Win Total NCAA Football Picks & Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/10/2014

The Eagles quietly had a strong 2013 campaign, turning things around after a precipitous drop in 2011 and 2012 that saw them go just 6-18. Boston College went 7-6 and worked its way back to a bowl game, setting some positive momentum in place under coach Steve Addazio.

2014 New York Giants Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/10/2014

This year could be somewhat of a last stand for Tom Coughlin. The 67-year-old coach has been running the Giants since 2004. He does have two Super Bowl rings to his name, but Coughlin’s Giants have missed the playoffs in four of the past five seasons and are just 16-16 over the past two campaigns.

2014 Philadelphia Eagles Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/10/2014

I will be the first to admit that Chip Kelly made me eat my words. I was one of the legion of people predicting that Kelly would fall flat on his face in his rookie NFL season. Instead, Kelly’s unique system was unstoppable at times and helped restore some pride to an Eagles organization that had been cast adrift by Andy Reid.

2014 San Francisco 49ers Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/10/2014

For the third straight season the 49ers have come tantalizingly close to the franchise’s sixth Super Bowl championship. San Francisco came fingertips away from both a title in 2012 and a return trip to The Big Game last year. They’ve had an eventful offseason, including some touchy issues surrounding Jim Harbaugh’s status with the organization, but enter the year as one of the NFC’s favorites.

2014 Seattle Seahawks Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/10/2014

Almost everything about being the champion is awesome. You’re the best. You are on top of the world. You have total bragging rights and are treated as a king at every turn. Winning a Super Bowl, as Seattle did last year, is the pinnacle of the profession and the ultimate high.

2014 St. Louis Rams Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/10/2014

The St. Louis Rams are on the verge of becoming the new Houston Texans: perpetually installed as Everybody’s Sleeper Team. It’s an ignominious title and one the Rams have to hope they don’t live down to. They have seemingly been touted as “a team to watch” for the past three years but have gone just 16-31 during that stretch. In fact, since Mike Martz squandered The Greatest Show On Turf teams in the early 2000’s the Rams have not had a season over .500.

2014 Washington Redskins Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/10/2014

Daniel Snyder’s three-ring racist circus that is the Washington Redskins continues in 2014 with a new head coach and a new promise of disappointment. Mike Shanahan’s bizarre four-year tenure came to an abrupt close after a 3-13 season and now the Skins are looking to first-time coach Jay Gruden to turn things around.