I also didn’t buy into the USC hype like everyone else in the summer. I thought with an 11-game schedule in a super-competitive Sun Belt, they’d be a 5-6 or 6-5 type of team this year. The Dukes were making a huge step up in level of competition coming from the FCS. They had to replace their multi-year starting QB, their top WR transferred to South Carolina and their best defensive player transferred to Texas. One of my biggest misses is James Madison. Safe to say, we were all right (so far) betting Under 3.5 wins. The Buffaloes faced one of the toughest schedules in the country and I thought they could be an underdog in every game. I didn’t like the Karl Dorrell hire and thought their 2020 COVID season was a fluke. Everyone seemed to be down on Colorado this summer, including me. Now, I didn’t think they’d get there in six games, but keep an eye on second-year DC Tony White, who in two years has knocked off 20 PPG and 200 YPG from what Syracuse was allowing in 2020. Their early season win total was only 3.5 and, despite a tough schedule, I thought they would flirt with bowl eligibility. Syracuse was a team that I thought was valued way too low in the early-summer market. I bet them Over 7 Wins, 100-1 to win the SEC and Hendon Hooker 80-1 to win the Heisman. I thought the Volunteers were clearly the second-best team in the SEC East and I had them No. Tennessee was one team I was really high on. I’ll give you three positives and three negatives: Powers: I bet 85 different teams as far as their season win total went, so there are plenty of them for me. Now that we’re a little more than halfway through the regular season, which teams have you nailed from your preseason projections and which ones have been your biggest misses? This week, I talked with professional bettors Brad Powers ( and Kyle Hunter ( as well as BettingPros CFB/NFL analyst Thor Nystrom ( about Week 8 and more. The lines are even blurrier now with so much parity across college football, but it’s important to look back, while also looking forward. For example, Washington State’s win over Wisconsin in Week 2 doesn’t look quite as impressive now as it did back then. Some bettors who create their own numbers will go back and regrade performances based on teams’ current trend lines. One of the most important handicapping processes of the college football season is not only projecting where teams are going but also looking at where they’ve been.

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