After eight excruciating months, the 2016 college football season has arrived. Now that there's actually football to talk about, what better time to reprise the ole Big Ten Q&A? This week, we'll tackle the conference's odds of having two playoff representatives, a burgeoning battle between the Ohio State and Michigan offenses, the odds that J.T. Barrett can become the next Buckeye to hoist the Heisman Trophy and the third-best team in the Big Ten. As always, you ...

It's tough to imagine the opening weekend of college football being any better if it were scripted. Week 1 featured just about everything you could imagine. There were Top Five upsets, Top 10 teams going to overtime and plenty of dramatic moments all over the country. With the Week 2 rankings just being released on Tuesday, here is a recap of what took place in a wild start to the 2016 season. We knew this would be a ...

Notre Dame is 6-0 straight up and 5-1 against the spread in its last six games at home, while Nevada is 9-3 ATS in its last 12 games on the road. Trends collide when the Irish host the Wolf Pack on Saturday afternoon in South Bend.   Point spread: The Fighting Irish opened as 26-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark (line updates and matchup report). College football pick, via Odds Shark computer: 36.0-25.2 Fighting Irish (college football ...

Even after coming up short against a double-digit spread in its season opener, Tennessee is still 8-6 against the spread in that spot under head coach Butch Jones. The Volunteers are heavily favored again for Saturday night's battle against Virginia Tech inside the oval at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.    Point spread: Volunteers opened as nine-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark (line updates and matchup report). College football pick, via Odds Shark computer: 32.4-22.6 ...

Covering 10 points in a college football game is hard enough, let alone 38, but following a season-opening shellacking of Hawaii, the Michigan Wolverines are now 5-3 against the spread as double-digit favorites under head coach Jim Harbaugh.Michigan will again play as a huge favorite when it hosts Central Florida on Saturday afternoon at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.    Point spread: Wolverines opened as 34.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. (Line updates ...

The problem with betting on some of college football's heavies is that they're always favored by so much, especially when they play at home. Case in point: Alabama, which is just 3-7 against the spread over its last 10 home games. The Tide will play as big home favorites again when they host Western Kentucky on Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa.   Point spread: The Crimson Tide opened as 24-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark (line updates ...

Louisville is 5-1 straight up in its last six meetings with Syracuse—4-2 against the spread—stretching back to their days as Big East rivals. Coming off a huge offensive performance, the Cardinals will be big favorites for Friday night's meeting with the Orange at the Carrier Dome. Point spread: Cardinals opened as 13-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. (Line updates and matchup report) College football pick, via Odds Shark computer: 33.8-8.4 Cardinals (College football picks ...

The SEC entered the 2016 campaign with only three returning full-time starting quarterbacks, with only one—Ole Miss' Chad Kelly—firmly established as a superstar. Week 1 showed us there are more on the doorstep, just waiting to break through that glass ceiling. It also showed us coaching matters above all else, especially with veteran quarterbacks who displayed no signs of progress during the first week of the season. Even Kelly had his ups and downs vs. Florida State, ...

Excitement hung in the air in Clemson on the last day of February. The Tigers were opening spring practices, their first on-field action since taking Alabama down to the wire in the second College Football Playoff National Championship. Energy levels were high. Pads were popping. Cleats were churning up the turf. Players all over the field were eager to get their 2016 season started. But Mike Williams was nervous. He didn't want to hit the ground. The last ...

Exhale, Vol Nation. Or as Tennessee head football coach Butch Jones would say in what has become another one of his many-mentioned cliches: "Snap and clear." The Volunteers were far from dominant Alabama—nowhere close—in Thursday night's 20-13 overtime win over Appalachian State. But they also aren't in the same boat as LSU, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Kentucky or Auburn. All of those teams are 0-1. Arkansas narrowly escaped Louisiana Tech, 21-20, also. So, UT isn't alone in the Week ...