The Don’s Week Ten College Football Best Bets

Nov 4, 2023
In the Wednesday slate of MACTION games, we took the ugly under and it did not hit. We are now 24-20 (+1.49u) on the season. The best bets are hitting at a 54.5% clip this season and we have a busy Sa...

The Don’s Week Nine College Football Best Bets

Oct 26, 2023
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 Eight College Football Best Bets

Oct 20, 2023
The end of last week was less than ideal. We lost our game of the year and went 1-3 (-4.11u) on the Saturday slate. Now the record is at 19-17 (-0.22u) on the season for best bets. We bounce back thou...

Rose Bowl Preview: #6 Ohio State vs. #11 Utah

Dec 30, 2021
The Rose Bowl is the most iconic setting in college football. New Years’ Day, the gorgeous sunset and prior generations hearing Keith Jackson calling the game “The Granddaddy of them All&#...

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...

While You Were Sleeping – WSU vs. UCLA

Sep 22, 2019
The Game If you were going to miss a Pac-12 after dark game, this was not the one to do so. Well, unless you love defense. This game was as good as over at halftime with the Cougs up 35-17. Anthony Go...

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...

CFB Goals: Pac-12 Edition

Aug 29, 2019
College sports are unlike any other in the athletic world. There are 130 FBS teams competing for one championship. A large portion of teams don’t even crack the Top 25. Therefore, many teams hav...

2019 CFB Preview: Oregon Ducks

Aug 22, 2019
As the Oregon Ducks head into the 2019 season, they are ranked 11th in the country in the preseason AP poll. In the second season under head coach Mario Cristobal, they hope to make some noise in the ...

2019 CFB Preview: Stanford Cardinal

Aug 16, 2019
The Stanford Cardinal are facing a lot of change on both sides of the ball for 2019. David Shaw will have to rebuild the offensive line and receiving core for the offense to be successful. That doesn&...

2019 CFB Preview: Utah Utes

Aug 16, 2019
Utah’s 2018 campaign ended on a bad note. If not for the season-ending injury to their starting quarterback, the Utah Utes might’ve been destined for a trip to the Rose Bowl for the first ...

2019 CFB Preview: Arizona Wildcats

Aug 15, 2019
The second year of the Kevin Sumlin era begins in Tucson, Arizona this fall, but there are a lot more questions than answers for the Wildcats. Kevin Sumlin should be under some pressure after going 5-...

2019 CFB Preview: USC Trojans

Aug 14, 2019
Simply put, 2018 was an utter disappointment for the USC Trojans. Head coach Clay Helton survived the off-season speculation, but do not expect the school to be a forgiving in 2019. Prestige Rating (I...

2019 CFB Preview: Oregon State Beavers

Aug 14, 2019
Oregon State is trying to climb out of the bottomless abyss of awfulness. They have won nine total games over the last four years. This isn’t great. So how are they going to get better? ThatR...

2019 CFB Preview: Colorado Buffaloes

Aug 14, 2019
A couple years ago back in 2016, Colorado won the PAC-12 South, made the Alamo Bowl, and finished with a 10-4 record. Now, the goal is simple: get six wins. The Buffaloes had a rough season last year,...

Odds for the Next Program to Receive NCAA Sanctions

Aug 13, 2019
It’s that time once again in America. College football teams across the country are putting in the man-hours at practice and vigorously preparing for their season-opener, which for most teams is in ...

2019 CFB Preview: Cal Bears

Aug 9, 2019
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...

Back with the Pac: Week 11

Nov 14, 2018
Another thrilling week of Pac-12 football has concluded, and the division races are heating up. The North is down to both Washington schools meaning the Apple Cup will likely determine the winner of t...

Back with the Pac: Week 10

Nov 7, 2018
Just like that, there are only three weeks of Pac-12 football left in the regular season. The Pac-12 North appears to be coming down to an Apple Cup showdown between Washington and Washington State. T...

Back with the Pac: Week 9

Oct 31, 2018
It was officially upset week for Pac-12 football this past weekend. Three ranked teams lost, all coming from the North division, which leaves us with one clear front runner with three weeks to play. T...

Back with the Pac: Week 8

Oct 24, 2018
Once again the Pac-12 continues to consume itself. This week in Pac-12 football, Pullman, Washington continues to prove to be a death sentence for ranked teams playing there. In the south, Utah picked...

Back with the Pac: Week 7

Oct 18, 2018
Welcome to Back with the Pac: Week 7 where we look at the most unpredictable conference in college football! The main event of the weekend was Oregon vs Washington which lived up to all of the hype. W...

Back with the Pac: Week 5

Oct 3, 2018
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...

#7 Stanford vs #20 Oregon Film Session

Sep 28, 2018
Ya hey we all know why you are here. So no foreplay lets just dive right in to everyone’s favorite series. Obviously to view all the plays you can visit my twitter page where I posted them. Whil...

Back with the Pac: Week 4

Sep 26, 2018
With week 4 bringing us the beginning of conference play, #Pac12AfterDark was in full effect! Oregon vs Stanford was the premier game in the conference this past weekend, and it lived up to all of the...

Back with the Pac: Week 3

Sep 19, 2018
Welcome to the first edition of Back with the PAC where we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly happening around the Conference of Champions during football season! Each week will feature a breakdo...

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 ...

DO NOT HIT THE PANIC BUTTON, ARIZONA WILDCATS FANS

Sep 11, 2018
Coming into the season, the Arizona Wildcats had dreams of having a successful season behind new head coach Kevin Sumlin and Heisman candidate Khalil Tate. Yet here we are two weeks into the college f...

On the Biggest Stage the PAC-12 Comes Up Short…Again

Sep 4, 2018
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...

Student Union CFB Preview: USC Trojans

Aug 17, 2018
Clay Helton and the USC Trojans survived an early-season upset at the hands of Washington State and a mid-season demolition on the road against rival Notre Dame to win the PAC-12 championship in 2017....

Student Union CFB Preview: Arizona State

Aug 14, 2018
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

Aug 13, 2018
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...

Rosen and Darnold Declare For NFL

Jan 4, 2018
Two days removed from the College Football Playoff semi-finals, both Josh Rosen and Sam Darnold declared for the NFL draft. The two Pac-12 quarterbacks are actually the two youngest of the elite quart...

My Wild Idea for a New College Football Playoff

Nov 27, 2017
Are you tired of your team getting so close to making the playoff, but then barely missing out? Yeah, I am too. The current playoff system is flawed, considering an undefeated team (Wisconsin) might n...

The 3 Most Underrated Teams in College Football

Nov 7, 2017
College football rankings typically don’t mean much to some teams. If you aren’t in the top 10, you’re probably not under the microscope by the playoff committee and therefore aren&#...

Pac 12 North Preview

Aug 11, 2017
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...