Desmond Howard Catching Heat for His College Football Playoff Picks After Week 2

The Wagner Seahawks and Howard Bison open the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday in the First Four, as we offer our best Wagner vs. Howard prediction based on the best March Madness odds. The first game of March Madness will feature two teams looking for their first-ever win in the NCAA Tournament, as No. 16 seeds Wagner (16-15) and Howard (18-16) meet in…

Wagner will take on Howard in the first game of the 2024 NCAA Tournament in less than 48 hours. This will be Wagner's first March Madness appearance in more than 20 years, Howard's second appearance in more than 30 years. The game will tip off at UD Arena on Tuesday, scheduled to begin at 6:40 p.m. ET. Our predictions and best bets for Tuesday's…

Three teams - North Carolina, Duke and Clemson - will arrive at next week's ACC men's basketball tournament in D.C. as virtual locks to make the NCAA tournament. Four others - Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia and Wake Forest - still have work to do to secure an at-large bid ahead of Selection Sunday. The stakes are high but nothing like they were 50…

Welcome to March, the time when spring practice begins and focus is officially turned toward the upcoming season. This edition of looking ahead includes trying to understand what the sport will look like. The Big Ten now includes 18 teams, the College Football Playoff has expanded to 12 teams and Wisconsin's place among both is unknown. Will the…

Old MEAC rivals square off in the Cricket Celebration Bowl as the Howard Bison battle the Florida A&M Rattlers, so let's dive in with our best Howard vs. Florida A&M prediction based on the best college football odds. Howard (6-5) has impressed with recent performances, securing consecutive wins and prevailing in four of their last five games. The…

The final College Football Playoff of the four-team era is rapidly approaching. The current format will give way to an expanded 12-team field in 2024, bringing an end to one of the most interesting eras in this sport's history. If there's one lesson to be learned from the last decade or so, it's that not all playoff fields are created…

One weekend of games remains before the FCS playoff bracket is revealed. So much is in the air on who's in, who's out, and who will be seeded. Let's take a stab at it anyway. Below are predictions for the seeds, auto-bids, at-large bids, the bracket, and which teams are on the bubble, factoring in Week 12 predictions. Place College Football Wagers…

I am grateful to again have a vote in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 media poll for the 2023 season. I'll publish my ballot every week and provide some reasoning for my order. Notes at the bottom. South Dakota State Montana Montana State Furman South Dakota Idaho Delaware UAlbany Sacramento State North Dakota State North Carolina…

The top of the Big 12 will be sorted out come Saturday evening and one of the biggest games on the docket is Kansas State travelling to Texas in a battle of ranked foes. The Longhorns will continue to start Maalik Murphy in place of the injured Quinn Ewers in hopes of staying atop the conference standings. What is the best way to attack Texas' key…

With the Wildcats looking to spoil the Longhorns' CFP hopes, find out why KSU quarterback Will Howard could be most effective on Saturday when he uses his legs. Read more in our Kansas State vs. Texas betting picks. It's going to be a unique Big 12 quarterback battle on Saturday, and the college football odds reflect that as the Kansas State…

From 1940-1969, Frank Howard roamed the sidelines at Clemson. During his 30 seasons as the Tigers' head coach, "The Bashful Baron of Barlow Bend" posted a 165-118-12 record, while guiding the Clemson Football program to national acclaim. Howard's teams won eight conference championships and played in and won some of the biggest bowl games of his…

Our college football player props based on the best NCAAF odds will be shooting for upside in Week 6. I've said all season that we plan to learn from this weekly college football player props column, especially as props continue to become more popular across our best sports betting apps. Sportsbooks are still releasing new markets, and we are…

At this point, it has become a yearly tradition for the internet to have some fun with Desmond Howard's preseason College Football Playoff predictions. Howard offered his prediction on Saturday's season debut of "College GameDay," and his predictions raised some eyebrows. Howard had his alma mater Michigan winning the championship, and excluded…

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Through the close calls and championship chances over two decades, the Big Ten felt like a conference with multiple possibilities for a national title in men's basketball, and with one football team that could compete at the national level. That made the Big Ten seem, at times, like a basketball conference. Football was Ohio State…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Thanks to everyone who participated in the reverse Michigan football and basketball mailbag. It was a fun way to mix things up and, more importantly, pawn off a day's worth of work on my loyal readers. Here are some of the highlights from your comments, interspersed with my own thoughts on Jim Harbaugh's future, the direction of…

It's been a fun year for ESPN's Desmond Howard. His beloved Michigan Wolverines went undefeated in the regular season for the first time since 1997 and are in the College Football Playoff for the second straight year. So with the College Football Playoff getting underway tomorrow, Howard is ready to make his prediction. Appearing on First Take, the…

The team many Alabama football fans were rooting for in the Big 12 conference championship, Kansas State, is the Crimson Tide's next opponent. For Alabama to have any sort of chance to make the College Football Playoff heading into Sunday, it needed TCU to lose. That happened in overtime, but still it wasn't enough to bump the one-loss Horned Frogs…

Ten conference championship games between Friday and Saturday will finalize our bowl schedule and help determine which four teams are selected for the College Football Playoff. Read on for our best ATS bets for Week 14's college football action. This year, the CFP committee has some relatively straightforward decisions, as Georgia, Michigan, and…

This was the kind of Saturday the Pac-12 had been avoiding this year. We hadn't seen the crazy upsets which upend the Pac-12's College Football Playoff hopes. We hadn't seen the chaos which usually leaves the Pac-12 on the outside looking in. We hadn't seen the face-plants, stumbles, and slip-ups which ruin this conference's postseason…

The No. 4 Kentucky Wildcats will take on the Howard Bison on Monday at Rupp Arena. The Wildcats are expected to be without Oscar Tshiebwe (knee) against the Bison. Tshiebwe averaged 17.4 points and 15.1 rebounds per game last season and John Calipari said he "would be stunned if he played Monday." The game from Rupp Arena is scheduled to tip off at…

College football fans have thousands of reasons why they love the sport. Perhaps you love the game itself, the emotions, the upsets or the memories it creates. Me? Two things: Chaos and oddities. I love a good historical blowout and a defensive lineman creating three takeaways. I'm here for absurd catches, an ordinarily great offense committing…

Desmond Howard made a an attention-grabbing prediction for the 2022 College Football Playoff. Howard's College Football Playoff prediction went viral on ESPN's College GameDay before the kickoff of Week Zero after Howard picked No. 1 Texas A&M, No. 2 Baylor, No. 3 Michigan and No. 4 Pittsburgh to make the final four, with Texas A&M beating Michigan…

On Saturday, August 27th, the first edition of College Gameday for the 2022 college football season premiered for the always interesting Week 0 matchup weekend, and while host Rece Davis asked analysts Kirk Herbstreit, David Pollack, Lee Corso, and Desmond Howard who they believe will reach, and ultimately win the college football playoff, once…

It looks like Texas A&M can finish engraving that CFP national championship plaque it presented coach Jimbo Fisher in 2018 if ESPN "College GameDay" analyst Desmond Howard's prediction is right. The former Michigan Wolverine star, during Saturday's "GameDay" broadcast, revealed - along with Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and David Pollack - predictions…

Ohio State fans are ready to move on from the 2023 college football season. While an 11-2 record that included a trip to a New Year's Six bowl game would be a great season for the vast majority of the teams in the sport, the Buckeyes left the year disappointed with the final result, especially after the deflating 14-3 Cotton Bowl loss to…