2019 Rutgers Scarlet Knights College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2019

Chris Ash, a former hot assistant coach coming out of Ohio State, is entering his fourth season at Rutgers. It is time to put up or shut up. The Scarlet Knights are a complete pushover in the Big Ten, and they have been one of the worst programs in the country. Ash has gone just 7-29 straight up in three years and enters this fall on an 11-game losing streak.

2019 Georgia Bulldogs College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2019

There are a lot of hurdles a team must overcome to win a National Championship. They have to handle their nonconference portion of the schedule. They have to take care of their road slate in league play. They have to win their rivalry game. Then they have to take care of business in the conference title game.

2019 Clemson Tigers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/17/2019

The reigning National Champions have reached Alabama status. That is to say that you only bet on the Tigers, you don't ever waste your time betting against them. And Clemson earned this level of betting respect the hard way. Namely, by demolishing Notre Dame and Alabama last January to improve their record to 4-1 against the spread the last three seasons in College Football Playoff games.

2019 Alabama Crimson Tide College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

The most impressive thing about Nick Saban's dynasty is that Alabama has actually been better than expected. (Or you could argue, like I would, that the rest of the SEC has actually been much, much worse than expected.) The Crimson Tide have had only one losing season against the spread over the last four years. Think about that. Despite the fact that every sportsbook in the country jacks up the numbers on this team, they still cover the spread 58 percent of the time (34-25 ATS).

2019 LSU Tigers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

I will admit that I may have underestimated Ed Orgeron. The marble-mouthed, Bayou-bred head coach of the LSU Tigers exceeded expectations last year. LSU opened the year on the fringe of the Top 25 and closed out the year in the Top 10, winning 10 games and the Fiesta Bowl in the process.

2019 Virginia Tech Hokies College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

Last year Virginia Tech had its first losing season since 1992. They were able to keep their bowl streak alive at 26 years - thanks to a bunch of ugly wins over bad teams - but the below .500 season started to raise some red flags over coach Justin Fuente and this program.

2019 Missouri Tigers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

Right now the biggest storyline surrounding the Missouri football program is the potential for a bowl ban at the end of this season. I'm not going to go too far into the weeds on this one, but pretty much everyone and anyone that has anything to do with college football thinks it is an absolute joke that the Tigers would get hit with a postseason penalty for their minor infractions.

2019 Florida State Seminoles College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

Florida State's 2013 national title and 2014 national semifinal appearances seem like a long time ago. The Seminoles have seen their record stay the same or worsen each of the last five years. And over the last two seasons, they have been massive underachievers, going from No. 2 in the preseason to unranked in 2017 and then seeing their 37-year bowl streak snapped thanks to last season's 5-7 debacle.

2019 Texas A&M Aggies College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

Texas A&M is a sexy sleeper pick heading into the 2019 season. That's what happens when you have a national title-winning coach like Jimbo Fisher at the helm leading a roster full of highly-touted recruits. The Aggies enter the 2019 season No. 11 in the country, and the expectation is that they will compete with Alabama and LSU in the SEC.

2019 South Carolina Gamecocks College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

It is tough to find a sleeper in the SEC. All of the programs in this league are massively overrated - even the good ones - and they all enter each season with inflated expectations. However, if you are looking for an underrated squad that could wreak some havoc for the top teams in the conference, I would look no further than the Gamecocks.

2019 Tennessee Volunteers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

It seems like every August I am reading stories about how this is the year that Tennessee is poised to burst back through into the top tier of the SEC. And it never happens. So, when I sit and read preseason articles propping up this year's team, I take them all with a grain of salt the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

2019 Syracuse Orange College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2019

Syracuse has been so bad for so long that it is easy for college football fans to forget what a legacy program the Orange have. Prior to last season, it had been over 15 years since Syracuse had been relevant on a national stage. But prior to that, the Orange had been right there with Penn State as the most dominant programs in the entire northeastern portion of the country.

2019 Miami Hurricanes College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Miami has been one of the most overrated and overhyped programs in the country for the better part of the last decade. And despite having one of the strangest offseasons in college football this year, they are still one of the favorites in the ACC entering the season.

2019 Virginia Cavaliers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Rebuilding is the very clear theme of this year in the ACC. No fewer than seven teams are in the first or second year of major overhauls, including new coaches, new schemes and a whole bunch of new players. That level of turnover and uncertainty has created an opportunity for Virginia, which is in the fourth season of the Bronco Mendenhall regime. This is kind of a put-up-or-shut-up season for the Cavaliers, who have increased their win total each of the past two seasons under Mendenhall.

2019 NC State Wolfpack College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

We'll find out just how much Ryan Finley meant to this program now that the Wolfpack's star quarterback has moved on to the NFL. Finley guided the Wolfpack to an 18-8 straight up record the last two seasons, including a 9-4 mark last year when he was one of just nine returning starters on one of the ACC's youngest rosters.

2019 Louisville Cardinals College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

If anything positive can come out of last year's Louisville disaster, it could be that maybe now no one will ever hire human dumpster fire Bobby Petrino ever again. Petrino drove this team completely off the rails in his second stint in the Bluegrass State. In 2016 and 2017 the Cardinals spent time in the Top 20. But after losing Lamar Jackson, the team went right over a cliff, and Petrino couldn't do anything to help them out.

2019 North Carolina Tar Heels College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Mack is back. Mack Brown is back in college football after a six-year hiatus. He will begin his 30th season as a head coach while taking over a North Carolina team program that has fallen off a cliff the past two years. In 2015, just four short seasons ago, North Carolina was 11-1, No. 8 in the country, and trading blows with Clemson in the ACC Title Game.

2019 Wake Forest Demon Deacons College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

With an enrollment of just 5,100 students, it is nearly impossible for Wake Forest to be competitive in college football. Somehow, Dave Clawson has kept them competitive during his five seasons in Winston-Salem, dragging the Demon Deacons to three straight bowl games following a four-year drought.

2019 Boston College Golden Eagles College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

At this point we should just pencil the Eagles in at 7-6 and call it a day, right? Steve Addazio has gotten Boston College to seven wins five times in the last six years. Last season they had a chance to break through to that eight-win plateau but had to watch as their First Responder Bowl matchup with Boise State was unceremoniously cancelled.

2019 Pitt Panthers College Football Odds and Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2019

Last year's Pitt Panthers were left for dead after a 45-13 drubbing at Central Florida left them at 2-3. However, Pat Narduzzi waved his magic wand and the Panthers won five of the next six games, securing the school's first ever ACC Atlantic title and a slot in the conference championship.