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On Saturday afternoon, there is a Big Ten matchup of two of the grandest programs in college football that will take place at one of the sport’s most iconic venues.Now in his third year as Nebraska's head coach, Matt Rhule is searching for a signature win. Rhule has undeniably improved the Huskers, but his biggest win was last year over a hyped but flawed Colorado team. This week brings one of the biggest brands in the sport.The Michigan Wolverines will have a fill-in head coach and a more limit... 

The preseason is over for the Iowa Hawkeyes and Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Iowa and Rutgers will open their respective Big Ten Conference schedules on Friday Night, as broadcast on FOX.On Friday night, two of the most fundamentally sound teams in the Big Ten Conference will clash. Head coach Kirk Ferentz of Iowa and Greg Schiano of Rutgers are tough, conservative, and demand discipline. It is true that Rutgers and Iowa doesn’t attract the most 5-star recruits and transfers. But few programs are be... 

Week 4 of the college football season begins with a Thursday night American Athletic Conference matchup on ESPN. At the onset of the season, two American Athletic Conference teams were picked at the bottom of the college football totem pole.Both schools have new head coaches as proof of their struggles. The Rice Owls are perennial losers who put together the occasional bowl campaign. Mike Bloomgren was fired last year after producing two bowl campaigns but no winning seasons.Meanwhile, the only ... 

Week 1 was a disappointment for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Notre Dame is coming off a bye week that followed a disappointing primetime road loss to the Miami Hurricanes in Week 1. The Fighting Irish have had two weeks to prepare, correct errors, and focus on getting back on track. Last year, the Texas A&M Aggies hosted the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the season opener on prime time TV to bring in the head coach Mike Elko era. Notre Dame won impressively, 23-13, and went on to make the n... 

At the onset of the season the Kansas State Wildcats stumbled out of the gate with a loss to the Iowa State Cyclones. And then came a near-disaster comeback win against the FCS North Dakota Fighting Hawks. Last week brought a difficult home assignment against the Army Black Knights, who were reeling from a catastrophic home loss to FCS Tarleton State. Kansas State flopped again in what is becoming an alarming habit. Now Week 3 brings a tricky FOX prime time Friday Night matchup against the Arizona Wildcats. Kansas State is reeling and is playing a team seeking revenge for a loss to KSU in 2024. On Friday, September 12, 2025, the Arizona Wildcats host the Kansas State Wildcats at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, AZ. Kickoff time is 9 p.m. ET, with television coverage on FOX. Betting interest at Bookmaker will be significant for this Friday, prime-time Big 12 showdown on the FOX network. ... 

Week 3 in College Football couldn't get off to a more exciting start as ESPN's Thursday Night Football returns with a matchup of undefeated teams from the ACC. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons will host the NC State Wolfpack at Allegacy Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Kickoff time is at 7:30 p.m. ET with television coverage on ESPN. NC State is coming off a thrilling, shootout home win over the Virginia Cavaliers. At the same time, the Demon Deacons whipped out FCS Western Carolina after barely getting by Kennesaw State in its season opener. Gamblers are debating whether Wake Forest is a contender or a pretender, based on its relatively easy schedule. Meanwhile, NC State is seen as a solid but second-tier program under head coach Dave Doeren. Both teams are falling behind because they lack the NIL resources of ACC powers Miami-FL, Clemson, and Florida State. Betting interest at Bookmaker is high for this game because it is the only college game on Thursday night. ... 

Much like the NFL’s Super Bowl, the prop bet menu for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game has exploded. With money to be made sports betting with Bitcoin there are wagering options everywhere. The semifinals were classics and now the... 

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish just keep winning games and with one more victory they will have their first recognized national championship since the 1988 team led by Lou Holtz went 12-0. The Irish take a 13-game winning streak into the College Football Playoff National Championship Game against the Ohio State Buckeyes looking to knock off one of the Big Ten’s best programs for a second straight time. The Irish advanced with a 27-24 win over Penn State in the semis and face perhaps the best team in the playoff. OSU advanced with a 28-14 win over Texas and won its three CFP games by an average of almost 20 points. The Buckeyes opened as an 8.5-point favorite at the Bitcoin sportsbook. The game is scheduled to kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Monday, January 20 from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on ESPN. ... 

The Ohio State Buckeyes avenged a regular season loss to Oregon by whacking the Ducks 41-21 earning a spot in the CFP semifinals in the Cotton Bowl against the Texas Longhorns. It wasn’t planned this way but the Horns have a distinct homefield advantage with the game being played at ATT Stadium in Arlington, about 200 miles from UT’s campus in Austin. Kickoff is slated for 7:30 p.m. ET ... 

The first college football playoff semifinal takes place on Thursday, January 9, 2025 when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish tangles with the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl. The game is set to kickoff at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. The Irish have gotten plenty of attention over the last few months winning 12 games in a row. They dominated Georgia in the quarterfinal round allowing ju... 

Having success on the college football gridiron can bring positive publicity to the program. It also brings poachers from other school’s looking to raid the cupboard. Welcome to today’s CFB landscape, Liberty. It’s not the bowl the Flames were hoping to play in after going 13-0 and earning a berth in last season’s Fiesta Bowl, but they’ll show up to tangle with the Buffalo Bulls in the Ba... 

Bowl season continues with a Big Ten/ACC matchup when the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Virginia Tech Hokies clash in the Duke's Mayo Bowl on Friday, January 3 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. The game is set to kickoff at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. Though the teams are in Power conferences they are far from powerful teams. The Hokies dropped three in a row and needed a... 

Things tighten up for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, who grapple with the Georgia Bulldogs on New Year’s Day in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup at the Sugar Bowl. The game is scheduled to kick at 8:45 p.m. ET and will determine the final team advancing to the semifinal round. The Irish had an easy time against a team some thought shouldn’t have been in the CFP, routing Ind... 

If the college football playoff quarterfinal contest between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Oregon Ducks is anything like the regular season meeting, fans are in for a treat. The Ducks have won all 13 games by an average of 18.1 points but played their closest contest of the season when they beat OSU, 32-31, in Week 7. This neutral site contest takes place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and kick... 

The Big 12 was depleted by the departure of Texas and Oklahoma leaving Arizona State to rise from the rubble as the conference’s champion. The Sun Devils beat Iowa State, 45-19, to claim the title in its first season and earn the No.4 seed in the college football playoff. ASU will take on former Big 12 member Texas, who advanced with a dominant win over Clemson in the first round, in a CFP quarterfinal at the Peach Bowl on New Year’s Day. The game is set to kickoff at 1 p.m. ET. If you bet on the CFB using bitcoin and the Sun Devils in particular, you’ve made a lot of coin. ASU has payouts in six straight games and in eight of their last nine. They are the biggest dog on the CFP quarterfinal board, though, catching 13.5-points. ... 

The College Football Playoff committee took a beating in the first round when all four games were decided by double-figures. Some questioned the inclusion of SMU and Indiana and those teams didn’t do the committee any favors in getting blown out of the tournament. The Boise State Broncos earned the No. 3 seed as the highest ranked G5 squad with its only loss on a last second field goal at Oregon earlier in the season. BSU faces the Penn State Nittany Lions in the first CFP quarterfinal game on N... 

The last second round College Football Playoff matchup will be determined with the outcome of the Tennessee Volunteers at Ohio State Buckeyes game, which will kickoff at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday night from Ohio Stadium in Columbus. The Buckeyes should be pissed after losing again to Michigan in their most recent outing. The setback cost them a chance at the Big Ten title but worse than that it was their fourth straight loss to the team up north. The Vols and Buckeyes both went 10-2 and possess high... 

With two teams having punched their ticket to the second round of the College Football Playoff, the second half of the bracket gets underway on Saturday afternoon when the Clemson Tigers visit the Texas Longhorns at 4 p.m. ET from Darrel K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin. Clemson was the last team to make it into the expanded CFP needing a win over SMU in the ACC Championship to secure the No. 12 seed. Clemson is the only three-loss team in the tournament and as such they are the biggest ... 

Three college football first round playoff games take place on Saturday, Dec. 21 giving us some rarely seen matchups. In their first season as members of the ACC the SMU Mustangs rehashed the “Pony Express” glory days going 11-1 during the regular season. They lost to Clemson in the ACC Championship but still earned a spot in the expanded playoff and will take on Penn State at 12 p.m. ET from Beaver Stadium. The game will air on TNT/Max. The Nittany Lions also came up short in the Big Ten title ... 

It’s the dawn of a new era in college football with the expanded College Football Playoff getting started on Friday, Dec. 20 with a first-round matchup between the Indiana Hoosiers and Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The game kicks off at 8 p.m. ET from Notre Dame Stadium and will air on ABC/ESPN. Both teams finished the regular season with identical 11-1 records, but the Irish got a higher seed blowing out every opponent during a 10-game winning streak. They tried to make everyone forget about that Week 2 loss to Northern Illinois, but it didn’t work for the committee, who gave Notre Dame the No. 7 seed. Odds at the Crypto Sportsbook have the Irish as a 7.5-point favorite over the surprising Hoosiers, who lost to Ohio State, 38-15, in Week 13. ... 

The college football bowl season starts on Saturday, Dec. 14 when the South Alabama Jaguars of the Sun Belt Conference and Western Michigan Broncos from the MAC square off in the Salute to Veterans Bowl. This is basically a home game for the Jags, who have about a two and a half hour bus ride on I-65 from their campus in Mobile to Cramton Bowl in Montgomery. Both teams fini... 

With Championship week behind us and bowl season ahead, this week gives us one final regular season college football game to wager on, and it’s a dandy deserving of standalone status. The annual clash between the Army Black Knights and Navy Midshipmen has lost importance on the national stage with the emergence of the sport as a big business. But for the first time in years both squads were relevant again making visits to the national rankings. Both teams had their quest for a perfect season end... 

In a rematch of a hotly-contested regular season game, the Georgia Bulldogs and Texas Longhorns will meet on Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to determine the 2024 SEC champion. In its first season in the league Texas nearly ran the table going 6-1 in conference games and 11-1 overall. That one loss, though, was to Georgia in Week 8 when the Bulldogs travelled to Austin as a 4-point underdog and won the game outright, 30-15, in convincing fashion. While the Horns won five straight af... 

It’s championship week with nine games on the Week 15 college football slate to determine conference winners and lay the foundation for the upcoming College Football Playoff. The lighter schedule should make games easier to handicap giving us a better chance of hitting a college football parlay at the Crypto Sportsbook. The one issue is that the games are expected to be closer. The biggest favorite on the Week 15 board is Tulane laying 6-points in the AAC title game to Army. The Black Knights get a home game by going undefeated in league play with their only setback coming in Week 13 to Notre Dame. Army is one of five teams that can win a conference title in its first season in their respective league. The other four are favored to win their games with Oregon laying 3.5-points to Penn State in the Big Ten, SMU giving 2.5-points to Clemson in the ACC, Arizona State favored by 2-points against Iowa State in the Big 12 and Texas a 2.5-point favorite against Georgia in the SEC. ... 

The first CFP rankings came out this week with Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia and Miami the top teams. All four of those clubs are playing in Week 11 of the college football season with plenty at stake. Oregon and Miami have yet to lose this season and would still be a playoff team with a setback. The waters muddy for OSU and Georgia if they lose a second game. Th...