Week 2 AP Top 25
The latest AP Top 25 college football rankings came out late this week because of the holiday, and those extra days of waiting were well worth it as there’s been plenty of movement throughout.
The latest AP Top 25 college football rankings came out late this week because of the holiday, and those extra days of waiting were well worth it as there’s been plenty of movement throughout.
Oregon is coming off a loss, which snapped their 3-game losing streak, but they are still tied atop the Pac 12 standings with Arizona.
The Ducks lost star RB LaMichael James and QB Darron Thomas, but they still are staked and their defense may be much better than last season.
Both Colorado (20-11) and Oregon (22-8) are on the Big Dance bubble in a somewhat weak Pac 12 season and the loser of this conference quarterfinal may be NIT bound.
This is a match-up between two teams that have not met each other since the year 2001. The difference is that this time they meet in what many consider to be the Granddaddy of all Bowl Game–the 98th Edition of the Tournament of Roses.
After losing to LSU in their opener, the Ducks offense found its mojo and whopped its next two lesser foes into submission, outscoring them 125-27, but will now face its toughest opponent so far, as they head to Tucson to tangle with an Arizona Wildcats who have been pounded by a pair of top-10 teams.
After a monster 2010 season, the Oregon Ducks snatched their second straight PAC-10 Championship by going undefeated, but fell just shy of grabbing a National Title after they were beat out by the Auburn Tigers.
For those college football betting nuts out there, it’s never too early to start thinking about the 2011/12 BCS picture.
The list of contenders and pretenders for the upcoming season has some familiar faces as well as some long-dormant programs looking to burst back on the national title scene.
Here we go with today’s sports water cooler talk. Here, you won’t just find the straight news; you’ll find the stuff everyone is talking about – the ice breakers, the Twitter Sports Picks and topics…well, basically all the stuff you discuss at the water cooler.
The College Football season may be 5-6 weeks away but our man James Hayes has been deep in study and will provide his take and 2010 College Football Predictions on as many NCAA teams as he can before the 2010/11 season kicks off.
CappersPicks.com brings you the only college football handicapping guide you’ll need. Use the College football previews for the 2010 NCAA football season to help you with your college football handicapping at our top sportsbooks online this season.
For those college football betting nuts out there, it’s never too early to start thinking about the 2010/2011 BCS picture.
As always, there will be a hodgepodge of contenders and pretenders; some of them obvious and some emerging from the woodwork.
The Betting Numbers
This line has done very little. The Ducks opened most places as a -3.5-point favorite and that is the current number at most shops a week prior to the game. The juice opened -110 and fell to as much as +100 but failed to cross over enough to change the number. The total has gone down to 50.5 from its opening of 51.5.
Line Movement
Oregon opened as 9.5-point home favorites in most places and has been moving up and down all week. It made it up to -10.5 in most shops but has since come back down to the current line of -9.5. Early money has come in on Oregon St. with just over 60 percent of the wagers going that way.
Odds: OSU +9.5 | ML: +300 | O/U 62.5
Odds: Oregon -9.5 | ML: -370
Does anyone want to win the Pac-10?
The conference’s ticket to the Rose Bowl is still up for grabs with the Pac-10’s contenders dropping games week after week.
The Oregon Ducks appeared to have their BCS bowl dreams shattered with a 51-42 loss to Stanford in Week 10, opening the door for the Arizona Wildcats to control their destiny at the top of the conference.
A trip to the Rose Bowl will likely be at stake when the Southern California Trojans head to Eugene to face the Oregon Ducks in a Pac-10 battle between one-loss conference foes.
Oddsmakers have tagged the Ducks as 3-point home underdogs for Saturday’s contest. The Trojans have won three of the last four meetings with Oregon, including last year’s 44-10 beating at Los Angeles Coliseum.