#Bob Stoops

From David and Goliath to the Miracle on Ice, there's something about an underdog story that gets our juices flowing. Upsets happen in all shapes and sizes. It can be Appalachian State beating Michigan at the Big House or Boise State tricking its way past Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. But there's something more special about an upset in a national…

The TCU Horned Frogs are hoping to make history on Monday night as they try to pull off one of the biggest upsets in NCAAF National Championship Game history. Here are five other teams that beat the odds in college football's title game. When Texas Christian runs out onto the field against Georgia on Monday night to compete for college football's…

Florida State, looking to take the next step towards winning a national title, with a game against the Oklahoma Sooners being that first move. A plot point that now is occurring for the fourth time since 2000 and multiple times over the course of the series' history, FSU and Oklahoma have met on the football field seven times overall with the…

During the college football season, the Stadium staff will provide weekly betting picks and advice in this roundtable. Here are our thoughts on the Week 3 slate. podcast. Spotify and Apple for episodes and follow Stadium Bets on Twitter for more sports betting content. Alex Symonds, Stadium Senior Producer: Maryland -2.5 over SMU. This is strictly…

Oklahoma and Florida State are two traditional powers in college football at different phases of rebuilds. In the third year under Mike Norvell, Florida State has already secured its first winning season since Jimbo Fisher left in 2017. Oklahoma just finished its worst season in more than 20 years in the first year under Brent Venables. The…

The level of bowl season drama is about to skyrocket. Other than one busy Saturday, the postseason schedule has included no more than two games on a day. Beginning Tuesday, however, five straight days will feature four-plus matchups-highlighted by the College Football Playoff semifinals on New Year's Eve. And you probably know what that means: It's…

college football odds series for our Tennessee Pittsburgh prediction and pick. The Tennessee Volunteers have not won the SEC championship since 1998. This is nearly a quarter-century title drought for a very proud program with a rich tradition. Tennessee made the SEC Championship Game in 2001, 2004, and 2007 under former coach Phil Fulmer, but lost…

The Opponent: Tennessee meets the University of Kentucky for the 118th time on Saturday. The Vols hold the all-time edge at 82-26-9. Kentucky in its 10th season under Mark Stoops, who has really rewarded the Kentucky administration for showing patience early in his tenure. While Kentucky may always be a basketball school (sorry Coach), Stoops has…

There's bad, there's really bad, and then there's Oklahoma. The Sooners aren't just one of the biggest flops of the season in the Bowl Subdivision - they're a disaster on both sides of the ball heading toward the program's worst finish this century. Saturday was rock bottom. Texas demolished Oklahoma 49-0 to hand the Sooners a third loss in a row…

You can never have a good Texas vs. Oklahoma game without lots of intrigue and storylines. Saturday morning's Red River Showdown matchup at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas is no exception. Consider: Both the Longhorns and Sooners have quarterback issues; Texas' Quinn Ewers hasn't played since the end of the first quarter against Alabama on Sept. 10 and…

Texas and Oklahoma converge on the State Fair of Texas once more as the teams face off in the Red River Showdown. Both teams are desperately in search of wins after dropping two games in the first five weeks of the season to fall out of the AP Top 25. Oklahoma suffered its worst regular-season loss since 2014, 55-24, at the hands of TCU. The Horned…

college football odds series for our Kansas State Oklahoma prediction and pick. This game is personal for Brent Venables. The Oklahoma Sooners' head coach was an understudy of Kansas State program icon Bill Snyder, who led Kansas State from complete ineptitude and irrelevance to top-tier college football prominence in the 1990s. Kansas State was a…

The third full week of the season features five Big Ten teams facing Power Five opponents Saturday, and Penn State, Michigan State and Nebraska have the biggest challenges. (Note: The Gophers-Colorado prediction will appear later in the week). Three with intrigue No. 22 Penn State at Auburn, 2:30 p.m., Ch. 4 * Nittany Lions held off Tigers 28-20 in…

It's one thing to develop a computerized power-ranking system that factors in rushing yards per game, strength of schedule and average margin of victory. But since the nation's oddsmakers haven't yet created a program that can read minds, setting point spreads for a slew of college bowl games is an exercise akin to palm reading. There's been…

Welcome to a weekly feature at Upstate Action, where we'll pick the game of the week, plus five other picks from across the country. For Week 1, we're going with Ohio State and Notre Dame as the game of the week over other good candidates like Oregon-Georgia and Utah-Florida. All three of those games will immediately shape the national title race…