The Don’s Week Seven College Football Best Bets

Oct 14, 2023
After a challenging loss on Friday night, our week stands at 3-3 (-0.04u), while our best bets record remains at 18-14 (+3.89u). We’re maintaining a 56.2% success rate on the season for our best...

Can the Texas Tech Red Raiders Build Off Last Season?

Jul 21, 2023
The Texas Tech Red Raiders took a huge step forward in 2022. They won their last four games and finished with eight wins, the most wins since 2013. Optimism is high in Lubbock, Texas right now. The Re...

Kansas vs. Texas Tech | CBB Prediction 1/3/23

Jan 3, 2023
The Big 12 has an intriguing college basketball matchup for this Tuesday’s slate of games. The reigning National Champion Kansas Jayhawks will be on the road at Texas Tech. Kansas has won six st...

Week Three After Action Report

Sep 15, 2019
This has turned into a weekly thing at this point. My favorite thing about college football is the variety that it offers. All sorts of cool stuff happens in this sport. Without further delay, here...

2019 CFB Preview: Texas Tech Red Raiders

Aug 1, 2019
A new era is set to begin in Lubbock, as former head coach Kliff Kingsbury is now coaching the Arizona Cardinals and the team moves further away from the Patrick Mahomes glory days. Enter new head coa...

2018 Coaching Hire Grades

Dec 7, 2018
This college football season may be drawing to a close, but the head coaching hires that teams make this offseason will shape the sport for years to come. So far over a dozen programs have replaced th...

CFB: Week Ten Preview

Nov 3, 2018
Games to Watch No. 6 Georgia (-9.5) at No. 11 Kentucky (3:30 CBS) Just like everyone expected, the SEC East will be decided this Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky. Each team comes in 7-1, 5-1 and have b...

Student Union CFB Preview: Texas Tech

Aug 7, 2018
Things can only get better.. right? Coming into the 2017 season, the Texas Tech defense had nowhere to look but up. Ranking near the bottom of the nation in practically every single defensive category...

Teams We Missed Playing With in NCAA Football

Jul 13, 2018
Another anniversary of NCAA Football 14 has come and gone. The game turned 5 years old on July 9th, with it being the last iteration before the series was cancelled. NCAA 14 still lives on today, with...

The Underdogs of College Basketball: Texas Tech

Feb 27, 2018
The Texas Tech Men’s Basketball team kicked off the season starting 6-0. After their first loss first to Seton Hall, the Red Raiders shocked the nation to then go 14-1, the best starting record ...

Big 12 Star to NFL Starter

Feb 15, 2018
The 6’3”, 230-pound former Texas Tech starter, Patrick Mahomes II, broke NCAA and Big 12 records, throwing for 5,052 yards and 41 touchdowns in 2016. The small town quarterback from Tyler, Texas, ...

Who’s going to win the Big 12?

Jan 29, 2018
We’re approximately halfway through the NCAA regular season and most Power 5 conferences look like they have a solid projected regular season champion. For instance, Virginia is looking like the fav...

Birmingham Bowl Preview: Texas Tech vs. South Florida

Dec 21, 2017
On Saturday, December 23rd, the Texas Tech Red Raiders (6-6) and the South Florida Bulls (9-2) will do battle at historic Legion Field in the 2017 Birmingham Bowl. This is South Florida’s third ...

Big 12 Bowl Preview: Wreck USF, Texas Tech

Dec 11, 2017
Red Raiders Face Charlie Strong, Again Ah, Charlie. The man, the myth, the coach who can’t seem to get it right. The man beat himself so often at Texas it was honestly laughable. Toward the begi...

Big 12 Preseason Predictions

Oct 31, 2017
College basketball is right around the corner. With that being said, it should be an exciting year in the Big 12 (besides Kansas winning like always). This will be another solid year in the Big 12 tha...

2017 Bold Predictions

Sep 1, 2017
Brandon Wimbush Is The Truth This kid could be a stud or a complete bust, but you know what? I have faith in him sight unseen to lead the Irish at quarterback. Notre Dame will win double digit games t...

FCS Upsets In Store?

Sep 1, 2017
Every year there are a handful of Division I-AA teams that shock their FBS counterparts at the start of the year and crush all hopes for those fan bases. I think there are quite a few teams with a sho...

Big 12 vs PAC 12

Aug 21, 2017
Back in the day, when the NCAA Football series was still a thing, (With all due respect, fuck you Ed O’Bannon….no offense) my buddy and I used to line up each of the conferences and play o...

Locks of the Week: February 25th

Feb 25, 2017
Record to Date:14-16 Had a solid week last week at 3-2. Two more weeks until tournament picks.   #8 North Carolina (-8) at Pittsburgh Coming off one of their most impressive wins of the season ag...

Big 12 Weekly Shootout: February 13

Feb 13, 2017
Hey guys, this is the first article of the new series I’m starting up. Friends Cody Goggin and Frank Fanelli already do weekly articles about ACC and Big Ten basketball, respectively, so I now a...

Locks of the Week (February 11)

Feb 11, 2017
  Record To Date: 10-10 I apologize to anyone that may have lost money based on my picks in the past few weeks. It’s been a rough go, but time to get back on track before March.   Clem...

Beware the bubble: Don’t sleep on Texas Tech.

Jan 8, 2017
It’s never too early to start examining teams resumes for the NCAA tournament. The bubble can be scary, all it takes is one bad loss to knock you off it. That being said, let’s take a look at team...

Approach the Bench: Big 12 Power Rankings Week 7

Oct 12, 2016
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE BREAK DOWN THE POWER RANKINGS IN THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE. 1. Baylor (Last week: 1) Baylor was off this week which makes it kind of hard to bump them off the top spot. Th...

Approach the Bench: Big 12 Power Rankings Week 5

Sep 28, 2016
After four weeks, I have come to the conclusion that we have absolutely no idea if anybody in college football is actually good this year. We’ve already seen some predicted favorites flame out a...