#Brad Powers

The Brad Power College Football Release Show on Covers brings a unique show format to the CFB betting world, allowing all bettors to make their wagers at the same time as one of college football's leading handicappers! Join us live for our Week 14 edition of the Brad Powers CFB Release Show - airing at 11 a.m.

The first round of College Football Playoff rankings came out this week and have gotten a lot of discussion. It's November, which means games featuring CFP contenders take on added importance. A secondary storyline this month involves all of the teams trying to get to a bowl game for a swag bag and one last chance to shine. For Week 10, I asked pro…

LAS VEGAS - In the late 1970s, cocky young prognosticator Danny Sheridan boasted of his magnificent acumen picking football winners to Mort Olshan, who brainstormed a test. Give me the team that won and whether it had covered the spread, Olshan said, of two games that were played last weekend. Sheridan, who claimed to have a photographic memory,…

The college football regular season is just about over, but a lot of important games are left. The College Football Playoff picture needs some clarity. Some conference championship games are already set, but others are not, and a chance to play for a conference crown is a big goal for most programs. A bowl game appearance is usually one of the bare…

LAS VEGAS - How can a plan executed so well, securing the best of the college football lines at a 70-plus-percent clip with Circa's opening numbers, flop so miserably, eviscerate profits and create a deficit? Mailman Phil contemplated just that as he settled into a diner booth, 30 feet from an adjacent mom-and-pop sportsbook on the Vegas…

When studying data in search of betting systems for our readers to use in their handicapping, I tend to look for specific line ranges, types of games and the point in the season in which games were played as the foundation. For instance, the opening week of the college football season presents interesting matchups every year, and the prices set by…

It doesn't take exhaustive research to find a team favored by more points than is Ohio State (-17.5) over Marcus Freeman's fifth-ranked Fighting Irish entering Saturday's contest in Columbus. And unlike the last time such a spread was posed to Notre Dame and its fans, there's no knowing if the opponent is as good as advertised. That previous…