2015 Troy Trojans Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
Oh Troy. Troy, Troy, Troy. It wasn't long ago that the Trojans were the toast of the Sun Belt. They won eight or more games six times in a seven-year stretch from 2004 to 2010, playing in five bowl games along the way. But the Trojans have fallen on hard times and have struggled to a 17-31 mark over the past four years and been a non-factor in this league.
2015 San Jose State Spartans Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
San Jose State football has ridden the roller coaster over the last five years, watching its win total round out from one to five to a peak of 11 to six and down to three last year. SJSU was fodder last season, taking all but one of its nine losses by less than 10 points, but they look like an improved team in 2015 and should be an improved team at the window (3-9 ATS last year) if not on their overall record.
2015 Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
The Warhawks have been a menace versus major conference teams over the past three years with wins over Arkansas and Wake Forest (twice) and near-misses against Auburn and Baylor. However, UL-M has seen its record worsen the past two seasons, and coach Todd Berry is starting to feel some pressure heading into his sixth year.
2015 Georgia State Panthers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
Georgia State showed remarkable improvement last year: they actually won a game! GSU has gone 1-23 the past two seasons and just 2-33 over the last three. They haven't had a winning year since 2010 when Shorter, Lamar and Savannah State were on the schedule. They were relatively competitive last year, losing three Sun Belt games by a field goal apiece, and I think this team will continue to improve this year.
2015 New Mexico Lobos Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
Bob Davie is just 11-26 in his time in Albuquerque. At most programs that would have a coach either on the hot seat or the unemployment line. But the New Mexico faithful are showing a lot of patience and are hoping that this is the year in which Davie's boys break out and make their first bowl game since 2007.
2015 New Mexico State Aggies Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
New Mexico State was more competitive than last year's 2-10 straight up and 3-9 against the spread record suggests. I know that's a bold statement when you consider that NMSU has been one of the worst teams in the country over the past decade, posting just a 25-98 record. But coach Doug Martin is working his program, and in his third season we'll see if anything has taken root.
2015 UNLV Rebels Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
Look, I am going to keep this one short and sweet. UNLV is one of the worst teams in the country. They have been for the past decade (winning just two games seven times in 10 years), and this could be their worst team yet. The Rebels have just 10 starters back from a team that was outscored by 16.6 points per game last season. They also have a rookie head coach that they plucked from the high school ranks.
2015 Idaho Vandals Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/21/2015
With just five wins in four seasons, the Vandals have been wallowing in putrid obscurity out in Moscow. Paul Petrino is in his third season and is trying to lay the foundation for something better. Their season win total suggests that this team is vastly improved. But this program is a long way from being a factor in the Sun Belt.
2015 Ohio State Buckeyes Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
The Buckeyes shouldn't have made it into the college football playoffs last year. There is no doubt in my mind that TCU was more deserving. But Ohio State did make the playoffs and then they ran the table, claiming another national title. With virtually the entire team back, the expectations are clear: do it again.
2015 Michigan State Spartans Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
Sparty has become a juggernaut in the Big Ten. After decades as an entertaining-but-underachieving sideshow in the league, Michigan State has become a Top 10 staple. And if Ohio State slips up at all this season then the Spartans are the team that may be best equipped to win the Big Ten title.
2015 Wisconsin Badgers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
The Badgers are on to their third coach in four years - not counting Barry Alvarez's cameo in the bowl game - with Paul Chryst now taking over after Gary Andersen's surprising departure. Wisconsin is learning new systems on both sides of the ball and trying to replace All-American back Melvin Gordon. But they should again be a factor in the Big Ten.
2015 Michigan Wolverines Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
Jim Harbaugh brings his khakis and unblemished track record of success to Ann Arbor to try to resurrect a Michigan program that has floundered since the start of the 2008 season. Harbaugh has a veteran team to work with and will be installing new systems on both sides of the ball; systems similar to the ones he used to reinvigorate Stanford from 2007-2010.
2015 Nebraska Cornhuskers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
Bo Pelini was definitely a weird dude who was never fully embraced in Lincoln. However, all he did was lead the Cornhuskers to seven straight seasons with nine or more wins and exactly four losses. That wasn't good enough. Now Pelini is gone, and Mike Riley managed to fail his way upwards from Oregon State, taking over a stacked Nebraska program.
2015 Penn State Nittany Lions Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
I was down on Penn State last year, but this team definitely exceeded my expectations, winning seven games and being incredibly competitive in nearly all of their losses. In fact, four of their six losses were by either five points or less or in overtime. They are much more experienced this year and plenty motivated after their bowl ban was lifted. But they still have a gap to close with the other elite teams in the league.
2015 Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
Jerry Kill has very quietly done a great job of rebuilding the Minnesota program, leading them to back-to-back eight-win seasons. They are a respectable 22-19 in their last three years compared to a putrid 20-42 mark in the five seasons prior. And perhaps more than any team in the league, the Gophers are the Big Ten's X-Factor this year.
2015 Iowa Hawkeyes Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
I really have no idea how Kirk Ferentz still has a job. Iowa had one of the easiest schedules in the country last year and was basically handed nine regular-season wins. Instead they flopped their way to 7-5 and then got wrecked by Tennessee in the bowl game. I don't see how this season is going to be any better.
2015 Northwestern Wildcats Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
This is a crucial season for Pat Fitzgerald in Evanston. Northwestern posted six straight regular seasons at .500 or better from 2007-2012, capped with a 10-win campaign in 2012. But they've had back-to-back losing seasons and are struggling to keep up in a rapidly-changing league.
2015 Maryland Terrapins Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
Last year I predicted that the Terps would be more competitive in the Big Ten than they were being given credit for. They responded with a respectable 4-4 league record and a 7-5 regular season that featured wins at Penn State and Michigan. It was a great rookie campaign for the program in their new home. But it's going to be much tougher sledding in Year 2 in the Big Ten.
2015 Illinois Fighting Illini Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
I was one of the only football handicappers in the country that was buying Illinois stock last year, easily predicting that the Illini would sail over their season win total. They didn't disappoint, winning six games and making it into a bowl game. They have a load of starters back. But a more difficult schedule should keep them from coming close to that number of wins this year.
2015 Indiana Hoosiers Season Win Total Picks and NCAA Football Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 7/17/2015
Last year the Hoosiers entered the season thinking they had enough firepower to snap their seven-year bowl-less streak and make their second postseason appearance in 22 years. However, quarterback Nate Sudfeld got injured early, and they gave away a must-win game against Bowling Green in Week 2. Things got away from them in league play, and Indiana was a dead-man walking by November.
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