The Pittsburgh Panthers are 3-1 both straight up and against the spread in their four meetings with Virginia Tech since the teams renewed their rivalry back in 2012. In a big game in the ACC's Coastal Division, Pitt hosts the Hokies on Thursday night at Heinz Field.               Point spread: The Hokies opened as four-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark (line updates and matchup report). College football pick, via Odds ...

Michigan State has been making up ground in its rivalry with Michigan, winning seven of their last eight meetings straight up and going 8-0 against the spread in the process. But the struggling Spartans will have their hands full when they host the undefeated Wolverines in the annual battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy on Saturday afternoon in East Lansing.                  Point spread: The Wolverines opened as 21-point favorites, according ...

The Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State Spartans—two teams on wildly opposite ends of the college football spectrum—will square off Saturday, Oct. 29, in their annual rivalry clash. And what a strange outlook we have for this one. According to Odds Shark, the second-ranked Wolverines (8-0, 4-0 Big Ten) opened as 21-point favorites. Considering the performance of both teams, that's not a surprise. But Michigan State (2-5, 0-4) has earned seven of the last eight victories in the series. While ...

Ole Miss suffered a huge blow to its 2017 recruiting class when 4-star linebacker Willie Gay announced he was backing off an early pledge to the Rebels. The 6'1 ½", 215-pounder from Starkville High School in Mississippi had been committed to the Rebels since June. Gay, who rates as the nation's No. 6 outside linebacker and the No. 88 player overall in the 2017 cycle, recorded 84 tackles—including 17 tackles for loss with nine pass breakups and ...

With eight weeks down and six remaining in the 2016 college football regular season, we’ve officially entered the push for the College Football Playoff. Conference races are in full swing. We’ve figured out which September surprises are real and which are mirages. Games circled on the calendar as huge in August might not mean so much now, but others have taken their place. Of 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams, nine unbeatens remain. Two (Baylor and West ...

When it comes to Nick Saban’s accomplishments, he’s already in rare air in just about every way imaginable. From repetitive No. 1 recruiting classes to national championships, he’s redefining the standards by which every future college football coach will be judged. O.J. Howard has a chance to give him another milestone. Heading into this season, Saban had a player named an All-American at every position minus one, and nearly all had been at the University of Alabama. That ...

In Week 8, Penn State earned a shocking upset of second-ranked Ohio State and sent playoff projections into flux. In Week 9, we'll likely need another shocker to make things change at the top. Top-ranked Alabama gets a week off from its midseason SEC slog, while Michigan should dominate an in-state matchup with Michigan State. The Spartans, a Top 25 team at the season's outset, have lost all four of their games in the Big Ten. Mark ...

Welcome back to the national conversation, LSU and Auburn. Where have you been? Oh, that's right. Auburn was mired in offensive ineptitude for the the better part of the 2015 season and the early stages of 2016, while LSU was busy stumbling out of the gates this year, firing its head coach, working through a midseason quarterback change and dealing with an injury to superstar running back Leonard Fournette. But it's time for the SEC to take LSU ...

With the 2016 season having crossed the halfway point, each week is becoming more and more important as the College Football Playoff eventually takes shape. While Week 8 didn't feature a high volume of upsets, it produced arguably the single biggest surprise of the season so far—the Penn State Nittany Lions' 24-21 win over the previously unbeaten Ohio State Buckeyes. Week 9 features a number of intriguing matchups that will almost certainly have playoff implications down the ...

Several teams established themselves as contenders over the weekend, but arguably the season's biggest upset also went down, shaking up the Week 9 Associated Press and Amway Coaches polls as a result.  The Ohio State Buckeyes' impressive road winning streak came to a screeching halt in a surprising 24-21 loss to the Penn State Nittany Lions that sent the Buckeyes on a bit of a slide in both major polls. On the other hand, the Alabama Crimson ...