Football is back. While only 7 games involving the FBS were played last weekend it was great to get the TV’s fired up and watching football again and this week there are 87 games involving FBS teams. A reminder that 42 of them involve FBS vs FCS teams and I will have a complete writeup […]
The last few years I have put out daily blogs that listed all the True Freshmen at each position and given you an idea of how many actually played in their first year on campus. I will go thru each position this August and show you how many have played the last two years, so […]
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There are a few ways to look at College Totals. The first one is that it is more fun to play the Over in College Football. You can win you bet early third quarter and not have to worry about it anymore. No matter which team has the ball you root for big plays. Even […]
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The Reese’s Senior Bowl has long been the premier postseason college all-star game for the best draft-eligible NFL prospects. Senior Bowl Executive Director Jim Nagy and his team spend months pouring over the tape to identify the best draft prospects from all levels of college football. They’ve identified 720 prospects representing 148 schools across FBS, […]
When I worked for ESPN full time, I put out a weekly article entitled the Vegas Power Ratings. I still have all the sources that I used to produce that article as it featured my plus/minus ratings which closely resemble Vegas’s numbers as well as three different casinos including the fine folks over at the […]
I have heard this argument in many circles that are trusted. The hypothesis goes like this. Vegas knows that the average gambler plays mostly favorites, so the lines are slanted to get the Smart Money to play the Underdog to even it out. The argument makes sense that Smart bettors only play dogs. Is playing […]
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This year I am doing something for the first time. Every year once the magazine has been sent to the press, I start going over every game for the upcoming season. I look at the last 25 years matchups. Here is a sample of the last 25 years matchups available on Phil Steele Plus that […]
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The AP poll is out and as I mentioned yesterday, I correctly hit 9 of the top ten teams once again and I am now 143 out of 150, 95.3% picking the AP Top Ten teams SIX MONTHS in advance in February! This blog is about the team that missed. Last year my projected […]
Every February I put up my projected Preseason AP Top 10 SIX MONTHS in advance of the actual release of the AP Preseason Poll. Here is a link to that February blog Click Here Here is what I projected in February this year My 2023 Projected AP Preseason Top 10. 1. Georgia2. Alabama3. Ohio State4. […]
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The last few years I have put out daily blogs that listed all the True Freshmen at each position and given you an idea of how many actually played in their first year on campus. I will go thru each position this August and show you how many have played the last three years, so […]
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