#Citrus Bowl

Florida and Michigan both own storied bowl histories, but not as much as of late. The Gators are just 1-3 both straight up and against the spread over their last four bowl games, while the Wolverines are just 1-4 SU and 1-3-1 ATS over their last five bowls. In a rematch of a bowl from three seasons ago, Florida meets Michigan in the Peach Bowl in…

West Virginia's football program has announced the signing of four transfers to grants-in-aid (scholarships). Those players are now enrolled at WVU for the spring 2023 semester, and eligible to participate in spring practice. The players (Ja'Shaun Poke, Montre Miller, Michael Hayes, Kole Taylor) are part of a current group of eight transfers who…

Liam Coen has officially returned to Kentucky football as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the second time in three years, returning to Lexington after spending one season as OC of the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL. Coen signed a three-year contract on Dec. 12, though the news wasn't made official by Kentucky until Tuesday, Jan.…

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…

Resale tickets are all that are left for Ohio State football's return to the College Football Playoff. Ohio State will take on Georgia for the first time since losing to the Bulldogs in the 1993 Citrus Bowl. The Buckeyes opened as 6.5-point underdogs, the first time Ohio State will come in not as a favorite since the 2021 national championship game…

This marks the first time that these two programs have faced off as FBS opponents in their histories. Both teams will be looking to bounce back from their conference championship losses and come out on top in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl. It should be an exciting matchup between two talented teams. LSU is coming off a tough 50-30 loss to #1 Georgia in…

The 2022-23 college football season wrapped up with Georgia's 65-7 rout of TCU on Monday night to give the Bulldogs the sport's first back-to-back championships since Alabama did it after the 2011 and 2012 seasons. We already have odds for next year's national championship, and if they're any indication, Georgia has a chance to do something truly…

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…

SHOWDOWN. Here's hoping the two best teams in the AFC play to their potential Monday night in Ohio. The slightly favored Buffalo Bills proved early in the season they can win on the road against good teams. The Cincinnati Bengals have won seven straight, but will meet their match in this battle for the top seed in the conference. Expect the Bills…

This is the complied version of the All Things CW notes column by Christopher Walsh which appeared in five part this week, with the latest on the Alabama Crimson Tide. It actually began with a long-snapper. Nick Saban always has what he calls the 24-hour rule regarding games, giving everyone a chance to enjoy the wins a little, or get the losses…

Ohio State will hold a rare distinction ahead of its College Football Playoff semifinal against top-seeded Georgia. It is the underdog. After being favored in 25 consecutive games, a streak stretching back to the national championship game against Alabama at the end of a pandemic-shortened season two years ago, the Buckeyes are touchdown…

LSU finished 10-4 in its 1st season under Brian Kelly. It won the SEC West but got beaten pretty badly by Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. It recovered well enough to dominate Purdue in a 63-7 victory in the Citrus Bowl. It lost some players to the NFL and the transfer portal, but it did better than some other teams in that regard. The Tigers…

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The No. 8 Utah Utes will have a chance to avenge their Rose Bowl loss from last season when they face the No. 11 Penn State Nittany Lions during the 2022-23 college football bowl schedule on Monday. Utah came up short in a thriller against Ohio State last year, but it booked a return to Pasadena when it beat USC in the Pac-12 title game. Penn State…

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Everyone loves college football bowl mania. It's the best! Ever since I was a kid, I've made my yearly picks for each and every college football bowl game. I would agonize sitting at my old computer over which of the two teams that I didn't watch a single game of would win the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Heck, I'd even print out all of my scores to…

This article is part of our College Football Picks series. What pairs better than citrus and Cheez-Its? And yes, I only opened this way because I wanted to say "Cheez-Its" in direct opposition to the company line that the plural is "Cheez-It crackers." It's not as psychopathic as Skittles saying that an individual entity is a "Skittles lentil," but…

From who is sitting out to who is expected to start, here's everything you need to know about the Iowa vs. Kentucky matchup. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Iowa Hawkeyes (7-5) face the Kentucky Wildcats (7-5) in the 2022 TransPerfect Music City Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 31 - New Year's Eve - in Nashville. The Hawkeyes were scheduled to play in the Music City…

On Friday, New Jersey gambling regulators ordered bookmakers to stop accepting bets on the Citrus Bowl. The game, features Purdue and LSU squaring off on January 2nd in Florida. Reportedly, someone linked with the Purdue Football team violated state regulations and this prompted the decision. According to sources, they have identified the…

The 2022 College Football Playoff field is set and ready to kick off on New Years Eve. The nation's top four teams will clash to decide who is crowned National Champions of the 2022 college football season. Here's all you need to know about the 2022 College Football Playoff. The seeding is as follows for the College Football Playoff: No. 1 Georgia,…

In last season's Citrus Bowl, Kentucky beat Iowa 20-17 when both teams struggled on offense for the first three quarters before finally putting things together in the fourth quarter to provide some offensive fireworks. The good folks at the Music City Bowl watched it and thought to themselves, "We need to get us some of that." Now here we are with…

The Kentucky Wildcats (7-5) and the Iowa Hawkeyes (7-5) meet up in the 2022 Music City Bowl on Saturday. This will be the second consecutive bowl matchup between these programs with Kentucky winning 20-17 in the Citrus Bowl last season. Kentucky owns a 12-9 record in bowl games. Meanwhile, Iowa sits at 17-16-1 in bowl matchups. This contest…

ATLANTA -- What does it take to be Number 1? With a berth in the College Football Playoff, Ohio State will have a chance to finish this season No. 1. But it will take two wins in the playoff, beginning with tonight's match-up against defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl national semifinal game here at…

Come on, man. New Jersey sports bettors were thunderstruck on Friday when state regulators pulled odds for the upcoming Citrus Bowl matchup between the LSU Tigers and Purdue Boilermakers, citing a violation from "an individual associated with the Purdue Football team," per ESPN's David Purdum. And who should be at the center of this controversy…

On December 31, Michigan will take on TCU in Phoenix while Ohio State will face reigning national champion Georgia in Atlanta in the College Football Playoff semifinals. The winners will play each other for the national title on January 9 in Los Angeles. This marks the first season since the CFP's inception that two Big Ten teams have earned a spot…

New Jersey sports bettors cannot wager on the Citrus Bowl because of Drew Brees. The 43-year-old Super Bowl champion was in direct violation of state regulations, whether knowingly or not. On Friday afternoon, three days prior to kickoff, New Jersey gaming regulators ordered all sportsbooks to halt betting on the game between Purdue and LSU. It…

Happy New Year! It's time for the first bowl games of 2023 and the final non-championship bowls of the postseason. Eight teams play on Monday, including two conference champions and one team playing for its late head coach. The day starts off with a matchup between 8-4 teams in the ReliaQuest bowl from Tampa. The No. 22 Mississippi State Bulldogs,…

Ohio State was the first national champion of the College Football Playoff era, as the Buckeyes captured the title at the end of the 2014 season. Georgia is the most recent national champion, with the Bulldogs winning their first title via the CFP format last season. Either Georgia or Ohio State will get another chance to play for a national…

After not a bad start to bowl season, things really went off the rails over the last few days. Arkansas blew a big lead, Syracuse scored a late touchdown, and a number of other teams I picked had terrible performances. While we can't even up our season record, hopefully we can still have some fun with these last games of bowl season. Who knows,…

The 77th edition of the Citrus Bowl is just around the corner and ahead of the game between LSU Tigers and the Purdue Boilmakers on Monday, we have selected the best bookmakers to use for those looking to wager on the game from Indiana. The Citrus Bowl takes place at the Camping World Stadium on Monday and residents of Indiana looking to bet on the…

An 8-6-1 slate of picks last week improved my overall mark to 13-14-1 for the bowl game season against the spread. Arkansas imploding and winning by 2 hurt, as did Syracuse getting a late touchdown to spoil another spread, but that's gonna happen any time you pick that many games at once. And now, on with this week's picks... December 30 Duke's…

The 77th edition of the Citrus Bowl is just around the corner and ahead of the game between LSU Tigers and the Purdue Boilmakers on Monday, we have selected the best bookmakers to use for those looking to wager on the game from Texas. The Citrus Bowl takes place at the Camping World Stadium on Monday and residents of Texas looking to bet on the…

Ryan Day was asked about the status of Miyan Williams for Saturday's Peach Bowl. Day answered the question at Friday's presser. Williams has reportedly been feeling under the weather recently and suffered an ankle injury late in the regular season, which limited his playing time during the Michigan game on Nov. 26. Williams burst onto the scene…

Ohio State's first defining game of the year didn't go well. The Buckeyes were outscored 28-3 in the second half by Michigan to lose their rivalry game for the second year in a row, suffering a 45-23 defeat that kept them out of the Big Ten Championship Game for the second straight season. Had that loss also knocked Ohio State out of the College…

The Ohio State football team is two wins away from claiming a national championship, but that is easier said than done. To win that championship, the Buckeyes would need to beat the reigning national champion, Georgia (in Atlanta), and then beat either high-powered TCU or their biggest rival, who has beaten them in their their two meetings,…

The 77th edition of the Citrus Bowl takes place at the Camping World Stadium on Monday, as the LSU Tigers take on the Purdue Boilmakers in what is set to be a box office game. The Citrus Bowl takes place at the Camping World Stadium on Monday and residents of Florida looking to bet on the game can do so via a number of betting sites,…

The LSU Tigers will face the Purdue Boilmakers on Monday in what will be the 77th edition of the Citrus Bowl which is set to be an enticing matchup hosted at the Camping World Stadium. The Citrus Bowl takes place at the Camping World Stadium on Monday and residents of Louisiana looking to bet on the game can do so via a number of betting sites,…

Betting on the 24th annual Music City Bowl couldn't be easier in the state of Iowa for this huge NCAA Football match between the Iowa Hawkeyes and Kentucky Wildcats. To make this football match even more appealing, we have got you covered with $2750 in free bets for the Music City Bowl with the best Iowa sports betting sites. The 2022 Music City…

Georgia vs Ohio State prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. College Football Playoff Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, December 31, 2022 Date: December 31, 2022 Game Time: 8:00 ET Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA How To Watch: ESPN Record: Georgia (13-0), Ohio State (11-1) - - Georgia hasn't exactly made greatness boring, but it's not like…

And just like that, the Iowa football season is coming to a close. In typical Hawkeye fashion, Iowa gave fans a reason for optimism. Heading into a Black Friday showdown with a reeling Nebraska team, the Hawkeyes needed to just not completely trip all over themselves to return to Indianapolis as Big Ten West Champions for the second straight…

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Purdue takes the field as a two-touchdown underdog against LSU in the Citrus Bowl to kick off 2023. Even on the heels of back-to-back losses, the No. 19 Tigers are sizable favorites against the Boilermakers, who were an even heavier underdog last time out against Michigan in the Big Ten Championship game. Purdue fell apart in the second half of…

For the second year in a row, the Iowa Hawkeyes and Kentucky Wildcats will be hooking up in the postseason after they met last January in the VRBO Citrus Bowl, seeing the Big Blue come out with a 20-17 win. Fast-forward 364 days and these two will be back at each other again in Nashville in the Music City Bowl. Want more irony? Last year was just…

NASHVILLE - Kirk Ferentz has the opportunity to make history Saturday. An Iowa win against Kentucky would tie the 24th-year Iowa football coach with Penn State's Joe Paterno for most bowl wins as a Big Ten head coach with 10. The record book aside, the bowl also will give Iowa fans somewhat of a glimpse into the future. Here are three keys for the…

The lowest total of any bowl game is the Music City Bowl, where Iowa and Kentucky have second and third-string QBs starting. Our free college football picks, however, are scared of the low full-game total... so we're keying in on the first 15 minutes. One year after playing against each other in the Citrus Bowl, Iowa and Kentucky will square off…

It's not often that two schools from different conferences play each other twice in a calendar year, but the Iowa Hawkeyes (7-5, 7-5 ATS) and Kentucky Wildcats (7-5, 8-4 ATS) can make that boast. The Wildcats beat the Hawkeyes 20-17 in the Citrus Bowl on January 1, 2022. Here they are, 364 days later, meeting again on New Year's Eve in the Music…

Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison runs against Indiana during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State won 56-14. Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022 | 2 a.m. Eight years in, the College Football Playoff has been all chalk. Favored teams have mostly rolled in the four-team playoff, especially in the semifinal…

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 Georgia Bulldogs play the Ohio State Buckeyes on Saturday. Here's how to watch or listen to the game. Kickoff: 8 p.m ET., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022 Location: Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Capacity 75000) Chris Fowler (play-by-play) Kirk Herbstreit (analyst), Holly Rowe (sideline) and Laura Rutledge (sideline) will have the call on ESPN, That's 16 on…

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa and Kentucky are running it back in the New Year's Eve Music City Bowl in Nashville. It's a rematch of last year's Citrus Bowl in Orlando. It's not often we see Power 5 schools meeting up in back-to-back bowl games. And this one is being frowned upon by college football fans outside of the fan bases, especially by the folks…