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The new model for turning a college football program around is the transfer portal. All of a sudden, a four-win USC team can compete for Playoff berths in just a year and two-win Colorados can become overnight national attention-grabbers. While not everyone agrees with the portal, it's become important for player mobility. With mobility comes…

Sports Betting Dime provides exclusive sports betting content to Newsweek, including picks, analysis, tools and sportsbook offers to help bettors get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. The final game of wild-card weekend takes place tonight at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, as the No. 4-seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9, 5-4 home,…

Three of the four matchups for the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs have been set. The Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) will host the New York Giants (10-7-1) at 8:15 p.m. ET Saturday at Lincoln Financial Field and have opened as 8.5-point favorites. The Eagles are the #1 seed in the NFC and the Giants are seeded #6. On Sunday, the Giants upset the…

A primetime affair on Monday Night Football features the Dallas Cowboys (12-5) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9) meeting on NFL Super Wild Card Weekend 2023. This will be Dallas' first playoff road game since 2018, when they fell 30-22 to the Los Angeles Rams. Last year, Tampa Bay hosted the Philadelphia Eagles in the Wild Card round and secured a…

Two first-year head coaches seek their first postseason victory when Kevin O'Connell and the NFC North champion Minnesota Vikings host Brian Daboll and the New York Giants in a 2023 NFL Super Wild Card Weekend game on Sunday. Minnesota (13-4) matched the second-highest win total in franchise history under the 37-year-old O'Connell, who spent the…

Sometime after midnight, having just watched one of the worst football games I have ever seen with my own eyes, I took a gander at Georgia's schedule. Not the 2022 schedule. The Bulldogs passed that test. They finished a perfect 15-0 overall, winning a second national championship. They also finished a superb 11-4 against the spread. After losing…

Quarterbacks are often the center of attention, and that's certainly the case entering Sunday's matchups on NFL Super Wild Card Weekend 2023. In Dolphins vs. Bills (1 p.m. ET), superstar Josh Allen is expected to face off against Miami third-stringer Skylar Thompson. In Bengals vs. Ravens (8:30 p.m. ET), Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson will…

A look at some of the Ravens vs Bengals player props can be found below with predictions A big thank you to the Green Bay Packers for deep-sixing us in the SNF Week 18 finale. Getting goose-egged is probably not the way you want to go into the playoffs. Alas, let's wipe the slate clean and get cracking on Wild Card weekend, as we look at the Sunday…

Rob Gronkowski's Super Bowl kick is a campaign launched by FanDuel Sportsbook ahead of Super Bowl LVII. Officially deemed the "Kick of Destiny", Gronkowski is going to attempt a field during a live Super Bowl commercial on February 12th for FanDuel. Any FanDuel customer who places a Super Bowl wager of at least $5 will win a share of $10 million in…

Playoff time is here and NFL fans are revved up for Wild Card weekend. The San Francisco 49ers come into the playoffs as the hottest team in the league, winning 10 in a row and are the heavy favorites in the Seahawks vs 49ers odds for this matchup. Although the underdogs have been the moneymakers to cover the spread in recent history on Wild Card…

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson faces the New York Giants for the second time in four weeks. Read on for our top Justin Jefferson prop picks. Jefferson led the NFL with 1809 receiving yards, the sixth-most in league history. In the process, he became the youngest player ever to lead in receptions (128) and yards (per ESPN). The…

The Los Angeles Chargers visit the AFC South-champion Jacksonville Jaguars in NFL wild-card playoff action this weekend. Luckily for sports bettors, a large slate of Chargers vs Jaguars props could make Saturday night a profitable one. Read on for Chargers vs Jaguars props for Wild Card Weekend. Conditions in Jacksonville are expected to be sunny,…

The Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers kick off Wild Card Weekend with an NFC West showdown on Saturday. Here are our Seahawks-49ers SGP picks based on the best NFL odds. Be sure to check out all of our NFL best bets. The Seahawks and 49ers have already met twice this season with San Francisco winning both matchups. Back in Week 2, with Jimmy…

College football's 2022 season came to an end last week when Georgia walloped TCU in the national championship game, giving the Bulldogs back-to-back titles. Immediately following that game, several publications released "Way-Too-Early" Top 25 projections for the 2023 season. Not surprisingly, the Michigan State Spartans were not included among…

The Buffalo Bills welcome the Miami Dolphins to Highmark Stadium in the wild-card round. The pregame narrative: Dawson Knox is one of Josh Allen's most trusted receiving options, and he should take advantage of an exploitable matchup. Devin Singletary's receiving yards prop is at a low total, and he's proven he can top it against Miami.…

West Virginia's football program has announced the signing of four transfers to grants-in-aid (scholarships). Those players are now enrolled at WVU for the spring 2023 semester, and eligible to participate in spring practice. The players (Ja'Shaun Poke, Montre Miller, Michael Hayes, Kole Taylor) are part of a current group of eight transfers who…

Liam Coen has officially returned to Kentucky football as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the second time in three years, returning to Lexington after spending one season as OC of the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL. Coen signed a three-year contract on Dec. 12, though the news wasn't made official by Kentucky until Tuesday, Jan.…

The New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings square off in Minnesota on Saturday in the first round of the NFL playoffs. These two teams played in Week 16, and it was a classic as the Vikings won in the final seconds on a 61-yard field goal by Greg Joseph. In that game, Giants quarterback Daniel Jones was very good, throwing for 342 yards and a…

The AFC South champion Jaguars (9-8) host the Chargers (10-7) for Saturday evening's wild-card weekend matchup. The Chargers are slight 1.5-point road favorites and the game total is set at 47.5 points. When these two teams faced off in Week 3 in Los Angeles, Jacksonville pulled off the 38-10 upset in a game where the Chargers were favored by 6.5…

The NFL playoffs kick off this weekend with Wild Card Weekend, which is now a six-game, three-day extravaganza thanks to the additional playoff team in each conference. Below we'll walk you through some of our best bets for spreads, totals, and even player props to make your weekend of football even more exciting. Bettors in Ohio can still take…

Three weeks after the Giants and Vikings met in Minneapolis, they're running it back with much higher stakes in the NFL wild-card round. It's the Giants, a popular upset pick that outperformed expectations by all accounts under first-year head coach Brian Daboll, against the Vikings, whose impressive record was propped up by a seemingly…

Has Georgia surpassed Alabama as the best program in college football?Dan Wolken looks at if Georgia can now be considered the team to beat in college football. Big 12 football has come a long way in 18 months. From possible extinction to viability. From newfound parity to newfound prosperity. And then on a stormy Monday night in Inglewood,…

Rob Gronkowski is a four-time Super Bowl champion, so he's no stranger to high-pressure situations. But he'll be trying to do something he never has before in his NFL career - on a live FanDuel commercial during the big game - make a field goal. Rob Gronkowski will attempt a 25-yard field goal on live TV sometime during the third quarter of Super…

The second-seeded 49ers (13-4) host NFC West division rival and the seventh-seeded Seahawks (9-8) on Saturday afternoon in a wild-card matchup. The Niners were favored and easily covered the spread in both regular-season games. Jimmy Garoppolo got the win in Week 2, while rookie Brock Purdy led San Francisco to a Week 15 victory. Both games went…

In the offseason, the transfer portal is at the forefront of college football. For West Virginia, it has resulted in the loss of several key players, leaving head coach Neal Brown to turn to the portal for new talent to bring to Morgantown. Brown and his staff have so far acquired seven transfer commitments through the portal. Although the new…

The Utah Utes come into the Rose Bowl as Pac-12 champions for the second straight season. Utah is hoping it avoids the same kind of wide-open Rose Bowl it faced last January, though. The Penn State Nittany Lions pose a new challenge out of the Big Ten and have motivation of their own to win on one of the sport's biggest stages. Penn State is making…

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart noted before the game that his team wanted to " hunt." Frogs were the prey. After failing to win a single national championship since 1980, the Georgia Bulldogs have now won back-to-back titles and finished a spotless 15-0 season in style, thrashing TCU 65-7. They never left a doubt in the domination, ending the…

The college football season is officially over as the Georgia Bulldogs are crowned champions for the second year in a row. Georgia accomplished a rare feat, going 15-0 as the 4th team to ever do it (last was LSU in 2019). The Dawgs destroyed the TCU Horned Frogs, there is no other way to put it. It was so bad that we now look onto next year and…

Now that the college football season is over, the offseason hype for the 2023-24 Florida State team has officially begun. Preseason top 10. The next ACC champions. Appearing in the College Football Playoff for the first time since its inception in 2014. Those are among the lofty expectations that the Seminoles have already received from national…

Georgia finally stopped scoring touchdowns against TCU, and the team is already starting to think about a three-peat. The Bulldogs became the first program in over a decade to successfully defend a national title. After beating Alabama in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, Georgia dropped the hammer on TCU with…

The stage is set for the NFL Playoffs, and while the Super Bowl is a month away, sportsbooks have released the MVP market for the championship game. Read on for our 2023 Super Bowl MVP picks and predictions based on the best NFL odds. Super Bowl 57 will take place on Feb. 12 in Glendale, Ariz. We don't know which two teams will be competing for the…

After two weeks of enjoyable matinees, the marquee games of college football's 2022 bowl season are up next. Most importantly, of course, we have the College Football Playoff semifinals. Second-ranked Michigan takes on No. 3 TCU before top-ranked and defending-champ Georgia squares off with No. 4 Ohio State. But there's also the remainder of the…

It's New Year's Eve which means it is also the biggest day of the college football season! Two College Football Playoff Semifinal matchups are on tap for Saturday. First, the TCU Horned Frogs will battle the Michigan Wolverines in the Fiesta Bowl. Later on, the Georgia Bulldogs will look to get one step closer to winning back-to-back national…

Georgia finally stopped scoring touchdowns against TCU, and the team is already starting to think about a three-peat. The Bulldogs became the first program in over a decade to successfully defend a national title. After beating Alabama in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, Georgia dropped the hammer on TCU with…

The second big weekend of spring games features three early favorites to win the College Football Playoff National Championship. Georgia, the reigning champion in college football, takes the field in the afternoon, along with big hitters like Alabama, Ohio State and Miami. As we get set for the loaded slate this weekend, Chip Patterson broke down…

The Georgia Bulldogs captured their second consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday with a dominant 65-7 victory over the overmatched TCU Horned Frogs. Georgia became the first program to win back-to-back national championships since the Alabama squads of 2011 and 2012. It capped an incredible season for the undefeated…

The NFC West champion San Francisco 49ers will seek their 11th consecutive victory when they host the division-rival Seattle Seahawks in a NFL Wild Card Game on Saturday as part of the NFL playoffs 2023. San Francisco (13-4) got off to a mediocre start this season, dropping four of its first seven games, before going on its head-turning run and…

After capturing consecutive national championships for the first time in program history, the Georgia Bulldogs are early favorites to pull off the three-peat. Alabama and Ohio State are the only other teams with better than 10-1 odds to capture next year's College Football Playoff National Championship, while USC and Michigan round out the top five…

New offensive coordinator. New defensive coordinator. New quarterback. New running backs. New wide receivers. New starting middle linebacker. New almost everything. But there is an old mission around the Indiana football program: discovering how to make Hoosiers relevant in the Big Ten East again. After a surprising Top 25 finish in the shortened…

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State's entire 2023 football recruiting class is now signed, and a few of its members will begin their college careers this week. There are 11 freshman Buckeyes who arrived in Columbus over the weekend as early enrollees expected to participate in winter workouts and spring practice this year. Often those who do get a head…

The Jags have been a bettor's darling and are riding high after an incredible comeback win over the Cowboys in Week 15. Our betting picks look into whether or not the offense can counter the Jets' ball-hawking secondary on Thursday Night Football. The Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets are first up on the NFL odds board for Week 16, with a…

Stetson Bennett had his best game of the season against Ohio State, going 23-for-34 for 398 yards, with three TD passes and an interception. It was the first time in six games that he's crossed the 300+ yard plateau, but he should have plenty of opportunity against a TCU defense that ranks 83rd in pass yards, giving up 235.6 per game. Last week at…

While Covers is already jam-packed with CFP National Championship Game coverage, this day-of update provides the latest odds, a breakdown of the history at stake, news surrounding a key Georgia injury, and more. Today is the day. We're mere hours away from the 2023 CFP National Championship Game and it's hardly the matchup that preseason previews…

After a month of rousing bowl games and a thrilling semifinal weekend, the college football national championship game is finally here, with Georgia chasing its second straight title against a TCU team looking for its first in over 80 years. While there's plenty of action in the side markets, these two talent-rich rosters also make for an…

The College Football Playoff national championship game features the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs taking on the No. 3 TCU Horned Frogs on Monday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. The Bulldogs are looking to repeat as national champions and win their fourth title in school history. TCU's last national championship came in the 1938 season. Follow along…

Game Time: 7:30 Eastern Standard Time (EST) Venue: SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA Televised: ESPN Records: Georgia (14-0), TCU (13-1) Number 1 University of Georgia and Number 3 Texas Christian University (TCU) will play at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood (Los Angeles), CA on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship game. Georgia's…

The grand finale of the 2022 NCAA football season is set to launch between the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs and the No. 3 TCU Horned Frogs and bet365 bonus code ACTION scores a $200 return when $1 is bet on the contest. Since Ohio sports betting is now live, in-state bettors can use this to their advantage. It's pretty straightforward: New bettors at…

Sports Betting Dime provides exclusive sports betting content to cleveland.com, including real-time odds, picks, analysis and sportsbook offers to help bettors get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. Plenty of new bettors in Ohio are probably a bit salty that the Buckeyes won't be on the field tonight, but the latest FanDuel Ohio promo…

It's finally time to make TCU vs. Georgia predictions in the college football National Championship game. While most bettors will attack the side and total for this game, I'm targeting the player prop market. There's always value to be found in the player prop market, which is usually less efficient than other markets. But two two props have value…

Tight end Darnell Washington (ankle) and linebacker Chaz Chambliss (knee) are both questionable for the title game after being hurt against Ohio State. Washington is technically listed as a reserve. However, he and All-America tight end Brock Bowers often are on the field at the same time. - Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) December 31, 2022 The…