College Football is Here...

As week one of the CFB season approaches the hopes and dreams of many fans and alumni are high. Just as hope springs eternal every spring in Baseball, as the summer days grow shorter college football fans from every corner of the nation tell each other this is their year.

If you root for a non-BCS team then the words Utah and Boise State will be spoken loud, hoping your team can follow in these teams' footsteps and crash the BCS party come New Year’s Day. For every team september means all the work put in is on the line for 60 minutes and all the blood and sweat from spring to fall, recruiting to practice, can come to an end in the blink of an eye or the shriek of a whistle. For in college football one loss can make all the difference. The action starts Thursday and does not end until a national champion is crowned. Each week teams are eliminated, each loss a crushing blow. There are no second chances. Yes a team can lose and still make it to the championship, but such a team no longer controls its destiny. In college football there is a unique build-up and excitement for the season and the drama that unfolds on college campuses each Saturday (or in the era of ESPN, Thursday, Friday and the occasional Tuesday) is without equal. Thank god it is September.

Handicapping the Season
College Football handicapping is a lot like the stock market. The experts can tell you what to do, but most of the time they are looking at past history, and your guess on the future is as good as theirs. But the geniuses of handicapping follow the same rules as the Genuis of the markets Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha. You must look for teams that are undervalued. And when they become overvalued, get out. That is why the great pick of last week may be the team to pick against the following week. Georgia last year was the preseason #1, featuring the first QB and RB taken in the draft. But they were overvalued. They won some good games early, moving to 4-0, but any good handicapper would have circled the Alabama game “between the hedges” in Athens as a great upset bid. Georgia was banged up and inexperienced outside of the skill positions, Alabama had a great defense and an experienced offense, and Georgia was treating this game as their chance to show the country they indeed were #1, while Nick Saban took his team to Athens also 4-0 including a demolishing of Clemson as an underdog. Georgia wore the black jerseys and called for a “blackout” crowd. But before fans got to their seats with their first cocktail (fans were seen drinking straight out of the bottle by halftime), Alabama had jumped on the Dawgs to the tune of a 31-0 lead and cruised to victory as a 6 point underdog. They would then carry this momentum all the way to the SEC Title game where they ran into a man and a team on a mission, Tim Tebow and Florida.

For this reason the first week of the college season is a great time to find these undervalued teams. On this site you will find breakdowns of the best games of the week, the best bets of the week and insight and humor on all that makes college football the best time of the year. Follow along below to see which teams are the “Lox” of the week, which players will stand out each week and everything else that goes on in the college football universe from LA to Baton Rouge to Columbus to Lincoln. I may even make mention of a certain sideline reporter that was in the news for all the wrong reasons this summer (hint: you can see her on the sideline on Thursday night in Raleigh for the NC St-South Carolina game). If this is not reason enough to cancel all plans you may have made on Saturdays for 3 months, I don’t know what is. And if you are like me and are awoken from a comfortable sleep on Friday night by a dream of Lee Corso putting on your favorite team’s mascot head, then that can mean only one thing, it is the first week of September and College Football is Back.