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Last week was not a good one for ranked teams with five top 25 squads losing. No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Miami both suffered setbacks that could harm their CFP standing. However, the expanded format leaves the door open for teams with multiple losses to still get in. At 7-2 the Bulldogs can’t afford another loss and will look to get back in win column hosting Tennessee in Week 12 as a 10-point favorite on the opening line at the Crypto Sportsbook. The 2024 college football regular season is quickly coming to a close with games featuring playoff contenders taking on more importance. One of four unbeaten teams remaining in the FBS, top-ranked Oregon plays at Wisconsin on Saturday night as a 14.5-point favorite on the early line. BYU escaped with a narrow win last week and puts its 9-0 record on the line against a dangerous Kansas club. Army and Indiana will remain undefeated as they both take the week off. ... 

This week brings one of the most important games of the college football season. The Tennessee Volunteers will visit the Georgia Bulldogs. Head coach Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs are coming off an embarrassing road loss to the Ole Miss Rebels in a game in which Lane Kiffin outcoached Smart. The Bulldogs remain in the hunt for the SEC and College Football Playoff. However, UGA has no margin for error. The Dawgs will host the Vols between the hedges in a matchup with major SEC and CFP implications... 

The first CFP rankings came out this week with Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia and Miami the top teams. All four of those clubs are playing in Week 11 of the college football season with plenty at stake. Oregon and Miami have yet to lose this season and would still be a playoff team with a setback. The waters muddy for OSU and Georgia if they lose a second game. Th... 

Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer is going through a rough first season. He is learning about the difficult challenge that a coach should never replace a legend, let alone the GOAT of college football. DeBoer has a strong resume and is universally acclaimed as a quality coach. He is in the elite tier of college football coaches. But he is not Nick Saban. Of course, when Saban retired, there were even Alabama fans who said it was time. But DeBoer’s team lacks the polish that Saban reliably provided... 

I came so close to hitting a winning college football parlay the last two weeks that I should get some type of reward. Unfortunately that’s not how it works at your Crypto Sportsbook. All bets on a single ticket have to win in order to cash out and for the second week in a row I came one game shy of the intended goal. Entering the final month of the regular season time is running out to hit that e... 

So far this season, the Ohio State Buckeyes have already lost a prominent road game against the Oregon Ducks. That result has gamblers thinking that lightning could strike twice against a solid Penn State team that is remembered for beating Ohio State at Beaver Stadium in 2016. James Franklin has a reputation to live down on Saturday. The head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions has a reputation for not winning games against equal or superior opponents. This week brings a new opportunity to ch... 

For the fourth time this college football season we have a new No. 1 ranked team in the AP poll. The Oregon Ducks followed their upset of Ohio State with a demolition of Purdue and take on No. 20 Illinois in their first game as the nation’s top team. It’s one of five contests featuring ranked squads on the Week 9 schedule. I have yet to back Oregon on my college ... 

In his first season as head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies, Mike Elko is turning the program into what fans and donors have always demanded. After their opening game loss to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Texas A&M has been one of the best teams in the country. The LSU Tigers and head coach Brian Kelly have a similar story. The Bayou Bengals are unbeaten since their shocking loss in Las Vegas to the USC Trojans to start the year. Both LSU and Texas A&M are now in the hunt for the SEC ... 

Another week and we have another top 5 matchup on the college football slate. It isn’t a surprise seeing a SEC team ranked No. 1 in the AP poll but it is when Texas is that team. The Horns’ first season in the conference has been a boon so far and they’ll get another crack when they host No. 5 Georgia on Saturday night. This is the second straight game against a top 20 foe and the third this season for the Longhorns, who easily covered the first two meetings and have been a success at the Crypto Sportsbook with five payouts in six games. The Horns are a 3.5-point early line favorite. There are two other matchups between ranked teams with one getting significantly more attention than the other. The loser of the No. 7 Alabama at No. 11 Tennessee game will be dealt a playoff blow. Both squads have one loss and Bama is a 3-point favorite. ... 

This week, college football fans and gamblers will be treated to a potential College Football Playoff preview, if not a peak at the national championship game matchup in January. The Texas Longhorns will host the Georgia Bulldogs in the top matchup of the weekend. The Longhorns are fresh off a blowout win over the rival Oklahoma Sooners in the Red River Shootout that caught national attention. Texas is the top team in the land and is flashing a powerful pose. The Bulldogs are coming off a perfun... 

Hopefully the back half of my college football parlay picks is better than the front. With Week 7 of the season upon us we’ve reached the midway point of the season and I’m still searching for a winning ticket. The individual picks have been fine, but I’ve yet to put them all on the same ticket. If you like backing ranked teams when you bet on College Football using crypto, Week 6 was not a fun time. Four top 10 squads, including No. 1 Alabama, all lost, and three other top 25s were upset. At least three more ranked teams will go down in Week 7 with three matchups featuring ranked squads. The biggest takes place in the Big Ten with No. 2 Ohio State visiting No. 3 Oregon. The Red River Rivalry between No. 1 Texas and No. 16 Oklahoma isn’t far behind. Not playing last week was the best thing that could’ve happened to the Horns, who climbed back to the top spot amid all the chaos. ... 

This week, college football fans and gamblers will be treated to one of the benefits of conference realignment and the expanded college football playoff. The Oregon Ducks are in their first season as members of the Big Ten Conference after decades as one of the marquee brands in the Pac-12. On Saturday night, the Ducks will host the Ohio State Buckeyes, a monster brand and a traditional Big Ten power. Oregon will host Ohio State in the biggest game of the weekend. It is the type of matchup that ... 

We’ve already reached Week 6 of the college football season and I’m still searching for my first parlay win. There are some good matchups on the schedule with the Bitcoin betting week starting on Thursday with a pair of games. The bulk of the action takes place on ... 

This week, two Big Ten stalwarts will clash at the famed Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio. The Iowa Hawkeyes offer a stark contrast in styles to the Ohio State Buckeyes. Ohio State is called the best team that money can buy, and that is certainly the case this year with one of the nation’s richest NIL collectives. Thus, the Buckeyes have speed, depth, and overall ability that few teams can match. On the other hand, the Hawkeyes rely on developing good players that were overlooked by the nation’s elit... 

The college football world will be focused on Tuscaloosa for the SEC matchup between No. 2 Georgia and No. 4 Alabama. It’s one of four games between nationally ranked teams on the Week 5 slate but easily the most anticipated contest. With Nick Saban stepping aside many thought this would be a transition year for the Tide. That was put to rest wit... 

This week, two SEC superpowers will clash in the game of the week. The Alabama Crimson Tide will host the Georgia Bulldogs. The game could also prove to be a preview of the SEC championship game or even perhaps a College Football Playoff matchup. Georgia has consistently been the nation’s top recruiter under head coach Kirby Smart, the former Alabama defensive coordinator under Nick Saban. Meanwhile, Kalen DeBoer accepted the challenge of taking over for Nick Saban, the GOAT of college football ... 

The No. 11 USC Trojans play their first ever Big Ten Conference game when they take on the No. 18 Michigan Wolverines in a battle of ranked foes. The previous seven meetings between the storied programs all were played at and in the Rose Bowl, a game whose roots tied the Big Ten and Pac-12 together for years. That alliance stayed loosely intact through the BCS and CFP years and dissolved when the Pac-12 did. It’s odd to say but this is a now a conference game, and we’ll get that a lot as matchup... 

As we head into Week 4 of the college football season teams will start to play games against conference opponents. And with the realigned league’s we get some interesting matchups to use on a college football parlay. The slate for Friday has Stanford as an 8.5-point underdog at Syracuse in an ACC confrontation. On Saturday there’s a Big Ten showdown between ranke... 

Two out of three aint bad but it’s a losing college football parlay at your Bitcoin sportsbook. Unfortunately that’s what happened last week losing the one bet I felt the best about. That’s just how it goes when betting on the outcome of sporting events. Auburn killed me losing outright to a Cal team that narrowly escaped a FCS opponent in Week 1. It’s easy to overreact early in the season and tha... 

This week, the Wisconsin Badgers of the Big Ten will host the Alabama Crimson Tide of the SEC in the marquee Week 3 matchup and FOX Noon Saturday feature. Several years ago, when this game was scheduled, Paul Chryst was riding high as the Badgers' head coach while Nick Saban was in all his glory as the Almighty Nicktator of his Alabama dynasty. Since then, both coaches have departed, and the dynamics and personalities are very different. Wisconsin has betrayed itself and a culture that was successful for over three decades. The days of the Badgers emphasizing a ground-and-pound approach are over. Instead, second-year head coach Luke Fickell is going with a hybrid offense that emphasizes the Air Raid, which became famous under the late great Mike Leach. So far, the results are mixed but with a loss of a style that gave Wisconsin its identity. Meanwhile, Kalen DeBoer has taken over for Saban after leading the Washington Huskies to the national championship game last year. There will be plenty of betting on college football using crypto interest in Wisconsin as a double-digit home dog. But there are legitimate concerns about Wisconsin’s lack of talent and explosiveness compared to Alabama. ... 

The first top 10 showdown of the college football season pits a national championship contender against a team defending the title in the marquee Week 2 matchup on Saturday. The third-ranked Texas Longhorns have their sights on the college football playoff and while the No. 10 Michigan Wolverines are the defending champs, their roster and coaching staff underwent a huge makeover during the offseason. Both teams looked the part with relatively easy season opening victories, though the Maize and Blue failed to cover the 20.5-point line in their 30-10 decision over Fresno State. It’s been a few years since Michigan was a home underdog of more than 7-points. That was against arch rival Ohio State at the end of the 2019 campaign when the Wolverines were catching 9-points. They lost that game 56-27. The early line at Crypto sportsbooks has them as a 7.5-point dog for this game. Texas has everything needed to win a national championship with a stingy defense and Heisman Trophy hopeful Quinn Ewers running the offense. Ewers threw three touchdown passes in Texas’ 52-0 win and cover over Colorado State in the season opener. ... 

It’s hard to know if we learned anything about some of the bigger college football programs. I will say the No. 1 ranked Georgia Bulldogs looked good in their dismantling of Clemson, a team that was supposedly a contender for the ACC title and one that cost me on last week’s college football parlay bet at my Crypto sportsbook. I’ll get back to the Tigers in a moment, but did we gather info on for ... 

After a taste of college football in Week 0, the betting season takes off with an intense schedule that features five straight days exciting action in Week 1. While a number of teams ease their way into a new season, that isn’t the case for two prominent programs. The USC Trojans play their first game as a new member of the Big Ten taking on SEC powerhouse the LSU Tigers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas in the only game on the CFB slate for Sunday, Sept. 1.Led by Heisman Trophy winning quarterb... 

The college football landscape changed again with another round of realignment moving the big boys of the Pac-12 into other conferences and putting an end to, what the late Bill Walton so eloquently called, the conference of champions. Does that affect the betting landscape and college football parlays at Crypto sportsbooks? It’s hard to say so early in the season but it does create some mind-blow... 

The honeymoon phase in Madison has only just begun. With Luke Fickell signed to a lucrative multi-year contract through 2031, there will come a time that the Wisconsin Badgers finally get a sniff of the College Football Playoff with it expanded to 12 teams. As the program with the most Power Five wins without a playoff appearance, Wisconsin’s traditional approach h...