The 2023 LSU Offense is better than the 2019 LSU Offense
I watched Jayden Daniels and LSU far too many times this year to continue to hold this in. The 2023 LSU Tigers offense was better than the 2019 National Champion offense. Before you click away, I̵...
Top 5 Football Games Your Eyes Should Be on Saturday
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...
Five Players Who Will Dominate Week 4 of College Football
We are 25% 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 already gone, I...
You Missed the Last Train to Boulder, Colorado
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
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...
Louisville RB Jawhar Jordan Covered his Rushing Prop in UNBELIEVABLE Fashion Last Night
Louisville fans and gamblers were feeling great after the first quarter last night. Stud running back, Jawhar Jordan, had 4 carries for 20 yards, including an 11-yard run. Louisville had a 6-0 lead an...
Five College Football Players Who Will Dominate in Week 1
There’s a slate of 66 games on Saturday, not to mention 21 others between Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. If you’re new to college football, looking to become a savant at the water c...
The Best Bet for Notre Dame-Navy
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
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...
It Took Me 8 Years and 7 Brackets To Predict the 2023 NCAA Champion
The year was 2008. The Midwest region saw 4, double-digit seeds win their opening-round matchups. Later, in the second weekend, Mario Chalmers and Kansas would defeat a Steph Curry-led Davidson to go ...
Three Way Too Early 2023 Heisman Bets
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...
Steven Crowl is Turning Into Frank Kaminsky and Nobody is Talking About It
Last Night, Steven Crowl added another impressive performance to his game log this season. Crowl, the junior forward, put up 21 points and 11 rebounds, his 2nd game with 20 and 10 on the season. While...
Big Hoppa’s 2022 Christmas Gambling Card
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. ...
The Milwaukee Brewers Are Tied for the Best Record in the NL Despite Having Half the Team on the IL
The Milwaukee Brewers have *clears throat* 13 players currently on the Injured List and that number could go up depending on the status of catcher Omar Narvaez after he was taken out of last nightR...
2021 NCAA Tournament: East Region Preview
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
*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
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
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
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...
Top 5 Mid Majors to Know For Your Bracket’s Future
Time to talk Mid Majors that might surprise us come March. I know what you’re thinking “Oh it’s only the middle of February, I’ll research on Selection Sunday”. That̵...
Wooden Award Top 20: Part 2
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
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 the Contract Details
“It’s a time old story… Boy meets university, boy has success at university and university offers boy large extension.” -Me in Oh You: The Lincoln Ri...
Oh You: Lincoln Riley and his Quarterback Conundrum
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
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
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
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
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 ...