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The Michigan Wolverines won their first Big Ten title in 17 years last season. Jim Harbaugh was finally able to beat rivals Ohio State, and the Wolverines made the College Football Playoff for the first time. This team is going to take a step back in 2022 though without standout defensive end Aidan Hutchinson and star linebacker David Ojabo. Hutchinson and Ojabo combined for 25 of Michigan’s 34 sacks last year, so this defense won’t be nearly as disruptive as it was in 2021.... 

After five straight 10-win seasons, Brian Kelly departed South Bend. Kelly leaves Notre Dame as the winningest coach in program history, and he was easily the most successful coach the Fighting Irish have had since Lou Holtz. Former Cincinnati defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman has some big shoes to fill in replacing Kelly, and this is the first time the 36-year-old has been a head coach. We will find out just how far along Notre Dame is early in the season when the Fighting Irish head to Colu... 

No program has seen a bigger shakeup this offseason than Oklahoma. Lincoln Riley left Norman for USC in November, and he took starting quarterback Caleb Williams and several other players with him to Los Angeles. Riley took some of Oklahoma’s top recruits from this last cycle too, leaving a very bitter taste in the mouths of fans that had rooted for the Sooners over the last five years.Brent Venables is the new head coach of Oklahoma. Venables was the defensive coordinator here under Bob Stoops ... 

We saw the Clemson Tigers come back down to Earth a little bit after a disappointing 2021 campaign. Clemson made the College Football Playoff six straight years from 2015 to 2020, and the Tigers played for the national championship four times in that stretch. That put the program on the same level as Alabama, but the Tigers took a big step backwards last year with a 9-3 record i... 

The Georgia Bulldogs are coming off their first national championship in over four decades. Georgia rode one of the best defenses in the history of college football to the title last year, and the Bulldogs finally knocked off Alabama when it mattered most. Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs have the third-lowest odds to win the national championship this season behind Alab... 

Nick Saban has built the center of the college football world in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Crimson Tide have played for the national championship nine times over the 15 years that Saban has been in charge of the program, and Alabama has won six national championships. They have played in six of the last seven College Football Playoff National Championship Game... 

College football is a supremely unique sport to bet on. In a College Football season, one loss can ruin a team’s season. There is not the margin for error that pro sports teams enjoy. Or college basketball programs, for that matter.For some schools, there is honor in simply making a bowl game or winning one of the lower-tier bowls. For others, the only acceptable goal is makin... 

Week zero kicks off on Saturday, August 27, 2022, with the full week one to follow starting on Thursday, September 1 and running through Monday, September 5, 2022. With that in mind, this is the perfect time to assess the trends of the teams. And then relate them to their motivational and personnel advantages or disadvantages. We can then evaluate the value of these trends against the betting line.... 

For the first time in a decade, neither Clemson nor Florida State come into the season as the reigning ACC champion. Kenny Pickett led Pittsburgh to a surprising ACC title last year, as the Panthers hammered Wake Forest in the ACC Championship Game. However, Clemson is still the odds-on favorite to win the conference in 2022 after a disappointing 2021 campaign. The Tigers continue to recruit at a higher level than everyone else in the ACC, so they are considered the team to beat until proven oth... 

The East Division continues to reign supreme in the Big Ten. No West Division team has won the Big Ten since the conference split into its current alignment after the 2013 season. Ohio State has been the dominant program in the conference, winning the Big Ten in four straight years from 2017 to 2020, and Michigan, Penn State, and Michigan State have all claimed conference titles. That’s why the Buckeyes are the overwhelming favorites to win the Big Ten in 2022, and they have three legitimate Hei... 

The college football landscape is in upheaval once again. At this time last year, we found out that Oklahoma and Texas were heading to the SEC, and it sounds like the Pac 12 is about to be gutted even worse than the Big 12. USC and UCLA are reportedly very close to terms in joining the Big Ten in two years, and Oregon and Arizona are rumored to be on the way out too. That will fundamentally change the way we look at college football, but if you are looking for a constant in this turbulent time, ... 

The Fourth of July Weekend sent shockwaves throughout the Pac 12. USC and UCLA are reportedly set to join the Big Ten in two years, and that has other schools looking for an exit. As many as four schools may join the Big 12 as a result of the two Los Angeles schools moving on to greener pastures, and the Big Ten could add two more Pac 12 schools too. If all that were to come to fruition it would likely mean the death of the conference as the remaining schools would probably be forced to seek ref... 

It’s a two-horse race in the SEC yet again. Alabama and Georgia are the overwhelming favorites to win the conference, and the only other team that the oddsmakers are giving a chance to win the best conference in the country is Texas A&M. Every other program is at least 50-1 to win the SEC as the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs have been overpowering and are recruiting at a much higher level than everyone else but the Aggies. That means there is exceptional value in finding the right underdog to ba... 

Oklahoma has long dominated the Big 12, but the departure of Lincoln Riley has made the conference more competitive than it has been in several years. The Sooners have won eight of the last 10 Big Ten Championship Games, yet they are only a slight favorite to win the conference title this season. Riley and Caleb Williams left for USC, and Spencer Rattler, Jadon Haselwood, and Austin Stogner transferred to the SEC, so there are a lot of questions surrounding Oklahoma in 2022.... 

The College Football National Championship Game between Georgia and Alabama on Monday is a great opportunity to bet props. The Super Bowl has the most props of any game and gets the most attention, but the College Football National Championship also gets a lot of attention and it presents some good betting opportunities. There are not as many prop bets ... 

In the SEC Championship Game on December 4, 2021, the Georgia Bulldogs were solid 6-point favorites over the Alabama Crimson Tide. Alabama seemed to be down a notch, at least by their standards, in 2021. By contrast, the Georgia defense was touted as perhaps the greatest of all time. Georgia head coach Kirby Smart was being hailed as the best recruiter in college football, surpassing Alabama’s Nick Saban in that category. But the game showed that Georgia was not quite ready to reach the summit. Alabama earned a convincing 41-24 that left gamblers and fans shaking their heads. Indeed, there was plenty of regret on the part of those who were fooled into betting against Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide. Now comes the wagering question of whether anyone has the nerve to step into the rolling Tide. ... 

Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart is indeed quite smart. During his time as Nick Saban’s defensive coordinator with the Alabama Crimson Tide, Smart learned the importance of stacking raw talent. Smart alluded to this after this year’s win over the Florida Gators at the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. He said good players would beat good schemes every time. The remark was taken as a thinly veiled shot at then-Florida head coach Dan Mullen, who was not an enthusiastic recruiter. Yet,... 

One way or another, history will be made at Friday’s Cotton Bowl. Cause by the Cincinnati Bearcats emerging as the first Group of Five program to make the College Football Playoff. UC’s “reward” for this achievement is a date with the most powerful dynasty in college football history. Under coach Nick Saban, the Alabama Crimson Tide has won six national championships. Alabama was sluggish for much of the season before rallying for a dominant upset win over the #1-ranked Georgia Bulldogs. The great lesson of that game was never to doubt Nick Saban. Many gamblers paid the ultimate price for laying the 6-points to the Nicktator. ... 

The Sugar Bowl game between the Baylor Bears and Ole Miss Rebels offers a stark contrast in coaching personalities. Dave Aranda of the Baylor Bears is supremely cerebral and unemotional. When his Bears stopped the Oklahoma State Cowboys an inch shy of the goal line to clinch the Big 12 Championship, Aranda stood calm in the middle of a wild celebratory storm. His demeanor brought back memories of Tom Landry patrolling the sidelines of the Dallas Cowboys back in the day. By contrast, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin is a master Twitter troll with plenty of snark. Baby Kiff, as he is known, is not above using his team's play-call sheet as a paper airplane during big plays. Most importantly, Aranda and Kiffin have one thing in common; They are Winners. As such, Aranda and Kiffin earned raises and extensions in early December during the hurricane of the College Football Coaching Carousel. ... 

The Ohio State Buckeyes already had a bad experience with a team from the Pac-12 losing to Oregon earlier this season. On Saturday OSU will tangle with the team that ripped the Ducks a new one in two games at the end of the season, including the Pac-12 championship. The Utah Utes ended the regular season winning five games in a row, including a bashing of Oregon in Week 12. A few weeks later the Utes claimed the conference title and a trip to Pasadena by once again stomping the Ducks outscoring ... 

We have a matchup of near misses in the Fiesta Bowl when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish takes on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Both squads were in the CFP picture until the final weeks of the regular season. The Cowboys had their hopes dashed by Baylor in the Big 12 title game while the Irish’s lack of a conference affiliation and a loss to Cincinnati impacted their chances. Nonetheless it is an intriguing New Year’s Six contest with Marcus Freeman making his debut as Notre Dame’s new head coach. H... 

We’ve seen some doozies at the Holiday Bowl in the past and the matchup between Power Five schools should more than make up for the aptly named game being cancelled last year. They didn’t win their divisions or play for a conference championship, but the UCLA Bruins and North Carolina State Wolfpack both look to cap a successful season with a victory. The Bruins averaged nearly 50 points winning their final three games posting their most victories in a season in... 

Few coaches in college football history have reached the success level of either Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers or Matt Campbell of the Iowa State Cyclones. Swinney produced College Football Playoff appearances every season from 2015 through 2020. Twice, the Tigers won the National Championship. Perspective comes from the fact that Clemson went 9-3 this season, and it was considered a near catastrophe. Iowa State has long been one of college football’s ultimate coaching graveyards. But Campb... 

The 2021 coaching carousel offered the wildest ride in college football history. And two of the programs most directly impacted by it were the Oregon Ducks and Oklahoma Sooners. Oregon coach Mario Cristobal left after the Pac 12 Championship game for Miami-FL. Cristobal played for the U and grew up in Miami. It was an understandable decision. But he leaves behind a virtually full cupboard for his replacement, current Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning. Cristobal is a recruiting machine ex... 

The UCF Knights have wanted this matchup for a long time and now they got it. The Knights will tangle with in-state foe Florida Gators on Thursday in the Gasparilla Bowl. This should be a regional rivalry with the schools separated by about 120 miles, but they’ve played just twice previously, both being blowout UF wins. The Gators are ripe for the taking with an in-between coach and several players either waiting to transfer or prepping for the NFL. And just how motivated are they going to be af...