With a collective 24-10 record, the Pac-12 Conference has had a relatively unimpressive performance to this point in the 2016 season. But what the league lacks in quality nonconference wins, it can make up for with strong league play, which kicks into full gear in Week 4. Five of the six games involving Pac-12 teams this week are conference tilts, including three pitting North and South Division teams against each other. There's also a solid nonconference ...

Week 4 of the college football season is the unofficial kickoff of conference play, which means one thing: It's about to get real.  There have been some conference games played already this season, sure, but the upcoming gameweek features four matchups of Top 25 in-conferences foes and many more that should have teams on upset alert.  Here's a complete look at the Top 25 and Week 4's slate, with the Odds Shark-reported spreads and a look at some key matchups that ...

Whether you prefer De'Aaron Fox, Bam Adebayo, Wenyen Gabriel or Malik Monk for 2017 SEC Player of the Year, there's a great chance the award will go to a Kentucky freshman for the first time since Anthony Davis won it in 2012. Team success is one of the most important factors in conference Player of the Year voting. Last year, 31 of the 32 conference POYs played on a team that finished in the top four in the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Joshua Dobbs sat over a half-empty plate of seafood, unfinished business gnawing away at him. Hours earlier, he'd played in April's spring game, and he was supposed to be enjoying a postgame dinner with his parents. But he was preoccupied. A pair of families had waited by the Tennessee football locker room hours earlier, hoping their kids could meet the Volunteers senior quarterback. One was from nearby Sweetwater, and Dobbs had hoped to visit with ...

Week 4 marks the widespread start of conference play—which is amazing because the season still feels so young. Sure, there have been great games and memorable moments, but how many teams does it feel like we have a read on? Alabama, Louisville and Ohio State are good. Virginia and Kentucky are bad. We can say those things with confidence. Beyond them, it still feels like we're guessing. That's what makes this weekend so refreshing. The slate is solid ...

So much action and excitement has been packed into the first three weeks of the 2016 college football season that it's hard to believe we're less than a quarter of the way through. It can't keep up the intensity, can it? The Week 4 schedule says otherwise. Of the 59 games on tap, 23 are conference matchups as teams set forth on their goal of winning a division or league title. The lineup also includes four games ...

Every year, the debate rages in gyms all across the country: Which state produces the most amount of 5-star talent? That question has become increasingly difficult to answer over the years, as high school basketball has become more of a national game at the 5-star level. With many of the nation's best players opting to play away from home, the goal was to find where those players came from and which state produces the most talent. For ...

LSU is 4-1 in its past five meetings with Auburn, and 7-2 over the past nine meetings in the series, but only 1-3 against the spread over the previous four encounters and 4-5 ATS over the past nine. In other words, LSU has been favored for the most recent meetings, but Auburn has been keeping the games tight. The teams might be headed for another close encounter Saturday night down at Jordan-Hare Stadium.   Point spread: The LSU ...

Florida State is 2-1 straight up in its three matchups with its little brother down at South Florida but 0-3 against the spread as the Bulls have given the Seminoles decent games. Coming off one of the worst losses in program history, FSU looks to bounce back when it visits USF on Saturday afternoon in Tampa. Point spread: The Seminoles opened as 5.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark (line updates and matchup report). College ...

If you follow college football recruiting, you know the 5-star names. Many of you know the majority of the 4-star names. They've become somewhat household. But what about those 3-star athletes looking to prove themselves at the next level? Many athletes are looking for a chance to show themselves worthy once they step on a college turf. In turn, many college coaches are looking to turn 3-star recruits into 5-star college players. And, as we've seen from ...