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2014 BCS Bowl Games & National Title Game Betting Preview

BCS Bowl Game Picks

The BCS bowl games were decided after a wild championship weekend on the field in which had teams change their destination for better or worse.

The games won’t commence until the New Year, but it’s not too early to begin looking for value in the lines.

Here’s a quick look at each of the five games with odds from [dfads params=’groups=63740&limit=1&return_javascript=0′] and analysis of which of the sides stands out.

15 Central Florida Knights +16.5 vs. 6 Baylor Bears

The Central Florida Knights are the Rodney Dangerfield of the college football world: they get no respect. The team looked solid in a one-loss regular season, losing to South Carolina by only three points, and picking up a huge comeback win over Louisville, yet the team is giving away better than two touchdowns to Baylor in their bowl game.

Bryce Petty has the Baylor offense functioning at a very high level which led to many blowout wins for Baylor, but Central Florida will bring a top flight quarterback into this battle as well in the form of soon to be first-round NFL Draft pick Blake Bortles, who has led the Knights to the biggest game in the history of the program.

An outright win may be asking a little much, but there’s no question the Knights aren’t getting the respect they deserve from oddsmakers in this one.

The play: Central Florida +16.5

5 Stanford Cardinals -5 vs. 4 Michigan State Spartans 

This game is probably the toughest to handicap on the BCS board. Two stellar defenses will meet in the 100th playing of the Rose Bowl.

The natural inclination is to take the points in a game where scoring will be difficult, but Stanford has proven to be very comfortable playing the Rose Bowl, and it’s hard to get a read on any Big Ten team given the state of the Conference.
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The play: Pass

3 Alabama Crimson Tide -15.5 vs. 11 Oklahoma Sooners

Alabama will be hitting the field for the first time since crashing down to Earth in the Iron Bowl with a loss to Auburn. The team surely had its sight set on a third consecutive national title game, so motivation could be an issue, but don’t expect it to be with future pros like AJ McCarron on the roster, and McCarron in particular will look to put an exclamation point on his career with a statement win.

Oklahoma picked up a big win over Oklahoma State in its last game, but they’ve gotten extremely inconsistent play from their quarterbacks this year, and they could get exposed against Alabama. It hurts to give away this many points at this time of year, but Alabama’s the team to do it with.

The play: Alabama -15.5

12 Clemson Tigers +3 vs. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes

The Ohio State was close to a likely spot in the national title game before stumbling in the Big Ten title game and have now been relegated to the Orange Bowl.

As for Clemson, the team has just two losses on the year and they can hardly be faulted for either, losing to a South Carolina team that they always lose to, and running into a buzzsaw in the form of a rising Florida State team.

Guys like Tajh Boyd and Sammy Watkins are going to want to go out with a bang. Frankly, it feels like the Buckeyes have been playing above themselves for the better part of two years, and they’re not going to be facing a Big Ten opponent on this night, so expect them to get exposed.

The play: Clemson +3

2014 BCS Title Game Pick

2 Auburn Tigers +8 vs. 1 Florida State Seminoles

This year’s national title game is tougher to predict than it appears to be on the surface. Florida State has run through its opponents with ease, winning all of their games by 14 points or more, leading the nation in scoring defense and finishing second in scoring, but their strength of schedule left a lot to be desired.

Now they get a red hot Auburn team that feels an awful lot like a team of destiny. Gus Malzahn has made all the right decisions since joining the program, and he may have a few more tricks up his sleeve to catch the Seminoles off guard.

This number has already been bet down after opening closer to 10, so getting in on Auburn quickly isn’t a terrible idea, if that’s the side you’re riding with.

The play: Auburn +8

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2013 College Football Bowl Games Betting Preview

The BCS bowl games may yield some extra money for the schools involved, but value for bettors is more likely to be found in the lesser bowl games that can sometimes be overlooked by the casual bettor and oddsmakers alike.

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Week 1 NCAA Football Games To Watch | Free CFB Picks

Week 1 Free Picks 2013

The college football season is still about three months away, but it is never too early to start looking at how the season will get going. Alabama won the BCS Championship again last year. Changes are coming to the BCS in the year ahead, and it should be an exciting season.

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NCAA Football Week 11 Top 25 Gambling Matchups

College Football Top 25 Match Ups Week #11

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about. The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn. Last week I went 2-0 on premium plays and I’m 3-0 this week as of Friday monring. I have been on fire going 31-11-2 ATS the last eight Saturday’s. We are now 13-4 on POD’s in college football with Friday’s POD pending and an easy win last night on Rutgers -2 as they cruised to a 31-0 victory.

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NCAA Football Week 8 Top 25 Gambling Matchups

CFB Handicapping Week 8

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about. The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn. Last week I went 4-1 on premium plays and have been on fire going 20-7 the last five Saturday’s. We are now 9-2 on POD’s in college football with North Carolina -2.5 pending as a 4-dime POD Thursday night.

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NCAA Football Week 7 Top 25 Matchups

CFB Handicapping Week 7

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about. The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn. Last week I went 5-1-1 on premium plays last Saturday making me 16-6 the last four Saturday’s. We are now 8-2 on POD’s in college football and we are coming of money line winner of Western Michigan +305!

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NCAA Football Week 6 Top 25 Matchups

CFB Handicapping Week 6

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about. The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn. Last week I went 3-2 on premium plays last Saturday making me 11-5 the last three Saturday’s. We won on our NCAAF POD and swept the board Sunday and Monday in the NFL POD making it a perfect 3-0 POD weekend!

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NCAA Football Week 5 Top 25 Matchups

CFB Handicapping Week 5

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about. The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn. Last week I went 4-2 on premium plays last Saturday making me 8-3 the last two Saturday’s. Unfortunately the two losses we took were our two highest plays as we are now 4-2 on the year for NCAAF POD’s! We still took a profit on the day and are back for this weekend with some of the biggest plays of the year!

This weekend there will be just three Top 25 match ups between ranked foes including our game of the week with a Miami team facing Oklahoma.

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NCAA Football Week 4 Top 25 Matchups

CFB Handicapping Week 4

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about. The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn. Last week I went 4-1 on Saturday and I’m 4-1 this year on my College Football POD’s! Make sure you check out all of my premium sports picks this weekend as well as my free college football pick between Houston and Texas Tech!

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn.

#14 Georgia Tech @ #20 Miami (Miami -5, 53.5)
(Thursday 7:45 pm et)

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NCAA Football Week 3 Top 25 Matchups

CFB Handicapping Week 3

I will make an effort to give my sports betting advice or a quick over view of the games you want to know about.

Freddy Wills
Freddy Wills

The Top 25 match ups each week is where most of the eyes turn.

#14 Georgia Tech @ #20 Miami (Miami -5, 53.5) (Thursday 7:45 pm et)

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2009 NCAA Football Handicapping / Coaching Tips

New 2009 College Football Coaches

Marc Lawrence
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(1) NEW HEAD COACHES ARE MONEYBURNERS

For the most part, new coaches are brought into college football programs that are in need of a transfusion. Much like a body that undergoes alterations during a lifestyle change of diet and exercise, it also takes a while before first year coaches turn a program around. In fact, all teams with 1st year head coaches are 1307-1445-45, or 47.4% ATS, since 1990.

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Bodog Sportsbook NCAA Football Betting Preview

College season kicks off – September 1, 2009

It’s September. Time to get back to work.

Football season is upon us. This is the undisputed No. 1 sport for handicappers, well ahead of basketball and baseball in popularity. College football has a special appeal for sharps because of the size of the marketplace – 120 teams will play in the Football Bowl Subdivision this year.

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NCAA Football Opening Night – Betting Preview

NCAA College Football season kicks off at betED.com

NCAA College Football action – and NCAA College Football Betting – are back this week as the 2009 College Football season starts Thursday with five matchups.

The biggest game on the opening-night slate features two Top-25 ranked teams, as the Boise State Broncos host the Oregon Ducks (10:15 pm ET, ESPN).

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NCAA Football Pre Season Picks | Handicapping Analysis

NCAAF Picks: Top 10 Predictions

Michael Alexander
Michael Alexander

Sure, baseball season is in full swing but let’s admit it, we just can’t wait for the NCAAF Picks season to start! Although, baseball continues to be called “American’s Pastime”, no one can argue that the football picks season is the most favorite time of the year.

It won’t be long before the old pigskin is flying and we’re writing here discussing how wrong the structure of the NCAAF BCS set up is.

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2009 BCS Handicapping Analysis

College Football: BCS – C = BS

You can go on the internet and find countless articles on how the BCS has ruined college football or how it is the greatest thing that college football has ever seen. Adding another one to mix might be worthless but I feel I need to add my two cents into discussion.

I am not a fan of the USC Trojans and I am certainly not a fan of Pete Carroll. I think I dislike USC because it is so good year in and year out, Carroll acts smug all the time and the fans suck.