As you can see based on the brevity of this entry, I’m not crazy about the underdogs this week.  In fact, I think some of this Saturday’s six and seven point underdogs (like USC and FAU) have a better chance of pulling off upsets than some of the 2 and 3 point dogs (like Buffalo [...]

I posted a good ol’ 5-5 record last week.  I hit my top 3 games though, so at least I had the ordering right.  This week I’m again focusing my attention on home favorites, as 5 of my 10 picks fall into that category.  All of these spreads are from the World Sports Exchange’s current lines, and they are ordered [...]

Good Thoughts: 1.  Non-BCS Sleepers- Boise State and TCU have been getting all the non-BCS hype all year, but both of those teams now have legitimate challengers that they need to worry about.  In the WAC, Hawaii is off to a 4-0 start in conference play with a high-octane offense that keeps getting better every week.  I’ve been [...]

In addition to my week 7 picks against the spread, I also had success predicting upsets, as five of my eight upsets to watch out for last week came to fruition.  Now, here are some more to look out for.  The lines below are ordered from smallest underdog to largest, and the value in each parentheses represents the [...]

After three straight mediocre/below average weeks of college football picks, I bounced back on Saturday by posting an impressive 7-3 mark.  The only things that kept me from being perfect were eggs laid by the Gators and Mean Green and a choke job by Colorado.  Now, I hope to build on that momentum with these ten picks for [...]

Sorry for the delay in sending this out, for I have been too busy screaming about my bad thoughts # 1 and 2.  Good Thoughts: 1.  My Week 7 Picks- After three straight mediocre/below average weeks of college football picks, I bounced back on Saturday by posting an impressive 7-3 mark.  The only things that kept [...]

I’m banking on several upsets on Saturday, as I have picked several close dogs to cover in my picks of the week entry below.  The lines below are ordered from smallest underdog to largest, and the value in each parentheses represents the number of points by which each team is currently an underdog according to the World Sports Exchange.    Colorado (+1.0) vs. [...]

I admit that  I’ve had some mediocre handicappting results over the last few weeks, but this weekend’s slate of games is literally a treasure chest of enticing spreads.  I usually have some difficulty finding 10 picks that I really feel confident about to display on this blog, but this week I had trouble figuring out which 10 I wanted to [...]

Good Thoughts: 1. The  Head Ball Coach- First of all, I spent most of my college football Saturday attending College Gameday and  the South Carolina/Alabama game, so please excuse me if most of my insight seems to be directed towards that topic.  Let me just start off by saying that I knew there was some magic [...]

Instead of launching into another Boise State rant this week in my good thoughts/bad thoughts column, I thought I would devote a separate entry to this topic.  My Boise ramblings for the week were sparked by an email I received stating why Boise State should be ranked no higher than 5th in this week’s poll.  Here is the email:  Boise [...]

In honor of today’s release of Secretariat, which I will be seeing later this evening, I have decided to publish a list of my top 20 favorite sports movies of all-time.  Hopefully, Secretariat will end up on this list, as Big Red  is one of my all-time favorite athletes.  I know people are going to have issues [...]

I was only able to hit one of the five upsets I offered last week, but my longshot of the week almost hit, as Indiana battled Michigan to the wire.  This week I actually have more confidence than usual in some of these upset picks, as several are also featured in my picks of week entry below. The [...]

I bounced back from a horrible week 4 performance by racking up a 5-5 record in week 5.  Not good, not bad, just par for the course.  This week I’m honing in on the SEC and ACC for over half of my picks.  For those of you who have complained about me not featuring enough high-profile ”locks of the [...]

Sorry for the delay in getting this out, but I wanted to wait until the CFRA ballots were submitted before publishing it so that my bad thought # 1 would not be construed as an attempt to influence the voting. Good Thoughts: 1.  My Preseason Surprise/Disappointment Picks- After the first few weeks of the season, [...]