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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…

After a breakthrough freshman season, Penn State running back Nicholas Singleton is appearing on some early Heisman Trophy odds lists. But his potential starting quarterback has even better odds. According to BetOnline.ag, Penn State quarterback Drew Allar is a 25/1 bet to win the 2023 Heisman Trophy. Even though hasn't started a game - and hasn't…

One of the best parts of college football is making the already fascinating games a tad more high stakes. The only way to do that of course is to throw some money on the games that you are watching. This gives you a whole other rooting interest, and may even make you more intrigued in the game than you already were. Welcome to the third and…

Have more comments, questions? Reach out to me at bwhite1 @ dispatch.com To editor: I think members of Buckeye Nation need to wake up and stop threats to football players. Winners build up and strengthen, not threaten. These young men come to get educated and developed for a career after attending Ohio State. They are learning with each game. Every…

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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…

Stanford is making a late push to play themselves into a bowl game. They are just three wins away from doing so, but will not have an easy path to get there. Standing in their way this week is prolific No. 12 UCLA team that has one of the best offenses in the country. The Cardinal are looking to win their second road game in three weeks, as two…

Time to start thinking three-peat? It is if you're an oddsmaker. Shortly after Georgia football's 65-7 romp over TCU Monday night, the Bulldogs are the betting favorites to win three in a row. BetMGM has Georgia (+300) ahead of Ohio State (+600), Alabama (+700) and USC (+700) for the 2024 College Football Championship. The Bulldogs (+275) are…

No. 18 Wisconsin (11-4, 3-2) at Indiana (10-6, 1-4) Tip Time: 1:00 p.m. Eastern Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17222), Bloomington, Indiana Television: CBS (Spero Dedes, Bill Raftery, Jay Wright) IU Radio Network: IU Radio Network Point Spread: Indiana is a 4.5 point favorite KenPom Projected Score: No. 33 Indiana 71 No. 56 Wisconsin…

The USC Trojans (12-5, 4-2 Pac-12) hope to extend a six-game home winning run when hosting the Utah Utes (12-6, 5-2 Pac-12) on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 10:30 PM ET. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Trojans' (-200 to win on the moneyline) game versus the Utes (+160). This article references lines…

Everybody loves a feel good story. Last season couldn't have gone much worse for the TCU football program, finishing with a disappointing 5-7 record. Under-pressure head coach Gary Patterson (the longest-serving coach in the school's history) resigned mid-season after two decades in the role. But that's what made this season all the more special as…

There's a natural inclination to always look ahead in college football, especially at a time when the movement of players and coaches is fast and furious. The 2022 season wrapped up Monday night, as Georgia thumped TCU in the College Football Playoff National Championship. So what's on tap for 2023? Georgia will pursue a third straight…

The Big Ten needs a new commissioner. A couple of weeks after word initially leaked that Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren was a candidate to become the new president of the Chicago Bears, the move became official Thursday morning. Warren is leaving his post in suburban Chicago and moving to the city where he'll help the Bears move to suburban…

See the odds to win the national championship during the 2022-23 college football season The Georgia Bulldogs won their second straight national title, crushing TCU 65-7 in the national championship game This page tracked the 2023 college football championship odds, which was ultimately captured by the Georgia Bulldogs for the second straight…

The Gonzaga Bulldogs have rattled off nine consecutive wins. They now head on the road to take on the BYU Cougars, one of their biggest competitors in the West Coast Conference. Here is our best Gonzaga-BYU pick. The Bulldogs have righted the ship with nine straight wins after starting the season 5-3. That hot stretch includes a 100-90…

If you want to bowl games this season, there are plenty of opportunities among the 42 games. But not every game is worthy of risking your money. With transfers, injuries and opt-outs, many of the rosters will look vastly different than in the regular season. Here are some of the matchups we would be wary of betting on. Saturday, Dec. 17, 11 a.m.…

Where: AT&T Stadium (Arlington, Texas) TV/Radio: ESPN/790 AM Records: USC 11-2; Tulane 11-2 Line: USC by 1.5 points Injury report: USC: OUT: WR Jordan Addison (ankle), EDGE Romello Height (shoulder), C Brett Neilon (leg), OT Andrew Vorhees (undisclosed); Tulane: N/A What's at stake? For USC, its first 12-win season since 2008 and first bowl win…

The USC Trojans (11-5, 3-2 Pac-12) will host the Colorado Buffaloes (11-6, 3-3 Pac-12) after victories in five straight home games. It tips at 9:00 PM ET on Thursday, January 12, 2023. Keep reading to find betting insights and statistics to help place a wager on the Trojans' (-171 to win on the moneyline) matchup versus the Buffaloes (+139). The…

LOS ANGELES - It was only a pickup game after Wednesday's practice on the campus of the University of Southern California. But there was Josh Green, ripping and running and flying up and down the court like he didn't have a care in the world. The Dallas Mavericks' third-year guard was attacking the basket and soaring through the sky - just like the…

With the 2022 college football season over and done, our attention turns to 2023. It's the last year of the Pac-12 as we have known it - the last year with USC and UCLA, the last year with the four-team playoff and the last year with the conference's current media-rights agreement. The Hotline cannot let the opportunity to look foolish (or smart)…

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State football will have two starters back on its 2023 offensive line, thanks to Matt Jones' decision to extend his career. Jones announced Wednesday he will put of the NFL Draft and return to the Buckeyes for a sixth season. The returning starter at right guard joins left guard Donovan Jackson as holdovers for this fall as…

This article is part of our College Football Picks series. The 2021-22 College Football Playoff showed that it was in fact possible for new blood to finally break into the sport's final four teams. With big question marks hanging around a number of the playoff's annual contenders, could the 2022-23 season repeat with two programs making their…

The 2022 college football season is sadly behind us, as Georgia repeated as national champions by clobbering TCU 65-7 on Monday night. Now that another season has ended, let's evaluate the year as a whole by looking at how each college football conference did in 2022. To gauge how each conference performed this season, we'll take a look at a…

With the ugly College Football Playoff National Championship between Georgia and TCU in the rearview mirror, now is the time to look into the future and make predictions that come this time next year could easily look laughable at best. Thinking back to the start of the 2022 season, much was made all year about Desmond Howard's preseason picks for…

Resale tickets are all that are left for Ohio State football's return to the College Football Playoff. Ohio State will take on Georgia for the first time since losing to the Bulldogs in the 1993 Citrus Bowl. The Buckeyes opened as 6.5-point underdogs, the first time Ohio State will come in not as a favorite since the 2021 national championship game…

College football's era of SEC super teams isn't over yet. Georgia started the 2022 season with a 49-3 victory against Oregon, and the Bulldogs' finished off their perfect record on Monday night with a 65-7 beat down of TCU in the College Football Playoff national championship game. A team from the SEC has now won the last four national…

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The best-case scenario for Ohio State football's 2023 offensive line is quickly falling by the wayside. Left tackle Paris Johnson Jr.'s NFL Draft declaration, formalized on Tuesday, had been all but a foregone conclusion. Same for right tackle Dawand Jones, who has not officially declared but is expected to do so as well. Ohio…

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…

Penn State's bowl projections still run quite a range, but one postseason game returned to view following Saturday's Week 10 slate. The Lions have a path to the 2023 Rose Bowl. No. 15 Penn State (7-2) will climb a spot or two in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, based on its 45-14 win over Indiana and other results around the country.…

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…

The 2022-23 college football season wrapped up with Georgia's 65-7 rout of TCU on Monday night to give the Bulldogs the sport's first back-to-back championships since Alabama did it after the 2011 and 2012 seasons. We already have odds for next year's national championship, and if they're any indication, Georgia has a chance to do something truly…

The confetti was still falling from the SoFi Stadium rafters on Monday night when college football oddsmakers sent out a crystal clear statement: Georgia is the best team in the land, and we don't expect that to change. After the Bulldogs secured their second straight national title with a 65-7 destruction of TCU in the College Football Playoff…

Kirby Smart walked into the SoFi Stadium coach's room after Georgia's 65-7 rout of Texas Christian in Inglewood, California, on Monday night. And Smart saw his 10-year-old son, Andrew, bawling. "I'm like, 'Oh no, somebody's hurt his feelings,'" Smart said. "Somebody's thrown him down or done something to him. I said, 'Why are you crying? You're…

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…

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…

With the 2022 college football season officially over, it's time to direct attention to the 2023 season. There's no better way to do that than to talk about "way-too-early" top 25 rankings and look at Big Ten Championship and College Football Playoff championship odds, so we decided to do just that. We took a look at where Ohio State falls in the…

With the end of the college football season on Monday evening, attention has already turned to the 2024 College Football Playoff at some sportsbooks. Teams at the head of the College Football Championship Winner market with BetOnline include Georgia at+300, Alabama at+600, Ohio State at+800, and USC at+1200. After the Georgia Bulldogs won…

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…

DraftKings Sportsbook wasted no time following the Georgia Bulldogs' thrashing of the TCU Horned Frogs in the title game to open up the 2023-24 College Football Playoff championship odds. Unless you've been living under a rock, you can probably guess the leaders in the clubhouse for CFP title odds. Even though the top-three schools listed are all…

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 2022 college football season is over. Even though the dust hasn't quite settled, we are already looking forward to the 2023 campaign. Things will look quite a bit different for those in the Big 12 Conference. The conference schedule still hasn't been announced but there will be some big-time matchups already on the schedule. The Oregon Ducks,…

Georgia will honor its fourth national championship in style this Saturday. The school announced it will stage a parade to commemorate Monday's 65-7 demolition of TCU in the College Football Playoff national title game. The festivities will begin at 12:30 p.m. ET and culminate in a celebration at Sanford Stadium at 2 p.m. Georgia Parade…

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…

Well, that sure was anticlimactic, wasn't it? After a riveting season that saw one of the best Cinderella stories in college football history, Georgia laid waste to underdog TCU with a 65-7 victory to claim its second straight national championship - becoming the first repeat winner in the College Football Playoff era. Naturally, oddsmakers opened…

To show how unlikely TCU's run to the College Football Playoff was, at 200-1 odds to begin the season, it's worth a look at which teams currently have those same chances to be 60 minutes from lifting a national championship a year from now. According to BetOnline.ag, six teams have+20000 chances to be the 2023 kings of college football, the exact…

The college football season has sadly come and gone. It started with a week one Georgia Bulldog blowout, and ended with one, as the Dawgs beat TCU by a whopping 65-7 margin in the national title game Monday night. But, college football is a year-round sport in terms of media attention. Nothing outside the NFL moves the needle like college football,…

The 2022-23 season is in the books with the Georgia Bulldogs winning its second straight national championship under head coach Kirby Smart. And it looks like their reign might continue as Georgia leads the field to win again next season (+250) at BetMGM. Monday night's title game was never in doubt as the Bulldogs took the lead and didn't let off…

Georgia flexed on Monday night. There is no question about which team was the nation's best in 2022, and there was even less doubt about which team was best at SoFi Stadium in the national championship game. But where does the Dawgs' 65-7 rout of TCU rank on the list of biggest BCS/CFP title game beatdowns? Let's flip through the history books and…

Georgia will chase a third consecutive national championship in 2023 as the favorite in the USA TODAY Sports way-too-early Top 25 for next season, ahead of the familiar run of teams that have come to dominate the Bowl Subdivision. The Bulldogs are followed by No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Penn State. After an…