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No. 10 Michigan State meets No. 12 Pitt in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 30. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The game will be televised on ESPN. Pitt (11-2) won the ACC championship under coach Pat Narduzzi this season. The Panthers, however, will be without Heisman finalist Kenny Pickett. The Pitt…

This college football bowl season has been a fun ride yet again, but the time has arrived for the serious business to commence as the New Year's Six slate kicks off on Thursday night. It begins with the Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta with No. 10 Michigan State battling No. 12 Pittsburgh in a matchup featuring Big Ten and ACC…

The good news is last week's special Four Pack edition of The Six Pack had a winning week. The bad news is that only three of the four games were played. The Hawaii Bowl was canceled on the eve of the game -- which would be Christmas Eve Eve? -- and more have gone down since. It shouldn't come as a surprise considering what's happening in every…

Big Ten Media Days is here and with it the unofficial start of the college football season. And that makes it officially prediction season. Including in the Big Ten, which, although it canned its media preseason poll in recent years, still offers us a view of what to expect in the conference. That's thanks to Cleveland.com, which picked up the…

Check out FanDuel's 2022 college football over under win total odds, including the Pittsburgh over under win total prediction, part of our college football odds series. The Pittsburgh Panthers have undergone a lot of changes in the offseason, most of them being negative or, at the very least, subtractions rather than additions. Quarterback Kenny…

The Syracuse Orange take on the Pittsburgh Panthers. Check out our college football odds series for our Syracuse Pittsburgh prediction and pick. The shine is off Syracuse, which started the season so brilliantly but has come crashing down to earth the past few weeks. Coach Dino Babers was riding high with an unbeaten team and a 21-10 lead over…

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…

We have reached the halfway point of the season and Purdue is 4-2. We're two plays from 6-0, really. Even though the dream of an undefeated season is dead, some great hings can still be accomplished. A second straight bowl game is very likely, and there is a real chance to win the West Division. It's a good place to be. Let's look around the league…

As we head into Week 6 of the college football season, we have a good idea of which teams are contenders. A handful of teams have drastically performed well below their preseason expectations too. Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Michigan State, to name a few, are on the latter list. Let's run through those and the other biggest disappointments of the…

Each week, the Sports editorial team selects its Top 25 Division I college football teams for the Student Media Poll. The SMP is a nationwide poll featuring 122 student journalists from all Football Bowl Subdivision conferences. There are voters from 69 different schools across 34 states. The Post Sports will break down its ballots each week. Here…

Everyone's been waiting for the beginning of college football, and many can't wait to start college fantasy and making bets. Daily fantasy sports (DFS) continues to rise in the college football community and even adds another layer of excitement to Saturdays. Week 0 might not be the biggest slate, but there are plenty of options to fill your DFS…

It wouldn't officially be "Bowl Season" if rumors weren't flying around about which star NFL prospects might play or pass in their non-postseason bowls these next several weeks. While the games may not mean much as glorified exhibitions, bettors and the books have every incentive to stay on high-alert. One game has already created havoc on the…

Since the opening lines for bowls hit the board at Caesars Sportsbooks on Dec. 5, the favorite has flipped in 10 games, and the spread in the Quick Lane Bowl has moved 11 points. It's only the beginning of the annual high-stakes guessing game between bettors and bookmakers that has become a college football tradition during bowl season in the age…

The biggest national storyline that came from Saturday's 31-28 Northwestern victory over Nebraska undoubtedly will be the painful, gradual downfall of the Scott Frost tenure with the Cornhuskers. But don't let that detract from the Wildcats' brilliant bounce-back. A steady, methodical comeback win over a Huskers team that was favored by double…

The Volunteers head to the Keystone State in a quest for national relevancy The Opponent: The Pitt Panthers are your defending ACC champions, and are coming off an emotional win in the Backyard Brawl against West Virginia. Pitt went 10-2 in their regular season last year, and won the ACC Championship game over Wake Forest. It was the Panthers'…

This season I'll be breaking down a few of college football's biggest games each week and giving out at least one bet I like from each matchup. Let's dive into Tennessee at Pittsburgh, as the Vols look for revenge after Pitt's 41-34 victory in Knoxville last season. Tennessee vs Pittsburgh Spread, current line: If I had to bet this game against the…

No. 17 Pittsburgh and No. 24 Tennessee are squaring off in another early-season showdown on Saturday a year after playing a thrilling Week 2 game that the Panthers won 41-34. This time, Pitt gets home-field advantage as it welcomes an SEC foe to Acrisure Stadium for the first time in program history. The afternoon contest between the reigning ACC…

Hopefully, you were one of the many readers of the 2022 College Football Betting Guide, or alternatively, have been a VSiN subscriber for a while now. If so, you're probably familiar with my methodology for college football Stability Scores heading into each season. If not, in a nutshell, these scores provide a quantitative way to determine each…

If Week 0 was the warm up for the 2022 season, then Week 1 is the start of the marathon. Five days of college football, spanning Thursday through Labor Day, provides wall-to-wall (or screen-to-screen) action that features a little bit of something for everyone. Getting things underway is the return of a top-10 rivalry in college football: the…

Michigan shook up the Big Ten in 2021. The Wolverines finally broke through under coach Jim Harbaugh for the program's first Big Ten championship since 2004, and that snapped Ohio State's run of four straight conference titles. The Buckeyes, however, are the prohibitive favorite to strike back in 2022. Fourth-year coach Ryan Day brings back a…