The Mid American Conference has always been a fun conference for bettors. It starts mid season when the ESPN family of networks picks up the MAC conference games and nationally televises them on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. This gives bettors opportunities to really see the MAC in action and since they’re stand alone games, a lot of money is bet on them.
The Heisman Trophy is the most coveted accolade any college football player can add to his collegiate resume. Last year’s winner, Marcus Mariota, went second overall in this year’s NFL draft, and the previous winner, Jameis Winston, went No. 1.
The dynamic of the Pac-12 was turned on its head when one clever pundit tabbed the UCLA Bruins as the top team in the nation. The conference figures to be quite strong this season, so whichever team is able to come away as champions will have some work to do.
The Big Ten has officially expanded to 14 teams (go figure…) and with the first annual College Football Playoff on the horizon, it’s time to look at who the favorites are in this particular conference in 2014.
The Pac-12 has become one of the most competitive conferences in the country in recent seasons, and that theme should hold true throughout the entirety of the 2014 college football season.
The Big 12 conference has a lot of momentum entering the 2014 college football season. It’s true that Texas is coming off of a Bowl loss to the Pac-12 Oregon Ducks, but the Oklahoma Sooners are riding high after their defeat of the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Baylor Bears are looking like a true contender at this point in their post-Robert Griffin III rebuild.
The BCS era is no more – at least as it pertains to the postseason – but the SEC is still looked at as arguably the most dominant conference in all of college football.
The ACC enters the 2014 college football season with two teams in the top 25: the Florida State Seminoles and the Clemson Tigers.
The Sun Belt Conference has experienced a lot of turnover in the last couple seasons. A lot of the old teams have moved on to slightly bigger conferences, while there are several new faces here looking to get a little national exposure.
The college football season is approaching fast and the time is running out for bettors looking to get in on the offseason futures action. One of the toughest tasks facing bettors is figuring out which teams offer value, and which are overhyped.
The Big Ten Conference may not be elite in college football as it used to be, but there’s still plenty of action here, and there are several teams fighting hard to unseat the top teams o the past.
The SEC is the best football conference in the country. That really isn’t even up for debate at this time. Auburn fell short of continuing the SEC BCS title winners going, but the conference was easily the best from top to bottom again last year.
For the first time in a long time the defending champ is not residing in the SEC. Louisville joins the ACC this season and this strengthens the league, but it does not look like defending conference and national champs, Florida State, is going to be opposed much this season.
The Big 12 has been one of the most unpredictable conferences over the last little while. Kansas State shouldn’t threaten to win any major conference but they seem to be in the mix every year while Texas, with all the advantages in the world, has been in a serious down cycle.
The 2014 NCAA football season is filled with intrigue because it’s the inaugural year that a playoff format will pit the country’s four best teams together to see who emerges as National Champion.
The SEC is the biggest baddest conference around and they have earned that title. The League have won so many championships in a row it is hard to keep track and have to be an odds on favourite again as they enter this season with a high number of highly ranked teams.
