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2018 Ole Miss Rebels Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Ole Miss is still dealing with the fallout from the Hugh Freeze fiasco. And this year will be their second in a row impeded by a bowl ban. But I have to hand it to coach Matt Luke; he is plowing ahead with his rebuild and reshaping this team into a faster, pass-happy team that could be a potential spoiler in the SEC.

2018 Arkansas Razorbacks Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/6/2018

Admittedly, Bret Bielema was always a bit of an odd fit at Arkansas. That said, his unceremonious firing shows that the Razorbacks clearly have unrealistic expectations about where their program should be. Toiling in the SEC West, one of the three or four most difficult divisions in college football, Arkansas is not going to be a perennial championship contender. And after three of four winning seasons and back-to-back bowl wins (in 2014-15) for the first time in school history, Bielema was given his walking papers.

2018 College Football Betting Tips: Predictions for Worst ATS Teams This Year
by Chris Vasile - 8/6/2018

There are many unique words and phrases in the sports betting industry, but none of them are as prominently used as "good teams win, great teams cover." Unfortunately for bettors, college foot-ball teams don't care about whether they cover the spread or not. They are focused on one thing and one thing only, and that's winning football games. This is why betting on college football and the NFL is difficult. The point spread adds a degree of difficulty to an already-challenging task.

2018 College Football Betting Tips: Predictions for Best ATS Teams This Year
by Chris Vasile - 8/6/2018

With all due respect to the Major League Baseball season, thank god August is here and thank god football season is right around the corner. In just a few short weeks college football teams across the country will take to the field for Week 1 of the NCAA football season. Some teams have legitimate National Championship aspirations, while some teams will be hoping to make the most of their season and perhaps pull off a few memorable upsets along the way.

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.

NCAA Football Expert Predictions: Will Team Make College Football Playoff Props
by Trevor Whenham - 8/2/2018

I love breaking down prop bets in a search for value, and I spend a whole lot of time and a whole lot of words every year doing so. My favorite will always be Super Bowl prop bets for the sheer variety and creativity. Not far behind, though, is the group of props that emerge each August concerning whether given teams will make the College Football Playoff or not. They spawn endless debate and are never boring to consider. Here are some of the highlights offered by Bovada this year:

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.

Expert NCAA Football Predictions: Underrated Squads for 2018
by Trevor Whenham - 8/2/2018

In August every college football fanbase feels like their team is being disrespected. That they are better than people think and that they aren't getting the attention from the national media that they should be getting. Most of those fans are just being delusional, of course, and the sad reality will arrive once Labor Day comes and goes. But there are indeed fanbases out there that could actually have a case - their team could actually be better than it seems like people are perceiving them to be. Here are five teams that have a case for fitting in that category:

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.

Expert College Football Predictions: High-Profile Teams That Could Disappoint
by Trevor Whenham - 8/2/2018

Fall camps are about to get underway in college football, which means that hope springs eternal. Every fanbase believes that this is the year that everything will go their way and that the media will have to take back all of their negative words after their team shocks the world. And then the games will begin, and for most of those teams it won't turn out that way at all. Here are five high-profile fanbases coming into the season with high expectations that should perhaps brace themselves for some disappointment:

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.

Memphis Tigers Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/30/2018

Memphis is proof of how important coaching is. The program was a total mess - a tire fire in shoulder pads. But then Justin Fuente took over and won 10 games in his third year - with a team that had lost 21 of 24 before he arrived. Fuente parlayed the turnaround into the Virginia Tech job, but the team hasn't lost ground with Mike Norvell. He also won 10 last year - in only 11 regular-season games - in his second year, and he is looking to go even further.

UCF Knights Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/30/2018

It was a sad-but-entirely-predictable end to an incredible season for UCF. Scott Frost pulled off one of the great turnarounds in college football history, taking UCF from 0-12 the year before he arrived to 13-0 in his second season. In a perfect world he would have stuck around to see how far he could climb in Orlando. But this is far from a perfect world, so Frost was inevitably going to leave for greener pastures - and the fact that the job at his alma mater opened up was just icing on the cake. But the team replaced Frost well, has plenty of talent still around, and doesn't have to fade just because Frost calls Nebraska home again.

San Diego State Aztecs Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/30/2018

I'm not sure how you could hate Boise State, but you are soulless enough to do so then San Diego State is probably your favorite team right now. They beat the Broncos last year and probably have the best shot at breaking up a potentially excellent season for the blue-turfed team this year. It should come as no surprise. Rocky Long and his team aren't the most exciting program out there, but they are consistent - and consistently strong. And yet again they field a team that won't be a lot of fun to bet against and which isn't likely to beat itself.

Florida Atlatic Owls Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/30/2018

I acknowledge that I am part of the problem. Lane Kiffin is an attention whore, a product of the social media age, and by most indications not a very likeable guy. But you can't look away. And by talking about him and paying far more attention to him and his Florida Atlantic team than the Owls have ever had, or ever deserve, we are just feeding the Kiffin monster - and all the guys who will follow in his footstep.

Miami Hurricanes Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/28/2018

If you had watched the last few years of the Mark Richt era at Georgia, it would have been very easy to forget that the guy can actually coach. Better than most, even. But it was on full display last year in his second season at Miami. Sure, the team ran out of gas at the end, but their 10-0 start to the season was refreshing and exciting. College football really is better when Miami is good. And it hasn't been for so long. Now Richt and his squad need to prove that it was no fluke and that they can build on last year instead of fall back from it.

Virginia Tech Hokies Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/28/2018

This is a big year for head coach Justin Fuente, but not in the way it often is for a third-year coach. He's not scrambling to hold on to his job - far from it after 19 wins and two Top 2 division finishes in two seasons. But this year the roster is more his than it has been before, so Fuente gets to prove - or not - that what he is doing in Blacksburg is because of him and not because he is just babysitting what Frank Beamer built.

NC State Wolfpack Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/28/2018

The Wolfpack finished last season with nine wins, a three-touchdown victory in their bowl game, a postseason ranking, and a coach with a new extension after flirting with other teams. There are a lot of positives. But I can't be the only one who struggles to believe that they have really turned a page like people want us to believe. Sure, they could be a strong and dangerous team this year. Or they could just as easily be the 6-6 afterthought they were as recently as 2016. I don't know what to do with this team, and I hate that feeling.

Louisville Cardinals Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/28/2018

Replacing a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback can be very tough when you aren't a blue-blood program with an embarrassment of depth. Ask Kevin Sumlin and Texas A&M. Or Baylor. Or Oregon. Louisville will hope to not be added to that list after Lamar Jackson has headed to the NFL and a new era dawns in Louisville. And on top of that, Bobby Petrino has another problem to deal with - his Cardinals weren't really that good the last couple of years even when they had Jackson.

Boise State Broncos Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/28/2018

There was some concern that Boise State would lose their way once Chris Petersen finally took an offer from elsewhere and headed to Washington. There was no need to worry, as it turns out, and Bryan Harsin has won 42 games in his four years as Petersen's replacement. This team has been so good for so long that we take them for granted. But you can be sure that their goals are higher. Making a New Year's Six bowl. Trying to find a way into the playoff.

Utah Utes Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/28/2018

Utah always seems to feel like one of those teams that isn't a real threat to break out of the middle of the pack in the Pac-12 but which no team looks forward to playing - especially in Salt Lake City. They are well-coached, defensively-stout, and they have a few wrinkles on a generally average offense to keep you guessing. Good teams know they should beat Utah, but they always fear that they might not. And with a returning coaching staff, a lot of returning players, and a manageable schedule, Utah should be more of the same - or, they have to hope, perhaps more.

Washington Huskies Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/27/2018

In the last few years Chris Petersen has confirmed what most already suspected when he was at Boise State - that he is one of a small handful of the best coaches in the country. The difference between good coaches and great ones is that great coaches plug in new players when stars leave and keep shining, while good coaches rise and fall with their talent levels. Petersen has seen significant changes every year - especially on defense - and has been consistently strong.

Stanford Cardinal Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/27/2018

Stanford is a model of consistency in the David Shaw era. They have won their division in four of the last six years, including last year, and they have won the conference championship game in three of those years. This year they are going to be in tough to add another division title because Washington looks good, but that didn't stop Stanford last year, and you can never count them out - especially when they have the best offensive player in college football playing for them.

Arizona Wildcats Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/27/2018

It wasn't that long ago that Kevin Sumlin was one of the geniuses of the sport and seemingly a lock for a high-profile NFL head coaching job sooner rather than later. But he never truly recovered from Johnny Manziel's departure, and now he is in Tucson, where coaches go after faltering at big programs. His arrival caps a tumultuous offseason, when Rich Rodriguez was fired after sexual harassment claims and is suing the school.

LSU Tigers Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/27/2018

Let's start with the most pressing issue - this is the third straight team preview I have written about a squad nicknamed the Tigers, and I haven't even gotten to Auburn yet. There are three in the same darned conference. This is the issue the NCAA should be worrying about first. That aside, this version of the Tigers is very hard to predict. They are extremely talented, but experience isn't in abundance. They could be great, or they could be raw. This could be a breakout year or a building one. The coaching could really shine or be a real concern. The team could be a contender or a mess, and nothing would be a surprise. As a bettor I hate teams like this - and not just because of their stupid nicknames.

South Carolina Gamecocks Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/27/2018

Will Muschamp is in his third year at South Carolina. Back when he was an assistant at Texas, he was viewed as a rising genius. Well, he's running out of chances to prove it. He flamed out badly at Florida, and while he won nine games last year there wasn't a particularly impressive one among them. Michigan was the closest, but they played that bowl game without a QB or an offense. Muschamp needs to have a good year this year or he could be out, and he'll have to get used to being a DC again - for a very long time.

Mississippi State Bulldogs Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/27/2018

The Bulldogs face a change after Dan Mullen headed to Florida after nine years in Starkville. It's a step up the ladder for him, but if I was a Mississippi State fan I wouldn't shed any tears. He finished better than fourth in the conference only once, he wasn't building or moving forward, and his message was surely getting old. Recruiting to Mississippi State is tough, but he wasn't massively exceeding a base level. Mullen improved the team significantly from when he took it over, but the progress had stalled. And the team did very well in hiring a replacement. It's quite possible that this is a rare case that a team moves forward by having their head coach hired away.

Alabama Crimson Tide Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/26/2018

I will fully admit it - I am bored by Alabama. In awe of what they are doing, and full of respect for Nick Saban and his wizardry, but totally bored. I can't get excited by things anymore - they recruit like crazy, they develop like crazy, and they win like crazy. Ho hum. I mean, their biggest issue this year is whether they should start the quarterback who has a 26-2 career record or the one who is the Heisman co-favorite despite only playing one half of meaningful football.

Georgia Bulldogs Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/26/2018

It took just two years for Kirby Smart to turn Georgia around and deliver as close to the season of fan's dream as you can without quite doing it - they lost the title game in overtime. Now comes an even bigger challenge. It takes a lot for a coach to go from 8-5 to very legitimate national finalist. It takes far, far more, though, to stay at that level year after year.

USC Trojans Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/26/2018

The Trojans had a solid year last year, winning the Pac-12 after recovering from a mild midseason swoon. And that was enough to make QB Sam Darnold very rich. Now the Trojans have to break in a new QB, and the incentive to do it in a hurry is high because the window in the Pac-12 South is wide open. The team has a big edge on their rivals right now and are in very good shape to win the division and fight for the conference. But not without a decent QB.

Auburn Tigers Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/26/2018

Last year was a crazy ride for these Tigers. By Week 7 they had lost twice, and the calls for the head of Gus Malzahn were less than subtle. It seemed like he was completely doomed. But then he ran the table the rest of the regular season, upset both Georgia and Alabama - the two eventual national finalists - and made the SEC Championship Game. They lost that game to Georgia, but faith had been restored. Arkansas tried to get Malzahn to move to his home state, Auburn kept him with a massive seven-year extension, and the path to the future was set.

Texas A&M Aggies Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/26/2018

For the most part I don't have an issue when a coach gets paid. It's a brutal, thankless job, and they might as well get as much as they can. I find it very tough, though, to respect the move Jimbo Fisher made last year. After winning a title at Florida State it was like he got bored. He didn't seem to even try last year, and then he bolted for an obscene payday. Money is money, and Texas A&M isn't short of resources, but it would be very tough to find any ways that he is better off in his new home than he would have been in his old one.

Clemson Tigers Odds to win the College Football National Championship with Expert Betting Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 7/25/2018

One thing stands out about this Clemson team above all else in my eyes - and after the run they have been on the last few years there is plenty to choose from. When the preseason all-ACC team was announced recently, all four defensive lineman on the squad were from Clemson. I can imagine few things more terrifying than being an opposing offensive coordinator trying to figure out how you are going to keep your quarterback alive for four quarters.