The Don’s Week Two CFB Saturday Best Bets

Sep 7, 2024
After a great start to the season, we’re ready to keep the momentum going as we head into Week 2. Here’s my record heading into Week 2: Today I have four best bets that I am ready to rock and roll...

The Don’s CFB Friday Night Football Best Bet

Sep 6, 2024
If you don’t follow me on Twitter, boy have you missed out on some college football winners. What an amazing start to the college football season for the Don! We’re off to a 14-2 (+12.18u) rec...

Diaz: 2024 Heisman Big Board

Aug 23, 2024
Odds According To DraftKings Sportsbook The Favorites Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel +750 Dillon Gabriel being the Heisman favorite going into the season is jarring. Yes, he did throw for over 3,600 yards w...

The Don’s 2024 Big Ten Predictions

Aug 15, 2024
The Big Ten has been one of the best conferences in college football for the last two decades. They’ve added four new teams, making this arguably the toughest conference in all of collegiate sports....

2023 Music City Bowl Preview | Auburn vs Maryland

Dec 30, 2023
The 2023 Music City Bowl is taking place at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. We have the matchup of 6-6 Auburn going up against 7-5 Maryland. The Tigers come into this one losing their last two games of t...

2023 Peach Bowl Preview | Ole Miss vs Penn State

Dec 30, 2023
The 2023 Peach Bowl is taking place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. We have the matchup of the 10-2 Ole Miss Rebels going up against the 10-2 Penn State Nittany Lions. Ole Miss comes into this on...

2023 Cotton Bowl Preview | Ohio State vs Missouri

Dec 29, 2023
The 2023 Cotton Bowl is taking place at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas. We have the matchup of the 10-2 Missouri Tigers and the 11-1 Ohio State Buckeyes. Missouri comes into this one winning their ...

2023 Pinstripe Bowl Preview | Rutgers vs Miami (FL)

Dec 28, 2023
The 2023 Pinstripe Bowl is taking place at Yankee Stadium in New York. We have a matchup of the 6-6 Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the 7-5 Miami Hurricanes. Rutgers comes into this one losing their last ...

2023 Las Vegas Bowl Preview | Northwestern vs. Utah

Dec 23, 2023
The 2023 Las Vegas Bowl features a matchup between two Power Five schools, with the (8-4) Utah Utes set to face the (7-5) Northwestern Wildcats. Utah enters this game with four wins in their last seve...

5 Things We Learned From College Football Week One

Sep 7, 2023
With the first full week of college football in the books, we learned a ton about the direction of this college football season. We saw a couple of double-digit favorites lose outright and we saw the ...

2023 Michigan Wolverines Football Preview

Aug 11, 2023
The Michigan Wolverines have made it to back-to-back college football playoffs. They have won two straight Big Ten titles as well and they are going to try to three-peat in the Big Ten in 2023. Jim Ha...

2023 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Preview

Aug 11, 2023
The Ohio State Buckeyes are looking to get back to the College Football Playoff in 2023. Ohio State brings back a ton of talent on offense and the defense looks to take a step forward under second yea...

2023 Michigan State Spartans Football Preview

Aug 10, 2023
The Michigan State Spartans took a huge step back in 2022 as they went 5-7 last season. In the year prior, they won 11 games and were a top ten team in the country. Head coach Mel Tucker has a lot of ...

2023 Penn State Nittany Lions Football Preview

Aug 10, 2023
Penn State is looking to build off of last season’s success. They have 14 total returning starters and are poised to push Michigan and Ohio State for the Big Ten title in 2023. This Nittany Lions te...

2023 Minnesota Golden Gophers Football Preview

Aug 6, 2023
P.J. Fleck has helped Minnesota win nine games in back to back seasons. This team has the potential to be a sneaky team in the Big Ten West. Just when you think they are out, the Golden Gophers have f...

2023 Nebraska Cornhuskers Football Preview

Aug 6, 2023
The Matt Rhule era is officially underway in Lincoln. Nebraska had some tough years with Scott Frost as the head coach of the program. Frost failed to win more than five games in a season and the Corn...

2023 Northwestern Wildcats Football Preview

Aug 5, 2023
Everything is changing in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern has their first season without Pat Fitzgerald since 2006. The Wildcats have won just four games in the last two seasons. A whole culture chan...

2023 Purdue Boilermakers Football Preview

Aug 5, 2023
The Purdue Boilermakers are in the middle of a shake-up heading into 2023. Purdue has a first year head coach in Ryan Walters, who last season was the Illinois defensive coordinator. Last year, this t...

2023 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Football Preview

Aug 4, 2023
Greg Schiano’s second stint has not been great so far. He is 12-22 in those three seasons, which is not like what he did in his first stint at Rutgers. However, this could be a season where Rutg...

2023 Maryland Terrapins Football Preview

Aug 4, 2023
Last year, Maryland won eight games, which was the most they have won in a single season since 2010. Head coach Mike Locksley has bounced back the last two seasons and they think they have a chance to...

2023 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Preview

Aug 3, 2023
The Iowa Hawkeyes have been a Big Ten West contender for awhile now. They haven’t won under seven games in a season since 2012. Kirk Ferentz has been a staple for this Iowa program since 1999. Last ...

2023 Indiana Hoosiers Football Preview

Aug 3, 2023
The Indiana Hoosiers are trying to improve from their 6-18 record over the last two seasons and have won only two Big Ten games since the 2021 season. Head coach Tom Allen wants to get this team on tr...

2023 Illinois Football Preview

Aug 2, 2023
The Fighting Illini had its first winning season since 2011 last year. They also won five games in the Big Ten which is something they haven’t done since 2007. Head coach Bret Bielema has his work c...

2023 Wisconsin Badgers Football Preview

Aug 2, 2023
The Luke Fickell era in Madison is officially underway. Wisconsin is looking to get back to the Big Ten title game for the first time since 2019. The Badgers are poised for a run at the Big Ten West t...

2023 Big Ten Tournament Predictions

Mar 9, 2023
This Big Ten conference is full of competitive teams that are consistently beating up on one another. There is a “favorite” in Purdue, but I am not sold on the Boilermakers. I have seen th...

2021 Big Ten Tournament Preview

Mar 8, 2021
Bracket Favorite: Michigan (+150) The Juwan Howard-led Michigan Wolverines ended the season with a 19-3 record, placing them No. 2 in the Top 25. Freshman big man Hunter Dickinson posted a stat line o...

Rutgers, stay in your lane

Aug 10, 2020
2020 may not have a college football season. That is still up in the air and who knows what in the hell is going to happen. But, Big Ten presidents did meet this past weekend to discuss this decision....

What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

Dec 12, 2019
I love Langston Hughes. He’s one of the twentieth century’s most influential voices and he could flat-out make me feel things. My favorite poem of his is Harlem. It talks about a ‘dr...

I disagree With TIME Magazine

Dec 11, 2019
Greta Thunberg is TIME Magazine’s person of the year. It’s a trivial award. The magazine’s only purpose is to look cool. If you have one on the train or at the airport, you look smar...

For Whom Does the Rivalry Bell Toll?

Dec 1, 2019
One of the worst feelings in life is that of impending doom, the feeling that something bad is about to happen and you can do nothing to stop it. You’re at a crossroads, you still think that you...

I’m unhappy with the College Football Playoff

Nov 12, 2019
The table is officially set for two SEC teams in the CFP. We’ve all been bamboozled. The BCS is alive and well under new management. The Playoff is a scam. I’m fine with LSU in the top spo...

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Nov 11, 2019
One of the most fascinating things about America is our extensive folklore. We have the benefit of being such a big, diverse nations. There are so many different subcultures in the United States. Each...

Week 11 AAR: Row That Boat

Nov 10, 2019
This is why we love college football. LSU Triumphs Joe Burrow has gone from backing up Dwayne Haskins to establishing himself as arguably the best quarterback in the nation. Has a grad-transfer quarte...

Week 7 AAR: Yikes, Georgia

Oct 14, 2019
The State of Georgia is in flames like it’s 1865 all over again. Much like Gone With the Wind, last week started with so much optimism in the State of Georgia. The Braves lost (twice, got elimin...

Week 5 AAR: Let the Coaching Carou$el Begin

Sep 30, 2019
Week five is over? Happy Trails, Chris Ash Rutgers fired Chris Ash today. Tough to blame them after he posted a 3-26 record in Big Ten play. The Scarlet Knights’ only win this season came in the...

Week Four Points of Interest

Sep 17, 2019
The points of interest is back. This is essentially just me rambling about the things I’m most interested this week. He’s got a great personality! Clay Helton could be the nicest guy in th...

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...

Week Three Points of Interest

Sep 11, 2019
I’m just gonna dive right into this thing. I don’t have anything interesting to open with this week. Actually, here’s a fun fact; if he had never scored a goal, Wayne Gretzky would s...

CFB Week Two After Action Report

Sep 8, 2019
There’s nothing better than the first big week of the season. Plenty of intriguing matchups on the board turned into a pretty fun Saturday. From start to finish, this was a great day of football...

NCAA Week 1 After Action Report

Sep 2, 2019
College football is officially back. In my preview, I declared this particular iteration of games lackluster. On paper, it was pretty accurate, we only had one top-25 matchup. But college football has...

2019 CFB Preview: Big Ten Power Rankings

Aug 13, 2019
Since scrapping the Leaders and Legends divisions six years ago, the East has dominated the West in the Big Ten. The gap might be shrinking a tiny bit, but for now the most pessimistic view for the Ea...

Ranking the Big Ten Starting Quarterbacks

Aug 12, 2019
Football in the Big Ten has always featured some of the greatest players and has had some of the best competition in college football since the conference’s inception in 1896. With the 2019 season a...

Big Ten Season Preview: Is the Big Ten In B1G Trouble?

Aug 12, 2019
Big 10 Season Preview: Let us all take a moment and rewind back to December of 2018, shall we? Ohio State just routed Northwestern 45-24 in the Big Ten Championship in Indy (you cannot blame that one ...

Shea Patterson is Good!

Aug 11, 2019
A year ago I was very critical of Shea Patterson. What I didn’t realize is that at Michigan, there were a number of factors beyond his control that would help him tremendously. Michigan had perh...

2019 CFB Preview: Iowa Hawkeyes

Aug 8, 2019
The Iowa Hawkeyes… One of the nations most consistent programs led by the longest tenured coach in college football. Iowa looks to break through in the Big Ten West led by third year starter and...

Is Michigan State Football Ready to Contend Again?

Jul 26, 2019
The Spartan faithful want to continue to believe in Mark Dantonio and his program’s resilience. They responded to a season that saw them win only three games by winning ten. Last year, they brou...

Minnesota’s Sweep of Michigan: By The Numbers

Mar 10, 2019
The Gophers banished Michigan to the shadow realm and earned themselves a day off on Sunday. Instead of playing in a win-or-go-home Game Three, they’ll get to drink a few beers, watch some golf ...

Big Ten Quarterfinal Preview: Wisconsin @ Penn State

Mar 5, 2019
Wisconsin could have finished last in the conference were it not for their monumental sweep of Michigan last weekend. Their reward is a trip to Hockey Valley to play against the Big Ten’s (and t...

Big Ten Quarterfinal Preview: Michigan @ Minnesota

Mar 5, 2019
Michigan absolutely bombed their regular season finale against Wisconsin. Two OT losses saw the Wolverines slip all the way to second-to-last place above only Michigan State. That’s a major red-...

Big Ten Season Grades

Mar 3, 2019
The regular season is over. Handing out grades for each team’s season before we dive into the conference tournament....

National Player of the Year: Gustafson by a Mile

Feb 28, 2019
Respect The Name I have seen plenty of articles about the National Player of the Year debate in Women’s Basketball. Many of these articles have slept on or totally missed Megan Gustafson. One of...

Big Ten Wrap-up: Wrapped up

Feb 26, 2019
Ohio State ran away with the Big Ten regular season crown. Are they a lock for the conference tournament?...

Justin Fields is Eligible Immediately

Feb 8, 2019
Ohio State was facing a dire situation at quarterback. Incumbent starter Dwayne Haskins declared for the NFL draft and Tathan Martell transferred to the University of Miami. While all this was going o...

Big Ten Recap, Preview

Feb 7, 2019
Big Ten Hockey Hockey season is winding down making every weekend absolutely crucial. The Big Ten is going to come right down to the wire and it’s gonna be a wild ride. Wisconsin @ Michigan Stat...

B1G Hockey Splits to Close January

Jan 27, 2019
I thought this weekend would separate the top of the B1G from the bottom of the conference. The only decisive series was Notre Dame’s sweep of their ol’ rival Michigan State. Michigan &...

Super Saturday at the Garden

Jan 24, 2019
The B1G will be taking over Madison Square Garden for a Super Saturday basketball-hockey doubleheader. At noon EST, Maryland and Illinois will tip off at center court to open the day. The primetime ev...

Big Ten Roundup

Jan 21, 2019
February is right around the corner and that means that conference tournaments are right around the corner. The Big Ten put three teams in the Frozen Four last season(Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame)...

Purdue Basketball Mid Season Review

Jan 10, 2019
College football is officially over and it’s time for everyone to turn their attention to the rest of the college basketball season. We’re officially at the halfway point and conference pl...

ACC-Big Ten Challenge Preview

Nov 26, 2018
Beginning on Monday, the 20th annual ACC-Big Ten Challenge will kick off, with fourteen matchups slated through Wednesday on ESPN. The ACC has won the past two challenges by a combined 20-8, but as us...

2018-19 CBB B1G Preview

Nov 7, 2018
Welcome back to the start of the College Basketball season. Such a glorious time for all basketball fans to come together and watch some great athletes compete every night. Unless, unfortunately, you ...

The Hangover, Week 7: Could It Really Be That Easy?

Oct 15, 2018
Welcome to the sixth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where “Dixie...

The Hangover, Week 5: A Quick Word About Kentucky

Oct 1, 2018
Welcome to the fifth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Athens, Georgia, home to a fantastic ba...

The Hangover, Week 4: Getting a Sense of What We Know

Sep 24, 2018
Welcome to the fourth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where I finally t...

Big Ten Football Should Scrap its Division System

Sep 18, 2018
Shortly after Maryland and Rutgers announced their intent to join the Big Ten in 2012, the conference implemented its geographical East-West division split. It has been a fine system and was a positiv...

Loser of the Week: Week 2

Sep 12, 2018
Week two featured some spectacular losers. Florida lost to Kentucky for the first time in 31 years, and the North Carolina Tar Heels got blown out by East Carolina. But this week’s loser of the ...

The Best and Worst of CFB: Week One

Sep 6, 2018
Week one is in the books and it’s almost time for week two. But first, let’s go look at the best and worst from the first week of college football. Worst The Big Ten East What a tough week...

Student Union CFB Preview: Minnesota

Jul 31, 2018
Football is a really simple game that requires a few things to be successful at the college level. I don’t just mean successful in regards to winning championships or eight or nine games, I mean...

Student Union CFB Preview: Rutgers

Jul 30, 2018
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights proved that they still have some growing pains to go through since joining the Big Ten.  They had two nice wins at home against Maryland and Purdue in 2017 and also had a ...

Weeks 3 & 4: Curb Your Optimism

May 1, 2018
These two weeks feature some make or break games for teams with zero margin for error in 2018. In parts of America, fall will start to creep into college football stadiums. In other parts, it’s ...

Shea Patterson: Bad?

May 1, 2018
Michigan got some real big news this past week when it was reported that Shea Patterson would be eligible for Michigan immediately. Good for them! Ever since Wilton Speight got hurt way back in 2016, ...

My Argument against Xavier and Villanova

Mar 12, 2018
Listen, I like college basketball about the same as the next guy on this website. It’s exciting and March Madness is probably the most exciting time of all. However, when the brackets were relea...

Best Power Five Basketball Programs of All Time

Feb 26, 2018
The Kansas Jayhawks have just made history, by winning 14 straight Big 12 conference championships, overcoming UCLA’s 1967-1969 streak that made history and seemed unbeatable, until Saturday, Fe...

Why the SEC is the Most Overrated Conference in CFB

Jan 2, 2018
I get it. The SEC has two teams in the National Championship game. But, this still needs to be brought up because the issue is as prominent as it’s ever been. It’s also like beating a dead...

Pinstripe Bowl Preview

Dec 26, 2017
Iowa and Boston College will meet in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee stadium in a game that will look like some old school Big Ten football. With cold weather predicted and both teams heavy on the ground...

The Hangover, Week 14: Who’s In?

Dec 4, 2017
Welcome to the sixth edition of The Hangover where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes Atlanta, Georgia, where I watched the Georgia Bulldogs avenge an earl...

The Hangover, Week 11

Nov 13, 2017
Welcome to the third edition of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes a day later than I originally intended. My laptop broke Sunday morn...

Hey, The CFP Committee Got It Right Again!

Nov 7, 2017
The CFP committee just released the second edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings on ESPN, so it’s time for my weekly reactions to the updated Top 25. Here we go:   Head-to-Head...

Big Ten Hockey Rundown, Power Rankings

Oct 30, 2017
Week five is officially in the books. The Big Ten mostly stayed out of conference, save for Michigan and Penn State playing each other to a split in Hockey Valley. In non-conference play, the Big Ten ...

The Rise and (Epic) Fall of the Fighting Illini

Oct 30, 2017
For a Power Five school, Illinois, especially in football and basketball, has taken a huge step down in the past decade or so. Growing up an Illini fan, it’s been tough to watch. I have fuzzy me...

The Hangover, Week 9

Oct 29, 2017
Welcome to the first edition of The Hangover, where we recap the previous weekend in college football. College football is the best time of the year (and that’s not up for debate, so don’t...

Gambling and Gifs

Oct 21, 2017
Michigan (+9.5) against Penn State There are way too many people doubting Jim Harbaugh this season, and that is exactly why he’s about to shove all of that criticism in our faces and take down t...

Big Ten West Preview

Aug 9, 2017
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University   Ahh, the Big Ten West. As the SEC East of the Big Ten, the division is a crapshoot when compared to its Eastern rival. Outside of Wisconsin, none of its membe...

Teams Win Tournaments, Not Conferences

Mar 25, 2017
There is a lot of talk every year about what the best conference in the country is. Realistically, that concept doesn’t amount to shit. There is so much unnecessary pride that goes into what con...

Big Ten Weekly Pull Up – March 6th – March 12th

Mar 13, 2017
What’s up guys, how did everyone enjoy that awesome Championship Weekend that we were gifted with?!? I certainly had a ball, and so did the Big Ten! Let’s jump right into the facts and sta...

The Case for Tom Crean

Feb 16, 2017
“Fire Tom Crean!” If you’ve been on the internet for longer than about five minutes, these words have probably come across your screen more than a few times. These calls for Crean...

Mid-Season Conference Report

Jan 11, 2017
Welcome. Now that football season is over, a lot of fans will be turning their full attention to the college basketball season. The problem is, they’ve already missed out on half the season or h...

The Road to the B1G Championship

Dec 2, 2016
It has been a chaotic year for the best conference in college football and it is not over yet. The Penn State Nittany Lions will take on the Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten Championship game Saturday...