#College Football HQ

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…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook and may change after publication Point spread: Ohio State comes into the game as 8 point favorites against Michigan, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. Total: 55.5 points Moneyline: Michigan+240 | Ohio State -333 Where Michigan is right now: The No.3 ranked Wolverines have passed every test and…

College football bowl season takes a big step towards New Year's with a notable Big Ten vs. SEC matchup in the Music City Bowl between Kentucky and Iowa. The game features two teams that failed to repeat their success from the year before, each coming in with 7-5 records after having won 10 games last season. Iowa comes in playing behind the…

Two premier college football powers meet up in the Orange Bowl looking to end things on a high note after stumbling to forgettable late season showings as Tennessee and Clemson square off on Friday. Clemson is the reigning ACC champion after taking out North Carolina and finally making the permanent switch at quarterback, as Cade Klubnik looked…

Future Big 12 member Houston takes it on the road against eventual conference rival Texas Tech on Saturday in Week 2 action. Houston is coming off a close, three-overtime victory over UTSA and dropped one spot in the polls to No. 25 overall. Tech beat Murray State by 53 in the debut, but lost quarterback Tyler Shough along the way. Here's what you…

Predicting what happens in a bowl game is one of the toughest things to do in college football, given the intangibles surrounding each game like the new transfer portal, coaching changes, opt-outs, and general questions around motivation. That's especially true when considering the case of the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. Wisconsin and Oklahoma meet up in…

Notre Dame comes into Week 2 off a hard-fought loss at Ohio State, but still has time to recover and build its College Football Playoff credentials. Up next is the home opener for the season and for 1st year head coach Marcus Freeman, who brings the Irish back home under the watchful eyes of Touchdown Jesus against Marshall on Saturday. Here's what…

College football bowl season continues on the day after Christmas as the postseason finds one game to be played on the schedule today. Early in the postseason, the Sun Belt and Mountain West have performed the best overall while the AAC and Conference USA have not played up to expectations. But as the calendar moves after the Christmas holiday is…

The college football regular season draws to a close with the final boss of all rivalry games as the nation's armed forces go at it: Army and Navy are set to square off in the final leg of the Commander-in-Chief Trophy on Saturday. As always, the service academies play a traditional, ground-and-pound style of offense with few passes and a battery…

A pair of Big Ten rivals meet in a cross-division showdown as No. 2 Ohio State welcomes Iowa in college football's Week 8 action on Saturday. Both are coming off idle weeks seemingly headed in different directions. Ohio State owns college football's No. 2 total offense and the sport's most productive scoring unit, averaging 48.8 points per game on…

College football bowl season is here, and now it's time to make our picks against the spread for the Bahamas Bowl between Miami (Ohio) and UAB. Miami needed to win its final two regular season games in order to become bowl eligible, and just skated by Ball State in a 1-point decision to clinch the last win. We should see Aveon Smith at quarterback;…

Not much may be on the line in this year's SEC Championship Game, but Georgia is looking to protect its undefeated record and No. 1 national ranking against West challenger LSU on Saturday. Win or lose, Georgia is a virtual guarantee to make the final four, although not many outside of Louisiana are going as far as to pick against the Bulldogs…

With just one week left on the schedule before the bowls kick of, the college football season is poised to finally sort out the major conference and playoff races with Championship Week on the horizon. What can we expect from the Week 14 slate of games? This week, we turn to FPI to guide us in making our own picks for the biggest matchups. Football…

Week 1 of the college football schedule brings us a very interesting matchup between the defending Pac-12 champions and a traditional SEC power down on its luck. No. 7 Utah travels across the country to square off against Florida and first-year coach Billy Napier in a game that will tell us a lot about where these teams are going. Can the Pac-12…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook and may change after publication Point spread: USC comes into the game as 2.5 point favorites according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. Total: 76 points Moneyline: USC -125, UCLA+105 Where UCLA is right now: Reeling after a costly loss at home to an unranked Arizona team that made reaching the Pac-12 title…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook and may change after publication Point spread: Tennessee comes into the game as the 21.5 point favorites to win the game, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. Total: 66 points Moneyline: Tennessee -2000, South Carolina+1050 Where South Carolina is right now: The addition of Spencer Rattler was supposed…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook and may change after publication Point spread: TCU comes into the game as narrow 3 point favorites to beat Baylor, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. Total: 57.5 points Moneyline: TCU -150, Baylor+115 Where TCU is right now: One of the last four undefeated teams in college football and currently one of…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook and may change after publication Point spread: Oregon comes into the game as narrow 3 point favorites, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. Total: 63 points Moneyline: Utah+135, Oregon -160 Where Utah is right now: Last season, the Utes knocked off Oregon twice en route to a Pac-12 championship,…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook Point spread: Penn State comes into the game as 14 point favorites to defeat Indiana on the road, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. O/U: The book set the over/under mark at 50.5 points for the matchup. Moneyline: Penn State -654, Indiana+400 FPI prediction: Penn State has the comfortable 84.1 percent…

Clemson and Notre Dame square off in the House that Rockne Built as college football's Week 10 action picks up on Saturday. Clemson is officially in College Football Playoff contention after emerging as the No. 4 team in the first CFP rankings this week and has a chance to return to the semifinal if it can win out the rest of the way. Notre Dame…

It's not often we get a "Game of the Century" in the regular season, but the Week 10 college football slate could give us just that as Georgia and Tennessee square off in a battle of 1 vs. 2 teams on Saturday. Everything appears to be on the line for both teams. The winner remains undefeated and with a critical head-to-head tie-breaker in the SEC…

Ohio State ATS: 4-2-1 Penn State ATS: 4-3 Over/under: 61 Moneyline: OSU -752, PSU+450 FPI pick: Ohio State 79.6% 1. A fast start. Both these teams have been good at getting their opponents out of sorts in the early part of games. Penn State has outscored teams 42-15 in the first quarter of matchups this season. Ohio State has blitzed the opposition…

Kentucky ATS: 5-2 Over/under: 63.5 Moneyline: UK+370, UT -578 FPI pick: Tennessee 82.9% 1. QB battle. Two of the SEC's three best quarterbacks will be on the same field Saturday. Hendon Hooker has been the engine behind college football's No. 1 total offense, throwing for over 2000 yards while hitting on almost 71% of his passes for 18 TDs and 1…

A pair of ranked Pac-12 rivals meet up in Salt Lake as Utah welcomes USC in college football's Week 7 action on Saturday. USC comes in perfect through six games, already outpacing last season's win total, while Utah has dropped two games, at Florida and at UCLA. This is the Trojans' first 6-0 start since 2006, when that team lost its seventh game,…

A pair of Big Ten rivals square off in the Big House as Michigan welcomes Penn State in a battle of top 10 teams in college football's Week 7 action on Saturday. Both teams are coming off closer than expected matchups in conference games: Michigan, on the road to Indiana, and Penn State, two weeks ago against Northwestern before taking last weekend…

A pair of old SEC rivals square off in a matchup of top-10 ranked teams as Alabama meets Tennessee in college football's Week 7 action on Saturday. And for the first time in a long time, you get the feeling Big Orange has a fighting chance. More than that, even, as undefeated Tennessee comes in the No. 6 team in the country behind college…

For the first time since 1998, both Texas and Oklahoma will meet in the Red River Shootout as unranked teams in college football's Week 6 action on Saturday. That year marked the first for Mack Brown as Texas head coach. Now another first-year coach steps into the rivalry as Brent Venables leads Oklahoma into the Cotton Bowl against the…

Back in the preseason, everybody thought Texas-Oklahoma would be the must-watch game in the Big 12 this Saturday, but TCU and Kansas have emerged as the surprise undefeateds in this league coming into Week 6. TCU is fresh off a thrashing of Oklahoma, a game in which the Horned Frogs piled up almost 700 yards of offense and scored one after another…

Back in the preseason, the meeting between Alabama and Texas A&M seemed like the premier date on the Week 6 college football schedule, if not the top draw all year. A&M was set to be the next big thing in the SEC West after that historic recruiting haul and was in position to give Nick Saban a nudge in the division. But the Aggies' struggles since…

Week 6 of the college football schedule is here, and it's time to make our picks and predictions for the top games on Saturday. There are three matchups this weekend pitting top 25 ranked teams on the same field, including one surprise in the Big 12, a notable SEC matchup, and a date between Pac-12 contenders out west. Let's get up to date on how…

Moneyline: WF+200 FSU -300 FPI pick: Florida State 73.4% 1. Seminoles secondary on notice. Take a look at what Sam Hartman did to Clemson last week. Wake's quarterback passed for over 300 yards (for the third straight game), including a battery of accurate deep throws, and a school record 6 touchdown passes in the win. Florida State is a…

O/U: 54 Moneyline: UGA -20000 UM+2000 FPI pick: Georgia 94.8% 1. Missouri at wide receiver. Anyone hoping to see 5-star wideout Luther Burden go against Georgia's secondary might be disappointed. Burden is dealing with an undisclosed injury from the Auburn game, and is questionable for this week. We'll see if that throws Mizzou's passing attack…

Moneyline: OU -300, TCU+200 FPI pick: Oklahoma 65.5% 1. TCU doesn't make mistakes. So far under 1st year coach Sonny Dykes, the Horned Frogs aren't beating themselves. The team averages 510 yards of offense per game, third in the Big 12, and quarterback Max Duggan 9th nationally with a 96.7 QBR, 1st in pass efficiency, and is good for 77% of his…

Moneyline: NCST+200 CLEM -300 FPI pick: Clemson 83.5% 1. Clemson on the back end. There's no papering over the fact that Clemson played a dismal game of football in the secondary last weekend. Granted, it was Sam Hartman doing it, but the Wake quarterback was able to throw his receivers open all day and passed for a school record 6 TD passes.…

Moneyline: N/A FPI pick: Ohio State 98.3% 1. Keep doing what you're doing. The gameplan for Ohio State gets simpler by the week: protect the quarterback and let him deal to what looks to be the best wide receiver room in college football. If a good Wisconsin defense couldn't stop the Buckeyes from dropping 52 relatively easy points, then Rutgers…

O/U: 56.5 Moneyline: OSU+110 BAY -143 FPI pick: Baylor 65.3% 1. Defense could decide it. Sure, the Big 12 has built its reputation for playing high-flying offense the last few years, but these two teams rode elite defensive play to the conference title game last season. OSU's has taken a slight hit since Jim Knowles left, allowing 44 points to…

Moneyline: LSU -376 AUB+250 FPI pick: LSU 78.9% 1. Don't overlook LSU. It's easy to after that heartbreaking, last-second game loss to Florida State off that missed kick. And while it's easy to shake off LSU's big wins against overmatched teams, it also pulled out an impressive 13-point comeback against Mississippi State, holding that superb…

Moneyline: MISS -300 UK+200 1. Ole Miss wants to run. That's been the team's offensive identity after all the changeover from last season. Lane Kiffin says his system is based on controlling tempo on the ground, and the Rebels are coming off a 316 yard performance vs. Georgia Tech. Ole Miss is 4th nationally with 280.75 rushing yards per game, has…

USC is back on the road with a date at Oregon State in the Beavers' conference opener in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Both teams come in at 3-0 on the year, and both with statement wins over Fresno State. USC owns a win in the Pac-12 after routing Stanford on the road, while OSU is fresh off dropping 68 on Montana State last…

A pair of Lone Star State rivals meet up as Texas takes on Texas Tech in the Big 12 opener in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Both sides come in at 2-1 on the year: Texas with two easy non-conference wins plus a 1-point loss to Alabama; and Tech with a win over a then-ranked Houston, but coming off a 13-point loss on the road to NC…

Notre Dame is coming off Win No. 1 of the Marcus Freeman era and now takes it on the road to ACC Country against North Carolina in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Freeman is coming off his first win as Irish head coach, a close, 7-pointer at home to Cal, while the Tar Heels are perfect through three games, but have been put through…

A pair of ACC Atlantic rivals meet up at Truist Field as Clemson pays a visit to Wake Forest in a battle of top 25 ranked teams in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Clemson comes in as the No. 5 team in the latest AP rankings, while Wake owns a No. 21 position in the poll, a drop of 2 spots after a 1-point win over Liberty last…

A pair of cross-division rivals meet up in Columbus as Ohio State welcomes Wisconsin in the Big Ten opener in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Ohio State is perfect through 3 games behind the No. 1 total offense in college football while Wisconsin already has one costly loss, at home to Washington State, but is playing behind the…

Michigan opens up its Big Ten schedule as it welcomes Maryland to the Big House in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Both clubs come in perfect through three games: the Wolverines, coming off a soft non-conference slate, and Maryland, which held off SMU in a statement, 7-point victory a season ago. Here's what you need to know about the…

Alabama is back home to welcome Vanderbilt as both teams open up SEC play in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. Vanderbilt comes in a surprise 3-1, already surpassing last season's win total, to square off against the SEC West favorite Crimson Tide, at 3-0. Here's what you need to know about this weekend's matchup. When: Sat., Sept.…

A pair of SEC rivals meet on Rocky Top as Tennessee hosts Florida to renew the old animosity in college football's Week 4 action on Saturday. This time, the matchup has the added benefit of both teams being featured in the AP top 25 rankings, with a ton on the line in the East Division standings. Here's what you need to know about the matchup this…

College Football Playoff defending national champion Georgia is perfect, very perfect, through three games: demolishing the likes of Oregon, Samford, and South Carolina in due course coming into Week 4 action. Now in comes Kent State to Sanford Stadium to try its luck against the Bulldogs to round up September action on Saturday. Here's what you…

What to expect when Florida hosts USF on the Week 3 college football schedule Florida hopes to find some momentum and stability after its first loss of the season when the Gators host USF in college football's Week 3 action on Saturday. Florida dipped 6 spots to No. 18 in the AP poll after losing to Kentucky at home last weekend, while USF comes in…

USC returns home to the Memorial Coliseum with a jump in the polls to host Fresno State in college football's Week 3 action on Saturday. Southern Cal is 2-0 after big wins over Rice and at Stanford and playing behind an offense that looks as skilled and productive as advertised. Fresno comes in 1-1 after a shock, last-second loss against Oregon…

A pair of perfect 2-0 teams meet in Raleigh as NC State hosts Texas Tech in college football's Week 3 action on Saturday. NC State checks in at No. 16 in the latest top 25 rankings while Tech is coming off an 2-OT win over a formerly ranked Houston at home. Here's what you need to know about Saturday's matchup. When: Sat., Sept. 17 Time: 7 p.m.…