2018 Alabama Crimson Tide Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

History will show the Alabama dynasty as one of the greatest achievements in college football history. The Crimson Tide once again enter fall camp as the defending National Champions. They have won a stunning five titles in 10 years. And with all the impediments in major collegiate athletics, both on the field and off, this is a feat we may not see again for a long, long time.

2018 Georgia Bulldogs Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

Are the Bulldogs on the verge of a new SEC dynasty? This year's Georgia squad will attempt to pick itself up off the mat after a heartbreaking overtime loss in the National Championship Game last January. It was nearly a dream season in Athens, with UGA dominating the SEC East, easily winning the SEC Championship and taking a lead into halftime against rival Alabama in the title game.

2018 LSU Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

Head coach Ed Orgeron enters his second full season as the head man in Baton Rouge and, frankly, things aren't looking great for the Tigers. Orgeron, who has a 31-33 career record, barely survived last season in a pathetically weak SEC. With just 10 returning starters and a dearth of top-end talent, I think that this year could be a watershed moment for the LSU program after running Les Miles out of town.

2018 South Carolina Gamecocks Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

Will Muschamp was in over his head and flopped as the head coach of Florida. But there is no denying that he's got something cooking up in South Carolina right now. The Gamecocks have overachieved in each of his first two seasons in Columbia. And they enter the 2018 campaign as a potential sleeper in a top-heavy SEC East.

2018 Tennessee Volunteers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

The Butch Jones Era came to a comical, predictable end last season after a 4-8 debacle of a campaign. Jones and the Vols spent back-to-back years failing to live up to their trendy "sleeper" designation and are now a woeful 57-56 in the nine years since cutting Philip Fulmer loose.

2018 Missouri Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2018

I've heard more than one prognosticator suggest that Missouri could be a potential sleeper in the SEC East this year. After all, the former Big 12 doormats managed to scam their way to back-to-back SEC title games as recently as 2013 and 2014. And with a quarterback that tossed for nearly 4,000 yards and 44 touchdowns last year, the Tigers could be some kind of run-and-shoot counterpoint to the rest of this ground-and-pound conference.

2018 Oklahoma Sooners Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Baker Mayfield's crotch grabbing and the Oklahoma defense's complete collapse in the second half against Georgia seems like ages ago. And with Mayfield's Heisman, a Big 12 title, and a College Football Playoff choke all behind them, the Sooners are now set to begin Year 2 of the Lincoln Riley Experiment in earnest.

2018 Texas Longhorns Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

There were several prognosticators that expected Tom Herman to glide into Austin last season and lead the Longhorns back to national prominence immediately. It didn't work out that way. Now in Year 2 we are again left to separate hype from happenstance regarding one of the nation's premier college football programs.

2018 TCU Horned Frogs Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

I feel like this year's TCU Horned Frogs are going to be one of the more volatile teams to bet on or against in college football. This team is scary. Not scary good or scary bad. But TCU seems like the type of team that is going to lose two or three games that they shouldn't and win one or two games that they shouldn't, with the public getting burned by them every time.

2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Were I an Oklahoma State fan, I couldn't help but feel a bit cheated by last year's campaign. Sure, the Cowboys won 10 games, including a bowl victory over Virginia Tech. But after starting the season in the Top 10 and harboring very real college football playoff dreams, last season has to feel more like a consolation prize than an accomplishment.

2018 Iowa State Cyclones Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Iowa State rode the lightning last year. And for a solid month they were the talk of college football. A stunning upset win over No. 3 Oklahoma as a 31-point underdog got everyone's attention. And underdog wins over Texas Tech and No. 4 TCU got the Cyclones all the way up to No. 14 in the country. They eventually capped the season with a third win over a ranked team, upsetting Memphis in the Liberty Bowl.

2018 Kansas State Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

Snyder is one of the best coaches in college football history. But even more than that he is one of the greatest coaches in college football betting history. Over the course of his last nine years in Manhattan, Snyder's teams are a stunning 34-14 against the spread in the role of underdog. That's a 71-percent ATS success rate for nearly a decade! Kansas State is 7-1 ATS as a road underdog the last two years alone and 12-5 ATS as an underdog in the last three years overall.

2018 West Virginia Mountaineers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

West Virginia has been close but has not been able to break through under Holgorsen's watch. Sure, they rolled up 10 wins and a decent bowl game in 2015. But the Mountaineers have yet to be a factor at the top of the Big 12 race since joining the league in 2012. It seems like every year there are one or two missing pieces; either the defense is shaky or the offensive line is young or the receivers are shoddy or the quarterback is inexperienced. And every year Holgorsen seems to find himself on a list of coaches on the hot seat.

2018 Texas Tech Red Raiders Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

How much more rope will Texas Tech give Kliff Kingsbury? I won't ever defend Tommy Tuberville, a proven loser as a head coach. But Tuberville won 55 percent of his games (21-17) in Lubbock and posted two eight-win seasons in his three years. Kingsbury is below .500 in his five seasons at the helm and has just one eight-win season in that stretch.

2018 Baylor Bears Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

The good news for the Baylor Bears football team last year was that no one died. I'm only half joking. The last time that this school saw the complete and total implosion of one of its sports programs it was the basketball team about 15 years ago. And people literally died during one of the worst scandals in college hoops history.

2018 Kansas Jayhawks Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2018

There has been no indication that David Beatty has even the slightest idea of what the hell he's doing in Lawrence. Beatty had never been a head coach in college before taking the Kansas job. In fact, he had spent only one year as a coordinator, and that was at Rice in 2010. Since taking over the Jayhawks he has gone 3-33 straight up. Two of those wins came against FCS teams. So did one of the losses.

2018 World Cup Group H Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 6/12/2018

I have already stated that I expect the $#i% to hit the fan in Group D because of the balance and depth of the four teams in that group. Right behind that group, in terms of expected insanity, would have to be Group H, where any one of the four teams has a realistic opportunity to win the group and advance.

2018 World Cup Group E Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 6/12/2018

Brazil is no longer the greatest soccer nation on the planet. After spending a half-century with that unofficial title, I think that Brazil has finally been passed by Germany. The reverberations of Germany's 7-1 annihilation of Brazil in the 2014 World Cup semifinals are still echoing through the soccer world. The Germans enter the 2018 World Cup as the favorites, the defending champions, and as the No. 1-ranked team in the world.

2018 World Cup Group G Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 6/12/2018

Soccer is a funny game. Perhaps more than any other sport, dominance in the game doesn't always correlate to dominance on the scoreboard. Teams can control possession, dictate pace, and monopolize scoring opportunities - and still lose. So when betting on soccer you always want to be careful about getting sucked into wagering on things that seem inevitable.

2018 World Cup Group F Expert Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 6/11/2018

The defending World Cup champion German national team will attempt to become the first team in more than 40 years to defend its title when they head to Russia this summer. Germany, which has not finished lower than seventh at any World Cup since World War II, is also looking to appear in its fifth straight semifinals, a feat no other nation has ever accomplished.