#Big 12

Few things in life are close enough to perfect that trying to improve upon them has been well established as folly. The first sip of good whiskey after five minutes in crushed ice. The precise chord progression in the first two signature bars of a great song. The inimitable sound of ocean waves breaking on shore. Trying to revise or expand on them…

How good does it feel that football is back? Attention fellow betting fans, the Baylor Bears are pitted up against the BYU Cougars in one of the more intriguing matchups on the college football slate in Week 2. With that being said, join us for our college football odds series, where our Baylor-BYU prediction and pick will be revealed. Fresh off of…

The TCU Horned Frogs were selected as the No. 3 seed in the College Football Playoff on Sunday. This made TCU the first Big 12 team other than Oklahoma to make the Playoff. TCU will take on Michigan in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday, December 31st and the Horned Frogs have opened up as underdogs. TCU vs Michigan (-9) Over/Under: 60 TCU Moneyline (to…

The Texas Tech Red Raiders will travel to Austin and take on the Texas Longhorns for what's expected to be one of the top college basketball games of the day. This is one of the biggest rivalries in all of college sports, and it would make sense if this is one of the top games of the night. Despite Texas Tech not playing well in the Big 12 this…

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The Georgia Bulldogs (14-0) will seek to become the first back-to-back national champions in the CFP era on Monday but the TCU Horned Frogs (13-1) will be standing in their way at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. TCU's last national championship came in 1938 and the Horned Frogs began Sonny Dykes' first season at the helm as 200-1 underdogs to win it…

The West Virginia Mountaineers (10-6, 0-4 Big 12) aim to stop a three-game road losing streak at the Oklahoma Sooners (10-6, 1-3 Big 12) on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Sooners' (-189 to win on the moneyline) game against the Mountaineers (+154). The…

Two hot squads hit the court when the No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks (15-1, 4-0 Big 12) host the No. 14 Iowa State Cyclones (13-2, 4-0 Big 12) on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 4:00 PM ET. The Jayhawks are putting their nine-game winning streak on the line versus the Cyclones, winners of six in a row. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to…

The No. 11 Kansas State Wildcats (15-1, 4-0 Big 12) will look to build on a nine-game winning stretch when visiting the No. 17 TCU Horned Frogs (13-3, 2-2 Big 12) on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena. This game is at 2:00 PM ET on ESPN2. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the…

Not only are the Mountaineers winless in their last four, but from a betting perspective, they haven't been able to cover the spread in six consecutive contests. At one point, West Virginia looked like a great team to bet ATS, owning a 7-3 record that's now fallen to 7-9. Shooting has been a big issue for Bob Huggins side of late. In their most…

The Texas Tech Red Raiders (10-6, 0-4 Big 12) travel to face the No. 10 Texas Longhorns (14-2, 3-1 Big 12) after losing three road games in a row. It tips at 8:00 PM ET on Saturday, January 14, 2023. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Longhorns' (-441 to win on the moneyline) matchup versus the Red…

Buckle up as the Big 12 Conference has a pair of showdowns between ranked teams with Kansas playing host to Iowa State and Kansas State traveling to T exas Tech. The biggest news in the conference was Texas firing head coach Chris Beard. On the court, Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State are tied for first place with 4-0 conference records. Five of…

The NCAA College Football 2022-2023 National Championship Title game is finally here! Fans can look forward to the 2023 College Football Playoff championship: TCU vs Georgia NCAA Division I National Championship on January 9, 2023. The game will be held between Georgia Bulldogs and the TCU Horned Frogs. Georgia Bulldogs is the fore-most team in…

Everybody loves a feel good story. Last season couldn't have gone much worse for the TCU football program, finishing with a disappointing 5-7 record. Under-pressure head coach Gary Patterson (the longest-serving coach in the school's history) resigned mid-season after two decades in the role. But that's what made this season all the more special as…

After what many people described as the greatest day of college football ever, it has all come down to this. The National Championship game between the undefeated and reigning champions the Georgia Bulldogs and this seasons suprise package the TCU Horned Frogs. Both teams semi finals were very close affairs, and while TCU were massive underdogs for…

What did you do Monday night? If you were like most of the country, you sat down to watch David and Goliath. The little engine that could against the machine that chews up and spits out your dreams. I have really, really, really enjoyed this TCU season. I have long prayed for one year that a team truly comes out of no where with far less talent to…

Though most college football fans have turned their attention to next season, I want to take one final look back at 2022 to continue my annual tradition of exploring what I got right and wrong - with a heavy emphasis on the last part. I called my preseason ballot the "most perplexing jumble" I've experienced because rosters were so fluid. That was…

There's a natural inclination to always look ahead in college football, especially at a time when the movement of players and coaches is fast and furious. The 2022 season wrapped up Monday night, as Georgia thumped TCU in the College Football Playoff National Championship. So what's on tap for 2023? Georgia will pursue a third straight…

10 best predictions for another huge Saturday of college football. What games appear to be the best bets and best picks for the Week 8 games? Results So Far: 43-37-1 I am freaking off. Usually the mid-October lack of REM sleep makes everything more focused, but that sure as shoot wasn't happening last weekend. Colorado beat Cal outright? Eastern…

If you want to bowl games this season, there are plenty of opportunities among the 42 games. But not every game is worthy of risking your money. With transfers, injuries and opt-outs, many of the rosters will look vastly different than in the regular season. Here are some of the matchups we would be wary of betting on. Saturday, Dec. 17, 11 a.m.…

With the 2022 college football season over and done, our attention turns to 2023. It's the last year of the Pac-12 as we have known it - the last year with USC and UCLA, the last year with the four-team playoff and the last year with the conference's current media-rights agreement. The Hotline cannot let the opportunity to look foolish (or smart)…

This article is part of our College Football Picks series. The 2021-22 College Football Playoff showed that it was in fact possible for new blood to finally break into the sport's final four teams. With big question marks hanging around a number of the playoff's annual contenders, could the 2022-23 season repeat with two programs making their…

Our next betting picks and prediction preview features a Big 12 battle between two ranked teams in the TCU Horned Frogs (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) and Texas Longhorns (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) on Wednesday night. Tip-off from Moody Center in Austin, TX, is scheduled for 9:00 pm EST and will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2. This is the first of two regular-season…

Has Georgia surpassed Alabama as the best program in college football?Dan Wolken looks at if Georgia can now be considered the team to beat in college football. Big 12 football has come a long way in 18 months. From possible extinction to viability. From newfound parity to newfound prosperity. And then on a stormy Monday night in Inglewood,…

The Texas Longhorns will host the 17th-ranked TCU Horned Frogs in their second game since head coach Chris Beard was fired. Here is our best TCU vs. Texas pick. It has been a chaotic start to the new year for the Longhorns. On Jan. 3, they suffered their first home loss of the season, a 116-103 defeat at the hands of the Kansas State Wildcats. It…

Inches separated TCU from perfection. After coming up just short in the Big 12 championship game against Kansas State, the Horned Frogs and first-year coach Sonny Dykes will settle for the most unexpected College Football Playoff berth in the history of the postseason format. And now the really hard part begins: third-seeded TCU enters the Vrbo…

The 2022 college football season is sadly behind us, as Georgia repeated as national champions by clobbering TCU 65-7 on Monday night. Now that another season has ended, let's evaluate the year as a whole by looking at how each college football conference did in 2022. To gauge how each conference performed this season, we'll take a look at a…

Big 12 rivals face one another when the No. 10 Texas Longhorns (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) welcome in the No. 17 TCU Horned Frogs (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) at Moody Center, starting at 9:00 PM ET on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Longhorns' (-297 to win on the moneyline) matchup…

For the Alabama Crimson Tide fans dreading a long football season, we have an update. There are only 227 days until the 2023 college football season begins. That is the current interval until the next, week zero games, which include Hawaii coming to Nashville to play Vandy. Navy and Notre Dame will also play that weekend, in Dublin, Ireland. Seven…

College football's era of SEC super teams isn't over yet. Georgia started the 2022 season with a 49-3 victory against Oregon, and the Bulldogs' finished off their perfect record on Monday night with a 65-7 beat down of TCU in the College Football Playoff national championship game. A team from the SEC has now won the last four national…

Rodney Dangerfield would love these TCU Horned Frogs. It's hard to remember the last time a team got so little respect as these Big 12 champs, who entered the college football championship game against Georgia as massive underdogs. The Bulldogs enter as 13-point favorites, a whopping spread for a contest between the two best teams in college…

The West Virginia Mountaineers (10-5, 0-3 Big 12) take a three-game skid into a home contest versus the Baylor Bears (10-5, 0-3 Big 12), who have lost three straight as well. It begins at 7:00 PM ET (on ESPN) on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Mountaineers' (-127 to win…

Cinderella didn't find Prince Charming on Monday night. In fact, she didn't even find her glass slipper. TCU football entered the season with 200-1 odds to win the national championship game, and they nearly lost by that much to their powerful, SEC opponent. Georgia's 17 points in the first quarter were a College Football Playoff record. Then, the…

Now that the college football season is over, the offseason hype for the 2023-24 Florida State team has officially begun. Preseason top 10. The next ACC champions. Appearing in the College Football Playoff for the first time since its inception in 2014. Those are among the lofty expectations that the Seminoles have already received from national…

Before getting to the main event, a quick recap of this season's post-season games: None of the Power Five Conferences performed particularly well in bowl games. The SEC was 6-5, the Big Ten and the ACC were both 5-4, the Pac-12 was 3-4, and the Big-12 brought up the rear at 2-6. These records were prior to the Championship Game between Georgia…

After two weeks of enjoyable matinees, the marquee games of college football's 2022 bowl season are up next. Most importantly, of course, we have the College Football Playoff semifinals. Second-ranked Michigan takes on No. 3 TCU before top-ranked and defending-champ Georgia squares off with No. 4 Ohio State. But there's also the remainder of the…

It's New Year's Eve which means it is also the biggest day of the college football season! Two College Football Playoff Semifinal matchups are on tap for Saturday. First, the TCU Horned Frogs will battle the Michigan Wolverines in the Fiesta Bowl. Later on, the Georgia Bulldogs will look to get one step closer to winning back-to-back national…

The Kansas Jayhawks return home after a successful road trip to face the Oklahoma Sooners. Read on for our Oklahoma-Kansas pick and prediction. No. 2 Kansas wasn't crowned the new top-ranked team in Monday's AP Poll, but the Jayhawks (14-1, 3-0 Big 12) are playing as well as anyone right now. They've won eight straight and are coming off…

No. 2 Kansas has racked up eight straight wins and has gone 6-2 ATS over that stretch, but our college basketball picks expect this Big 12 matchup with Oklahoma to be tougher than the 11-point spread suggests - read more below. Photo By - USA TODAY Sports The No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks host the Oklahoma Sooners in NCAA basketball action on Tuesday…

The Texas Tech Red Raiders are taking on the Iowa State Cyclones at James H. Hilton Coliseum tonight in what looks to be a highly contested affair. Let's take a look at the top college basketball betting picks, odds, betting trends and KenPom Rankings, then give our Texas Tech vs Iowa State prediction for the game tonight. Texas Tech Red Raiders…

The 2022 college football season is over. Even though the dust hasn't quite settled, we are already looking forward to the 2023 campaign. Things will look quite a bit different for those in the Big 12 Conference. The conference schedule still hasn't been announced but there will be some big-time matchups already on the schedule. The Oregon Ducks,…

To show how unlikely TCU's run to the College Football Playoff was, at 200-1 odds to begin the season, it's worth a look at which teams currently have those same chances to be 60 minutes from lifting a national championship a year from now. According to BetOnline.ag, six teams have+20000 chances to be the 2023 kings of college football, the exact…

Most of us grew up watching Disney movies, many of which tell tales of the little guy navigating through the impossible to achieve a dream. Even as adults, we're romantic about the underdog stories, the Davids versus Goliaths, the Cinderellas. We crave them. We so badly want to believe they're true. That's what made some of us inexplicably…

The college football season has sadly come and gone. It started with a week one Georgia Bulldog blowout, and ended with one, as the Dawgs beat TCU by a whopping 65-7 margin in the national title game Monday night. But, college football is a year-round sport in terms of media attention. Nothing outside the NFL moves the needle like college football,…

Monday's college football championship between Georgia and TCU is a showcase for some of the best prospects entering this year's NFL draft (and also for Stetson Bennett IV). If you're curious which of the players in Monday's championship will be awkwardly hugging Roger Goodell in April and then dominating in the Sundays to come, here is a guide to…

Georgia will chase a third consecutive national championship in 2023 as the favorite in the USA TODAY Sports way-too-early Top 25 for next season, ahead of the familiar run of teams that have come to dominate the Bowl Subdivision. The Bulldogs are followed by No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Penn State. After an…

The Oklahoma State Cowboys (8-5, 0-1 Big 12) look to build on a five-game home winning stretch when hosting the No. 24 West Virginia Mountaineers (10-3, 0-1 Big 12) on Monday, January 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Cowboys' (-157 to win on the moneyline) matchup with the…

College Basketball has been fun so far, and there are plenty of storylines that we can look at so far. But Phenom Hoops decided to look at the surprise teams from the Power-5 schools. Below are our picks so far this season, as they have started out strong so far. ACC - Pittsburgh Panthers When looking at this conference, there were a few times that…

No. 1 Georgia will take on No. 3 TCU in the 2023 College Football Playoff championship game. Game time is set for 8 p.m. ET on Jan. 9 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Cailf. The game will be televised on ESPN. Georgia (14-0) beat No. 4 Ohio State 42-41 in the CFP semifinals at the Peach Bowl. Bulldogs QB Stetson Bennett bolstered his big-game…

The TCU Horned Frogs and Georgia Bulldogs are headed to the'ship! The 2023 College Football National Championship is just days away and these two SEC/Big 12 rivals meet again after not facing off since 2016 - a showdown in which Georgia won 31-23. Historically the Bulldogs have been the more dominant team in this match up, claiming a winning record…