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Old School Meets New School
The defending national champion and top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide will begin their season on Saturday as they face the 14th-ranked Miami Hurricanes. The Tide will have a new quarterback, as Bryce Young takes over for the departed Mac Jones, while the Hurricanes feature D’Eriq King. The Crimson Tide almost always get a lot of respect from the oddsmakers and a lot of action from bettors and that is the case again for this opener, as the Crimson Tide are listed as an 18.5-point favorite. Let’s lo...
The best matchup of Week 1 college football has the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs taking on the No. 3 Clemson Tigers on ABC. The Bulldogs feature an offense led by quarterback JT Daniels, while the Tigers have a stout defense and an offense led by quarterback DJ Uiagalelei. The Tigers are listed as a 3-point favorite in this neutral site game that is taking place in Charlotte, with the total listed at 51.5. Let’s look at the contest and college football picks....
The Ohio State Buckeyes will turn to quarterback C.J. Stroud this season, as he attempts to replace the departed Justin Fields. Stroud has a lot of talent around him and the Buckeyes are listed as a big favorite on Thursday night as they visit the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Gophers feature one of the top running backs in the country in Mohamed Ibrahim, so it is possible Minnesota can keep this game competitive. Let’s look at Ohio State vs. Minnesota and college football picks....
At the beginning, it was expected that Chip Kelly would quickly get UCLA up to contender status in the Pac-12 Conference. Kelly was highly successful as head coach of the Oregon Ducks in the Pac-12. His Quack Attack offenses were among the most ferocious and terrifying in history. However, that was a decade ago. Kelly lamented this year that everyone is now doing what he previously did at Oregon. He begins his fourth season with a much warmer seat and needs a bowl berth. Meanwhile, Hawaii is com...
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost begins his fourth season at the helm with a warming seat. Frost and Nebraska now face an NCAA investigation for excessive workouts. Although the charges won’t amount to much, it's just one more distraction that the Huskers don’t need. Frost is yet to produce a winning season. At the onset of his arrival were dreams of a national championship. Illinois begins a new era on Saturday. Bret Bielema takes over as head coach. Previously, Bielema was highly successful as ...
Jimbo Fisher has turned Texas A&M into a consistent power in the SEC West. The Aggies pried Fisher away from Florida State with a massive 10-year, $75 million deal in late 2017. It took him a couple seasons to significantly improve on what we saw from Kevin Sumlin, but the Aggies finished the year as the No. 4 ranked team in the country in 202...
Somehow, the Clay Helton era is still alive at USC. Helton has been on the hot seat since the Trojans went 5-7 in 2018, but the administration has yet to make a move. That has led to USC falling from its perch in the PAC 12, and this program is no longer the juggernaut it was several years ago. Helton forestalled a potential firing last season with two comebac...
The unluckiest team in college football in 2020 was Penn State. The Nittany Lions started the season 0-5, and they should have won two or three of those games. They outgained Indiana by 277 yards in their season opener, but they lost by a point in overtime. After a deserved loss to Ohio State, Penn State lost to Maryland despite outgaining them due to three turnovers, and the Nittany Lions lost to Nebraska the following week although they outgained the Cornhuskers by over 200 yards....
Oregon has won back-to-back Pac 12 titles, but the Ducks shouldn’t have been in the Pac 12 Championship Game last year. The Ducks went 3-2 in conference play, yet they ended up replacing Washington after the Huskies had too many COVID cases to field a team against USC. Mario Cristobal’s team took full advantage of the rare opportunity to beat the Trojans and earn a New Year’s Six Bowl bid where some of the issues we saw during the season were exposed by Iowa State in the Fiesta Bowl....
This could be the year the Oklahoma Sooners finally return to the mountaintop in college football, or at least win a game in the College Football Playoff. Oklahoma took its lumps last season with Spencer Rattler, but the 2021 Heisman Trophy favorite thrived in Lincoln Riley’s offense by the end of the year. After consecutive losses to Kansas State and Iowa State in their first two FBS games, this offense turned it on, and the defense improved dramatically from week to week. This offense will alm...
The Ohio State Buckeyes have ruled the Big Ten with an iron fist the last four years. They have won four consecutive Big Ten titles, beating Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game in 2017 and 2019 and Northwestern in the title game in 2018 and 2020. Once again, their toughest tests in the conference are likely to be in the East Division as a team from the West Division has not won the Big Ten since the conference was divided into its current format before the 2014 season....
There’s little doubt that Notre Dame will take a step back in 2021. The only question is how much of a step back the Irish take this season. The Fighting Irish have won at least 10 games in each of the last four years, but they will have to replace a lot of their offense including star quarterback Ian Book. That led to them dipping into the transfer portal several times this offseason, and it’s hard to know just how well they will adapt to Brian Kelly’s system....
Can Manny Diaz build on a promising second season with the Miami Hurricanes? The Hurricanes went 8-3 in 2020 with their only losses coming against the best teams in the ACC in Clemson and North Carolina. Those defeats highlighted just how far this program must go in order to actually be elite again though. The Tigers hammered the Hurricanes 42-17 in mid-October, and the Tar Heels dismantled this team 62-26 in Miami in mid-December....
What Matt Campbell has done at Iowa State is nothing short of remarkable. Iowa State was being discussed in the same breath as Kansas in the middle of the decade after the Cyclones went 8-28 between 2013 and 2015. After a rough first year, Campbell turned the program completely around in 2017, and they have been one of the top programs in the Big 12 since that point. That culminated in the Cyclones finishing 9-3 and winning the Fiesta Bowl in 2020, resulting in Iowa State’s first-ever top ten fi...
Kirby Smart might finally be ready to lead the Georgia Bulldogs to their third national championship. It’s been four decades since the Bulldogs last ruled college football, but they have come close a few times in recent years. Smart looks to have his best quarterback yet in USC transfer J.T. Daniels, and this offense flourished with him under center in 2020. Daniels started the last four games of the season and this offense looked much better with him at the helm. The Bulldogs might have the bes...
The Cincinnati Bearcats come into the 2021 campaign as the top-ranked Group of Five team in the country. Luke Fickell led this program to an 8-0 record in the regular season last year, and the Bearcats housed most of their opponents until the final few games of the campaign. They had to hang on to beat UCF 36-33 in Orlando to keep their unbeaten season intact, and they squeaked past Tulsa 27-24 in the AAC Championship Game to grab a spot in the College Football Playoff. Cincinnati nearly knocked...
How many generational quarterbacks can the Clemson Tigers produce in the span of a single decade? Deshaun Watson left campus as the best quarterback in school history after leading Clemson to its first national championship in 35 years in 2016. A few years later, Clemson had an even better signal caller as Trevor Lawrence led the Tigers to their third national championship as a freshman, and he brought the team to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in his first two seasons u...
The greatest dynasty in college football history is once again favored to win the national championship. Nick Saban has led Alabama to 13 straight double-digit win seasons, and he can win his seventh national title in 15 seasons during the 2021-22 season. The Crimson Tide have made the College Football Playoff in five of the last six seasons, and they haven’t lost more than two games in a single season since the 2010 campaign....
The Alabama Crimson Tide brought the SEC title back home to Tuscaloosa for the fifth time in their last seven tries a season ago. More importantly, Nick Saban’s kids secured the 18th national championship in program history. Due to the Tide’s dominance both in the SEC and on the national stage, online sportsbooks have this year’s squad lined favorites to win the conference and College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy once again. But with regression on both sides of the ball destined...
The Oregon Ducks have taken home Pac-12 title bragging rights each of the last two seasons. And wouldn’t you know it, Mario Cristobal’s “Quack Attack” enter the 2021-22 college football betting season lined as favorites to win it a third straight time at online sportsbooks. A Pac-12 representative has been absent from the College Football Playoff finalists ever since the tournament came into existence back in 2015. The way the futures odds and win totals currently shake out, that streak of six s...
Like the ACC and Big Ten, the Big 12 has seen one powerhouse dominate the proceedings for a number of years. That team residing in the Big 12 is none other than Lincoln Riley’s Oklahoma Sooners who enter the 2021-22 college football betting season gunning for a seventh straight conference title. Online sportsbooks currently have Spencer Rattler and company installed favorites to pull off the feat with the Iowa State Cyclones – the team that finished right behind them in the standings last year –...
While the Big Ten has thrived on the hardwood, the same can’t be said for the gridiron with the Ohio State Buckeyes being one of only two teams of the 14 representatives that’s gotten a taste of the College Football Playoff since it came into existence back in 2015. The other was the Michigan State Spartans in case you were curious. Regardless, the B1G is starting to look a whole lot like the ACC these days with it owning a supreme alpha (Clemson) and a few betas (North Carolina, Miami) that cou...
The ACC has been Dabo Swinney’s stomping ground for the last decade. Save for the Florida State Seminoles cashing futures odds tickets from 2012-14, the Clemson Tigers have taken home the seven other titles. That includes last season which saw the Tigers streak of securing conference bragging rights extend to a sixth straight year. Online sportsbooks don’t expect the makeup of the conference to change much in 2021-22 with Clemson installed gargantuan one to nine chalk to win it and likely punch ...
For the fourth time in the last six seasons, an SEC team enters the upcoming college football betting season as national champions. It was Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide that took home the honors at online sportsbooks after pasting the Ohio State Buckeyes 52-24 as near 10-point favorites in the National Championship Game. With little surprise, it’s the Tide that once again enters the regular season installed favorites to hoist the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy a second straight year. A similar cast of contenders line up right in back of the Tide with the Clemson Tigers, Ohio State Buckeyes, Georgia Bulldogs and Oklahoma Sooners rounding the favorite tier out. Unfortunately, the college football landscape has become entirely too repetitive over the last handful of years with the same teams routinely battling it out for the right to earn championship glory. As of now, it doesn’t look like that will change entering 2021-22 but these are my favorite, underdog and longshot recommendations to win it all regardless. ...
The 2021-22 college football betting season will be here before you know it. Online sportsbooks have had betting lines posted for the opening week of the season for months. If you haven’t begun breaking down the teams that are about to entertain us all through the winter, there’s no better time than now to get yourself acquainted. In case you lived under a rock throughout last season’s COVID-marred campaign, the Alabama Crimson Tide won the National Championship. They’re also favored to win it all again; shocker! While there’s a bunch of snoozers set to go down throughout the first week of the regular season, there all also a number of must-see matchups that could set the tone for the weeks ahead. Consider this your first look into Week 1 of the college football campaign. Tailgating, fans in the stands, college cheerleaders – it’s back baby! ...
