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The Florida Gators take on the Texas A&M Aggies. Check out our college football odds series for our Florida Texas A&M prediction and pick. Florida fans have to be tearing their hair out for one obvious reason: Quarterback Anthony Richardson continues to show what he is capable of becoming as a football player, but only […]

The Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Purdue Boilermakers. Check out our college football odds series for our Iowa Purdue prediction and pick. The Iowa Hawkeyes have had a brutal year, and it didn’t have to be this way. Kirk Ferentz and Brian Ferentz knew that Spencer Petras was not a very good college quarterback, but […]

The Tulane Green Wave take on the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Check out our college football odds series for our Tulane Tulsa prediction and pick. The Tulane Green Wave have a very special opportunity in front of them in November. Tulane leads the American Athletic Conference standings after UCF knocked off Cincinnati one week ago. The […]

College football fans will be focused on Hendon Hooker this Saturday, mostly because the SEC and national championships will be on the line, but also because the Heisman Trophy race will encounter a new plot point. Tennessee versus Georgia is the main event in the sport. Let’s look at the landscape for Hendon Hooker, the […]

The New Orleans Pelicans take on the Los Angeles Lakers. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Pelicans Lakers prediction and pick. The Los Angeles Lakers finally got their first win of the season this past Sunday against the Denver Nuggets. The Lakers are still in a heap of trouble. It is beyond obvious […]

The Memphis Grizzlies take on the Portland Trail Blazers. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Grizzlies-Trail Blazers prediction and pick. The Portland Trail Blazers join the Utah Jazz and the San Antonio Spurs as one of the most surprising teams in the Western Conference in the first two weeks of the season. The […]

The Utah Jazz take on the Dallas Mavericks. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Jazz-Mavericks prediction and pick. The Utah Jazz continue to defy the prevailing preseason consensus in the NBA. The prevalent line of thought connected to the Jazz before the regular season began was that this team would sink to the […]

The Memphis Grizzlies take on the Utah Jazz. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Grizzlies-Jazz prediction and pick. The Utah Jazz were supposed to be one of the worst teams in the NBA this season, but that has plainly not been the case. New coach Will Hardy has made an immediate impact with […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Dallas Mavericks. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Thunder-Mavericks prediction and pick. The Oklahoma City Thunder do not have a fully healthy version of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. They have top draft pick Chet Holmgren out for the full season with an injury. Like a number of other […]

The Atlanta Hawks take on the Milwaukee Bucks. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Hawks Bucks prediction and pick. The early days of the NBA season are full of surprises, but the Milwaukee Bucks have not been surprising at all. They have been very good, as expected. Giannis Antetokounmpo has been great, as […]

The Tennessee football story is a complicated one, but it is also a story of redemption in 2022. If UT wants to make the College Football Playoff, it needs to solve the puzzle that is the Kentucky football defense. Jalin Hyatt, though, is not the X-factor for the Vols against Mark Stoops’ Big Blue defense. […]

The Stanford Cardinal take on the UCLA Bruins. Check out our college football odds series for our Stanford UCLA prediction and pick. Stanford appeared to be adrift and lost in early October. The Cardinal blew a late lead to Oregon State with atrocious pass defense, a disaster in their secondary. They could have allowed that […]

The USC Trojans take on the Arizona Wildcats. Check out our college football odds series for our USC Arizona prediction and pick. This is the last game of the regular season in which the USC Trojans will play outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area. All four November games are in the L.A. metro area — […]

The Pittsburgh Panthers take on the North Carolina Tar Heels. Check out our college football odds series for our Pittsburgh North Carolina prediction and pick. The North Carolina Tar Heels have authored a very improbable story thus far in 2022. In 2021, North Carolina was the clear preseason choice to win the ACC Coastal Division. […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Michigan Wolverines. Check out our college football odds series for our Michigan State Michigan prediction and pick. The Michigan State Spartans are laboring through a very difficult season. Head coach Mel Tucker received a massive pay raise last year when MSU administrators worried that LSU or other potential […]

The Ole Miss Rebels take on the Texas A&M Aggies. Check out our college football odds series for our Ole Miss Texas A&M prediction and pick. The Ole Miss Rebels got out to an early lead at LSU last week, and then their defense collapsed. LSU scored an avalanche of 42 points with barely any […]

The Baylor Bears take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Check out our college football odds series for our Baylor Texas Tech prediction and pick. The Baylor Bears were a preseason top-15 team. The presumption heading into 2022 was that Baylor would continue to be a very strong defensive team, for the simple reason that […]

The Missouri Tigers take on the South Carolina Gamecocks. Check out our college football odds series for our Missouri South Carolina prediction and pick. The Missouri Tigers are what one would call a “half a loaf” team. They have become very good – maybe even surprisingly good – on one side of the ball, but […]

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons take on the Louisville Cardinals. Check out our college football odds series for our Wake Forest Louisville prediction and pick. Wake Forest is in the top 10 of the national polls, powered by quarterback Sam Hartman. If Hartman played for Alabama or Ohio State, he would be at the forefront […]

The Oregon Ducks take on the California Golden Bears. Check out our college football odds series for our Oregon California prediction and pick. The Oregon Ducks have earned a lot of respect in college football this year. The program, the coaches, the players, everyone has forced skeptical pundits to take note of the Ducks. Some […]

The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Check out our college football odds series for our Illinois Nebraska prediction and pick. The Illinois Fighting Illini are having the time of their lives. They control their fate in the Big Ten West Division. If they win out, they win the division championship and would […]

The Cincinnati Bearcats take on the UCF Knights. Check out our college football odds series for our Cincinnati UCF prediction and pick. The Cincinnati Bearcats aren’t going to make the College Football Playoff this season, but they can still win the Group of Five and return to a New Year’s Six bowl for the second […]

The Oklahoma Sooners take on the Iowa State Cyclones. Check out our college football odds series for our Kansas State Iowa State prediction and pick. This game figures to be a one-score game. Why can we say that so confidently? Iowa State regularly plays one-score games in the Big 12 this season. Iowa State suffered […]

The Kentucky Wildcats take on the Tennessee Volunteers. Check out our college football odds series for our Kentucky Tennessee prediction and pick. The Tennessee Volunteers are now breathing the thin air which exists at the top of the college football mountain, or more appropriately, the Rocky Top of the hill. The Vols are still reveling […]

The Oklahoma State Cowboys take on the Kansas State Wildcats. Check out our college football odds series for our Oklahoma State Kansas State prediction and pick. The Oklahoma State Cowboys are not getting a lot of love from Las Vegas, and they keep covering spreads. They were a four-point underdog against TCU a few weeks […]

The Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Check out our college football odds series for our Ohio State Penn State prediction and pick. This season in the Big Ten has been predictable in some ways, unpredictable in others. The predictable part has been that Ohio State and Michigan have established themselves […]

The Miami Heat take on the Portland Trail Blazers. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Heat-Trail Blazers prediction and pick. The Portland Trail Blazers are a very surprising 4-0. In an NBA season in which the Utah Jazz started 3-0 and the San Antonio Spurs have won three consecutive games, the Blazers have […]

The Los Angeles Lakers take on the Denver Nuggets. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Lakers-Nuggets prediction and pick. The Denver Nuggets have a very obvious problem just four games into their new season: Their defense is very unreliable. Denver has been torched in its two losses, putting up non-competitive defensive performances […]

The Houston Rockets take on the Utah Jazz. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Rockets-Jazz prediction and pick. The Utah Jazz were supposed to be tanking this season, right? Not so fast. This team certainly looks like a contender for a play-in spot. The Jazz have a new coach, Will Hardy, who is […]

The Phoenix Suns take on the Los Angeles Clippers. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Suns-Clippers prediction and pick. The Phoenix Suns are moving into a very uncertain NBA season. Through two games, the Suns have not impressed. They’re 1-1, and they could easily be 0-2. They had to rally from a 17-point […]

The Sacramento Kings take on the Golden State Warriors. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Kings-Warriors prediction and pick. The Golden State Warriors are dealing with the fallout from the Draymond Green punch of Jordan Poole in a preseason practice. We can say all we want about the Warriors’ championship identity and winning […]

The Utah Jazz take on the New Orleans Pelicans. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Jazz-Pelicans prediction and pick. The Utah Jazz were supposed to be a bad team this season, but so far, they’re 2-0 with wins over teams expected to make the playoffs and win at least one playoff series. The […]

The Los Angeles Clippers take on the Sacramento Kings. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Clippers-Kings prediction and pick. The Los Angeles Clippers enter this season with the legitimate belief that they can make their first-ever NBA Finals. It’s reasonable to think so. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George are back and healthy. They […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Denver Nuggets. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Thunder-Nuggets prediction and pick. The Denver Nuggets embody the wackiness of the first weeks of an NBA season. Every NBA season is usually volatile and weird in the opening weeks. Teams are settling into their seasons, gaining […]

The Memphis Grizzlies take on the Dallas Mavericks. Check out our NBA odds series, which includes our Grizzlies-Mavericks prediction and pick. The early days of the NBA season are wild and crazy, as they usually are. Weird results and patterns of play emerge as rosters try to learn how to play together in the games that […]

The Washington Huskies take on the California Golden Bears. Check out our college football odds series for our Washington California prediction and pick. The Washington Huskies are a great team this year … when playing at home in Seattle. Washington is 5-0 and has scored at least 39 points in all five of those games. […]

The Texas A&M Aggies take on the Alabama Crimson Tide. Check out our college football odds series for our Texas A&M South Carolina prediction and pick. The Texas A&M Aggies have had a rough ride this season, and in light of the injury to quarterback Max Johnson, it won’t get any easier. It is true […]

The Minnesota Golden Gophers take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Check out our college football odds series for our Minnesota Penn State prediction and pick. This season started well for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. They hammered Colorado and crushed Michigan State on the road. That wipeout of the Spartans in East Lansing was something […]

The Purdue Boilermakers take on the Wisconsin Badgers. Check out our college football odds series for our Purdue Wisconsin prediction and pick. The Purdue Boilermakers have never won the Big Ten West Division championship. The Big Ten went to a divisional setup with a conference championship game in the 2011 season. A total of 11 […]