NCAA Football Betting – Western Athletic Conference Preview
Is the Western Athletic Conference officially the redheaded stepchild of the FBS now that Boise State has departed for the Mountain West?
Is the Western Athletic Conference officially the redheaded stepchild of the FBS now that Boise State has departed for the Mountain West?
We’re down to the nitty-gritty conferences in our 2011 college football previews. The Mid-American (MAC) certainly qualifies as one of them.
Look out for Conference USA. Sure, this conference isn’t elite yet, but it’s certainly on the rise. Last year, both UCF and Tulsa cracked the AP Top-25 season-ending poll, marking the first time in 15 years that Conference USA boasted two nationally ranked teams.
Over the last half decade of college football, it’s been then other conferences…and then the SEC. Home to the last five BCS title game winners, the SEC was on another level.
The Pac-12 Conference has no shortage of interesting football storylines for 2011.
The Mountain West is becoming more and more relevant.
So the Big 10, complete with 12 teams, is the same Big 10 as last year. Capiche?
Before we start the Big 12 preview, let’s put the confusion to rest. After realignment, the Big 12 actually has 10 teams now.
Our 2011 NCAA football conference previews continue with the Big East, as my brain hurts too much to address the Big Ten/Big 12/Big12/Big Ten conundrum.
Whatever happens with the NFL lockout, football bettors can at least take solace in the fact that college football isn’t going anywhere.
As much as the NFL is making us sweat, we can rest easy knowing that college football will indeed take place in 2011. It’s time to start getting up to snuff on the new season. The first step: figuring out all the conference changes. Which teams played musical chairs?
It’s a brave new world order and it’s going to take some getting used to. Quarterbacks that are 6’6, have a cannon on their shoulder, can bust a move like Michael Jackson to elude defender and make a 6’3 240-pound linebacker cringe just before making contact, knowing he might be the worse for wear from taking the hit.
For those that love to wager on college football, it comes in handy to know certain tendencies of the head coach. Though virtually every coach could care less about the point spread on any game they are involved in coaching, word will filter down thru various channels that high-profile alumni with large bank accounts wouldn’t mind if the home team covered a spread against a particular opponent.
The glamour position of football is the quarterback, followed by running backs. These are the players that get all the love (and hate) and pub from the media, fans and football bettors. However, longtime college football announcer Keith Jackson and every football coach that ever walked the sidelines above peewee level knows it all starts up front, as Jackson used to say, with the “Big Uglies”.
Each week Ben Burns prepares college football bettors for the upcoming ncaa football gambling season. This week it’s the Conference USA. Ben highlights several items to keep in mind when September college football betting season rolls around.
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