2023 Alamo Bowl Preview | Arizona vs Oklahoma
The 2023 Alamo Bowl is taking place in San Antonio, Texas at the Alamodome. We have the matchup of the 9-3 Arizona Wildcats and the 10-2 Oklahoma Sooners. Arizona comes into this one winning six strai...
2023 Holiday Bowl Preview | Louisville vs USC
The 2023 Holiday Bowl takes place at Petco Park in San Diego, California. We have the matchup of the 10-3 Louisville Cardinals and the disappointing 7-5 USC Trojans. Louisville comes into this one wit...
2023 Las Vegas Bowl Preview | Northwestern vs. Utah
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...
2023 LA Bowl Preview | UCLA vs. Boise State
The 2023 Starco Brands LA Bowl has a good matchup set to take place on Saturday night, with the 7-5 UCLA Bruins taking on the Mountain West Champion, 8-5 Boise State Broncos. UCLA has played in 37 bow...
The Don’s Week Nine College Football Best Bets
We bounced back with a winning week last week. 2-1 (+0.9u) and Tennessee should have made us 3-0. The Volunteers were winning and their road woes continued with a loss to Alabama. The record is now at...
The Don’s Week Seven College Football Best Bets
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...
5 Things We Learned From College Football Week One
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 ...
College Football Week 1 Best Bets from The Don
Last week wasn’t the start of the college football season that we were looking for. However, we now are ready for the bounce back for a great comeback. 0-3 (-3.37u) on the best bets article so far t...
2023 PAC-12 Tournament Predictions
The PAC-12 is not as one-sided as you might think this year. UCLA and Arizona are definitely the two best teams in this tournament. However, there are some teams that are being slept on that could eas...
2022 Cotton Bowl Classic Betting Trends | Tulane vs. USC – The Don’s Best Bet
The Cotton Bowl Classic is set to have two high powered offenses go head to head with one another. Tulane Green Wave who is representing the American Athletic Conference is going up against Pac 12 pow...
2022 Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl Betting Trends | Pittsburgh Panthers vs. UCLA Bruins – The Don’s Best Bet
The Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl should be greeaaaat! It’s the ACC taking on the PAC-12 when the Pittsburgh Panthers face off against the UCLA Bruins. Pittsburgh comes in winning four straight games,...
2022 Alamo Bowl Betting Trends | Texas vs. Washington – The Don’s Best Bet
The Alamo Bowl has not only a Power Five conference clash, but it also has two top 25 teams going at it. We got the Big 12 powerhouse Texas Longhorns going up against Pac 12 studs Washington Huskies. ...
2022 Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl Betting Trends | Washington State vs. Fresno State -The Don’s Best Bet
We have two great offenses getting ready to take the field against one another in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl. This matchup will be between the Pac-12’s Washington State and the Mountain West champ...
2022 Distribution Bowl Betting Trends | Florida vs. Oregon State – The Don’s Best Bet
If this bowl matchup was talked about at the beginning of the regular season, I would have thought about this completely differently. We have an SEC vs Pac-12 showdown between the Florida Gators and t...
Dana Altman, Oregon, Land Syracuse Transfer Quincy Guerrier
One of the college basketballs best players left in the transfer portal committed Thursday afternoon. Stretch big Quincy Guerrier announced that he will be joining the Oregon Ducks. Guerrier will join...
2020 Pac 12 Tournament Preview
The 2020 Pac 12 Tournament should provide plenty of entertainment. A banner year for West Coast basketball has seen seven teams fighting for NCAA Tournament berths this week. There has been resurrecti...
Week 11 AAR: Row That Boat
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
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
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 After Action Report: When Dubya Was in Office
Michigan Ded Wisconsin absolutely dominated Michigan en route to a 35-14 win in Madison. Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor is the first player to ever rush for 200 yards against Michigan. A stadium full of...
Week Three After Action Report
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
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
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...
Bucky Picks: Power 5 Predictions
Bucky Picks ….. Bucky Picks: I thought it would be a good idea to cover each Power 5 team and do a game-by-game prediction. Instead of sharing those game-by-game prediction I will share the end ...
Pac-12 Quarterback Rankings 2019
There might not be a more intriguing group of quarterbacks in the country than the one that settles out west. From top NFL prospects to highly touted transfers this Pac-12 quarterback group looks to r...
2019 CFB Preview: Cal Bears
Last season, the Bears finished with an average 7-6 record, good for 5th in the Pac-12 North. The Bears lost in the Cheez-it Bowl to TCU 10-7. In his second year as coach of the Bears, Justin Wilcox s...
The Hangover, Week 7: Could It Really Be That Easy?
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...
Back with the Pac: Week 5
Week five of Pac-12 football has come and gone revealing the contenders and pretenders of each division are beginning to form. The North continues to prove it is the stronger division, but we might be...
Loser of the Week: Week 2
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 ...
On the Biggest Stage the PAC-12 Comes Up Short…Again
When you think of PAC-12 football in big time games against the SEC there are not too many fond memories that come to mind. No matter how good a PAC-12 team is, they just never seem to stack up to foo...
The Hangover, Preseason Edition: We Need Football More Than Ever
Welcome to the preseason edition for the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football or, in this case, get you ready for the upcoming season. This week, Th...
Student Union CFB Preview: Arizona State
The Sun Devils have a new light shining on them with the hire of Head Coach Herm Edwards. Edwards also brings with him a ton of NFL talent in guys like Antonio Pierce and Kevin Mawae to held turn th...
Student Union CFB Preview: Colorado Buffaloes
After a surprise 2016 season which was capped with a PAC-12 South championship, the Colorado Buffaloes took a step back into reality in 2017. Colorado finished last in the South with a record 5-7 with...
Top Pro Prospects From Each FBS Conference
Fur’s pro prospects, Football season is upon us people, so I figured I’d celebrate by throwing out my predictions for the best pro prospects from each FBS conference. Every year you’...
Weeks 3 & 4: Curb Your Optimism
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 ...
Breaking: Sean Miller and Alonzo Trier Will Return for Arizona’s Game vs Stanford
It has been a crazy day for the Arizona Wildcat basketball program and their fans. At noon Arizona time, the university held a press conference for Sean Miller where they denied the information in E...
Best Power Five Basketball Programs of All Time
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...
Early Prediction For QB Battles Going Into The 2018 CFB Season
The 2017 College Football Season has come and gone, and with it a number of big name play callers will be leaving. What it will leave behind is some of the best internal QB battles that we have witnes...
Washington State QB Tyler Hilinski Passes Away
Washington State redshirt sophomore quarterback, Tyler Hilinski was found dead in his apartment due to an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound according to police. A suicide note was apparently found...
UCLA Has Something To Look Forward To With Dorian Thompson-Robinson
The UCLA faithful may have been fearful of their quarterback situation for next year with Rosen going to the draft. I am here to say, they have nothing to worry about. The Bruins’ highest ranked...
Why the College Football Playoff should NOT expand
Much like my gut after the holidays, the Playoff has no room for expansion. While most people want an 8, maybe 16 team Playoff field… I’m here to tell you it would be a mistake. Four is th...
2017 PAC-12 Championship Preview: USC vs Stanford
USC is looking to win its first conference championship since 2011 while Stanford is trying to win its 4th conference title in seven years, extending their decade long dominance over the PAC-12 confer...
The Hangover, Week 10
Ohio State, I just don’t get you. A week ago, I wrote that I was all in. I apologized to JT Barrett for doubting him, I recognized that the Buckeyes were a legitimate threat to Alabama, and I we...
Gambling and Gifs
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...
Desert Hot Takes Podcast Episode 5
On this episode of the desert hot takes Austin Montgomery and Jacob Allen discuss the Pac-12 football conference and the growth of college hockey in the western United States. The podcast begin...
The Pac-12 is in Shambles: Who will survive?
Last Week Just like the Pac-12, my life was in shambles last week. But I am back and better than ever. Unfortunately, the Pac-12 may not recover as well as I did after being bent over by mid-terms. Mi...
What the Hell Happened to Wazzu?
In a SHOCKING result, the #8 Washington State Cougars fell last night to the California Golden Bears by a score of 37-3. If you would have told me before the game that score, I would’ve guessed ...
Big 12 vs PAC 12
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...
Pac 12 South Preview
College football is back, well almost back, and that means it’s time to kick off the preseason hype train with my rankings and team previews. Preseason Rankings 1.) USC 10-3 last year (7-2 co...
Pac 12 North Preview
The Pac 12 North Division, the presumably weaker division in the conference, may not have as much depth as the Pac 12 South, but it is still loaded with talented players. Washington, the defending di...
Picking NBA Draft Prop bets
This will be the first season in NBA history where Las Vegas sports books will host prop bets for the event. That is exciting for many reasons. For starters, you can win money. Second, you can create ...
Oregon State Baseball Goes for 24th Straight Win Tonight
Tonight, Oregon State will battle Gonzaga in a non-conference matchup in Corvallis, looking for a Pac-12 record-tying 24th straight win (Arizona State won 24 straight in 2010). Overall, the Beavers ar...
Sean Miller calls timeout up 11 with 0.9 seconds left; is petty as hell
Friday night was a good night for Arizona head coach Sean Miller. He watched his team execute a flawless gameplan and hold UCLA phenom Lonzo Ball to just eight points on 2-7 shooting. You would’...
Mid-Season Conference Report
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...
