#Graham Mertz

Georgia's national championship victory over TCU is less than a week old, but the news and offseason never stops in college football - and that's especially true in the SEC. The Bulldogs will be heavily favored to win the SEC next season, which means 13 other teams have already started to aim for coach Kirby Smart's program and how to topple the…

LINCOLN - One more offseason. One more preseason. One more football season. And one more postseason. All with a new commissioner, and an eye toward a larger future in the league. One more trip around the sun with this iteration of Big Ten football. And one more year with divisional schedules. One more year, for certain, of a Big Ten title game. The…

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Game: Wisconsin Badgers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 Location: Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ TV: ESPN Odds/Point Spread: Cowboys (+2.5) Total/Over-Under: 51.5 Chase Field is where the Oklahoma State Cowboys (7-5) will compete against the Wisconsin Badgers (6-6) on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl.…

The end of an era, the start of a promising future, and an early look at 2023? Make no mistake, the Guaranteed Rate Bowl has plenty of reasons for Wisconsin fans to be glued to their televisions on Tuesday night. The Badgers will say goodbye to DC Jim Leonhard as he begins the next chapter in post-Madison life. Paul Chryst was fired for Leonhard,…

Usually, a Tuesday night last week of December bowl game at 9:15 central time would not exactly qualify as must-see TV for even the most passionate Wisconsin football fans. And now the Guaranteed Rate Bowl isn't just another postseason football game. Wisconsin (6-6) vs. Oklahoma State (7-5) has become the Late Night with Luke Fickell Show. Here's a…

Oklahoma State football is hoping to end the 2022 season on a positive note and continue its historic success in bowl games when it takes on Wisconsin at the Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix on Tuesday. Kickoff is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. CT and will air on ESPN with Beth Mowins, Kirk Morrison and Stormy Buoantony on the call. Here is a look at the…

Oklahoma State faces Wisconsin in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl Tuesday in a game that features two programs going through different transition periods. Wisconsin is in the midst of a transition with Luke Fickell taking over the program after being lured away from Cincinnati. Interim coach Jim Leonhard will coach the bowl game after the Badgers went 4-3…

Wisconsin enters the Guaranteed Rate Bowl without its starting quarterback, six players who opted out to prepare for the NFL Draft and possibly its leading rusher. Yet the Badgers are solidly favored to win Tuesday's game in Phoenix. The main reason: Oklahoma State, which lost four of its final five regular season games, also won't have its…

After several weeks of preparation, it is officially gameday for the Wisconsin Badgers football team. With a coaching transition underway, Tuesday night's matchup between Wisconsin and Oklahoma State represents the final time that each team will play during the 2022 season. With the Badgers looking to send the seniors and prior coaching staff off…

Wisconsin football will take the field one last time in 2022 as they take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Phoenix, Arizona in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. These teams will look quite a bit different on both sides as neither team will be with their starting quarterback from this season as both Spencer Sanders (OSU) and Graham Mertz have hit the…

Chase Field hosts an intriguing bowl matchup on Tuesday evening. The 2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl wraps up a four-game bowl slate on Dec. 27, with the Wisconsin Badgers taking on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Wisconsin won three of the last five games to finish 6-6 overall. Oklahoma State is 7-5 overall, though the Cowboys dropped four of the last five…

Looking out the window at the gray skies Thursday served as a timely reminder. Now that the calendar has flipped to November, it's important for bettors to also be meteorologists and check the weather reports. For example, the forecast this weekend across Big Ten country calls for nasty weather, the kind that makes you want to cancel all your…

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…

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and there are 43 college football bowls to wager on. VSiN is here to help bettors sort through them all and find the value. Be sure to check out our College Football Bowl Betting Guide, our homepage for individual bowl previews and our running best bets file. This is the preview for the Guaranteed Rate…

Neither the Wisconsin Badgers nor Oklahoma State Cowboys will have their starting quarterbacks for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. Here are our Wisconsin vs. Oklahoma State college football picks based on the top odds. The Guaranteed Rate Bowl features a matchup between two average Power 5 teams that struggled down the stretch. The Oklahoma State Cowboys…

Bowl season can sometimes be about who is not there instead of who is, and that feels like the case for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl between Wisconsin and Oklahoma State. The starting quarterback for both teams is in the transfer portal ahead of Tuesday's game. Spencer Sanders was a four-year starter for the Cowboys and was one of the faces of a team…

Tuesday brings a jam-packed college football schedule. The finale of a four-game schedule takes place in Phoenix with the 2022 Guaranteed Rate Bowl. The Wisconsin Badgers take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys in a battle between power-conference squads. Wisconsin is 6-6 overall and Oklahoma State is 7-5 through the regular season. Both teams are…

Bowl season is underway. This year, there are 41 bowl games between December 16 and January 2, plus the National Championship Game on January 9. The Big 12 Conference had eight teams qualify, which is one team up from last season. For the second year in a row, two of those teams will play in one of the NY6 Bowls. No. 3 TCU is coming off an amazing…

Both the Cowboys and Badgers have lost their starting quarterbacks to the transfer portal. As a result, this should heavily affect the number of points being scored on Tuesday. Read more in our Oklahoma State vs. Wisconsin betting picks. This season's Guaranteed Rate Bowl between Wisconsin and Oklahoma State perfectly encapsulates the post-transfer…

Wisconsin Badgers (6-6 SU, 5-7 ATS) vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys (7-5 SU, 6-6 ATS) Guaranteed Rate Bowl Date and Time: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 10:15PM EST Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona TV: ESPN Point Spread: WIS -3/OKST+3 (Bovada - Deposit $200 get $100 FREE!) Over/Under Total: 43 The Wisconsin Badgers battle the Oklahoma State Cowboys…

The Wisconsin Badgers and the Oklahoma State Cowboys will play in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. The bowl matchup is December 27, 2022, starting at 10:15 PM ET, airing on ESPN. The Badgers enter the matchup after losing 23-16 to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in their last outing on November 26. The Cowboys' last game was a 24-19 loss to the West Virginia…

College football bowl season ramps up with four games, including a notable matchup of Power-5 teams to round out a full day of action. The Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, AL matches a pair of 6-6 teams, the Buffalo Bulls and the Georgia Southern Eagles. Eagles quarterback Kyle Vantrease played five seasons at Buffalo before transferring prior to the…

Wisconsin and Oklahoma State both began the year in the AP Top 25 and will end it unranked, facing one another for the first time ever in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. The Cowboys will be without quarterback Spencer Sanders, who nearly led the team to a College Football Playoff appearance last season. He entered the transfer portal a few weeks ago,…

Wisconsin and Oklahoma State are both going through massive transitions this offseason and will look to finish underwhelming seasons. Neither Wisconsin or Oklahoma State will have their regular starting quarterback as both Badgers' Graham Mertz and Cowboys' Spencer Sanders hit the transfer portal, among other key contributors on both sides. The…

There are a lot of bowl games this year… like a lot. There will be 42 games played all over the country, all with varying levels of importance and intrigue. The Big Ten is tied for the second-most bowl game participants this year with nine alongside the ACC. Both are behind the SEC's 11 bowl games. That number could have been higher, but Michigan…

If you haven't learned by now not to take any week for granted in the sport of college football, may Week 12 be your latest example of why you should embrace the opportunities available every single week. It was a tense week for the top teams in the College Football Playoff hunt, including the top two playoff contenders from the Big Ten. But to…

The transfer portal is boomin'. That means the college football bowl games are now… murky. With days until bowl games start and reportedly thousands of athletes looking for new homes, we are now in a betting nightmare as we sort through which key players are left on each team. Or is it an opportunity? As always, it's in the eyes of the…

With College Football Bowl Season on the way, it's time to look at upset picks. Oklahoma State Cowboys head coach Mike Gundy's team is an underdog against a Wisconsin Badgers unit in the midst of a coaching transition. Who else can beat the favorite? Read on for our best college football upset picks for bowl season. College Football Bowl Season…

The 2022 version of college football free agency arrived Monday, which was the first of a 45-day period in which players can submit their names into the NCAA transfer portal. There will still be plenty of movement over the next month and a half, with some decisions likely to be made after bowl season concludes. But through just 2 days, there's…

In the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, the Wisconsin Badgers (6-6) and Oklahoma State Cowboys (7-5) will clash in Arizona. These Power 5 teams had solid regular seasons, and will aim to finish strong, with an above.500 season on the line for the Badgers and the Cowboys looking for win number eight on the year. In our college football picks for bowl season,…

Week 11 resulted in another action-packed Saturday in the Big Ten. For Maryland, Saturday was a nightmare. The Terps went to State College, Pennsylvania, and were destroyed by Penn State, 30-0. All 14 Big Ten teams were on the gridiron Saturday, all in conference play. Let's dive right into the action. Coming off a miserable 24-3 loss to Iowa last…

Once upon a time, Russell Wilson was an All-ACC quarterback at N.C. State. He also happened to be a fine college baseball player, which his football coach, Tom O'Brien, didn't exactly love. Why? Spring football. If your QB1 is on the diamond, he can't be in the huddle for important offseason practices. Eventually, after three often-marvelous…

Hudson Card was a four-star quarterback recruit for the Texas Longhorns in 2020, the No. 2-ranked dual-threat QB in the nation. Card was just fine when he got on the field. He passed for 1523 yards, 11 TDs, and two INTs. But he got just five starts in three years in Austin, beaten out by Quinn Ewers this preseason. Now the redshirt sophomore is…

A big bowl season awaits the Big Ten. There will be a minimum of 9 B1G bowl games this postseason, with Michigan and Ohio State both earning the opportunity to play in a 10th for the national championship. The Big Ten's first year with 2 teams in the College Football Playoff has a trickle-down effect on the rest of the conference's bowl bids.…

The Big Ten has been in the news cycle often this offseason and not because of its reigning champion nor its biggest national brand. But we're not here to talk realignment- let's dive into the landscape of the Big Ten conference for the 2022 college football season. As a refresher, the Michigan Wolverines won their first outright conference title…

It's Rivalry week in college football, and there's no better way to spice up the action than throwing together some parlays and teasers. The main Saturday slate on November 26th is ripe for parlay betting. We've hit five of our last six college football parlays, plus our previous two teaser plays. We have a college football parlay at+124 odds for…

The Big Ten saw plenty of surprises last season. Michigan won the conference for the first time since 2004 and went to the College Football Playoff, while Ohio State and Michigan State played in New Year's Six bowls. In the conference's West division, Minnesota recovered from a down 2020 to win nine games, as did Purdue, which notched its highest…

The Washington State Cougars will be hoping to spring a huge upset when they go on the road to face the No. 19 Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday afternoon. Washington State found itself trailing Idaho by double digits last week, but it responded with 24 consecutive points to grab the win. Wisconsin took care of business in a 38-0 win over Illinois…

The Minnesota Golden Gophers have enjoyed the comforts of home their last two games, but now they must head out on the road. The Golden Gophers and the Wisconsin Badgers will face off in a Big Ten battle at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium. If the nothing to nothing final from the last time they met is any indication, this contest…

Auburn has had a season to forget, but the Tigers are still playing strong competition closely and are no stranger to upsetting Alabama in the Iron Bowl. Read why they should cover as massive road dogs in our Week 13 college football parlay picks. It's the last weekend of the college football regular season, which means this is our final…

Free College Football Picks For Today 11/23/2022 Hawaii vs. San Jose St-Hawaii improved to 3-9 with their 31-25 home win to UNLV. Warriors gained 369 yards with 167 rushing on 36 attempts. On defense, they allowed 4 yards per run to the Rebels with 288 passing on 37 attempts. Brayden Schager completed 59.3% with 7.5 yards per attempt. He passed for…

Paul Bunyan's Axe is up for grabs when the Wisconsin Badgers (6-5) and the Minnesota Golden Gophers (7-4) square off. The Badgers (-3) play host to the Golden Gophers (+138 to win on the moneyline) on November 26, 2022 at 3:30 PM ET on ESPN. The total for the game is set at 36 points. The betting facts in this article reference odds valid as of…

Our Week 12 college football best bets include a home underdog in the SEC, a Pac-12 rivalry game, and a player prop from a Big Ten clash. The penultimate college football Saturday of the season is upon us. Although this weekend's schedule lacks marquee matchups between big-name schools, there are still plenty of compelling games on the board. As…

After going 5-1 in our early college football predictions and picks column, it's time to find more value in the closing lines for Saturday's action. We'll outline some line changes and touch on previous early-line bets that were advised and whether or not to grab those games ahead of the action this weekend. The first of our non-MAC early picks and…

Reaching a bowl game wasn't a problem for Michigan State last year. The Spartans won their first eight games and capped a resurgent season with a Peach Bowl victory against Pittsburgh to finish 11-2. Now at the midpoint of this season, Michigan State is facing an uphill battle just to reach six wins and become bowl eligible. That is the result of…

Welcome to Week 7 of the college football season. Each week, our VSiN experts will combine to give their best bets on select games. We had a 6-3 showing in Week 6 and we're looking to ride that momentum into Week 7. Odds are from DraftKings (unless noted) as of Wednesday night. Season record: 28-32-1 Saturday, Noon ET Wes Reynolds: FOX's "Big Noon…

With a 6-2 record and four games left, Maryland football is set to play meaningful football in the month of November. The Terps sit just outside the AP and Coaches Polls, 28th and 27th, respectively, and could stake a claim nationally with a win over Wisconsin on the road this Saturday. Maryland is a 6.5-point underdog heading to face Wisconsin…

Maryland football (6-3, 3-3 Big Ten) looks to rebound in a major way Saturday, but it won't be easy. The Terps will travel to iconic Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania, to take on the No. 14Penn State Nittany Lions. In their last showing, the Terps came out flat, falling to the Wisconsin Badgers, 23-10, on the road. Wisconsin junior…

Check out FanDuel's 2022 college football over under win total odds, including the Wisconsin over under win total prediction, part of our college football odds series. The Wisconsin Badgers have been a noticeably consistent program ever since Barry Alvarez authored a remarkable turnaround in the early 1990s. Since Alvarez guided the Badgers to the…