#American Conference

College football's 2022 season came to an end last week when Georgia walloped TCU in the national championship game, giving the Bulldogs back-to-back titles. Immediately following that game, several publications released "Way-Too-Early" Top 25 projections for the 2023 season. Not surprisingly, the Michigan State Spartans were not included among…

Two coaches -- P.J. Fleck and Dino Babers -- that know each other well. Two teams with quandaries at different positions -- quarterback and running back. That's the gist of Thursday's Pinstripe Bowl between the Minnesota Gophers and Syracuse Orange. Fleck, who has coached the Gophers to three straight bowl wins, knows Babers from their time in the…

The Bowling Green Falcons and Ohio Bobcats are about to tip-off at the Stroh Center in an in-state, Mid-American Conference college basketball game that you can watch live at your local retail sportsbook. You can now place your very first legal online sports betting wager in Ohio this afternoon with BetMGM Sportsbook, and get your First Bet…

Nobody is giving Western Michigan (4-10, 4-7 ATS) much of a chance when they travel to Ohio to take on the Toledo Rockets (9-5, 6-6 ATS) in Mid-American Conference action on Friday, January 6th. Tipoff for this matchup from Savage Arena will go at 6:30 pm ET with the Broncos looking for their first road win this season. After winning the MAC…

Now that college football is nearing its end after a thrilling weekend that featured two CFP classics, it's time to shift the focus to the basketball court. Conference play is ramping up this week and bettors in Ohio are in for a treat, as the hometown Ohio Bobcats will head to Buffalo tonight for the team's first MAC contest of the 2022-23…

Las Vegas handicapper Bruce Marshall is editor of The Gold Sheet (Goldsheet.com). He provides the Review-Journal with college football tech notes and trends. Follow @thegoldsheet on Twitter. Thursday Minnesota (-10, 42½) vs. Syracuse: The Golden Gophers won and covered their last three bowls. Minnesota is 6-1-1 against the spread in its past eight…

The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl game gets underway on Tuesday as Eastern Michigan faces San Jose State on the blue turf of Boise State University. And we have your Famous Idaho Potato Bowl prediction. Eastern Michigan will represent the Mid-American Conference (MAC), while San Jose State hails from the Mountain West. This season, we saw both teams…

Wyoming and Ohio will both put three-game bowl winning streaks on the line when they meet in the Arizona Bowl at 4:30 p.m. ET Friday at Arizona Stadium in Tucson. Wyoming (7-5) lost its last two games of the regular season, including getting shut out by Fresno State 30-0 on Nov. 25. Ohio (9-4) had its seven-game winning streak stopped with a 17-7…

The Duke Blue Devils and UCF Knights link up in the 2022 Military Bowl on Wednesday afternoon. The Blue Devils are 8-4 overall and won four of their last five games. Meanwhile, UCF is 9-4 overall but fell 45-28 to Tulane in the American Conference Championship. This will be the first matchup in history between these two programs. The Knights…

The Ohio Bobcats comes into Saturday's MAC Championship Game against Toledo on a hot streak. Will the Bobcats' injured quarterback be their downfall against the Rockets? Read on for our top Toledo-Ohio college football picks. Toledo (7-5) stumbles into the Mid-American Conference Championship Game following consecutive losses. Ohio (9-3) won each…

LONDON (AP) - Results from English football: Monday Summaries from English football (home teams listed first): Wisconsin and Oklahoma State are looking to finish with a flourish at the Guaranteed Rate Bowl after inconsistent seasons. The Badgers fired coach Paul Chryst after a 2-3 start, but beat Nebraska late in the season to become bowl eligible…

Ohio residents still hold all the best cards with regards to pre-registration bonuses before the state's online sports betting launch. For example, a DraftKings Ohio promo ensures that any residents creating new accounts today will collect a generous launch reward. Interested individuals can activate this DraftKings Ohio promo automatically through…

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and there are 43 college football bowls to wager on. VSiN is here to help bettors sort through them all and find the value. Be sure to check out our College Football Bowl Betting Guide, our homepage for individual bowl previews and our running best bets file. This is the preview for the Quick Lane Bowl Ford…

The Akron Zips will take on the Bradley Braves in the NCAA at the Carver Arena on Thursday (December 22). The Zios are off to a 7-4 start to the 2022-23 NCAA Basketball season. They're fourth in the Mid-American Conference and are on an impressive four-game winning streak. They're coming off a 87-55 win against the Maine Black Bears. Meanwhile, the…

The Northern Illinois Panthers will take on the Indiana State Sycamores in the NCAA at the Hulman Center on Thursday (December 22). The Panthers are off to a terrible 3-9 record at the start of the 2022-23 NCAA Basketball season. They're 12th in the Mid-American Conference and on a four-game losing streak. They're coming off a 83-78 loss against…

Toledo and Liberty meet in the 2022 Boca Raton Bowl. This game will be held at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton today, December 20, 2022 at 7:30 PM (ET). The Rockets want to win the last game of this month. Here is all the related information about this College Football game including the preview, predictions, odds, TV channel and live stream available in…

The Eastern Michigan Eagles and San Jose State Spartans look to end their bowl droughts when they meet in Tuesday's 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The Eagles (8-4), who are 1-5 all-time in bowl games, have not won a bowl since defeating San Jose State 30-27 in the 1987 California Bowl. Eastern Michigan tied for first in the Mid-American Conference…

Joe Andreessen remembers sitting in the stands at Lancaster High School football games, and remembers how watching players such as Justin Juda and Zack Maryniewski pushed him to set goals for himself, even when he was in elementary school. Andreessen wanted to play football at Lancaster, and then play football in college. He wanted to become…

Teams looking to close their seasons on a high note clash when the Eastern Michigan Eagles battle the San Jose State Spartans in the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles (8-4), who tied for first in the Mid-American Conference West Division, are on a three-game winning streak. The Spartans (7-4), who finished second in the…

college basketball odds series for our Green Bay Stanford prediction and pick. The story of Stanford men's basketball is a very depressing one. Stanford was - for 20 seasons, from 1989 under Todd Lichti through the 2008 season when the team made the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament - a regular factor in the Pac-10 and men's college basketball. (The…

The 2022-23 college football bowl season gets underway Friday with a Mid-American/Conference USA matchup in sun-splashed Nassau, Bahamas. Miami University and Alabama-Birmingham, a pair of 6-6 squads, land at Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium for the Hometown Lenders Bahamas Bowl. Kickoff is 11:30 a.m. The UAB Blazers, which reinstalled its…

Part 3 - EMU Pulls Off Monumental Upset In the California Bowl All of the preparation was complete. The daily practices were history as were all of the special events for "Bowl Week." Game time was finally here as the Eastern Michigan University Hurons were set to take on the San Jose State University Spartans in the Seventh Annual California Bowl,…

Wyoming wants to make history and get its fourth consecutive bowl win, matching a school record that dates to the 1950s and'60s. Meanwhile, Ohio will also chase a fourth consecutive bowl win after coming up short in its Mid-American Conference championship game. Here's what to know about the matchup. Friday, Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. ET at Arizona Stadium…

Mid-American Conference champion Toledo will look to put an exclamation point on its 2022 campaign in what should be an intriguing matchup against a Liberty team in transition. Tuesday, Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m. ET at FAU Stadium, Boca Raton, Florida. ESPN is airing the game. Toledo's continuity - coach Jason Candle is in his seventh full season -…

The following are the Detroit Free Press All-West first, second and honorable mention teams for the 2022 Michigan high school football season. School: River Rouge. Vitals: Junior, 6 foot 2, 205 pounds. Stats: Caught 57 passes for 723 yards and six touchdowns for the 5-4 Panthers, who made the Division 3 playoffs. The buzz: The Michigan State commit…

The college football bowl season will begin in style on Friday when the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks and UAB Blazers meet for the Bahamas Bowl. For a couple of 6-6 teams, this is not only an opportunity to conclude their 2022 seasons on a winning note, but they also get to play in a well-regarded vacation destination. This will be the first-ever meeting…

On Thursday at 7:00 PM PT on ESPNU, No.4 Stanford women's volleyball will take on Houston in the Sweet Sixteen (regional semifinal) of the NCAA tournament. The match will be played at Maples Pavilion as Stanford has home court advantage through the Final Four. The other two teams in the regional semifinal are San Diego and Kentucky. San Diego is…

Another wild and wonderful college football season is drawing to a close, but fortunately the best part is what's saved for last. It's bowl season, and there are more than 40 matchups still to be played. The latest: The College Football Playoff semifinals won't kick off until New Year's Eve, but we'll have bowl action to enjoy from mid-December…

There have been 11 head-coaching hires since our last column. (Hey, someone has to keep track.) Let's dig in! From an uneven football season to a historically bad start in men's basketball, from the athletic department tumult of the past decade to everything in between, Louisville had been put through the wringer the past five years. The FBI and…

WEST LAFAYETTE - Jeff Brohm couldn't turn down his alma mater a second time. After six seasons at Purdue, the former Louisville standout quarterback is returning to take over the Cardinals, per ESPN's Chris Low. Here is a list of names Purdue could consider to succeed Brohm: Babers knows a lot about Purdue's program. He's coached for the…

Our parlay picks for conference title weekend are headlined by a pair of Carolina-based schools in the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and North Carolina Tar Heels, both of which are underdogs that ought to cover spreads that are too high. It's conference championship weekend for college football, and there are a handful of games with real national…

The Mid-American Conference, better known as the MAC, consists of 12 teams in two separate divisions. The East and West Division winner move on to play in the MAC Conference Title game at the end of the regular season. Last season, Northern Illinois and Kent State squared off at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan for the title. Northern Illinois was…

Ohio State football is not the only Ohio team to go bowling in 2022. Five other Ohio-based college football programs will play in bowl games in December: Miami (OH), Cincinnati, Toledo, Bowling Green and Ohio. Here's where and when each team will play this month and each game's spreads, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. After a six-win season in the…

2022 has been a season of historic achievements for the Eastern Michigan University football team. Through a display of grit, hope, and determination, the Eagles will hear their name called during the NCAA bowl game selections. Having only finished with two wins in the 2020 season, the Eagles have rejuvenated their presence in the MAC for the 2022…

North Texas and UTSA are off to the American Athletic Conference next season, as two of the dominoes involved in the reshuffling that will affect the American, Conference USA, and Big 12. but their football programs have one final bit of business to tend to as members of Conference USA, as they will face off at the Alamodome tonight with the…

College football championship week is upon us - and with the results will come the CFP Final Four and the debate that will ensue, especially if No. 1 Georgia (12-0), No. 2 Michigan (12-0) or No. 3 TCU (12-0) stumble. All are favorites, the Bulldogs and Wolverines by large margins, but that is why they play the games, right? Georgia is an 18.5-point…

Lieutenant James Gordon said it of Batman in "The Dark Knight": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now." Oklahomans should feel the opposite of Lincoln Riley. He's not the hero Soonerville deserves, but he's the one it needs right now. Soonerville and all of college football. Riley, the villain of all villains in OU…

Tennessee football is ranked No. 7 in the newest College Football Top 25, moving up three spots after being ranked No. 10 last week. The CFP Selection Committee released their new rankings Tuesday night. Alabama (10-2), despite is loss at Tennessee earlier this season, was ranked ahead of the Vols. Penn State (10-2) is No. 8, Clemson (10-2) dropped…

Kicking off Championship weekend for NCAA football on the college football schedule, we have a non-title game between Mid-American Conference foes Akron Zips and Buffalo Bulls. Continue reading below to get our best Akron Zips vs. Buffalo Bulls Odds, Betting Picks and much more. Both NCAAF teams have struggled this season but will look to end 2022…

Rarely in college football is there a consensus. Bowl projections for Tennessee are getting closer and closer to a consensus, though. The Vols beat Vanderbilt 56-0 to close the regular-season on Saturday at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville and now are New Years Six Bowl-bound following the program's first 10-win regular season since 2003. Seven…

Last week ATS: 3-10-1 (3-4 B1G, 0-6-1 National) Season ATS: 85-92-4 (41-47-1 B1G, 44-44-3 National) Last week was a tough week. Maybe I was looking ahead like some of the top teams in the country were. We won't dwell on the losses too long, since there is a ton of football this weekend, and even less time than normal to prepare for it. (All lines…

The Buffalo Bulls are on a disappointing 1-4 start to the 2022-23 NCAA Basketball season and will now take on the George Mason Patriots, who are 2-3 so far this season. The Bulls are part of the Mid-American Conference and are currently on a four-game losing streak that has placed them at the bottom of the table. The Patriots are on a two-game…

Between now and the start of college football season on Sept. 1, we'll preview every conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision with an emphasis on futures odds. Each preview will include a look at favorites, long shots and a pick as well as the full list of odds for the conference. (If you're just getting started with sports betting and want to…

In a Friday night college football game in the American conference, the South Florida Bulls are taking on the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes. Let's take a look at the top college football betting picks, odds and betting trends, then give our South Florida vs Tulsa prediction for the game tonight. But first, let's take a look at the BetOnline…

An American Conference battle is on tap with the South Florida Bulls (1-9) traveling to take on the Tulsa Golden Hurricane (3-7) on Friday night. The Bulls are in a massive slump, dropping eight straight games, and are coming off a 41-23 blowout loss to SMU. Likewise, Tulsa is on a three-game skid after losing their last outing to Memphis 26-10.…

Genius Sports has announced the extension of its data and betting partnership with bet365. As a result, the bookmaker will receive Genius Sports' "Official Data Rights Portfolio", covering various leagues and competitions, along with a suite of new betting products. From now on, bet365 will have access to Genius Sports data rights for the Premier…

The Toledo Rockets have a 2-0 start to the 2022-23 NCAA Basketball season and will now take on the Oakland Golden Grizzlies, who are 1-2 for the season. The Rockets are part of the Mid-American Conference and will host this game at the Savage Arena on Wednesday (November 16). The Grizzlies, on the other hand, are part of the Horizon Conference and…

There's been a tremendous amount of success from a handful of first-year coaches, but others have suffered bumps. This serves as an updated stock watch for first-year head coaches as we head toward the final stretch of the season. Pac-12 Kalen DeBoer, Washington The Huskies (8-2) have been rolling pretty much the entire season. They started 2022…

The staff for the University of Cincinnati football team pumped artificial crowd noise through the speakers during its practices this week at the Sheakley Athletics Center. The hope is that the loud, potentially distracting ruckus will prepare the Bearcats for the chaotic scene that is expected to greet them Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. No.…

college football odds series for our Northern Illinois Kentucky prediction and pick. The Kentucky Wildcats have a huge opportunity in front of them. This program played in the Citrus Bowl last season, just as it did a few years earlier (when the bowl game was known as the Capital One Bowl). The Citrus, however, is not a New Year's Six bowl. Those…