With the Seminoles wounded and with little left to lose, expect their best effort of the season, so take Florida State as a 3-point underdog at Miami.
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The Dallas Cowboys are 3-1 with a rookie quarterback, but their schedule has been soft, and the Cincinnati Bengals have a hard-core defense.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book manager Aaron Kessler preview the college football and NFL weekend.
It’s a thrill to hit a long-shot bet, but the truth is the so-called sleeper teams rarely win the Super Bowl and pay the bills. So back the Packers.
Review-Journal sports editor Bill Bradley welcomed RJ sports betting writer Matt Youmans for his bi-weekly Facebook Live lunchtime chat Wednesday.
Will the Panthers, who open at Denver on Thursday, feel the hangover from being Super Bowl losers? Cam Newton led Carolina to a surprising 15-1 season.
The Carolina Panthers are 5½-point favorites over the Denver Broncos and the total is 45 in today’s game. A survey of opinions from Review-Journal staff members, other media, oddsmakers and professional handicappers:
Despite all of the hype that mainly involves Cam Newton, Peyton Manning and the hundreds of propositions, for me, the Super Bowl 50 matchup comes down to the basics. One of those tried and true, basic principles is that defense usually wins big games, and this Denver defense is something special.
It took almost two weeks before some Super Bowl bettors bought into the other side of the story, but significant money is finally siding with Peyton Manning and the underdog Denver Broncos.
It took months for coach Pete Carroll to admit the obvious and finally say this week a Super Bowl hangover was a big reason the Seattle Seahawks were so sluggish to start this season. But the good news is hangovers eventually go away.
The Dallas Cowboys have yet to win a game this season without quarterback Tony Romo. The Washington Redskins have yet to win back-to-back games this season. Something has to give in today’s “Monday Night Football” matchup between the two longtime NFC East rivals.
The Rebels are favored by 9.5 points when they host the Rainbow Warriors today at Sam Boyd Stadium.
It’s too soon to label the season a fiasco in Philadelphia, because it’s only the halfway point and a bad division is up for grabs. Still, the spotlight on coach Chip Kelly is getting intense, and he’s overweight and sweating.
In his first season at Houston, football coach Tom Herman has been a big reason the American Athletic Conference is making some noise nationally.
Being bad and boring is an unenviable combination for any team, the same way that being dumb, drunk and broke is no way to go through life. The UNLV football team is almost always terrible and rarely entertaining, so that’s why Tony Sanchez was the right hire.
