Big Hoppa’s Bracket: Year 8

Mar 19, 2024
It’s the best time of the year, March Madness. If you know me AT ALL you know that as much as I love sports year-round, this is truly my favorite time of the year. Last year, in my 7th year of k...

Top 5 Football Games Your Eyes Should Be on Saturday

Nov 4, 2023
With only a few football games left in 2023, I think it is CRUCIAL to use your Saturday in the most efficient way possible. I decided to rank the 5 football games you MUST watch on your football Satur...

You Missed the Last Train to Boulder, Colorado

Sep 17, 2023
It’s over. You blew it. If you don’t believe now, don’t bother packing, the station is closed. Tonight, and into the morning, Deion Sanders and his Colorado Buffaloes checked off the...

Five College Football Players Who Will Dominate Week 3

Sep 14, 2023
We are now full send into the college football season. Hopefully, your favorite team is unbeaten, but in the case your team is underperforming and their chances to reach your ideal potential are alrea...

The Best Bet for Notre Dame-Navy

Aug 26, 2023
Welcome to Week 0, baby. Hopefully, you have gotten all the chores done around the house so you can focus on the Week 0 college football betting slate. Granted, there’s only a couple games to be...

Breaking Down Each of the Preseason AP Top 25 Teams

Aug 16, 2023
Do you feel it? Do you reealllyy feel it? Can you smell it? Can you smell all those smells? The burgers. The pasta salad… The beer. We have the first collegiate football rankings of the year and...

Three Way Too Early 2023 Heisman Bets

Mar 6, 2023
It’s March 1st. Spring games are still about 2 months away, but the Heisman is on my mind. When is the best time to beat Vegas? When they’re focused on college basketball! You can BET that...

Big Hoppa’s 2022 Christmas Gambling Card

Dec 24, 2022
All I want for Christmas is a profitable gambling day and to not get new socks for the 4th year in a row. So, I decided instead of spending a bunch of money on pictures of my wife and daughter, I̵...

College Football Bet of the Night: 10/29/2022

Oct 29, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Last night was unfortunatel...

World Series Bet of the Night: 10/28/2022

Oct 28, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. I can’t even begi...

Bet of the Night: 10/27/2022

Oct 27, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. If you took yesterday&#...

NBA Bet of the Night: 10/26/2022

Oct 26, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Yesterday was just a ba...

NHL Bet of the Night: 10/25/2022

Oct 25, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. I messed up yesterday. ...

NBA Bet of the Night: 10/24/2022

Oct 24, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Yesterday, we bypassed ...

Bet of the Night: 10/23/2022

Oct 23, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Yesterday, I gave you W...

Bet of the Night: 10/22/2022

Oct 22, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Last night, I gave you ...

College Football Bet of the Night: 10/21/2022

Oct 21, 2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Background In 2014, the ...

NCAA Men’s Final Four Picks & Props

Mar 29, 2022
Whether you’ve won or lost most of your bankroll through the first two weekends of March Madness, I tried my best to give you a few last winners before the tournament ends. I know I could use them. ...

2021 NCAA Tournament: East Region Preview

Mar 18, 2021
March Madness is back. We will have 4 regions of 16 teams, culminating in 4 winners. Those 4 winners will be known as the Final 4. From there we play 3 games. After the 3rd game? We will crown a CHAMP...

BigHoppa’s Bracket Madness

Mar 17, 2021
I love March. I love college basketball. I love brackets. You could give me a bracket of the worst smells ever and I’d gladly participate. If you know me, you know I love sports. However, I do n...

727 Days Later… Selection Sunday

Mar 15, 2021
Since the last Selection Sunday: The US has a new President. We have pictures of Mars. We have battled a worldwide pandemic. Despite the many tragedies and many struggles, this is a win for sports fan...

NFL Wild Card Round Preview

Jan 9, 2021
It’s officially time for the NFL playoffs! The Wild Card round starts on Saturday when we will let all the chaos ensue. NFC Wild Card Matchups #2 New Orleans vs. #7 Chicago One of the few matchu...

2020 Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Wisconsin-Wake Forest

Dec 29, 2020
Wake up early on Wednesday morning and watch some bowl games? Deal. If you have to work, find a way to stream the 2020 Duke’s Mayo Bowl between 4-4 Wake Forest and 3-3 Wisconsin. How They Got He...

The Badger Basketball Brief: 12/28-1/3

Dec 28, 2020
Happy Holidays everyone! Whether or not you got what you wanted for the holiday season, Badger basketball gave you a gift with a HUGE win on Christmas Day! Last Week Beat Nebraska 67-53 If you donR...

Blake Snell Traded to Padres

Dec 28, 2020
Late on Sunday night, the Tampa Bay Rays traded away 2018 AL Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, first reported by Dennis Lin. The Deal The Rays, coming off a World Series appearance in the shortened 2...

The Badger Basketball Report: 12/14-12/20

Dec 15, 2020
After a slow week last week due to COVID protocols, Badger basketball looks forward to a busy week. Last Week There was only one game for Badger basketball last week, but it was a VERY important one. ...

Badger Basketball Brief: URI

Dec 10, 2020
After the first loss of the season, Badger basketball controlled the entire game against last-minute opponent, Rhode Island. Record Setting Night There were two different Badger basketball records cel...

The Badger Basketball Report: 12/7-12/13

Dec 8, 2020
I shouldn’t have made this a weekly series. It’ll be hard to face the music when there are performances like Friday night for our Badger basketball team. Last Week The Badgers dropped 9 sp...

The Badger Basketball Report: 11/30-12/6

Dec 1, 2020
It’s basketball season once again folks and YOUR Wisconsin Badgers basketball squad is a beautiful 2-0 to start the season. Currently ranked the 4th best team in the country, wins against Easter...

Best Running Back Performance of All-Time?

Nov 28, 2020
Waking up on Saturday morning, I’m sure University of Buffalo running back Jaret Patterson was ready for a big game against 3-0 Kent State. However, I’m not sure that he would’ve had...

Happy Birthday Lyla Rose

Nov 24, 2020
If you are reading this and you’re thinking that the Student Union Sports website is hacked, it isn’t. It’s just BigHoppa about to get on his soap box about my daughter. Today is her...

Chill Out, Badger Fans

Oct 27, 2020
With the news of Graham Mertz officially testing positive for COVID-19 and still awaiting Chase Wolf’s confirmation, I need a favor from my fellow Badger fans. Chill out. The season isn’t ...

Why Did You Doubt Aaron Rodgers?

Oct 7, 2020
Today, on the Pat McAfee Show, Aaron Rodgers said “I sometimes laugh when people talk about down years for me, because a lot of times down years for me are career years for most quarterbacks....

BigHoppa’s Fantasy Football Review: Week 4

Oct 7, 2020
After an almost perfect week in Week 3, we came back down to earth a little bit while still flexing the fantasy football knowledge. Because I have the guys that I like coming into a season, a lot of m...

BigHoppa’s Fantasy Football Review: Week 3

Sep 30, 2020
I might be a genius. I may not be able to read, but I’m a genius. After the first 2 weeks were absolutely abysmal, I flexed my fantasy football muscle like Dwayne Johnson has since he was 4 year...

BigHoppa’s Fantasy Football Review: Week 2

Sep 24, 2020
After an awful Week 1 for all 8 of my Fantasy Football teams, I had something to prove. However, that didn’t happen. Technically, we saw improvement, but that’s relative when you’re ...

Ryan Braun: The Greatest Brewer

Sep 17, 2020
Last night, Ryan Braun hit his 350th career home run off of Johan Oviedo. The line drive that just got over the wall, joined Braun’s name with 95 others who have had that amount of power. As som...

BigHoppa’s Fantasy Football Review: Week 1

Sep 16, 2020
Folks, there was football played. It was played this past weekend. As someone whose first love was football, I have gone down the deep hole of getting into too many fantasy football leagues. So each w...

Lecture Hall 2020 NFL Season Preview

Sep 9, 2020
If you haven’t been listening, you’ve been missing out first of all, but here is a recap of the Lecture Hall boys 2020 NFL Season Preview! Seeding After 7 long weeks, the boys predicted al...

24 To Go: Brewers Playoff Push

Sep 4, 2020
GUESS WHO’S BACK! It’s me again with my third straight year of Brewers end of the season blogging. This year, it isn’t coming on my website… ITS COMING TO YOU VIA STUDENT UNION...

App State & The Greatest Upset Ever

Sep 1, 2020
13 years ago today, the world saw THE greatest and most memorable football games in history. However, there’s SO much more to this game than meets the eye. I’m of course talking about when the App...

The SAD Truth About Reggie Bush’s disassociation

Jun 10, 2020
One of the most electric players in college sports is now allowed to associate himself with the school that he had more success at than most have between their college and NFL careers combined. Howeve...

Joop Plesec: Adding Stars

May 19, 2020
After another 200 yard performance, Joop Plesec is showing why his heart is his greatest asset. Magic Number of 3 It’s early in the MHSAA high school football season, but the first season for Ci...

Joop Plesec: Hometown Hero?

May 12, 2020
Well, well, well… After a MONSTER 200 yard, 5 touchdown performance in Week 1, Joop Plesec added another 150 and a score in Week 2. Officially, he has 357 yards and 6 scores. Both of those numbe...

Joop Plesec: RB0

May 1, 2020
Who is Joop Plesec? If you haven’t heard of Joop Plesec, I wouldn’t be surprised. The 5 foot-11 inch, 220 pound Senior running back from Grand Rapids, Michigan is currently a 0 star recrui...

Oh You: Jalen Hurts

Sep 2, 2019
Close your eyes and imagine this for a minute…you’re the quarterback of arguably the best collegiate football team over the last 10 years. You won a National Championship and went 26-2 as ...

2019 CFB Preview: Wisconsin Badgers

Aug 12, 2019
I just want to yell… Across rivers, valleys, and mountains. That’s exactly what I did with the Wisconsin Badgers last year and what we’ll do again this year, I’m sure of it. Th...

2019 CFB Preview: Oklahoma Sooners

Aug 2, 2019
What’s the best way to measure team’s success? Number of wins in a year? Players winning individual awards? Amount of future NFL stars? Any way you ask the “Q’s”, the ...

Not My Herro

Apr 12, 2019
I have a bad temper. It runs in the family. My dad has a habit of just blowing up and I certainly do too. It’s not just randomly out of left field. It’s when a couple things happen. Our sp...

Conference Tournament Central: March 14th

Mar 14, 2019
Wowza, what a day yesterday was. 33 games and we won 27 of them! We now sit at 110-44 overall. That’s good enough for 71%. There’s a huge slate today and I picked EVERY SINGLE ONE. Enjoy! ...

Conference Tournament Central: March 13th

Mar 13, 2019
Ahhh, a new day with a CRAP LOAD of new tournaments starting today and tomorrow. We had 4 conference championships that were controllable, we went 2-2 in those games. Gonzaga getting held to 47 points...

Conference Tournament Central: March 12th

Mar 12, 2019
After a tough stretch, we finally got off the pine with going a p-word 2 for 2 in our champions yesterday. Wofford’s win led us to a p-word bracket for the Southern Conference. Iona’s auto...

Conference Tournament Central: March 11th

Mar 11, 2019
We suffered a few losses on the tournament champion route. To this point, we are oh-fer in champions picked. We kept up a high percentage by only dropping 3 controllable games. Overall, we sit at 60-2...

Conference Tournament Central: March 10th

Mar 10, 2019
We started hot and ended somewhat poorly. The day started at 0-3 because of poor management. We only had 6 losses in controllable games, but none was more hurtful than South Dakota State losing by 3. ...

Conference Tournament Central: March 9th

Mar 9, 2019
Well, well, well… It seems as if I’ve gone cold. I scratched and clawed to stay an even .500. I doubled my losses from the first 4 days combined. It sucks. Hopefully we can bounce back wit...

Conference Tournament Central: March 8th

Mar 8, 2019
There were 19 games in total last night. After suffering my first loss on March 6th or day 3, I was hoping for a great comeback. It went pretty well by going 14-5. That brings the overall to 32-6. I h...

Conference Tournament Central: March 7th

Mar 7, 2019
Well… The heater has ended, but to correctly pick 18 of 19 games is incredible. Let’s take a look at all the conference tournament games going on today and see how I do. Atlantic Sun Semif...

Conference Tournament Central: March 6th

Mar 6, 2019
Conference W-L Record Atlantic Sun 4-0 Big South 3-0 Horizon League 2-0 Patriot League 2-0 Overall 11-0 Through 2 days of conference play, I’m 11-0 overall. I swear I know what I’m talking...

Conference Tournament Central: March 5th

Mar 5, 2019
Hello folks, welcome back to Conference Tournament Central! I’m your host Bryce Hopwood and day 1 of conference tournament play has made me look like a genius. The Atlantic Sun conference was th...

Conference Tournament Central: March 4th

Mar 4, 2019
*Insert March Madness trumpets playing* Hello everyone, and welcome to Conference Tournament Central! I am your host, Bryce Hopwood, and I will be bringing you content, predictions, news, and much mor...

What Hornibrook Transferring Means for Wisconsin

Feb 28, 2019
First of all, as a Badger fan, I want to say thank you. I will not shit on Hornibrook right away. He wasn’t the most talented guy, but damn it all if he couldn’t at least get the job done....

Badgers Lose in Double-OT… My Reaction

Feb 27, 2019
In the famous words of Drake… “I’m upset”. I’m so pissed off about that double overtime shit show I just witnessed in Bloomington, Indiana. I have seen some terribly offi...

Two Prolific Players You (Maybe) Haven’t Heard Of

Feb 23, 2019
I want to start off by saying that I appreciate everyone who reads my articles and spreads the word about my writing. That’s why I’m not sure if I’m the reason to blame or if everybo...

Wooden Award Top 20: Part 2

Feb 12, 2019
Part 1 – posted yesterday – included some big names and studs who are putting up crazy numbers. Those ballers have earned their stripes. They are insanely athletic and are having fantastic...

Wooden Award Top 20: Part 1

Feb 11, 2019
This is my favorite time of the year. We just had the Super Bowl signifying the end of football, which is sad. Football was my first love, BUT the Super Bowl means that we have about a month and a hal...

Oh You: Lincoln Riley and his Quarterback Conundrum

Jan 28, 2019
When you attend Oklahoma as a student, student-athlete, or are an alum of the school you become familiar with or are familiar with The OU Chant. It reads: O-K-L-A-H-O-M-AOur chant rolls on and on!Thou...

Ethan Happ: Mr. Triple-Double

Jan 26, 2019
Holy shit folks. I’m absolutely dumbfounded. Elation, shock, happiness. Ethan Happ just ended the game against Northwestern with 13 points, 12 boards, and 11 assists which accounts for his 2nd t...

2019 College Football HoF Class Review Part 2

Jan 23, 2019
I hope you enjoyed the first part of the College Football HoF Review. Now we have the last 6 players and coach. Jake Plummer First, we have somebody who didn’t always have the most success in th...

2019 College Football HoF Class Review Part 1

Jan 21, 2019
Ah yes, with the lack of college football on Saturdays, for what is going to feel like an eternity, I figured that we should get a little nostalgic with it. Luckily, instead of playing endless hours o...

Oh You: The Lincoln Riley Extension

Jan 9, 2019
It’s a time old story… Boy meets university, boy has success at university and university offers boy large extension. This is the case for Oklahoma Head Coach, Lincoln Riley. Over the New ...

New Year’s Resolution: Wisconsin Edition

Jan 1, 2019
Hello folks, welcome to the New Year! I’m in dire need of flipping of the calendar because my Wisconsin boys didn’t quite get the job done. Not only did the Badger football team not meet t...