2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 12
by Robert Ferringo - 11/21/2012

OK, so it’s a huge week for gamblers the world over, and from Maine to Maui there is wall-to-wall betting action this week. So I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. Here are Doc’s Sports Week 12 NFL power rankings:

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/20/2012

The Ferringo 15 strikes again! Our teams went 8-4 against the spread last week, with three clubs either on a bye week or having played a mid-week game. That 8-4 ATS mark was good enough to turn a profit, and that is now seven of eight winning weeks for the teams listed in the Ferringo 15.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/15/2012

Last week was another sensational one for the Ferringo 15, as our teams went 9-2 against the spread to post our fifth straight profitable week overall. That is now six of seven winning weeks overall by simply betting every team on our list, and the F-15 has been the best moneymaker in college football betting this season!

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 11
by Robert Ferringo - 11/14/2012

It was another strong week for the betting public last week, as the most heavily bet favorites on the board – Indianapolis, Denver, Tampa Bay and Dallas – came through again. That now makes back-to-back profitable weeks for the bettors…but anyone that has been around NFL betting for any length of time knows that it is a matter of “when” and not “if” the books are going to turn the tables and get it back.

NCAA Tournament Field Projections and Predictions, Nov.8
by Robert Ferringo - 11/8/2012

April is a lifetime away. And in between now and then I’m going to make a lot of wild and baseless college basketball predictions. But I thought on the eve of the season tip-off I would throw out some NCAA Tournament predictions and projections. Injuries, transfers, ineffectiveness, scandal, momentum and just the madness of college basketball will do everything to lay waste to these projections.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/8/2012

That’s now four winning weeks in a row for the Ferringo 15! The Ferringo 15 went 9-5-1 against the spread last week, and if you eliminate the Duke-Clemson matchup between two of our teams then the F-15 was a lucrative 8-4-1 at the window. That was a nice bounce-back after a barely profitable 8-7 ATS the week prior. Overall, our F-15 teams have finished the week in the black five times in the last six weeks.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 10
by Robert Ferringo - 11/6/2012

We’re going to do things a little different with the NFL power rankings this week. In honor of Election Day and this amazing country of ours, we’re going to pair each NFL team with a former president. Just so I’m clear: I am not trying to rank the presidents. Not at all. I am just trying to pair each current incantation of each NFL team with its presidential doppelganger.

2012-13 Mountain West Conference Basketball Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 11/2/2012

The 2011-12 season was a banner year for the Mountain West. A lot of bobbleheads assumed that this league – which is really the top tier of the “mid-major” leagues, to the point where they really blur the line between “major” and “mid-major” conference – was going to suffer after losing Utah and BYU.

2012-13 Atlantic 10 Conference Basketball Predictions and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 11/2/2012

If you thought the Big East was gargantuan, you should check out the Atlantic 10. This mega-mid-major conference welcomes in Butler and VCU this season to pump the total number of teams in the league up to 16. There will be some teams taking their ball and moving along next season. But for this year the Atlantic 10 is the biggest league in the country.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/31/2012

The Ferringo 15 made it a three-week winning streak as our top college football profit makers went 8-7 against the spread last week. That came just one week after an incredible 11-3 ATS effort from our teams and last week’s small win may be the signal that the books have caught up with these top moneymakers.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 10/30/2012

There are a lot of seemingly juicy lines on this week’s NFL board. And Week 9 appears likely to be, in terms of betting action, one of the most lopsided of the season. As of Wednesday, Denver (88 percent), Baltimore (91 percent), Detroit (83), Chicago (83), and Tampa Bay (82) were all taking the overwhelming majority of public bets. Houston (78 percent) and Green Bay (75) were not far behind.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/25/2012

It was another all-time week for the Ferringo 15! Our teams went a sparkling 11-3 against the spread and dominated the books. That now makes three of four winning weeks for our select teams, and over the past month they have gone a collective 34-18-1 ATS. It was also another successful week for the best of the best, with the top six teams on our list going 4-1 ATS. That runs their four-week rush to a spectacular 16-4-1 ATS.

2012-13 Big East Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/25/2012

Rest in peace, Big East. This is the final season of the Big East as we know it. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame are defecting to the ACC. Connecticut is entering the post-Calhoun era amidst a cloud of uncertainty and a postseason ban. And with several bizarre, football-driven realignment plans heading down the pipe it is clear that the years of The Beast being the dominating college basketball conference in the nation are coming to a close.

2012-13 Big Ten Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2012

The Big Ten experienced a revival last season, with peak performance and parity resulting in a solid season for the boys in the Great Lakes region. Ohio State earned a trip to the Final Four, and the league finished with five teams ranked in the Top 16 in the final Associated Press poll of the 2011-12 season.

2012-13 SEC Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2012

SEC basketball was collateral damage in the big BCS college football shakeup of 2011. Now comprised of a whopping 14 teams, the SEC is a bloated mess of college hoops pretenders. At one time this league had some of the best basketball in the nation. But right now it is a dominating Kentucky team, a couple of second-rate programs, and a host of third- and fourth-rate schools simply providing their fan base a distraction between kickoffs.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/23/2012

The Yo-Yo Effect was in full effect last week in the NFL. Two weeks ago underdogs dominated public bettors while going 11-3 against the spread and posting eight outright winners. Well, with the public now looking hard at the puppies, the favorites came back and went 7-4 on Sunday, with several of the squarest bets on the board (Dallas, Indianapolis, Green Bay) coming through for Joe Public.

2012-13 Pac-12 Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/18/2012

The Pac-12 was easily the most underrated conference in college basketball last season. And if I were a player in this venerable league, I’d be getting pretty pissed off about the second-class status that this conference has been shackled with over the past few seasons.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 10/18/2012

It was a rare losing week for the F-15, which went 6-6-1, with one team on a bye and two other teams – Utah State and San Jose State – playing one another. That runs the three-week mark to 23-15-1 ATS. Our top six teams went 3-1-1 and are now 12-3-1 over the last three weeks.

2012-13 Big 12 Basketball Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 10/18/2012

The math doesn’t add up in Big 12 basketball. Let’s ignore the fact that there are only 10 teams in the Big 12. And we’ll overlook the fact that the conference reshuffling that sucked Missouri and Texas A&M into the SEC cost college basketball 1) one of the best rivalries in the sport (Kansas-Missouri) and 2) one of the most efficient and profitable teams in college basketball betting, Texas A&M.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/16/2012

Underdogs were all the rage last week, going 11-3 ATS and posting eight outright winners. That is a victory for parity – and for the sportsbooks – and we’ll see this week if that is a trend that is going to continue or if the bettors are going to get yo-yoed this week, with the favorites evening things out on Sunday.