Posts Tagged ‘CFB upsets’

October 6th, 2012 By Andrew Ryan

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Here at Cappers Info, we are taking a weekly look at the teams that could be ones ripe to pull off some major upsets! Check out the potentially ugly dogs that could come up and bite you in the butt in you aren’t careful for the Week 6 of college football betting action!

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College Football Upset Pick #1: Vanderbilt Commodores (+230 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Missouri Tigers, Saturday, 7:00 ET: This is going to be a definite undercard game in the SEC this week, and certainly isn’t an important one by the standards of what South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida will be doing. This is going to be a battle of the James Franklin’s, though. Vandy’s coach Franklin is just better than Missouri’s QB Franklin when push comes to shove. This is a winnable game for a Vanderbilt team that is a lot better than a horrid loss Between the Hedges suggested two weeks ago. Missouri is going to find out that taking on the Commodores at home isn’t the easiest task in the world, though historically, it has been one of the easier tasks for SEC teams… which isn’t saying much. Welcome to the SEC, Mizzou.

College Football Upset Pick #2: New Mexico State Aggies (+290 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Idaho Vandals, Saturday, 5:00 ET: We won’t waste your time reading about this game. Here’s the bottom line: The Vandals stink. They’re really, really bad, and the Kibbie Dome hasn’t exactly been a place where many fans have been happy over the course of the last several seasons. Don’t get us wrong. New Mexico State is terrible. In fact, it is downright atrocious as well. But this game clearly could go either way when push comes to shove.

College Football Upset Pick #3: Arizona Wildcats (+290 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Stanford Cardinal, Saturday, 3:00 ET: We have already spoken as to why we like Arizona in this game, and we are doubling down here on it as an upset pick to boot. Stanford doesn’t have an offense that can keep up with that of the Wildcats if the latter really figures out how to keep the offense rolling. QB Josh Nunes might draw the ire of his hometown crowd in the end, and that could make for a long day down on The Farm.

College Football Upset Pick #4: Marshall Thundering Herd (+155 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. Tulsa Golden Hurricane, Saturday, 3:30 ET: Marshall knows that this is a team that it is going to have to beat at some point in all likelihood to win Conference USA this year. The Thundering Herd are in the East, and they have a chance to make a real statement to the Golden Hurricane, who figure to be the favorites to win the conference this year. This could be a nice spot for QB Rakeem Cato to prove that he is one of the best quarterbacks that you have never heard of in the country.

 
September 28th, 2012 By Andrew Ryan

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Here at Cappers Info, we are taking a weekly look at the teams that could be ones ripe to pull off some major upsets! Check out the potentially ugly dogs that could come up and bite you in the butt in you aren’t careful for the Week 5 of college football betting action!

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College Football Upset Pick #1: Minnesota Golden Gophers (+250 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Iowa Hawkeyes, Saturday, 12:00 ET: There is a point that confidence has to be running rampant over the course of your team, and Minnesota might just be at that very point. The Gophers have four straight wins to start their season, and they are starting off their Big Ten schedule with a shot against one of the worst teams they are going to play for the rest of the year. Both of these teams really need this game, but Minnesota is the club that we are going to back. The Hawkeyes just have to be shell shocked after getting beaten by Central Michigan last week, and that might holdover into another defeat at Kinnick Stadium.

College Football Upset Pick #2: Marshall Thundering Herd (+550 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Purdue Boilermakers, Saturday, 3:15 ET: Purdue is one of our favorite teams to back in the Big Ten this year, but the way that the MAC has played against the Big Ten, we definitely aren’t ones to count out the idea of an upset in this game. QB Rakeem Cato is the real deal, and he can put points on the board against the Boilers for sure. Yes, Purdue comes into this one off of a bye week, but it is a vintage look ahead game to the Michigan Wolverines coming to town next week. Definitely a good spot for upset alert on Saturday.

College Football Upset Pick #3: Arkansas Razorbacks (+380 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Texas A&M Aggies, Saturday, 12:20 ET: Has everyone forgotten the fact that just three weeks ago, these Razorbacks were one of the Top 10 teams in the entire country? Head Coach John L. Smith is a train wreck, and so is this Alabama team, but the Aggies haven’t shown us anything against anyone quite yet. There has to be at least a puncher’s chance for the Hogs to come into College Station and pull off the upset, especially knowing that this is one of the bigger rivalries from the old conference alignment that has come together once again in the SEC.

College Football Upset Pick #4: Tennessee Volunteers (+425 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Georgia Bulldogs, Saturday, 3:30 ET: We aren’t counting the Volunteers out of this game, and we think that they have a legitimate chance to pull off what would be an historic upset in this rivalry. Georgia is looking ahead for sure to South Carolina, just as Tennessee was looking ahead to Georgia this week. It’s just a bad spot for QB Aaron Murray and the gang. Sure, more often than not, the Dawgs are going to put this one away without all that much of a hassle, but we know that this Tennessee team is going to be playing as if its life depended upon it. This could be one of the best games of the day, and we want our money where the big bucks might ultimately be hiding.

College Football Upset Pick #5: NC State Wolfpack (+110 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Miami Hurricanes, Saturday, 12:00 ET: We said this last week when La Tech went into Champaign to take on the Illini. Isn’t the wrong team favored in this game? The Wolfpack have won all three of their games since losing to Tennessee at the Georgia Dome to start off the year, and they have looked pretty darn good in doing so. Miami is an enigma, and we think that it is going to really struggle in the ACC this year. This just doesn’t feel like a game in which the Hurricanes are even remotely as talented as the Wolfpack, but because both of these teams are sporting 3-1 records, the oddsmakers just plopped down a line that basically favors the home team by the HFA. We just don’t buy it. NC State is the better team and will show it with a blowout of a win on Saturday.

College Football Upset Pick #6: Toledo Rockets (+110 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Western Michigan Broncos, Saturday, 7:00 ET: QB Alex Carder isn’t likely to play this week for the Broncos, and that takes away just a huge chunk of their offense. Toledo has an ‘O’ that can run up and down the field, and though its defense absolutely stinks, Western Michigan is going to have to take advantage. We’re not all that sure that the Rockets wouldn’t win this game even if Carder were in there, but we have no doubt that they’re winning it at least half the time with Carder out.

 
September 22nd, 2012 By Andrew Ryan

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Here at Cappers Info, we are taking a weekly look at the teams that could be ones ripe to pull off some major upsets! Check out the potentially ugly dogs that could come up and bite you in the butt in you aren’t careful for the Week 4 of college football betting action!

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College Football Upset Pick #1: Rutgers Scarlet Knights (+310 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Arkansas Razorbacks, Saturday, 7:00 ET: Are the Hogs finished? We think that the question is definitely worth asking at this point. They have lost back to back games, and they were just called out by their quarterback, QB Tyler Wilson for “giving up” against the Crimson Tide. Rutgers went on the road last week and took out USF, and now, it has had a long week to prepare for coming on the road to Fayetteville for this one. This is one of those games that could go either way. The Scarlet Knights could come out, frustrate the Arkansas offense, and ultimately run away with the game in the end, or Arkansas could come out, take a 21-0 lead in the first quarter and never look back. We’ll take our chances that it is the former at least one out of four times.

College Football Upset Pick #2: Oregon State Beavers (+250 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ UCLA Bruins, Saturday, 3:30 ET: This is probably going to be the direction which we go for quite some time, as we think that the Bruins are overrated at this point. QB Brett Hundley could be hurting with an ankle sprain, and the Beavers are well rested, having played just one game in the first three weeks of the year. QB Sean Mannion could be the better of the two signal callers, and Oregon State could have the better of these two defenses. Just looking at the line movement in this one suggests that the Beavers are the right side, and we’ll take our chances that they can go into the Rose Bowl and win this game. There are just too many “could be”s for us to want to back the Bruins in any way, shape, or form.

College Football Upset Pick #3: Michigan Wolverines (+195 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Saturday, 7:30 ET: At some point, the Fighting Irish are going to come back to earth and revert to the 9-3 team that we still believe that they are. QB Denard Robinson is the better of these two quarterbacks, and Michigan has the better of the two defenses. Sure, the Golden Domers have home field advantage, but they also have a bad history here against Big Blue, namely in the form of three straight losses by exactly four points. Had that Michigan/Alabama game never happened, Michigan might have been favored in this one. Big Blue, in our opinion, should win this game half the time.

College Football Upset Pick #4: Akron Zips (+10000 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Tennessee Volunteers, Saturday, 7:30 ET: Eh, 100 to 1? Why not. It’s worth a stab on the Zips in our eyes for a quarter of a unit. Tennessee could come into this game with no fire whatsoever, and if that turns out to be the case, a very hungry Akron side could at least conceivably be able to put enough points on the board to give the Volunteers fits, especially the way that they were mauled last week by the Gators.

College Football Upset Pick #5: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (+125 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Illinois Fighting Illini, Saturday, 8:00 ET: And the next game in the long line of games that shouldn’t be referred to as upsets… A very good Louisiana Tech team goes on the road to Champaign to take on the Illini, who we still contend are one of the worst teams in the bottom of a Big Ten conference that has a lot of garbage in it. This is just a bad line, and the world is going to find out just how good the Bulldogs are when they come to town and beat the snot out of the Illini. We expect a double digit victory for the visitors.

College Football Upset Pick #6: Utah Utes (+200 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Arizona State Sun Devils, Saturday, 10:00 ET: We were impressed last week with the way that the Sun Devils competed with Missouri, but in the end, it might not have been all that great of a game. The ‘Zou might not be a bowl team this year, and it didn’t have QB James Franklin in the fold either. QB Jon Hays has the Utes moving right now, and fresh off of their upset of BYU last week, we think that they can get the job done on the road in the desert as well.

 
September 15th, 2012 By Andrew Ryan

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Here at Cappers Info, we are taking a weekly look at the teams that could be ones ripe to pull off some major upsets! Check out the potentially ugly dogs that could come up and bite you in the butt in you aren’t careful for the Week 3 of college football betting action!

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College Football Upset Pick #1: Utah Utes (+152 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. BYU Cougars, Saturday, 10:00 ET: The Holy War is always a battle, and this year should be no exception. RB John White IV has had a great career against his arch rivals, and we just aren’t so sure that the Cougs are going to be able to stop him even though QB Jordan Wynn’s days of quarterbacking the Utes is said and done with. BYU knows that this is an important game, but it might be caught looking ahead to its trip to the Smurf Turf next week to battle with Boise State. If that’s the case, that would be bad, bad news for the boys from Provo, and we think off of the bad game last week against Utah State, Utah is going to look to come back home and beat up its other rival. This game just reeks of an upset.

College Football Upset Pick #2: North Carolina Tar Heels (+145 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Louisville Cardinals, Saturday, 3:30 ET: Here’s what we have to say about this one: Louisville is a good team from the Big East. North Carolina is a decent team from the ACC. When you consider those two things, the choice really is easy. The Big East is just miles and miles away from the rest of the major college conferences at this point, and it is going to show on Saturday. North Carolina has the talent of a Top 25 team, and though we know that the Cardinals are legitimately a Top 25 squad right now, that doesn’t mean that that should stay that way. They aren’t going to have the more talented team on the field at Papa John’s Stadium, and we think that the oddsmakers know it.

College Football Upset Pick #3: Virginia Cavaliers (+325 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Saturday, 3:30 ET: This is just way, way too many points for the Yellow Jackets to be laying in this game. Last year, it wasn’t a fluke that the Cavaliers were just a game away from going to the ACC Championship Game. This team won on the road at Florida State, and it was able to contain the Ramblin’ Wreck, holding it to just 21 points in a mid-October clash. UVA is taking a bad rap due to the fact that it barely beat (and shouldn’t have beaten) Penn State last week, but it just isn’t justified to us. The Cavvies are the better of these two teams as we see it.

 
September 8th, 2012 By Andrew Ryan

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Here at Cappers Info, we are taking a weekly look at the teams that could be ones ripe to pull off some major upsets! Check out the potentially ugly dogs that could come up and bite you in the butt in you aren’t careful for the Week 2 of college football betting action!

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College Football Upset Pick #1: Pittsburgh Panthers (+190 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Cincinnati Bearcats, Thursday, 8:00 ET: A typical overreaction by the oddsmakers and the betting public. The Panthers know what they are doing this year, but they really came out flat against a Youngstown State team that really might be able to compete in the Big East with a year or two of preparation and some better facilities. Cincinnati didn’t get a chance to play last week, and that might come back to really hurt the team as well. When you parlay overreaction with a lack of preparation, you’ve got the makings for a bona fide upset, and that’s exactly what we expect to see happen on Thursday night.

College Football Upset Pick #2: Miami Hurricanes (+230 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Kansas State Wildcats, Saturday, 12:00 ET: This could be a very tricky game for the Wildcats on Saturday. They were able to go into South Beach and win this fixture last year, but we just aren’t all that sure that they are going to be able to do it again. Miami looked awfully impressive after falling behind 14-0 to Boston College on the road last week, and QB Stephen Morris might finally really be rounding into the form of a bona fide starting quarterback at this type of level. The athletes that are on the field are just better from “The U” than they are here in Manhattan, and we think that that is going to shine on the field on Saturday in the form of a college football upset.

College Football Upset Pick #3: Purdue Boilermakers (+440 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Saturday, 3:30 ET: When will the oddsmakers learn that Notre Dame just isn’t all that good? That’s really the bottom line. The Irish are nothing special, and running up the score last week against Navy in Dublin just didn’t do it for us. This was a long trip back to South Bend, and it clearly is going to make for a short week of practice and adjustment. We’ll talk more as to why we like Purdue in our full preview for the game, but this is clearly a side that we want to back for the upset, if nothing else than the fact that the Irish are just severely overrated.

College Football Upset Pick #4: Northwestern Wildcats (+145 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. Vanderbilt Commodores, Saturday, 8:00 ET: Ryan Field is going to be rocking for sure on Saturday for a Northwestern team that really has some potential this year. QB Kain Kolter showed last week that he can do it all, even make up for a defense that just quite honestly, flat out stunk against Syracuse. Vanderbilt’s offense won’t be able to make the same sort of headway here in Evanston as QB Ryan Nassib and the Orange were able to do at the Carrier Dome. We are truly puzzled as to why Vandy, save for the fact that it is out of the SEC, is favored in this game by a field goal. This is a heck of a lot more of a pick ‘em game in our eyes than anything else.

College Football Upset Pick #5: Arizona Wildcats (+310 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys, Saturday, 10:30 ET: This is just a classic case of overreaction once again. Arizona might have only beaten Toledo last week in overtime by a TD and put up 17 points, but it had 600 yards in regulation and was always the dominant side. Okie State’s win against Savannah State might have gotten headlines for the fact that it came by 84 points, but that really didn’t mean much to us. QB Matt Scott might be the better quarterback in this game, and when you give us the combination of the better quarterback and home field advantage against a team that was in the BCS last year that isn’t nearly as good as it was a campaign ago, we’ll take a shot at the upset.

 
August 31st, 2012 By Andrew Ryan

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College Football Upset Pick #1: Vanderbilt Commodores (+220 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. South Carolina Gamecocks, Thursday, 7:00 ET: Could the 2012 college football season really end in a big time upset? We think that that very well could be the case, as the Commodores are a good enough team to make it to a bowl game this year. The Gamecocks aren’t a Top 10 team in the land in our eyes, as they have a new defensive scheme, a running back that hasn’t played a game in 10 months, and a quarterback that is dealing with a bad back. Don’t be shocked if the Commodores stake a claim to a Top 25 bid this week right away with an upset of South Carolina.

College Football Upset Pick #2: NC State Wolfpack (+145 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. Tennessee Volunteers, Friday, 7:30 ET: Is the wrong team favored in this game? We tend to think so. QB Mike Glennon is the real deal this year, and he is going to be one of the better quarterbacks that the ACC has to offer. Tennessee has had all sorts of problems off the field, and it just can’t have all that much confidence that it has an offense that can score with NC State. In fact, we think that this game is going to be a bit of a one-sided romp, and it is going to be the underdog that is providing the foot, not the butt that is being kicked.

College Football Upset Pick #3: Western Michigan Broncos (+300 at Wager Web Sportsbook) @ Illinois Fighting Illini, Saturday, 12:00 ET: There is a lot of talk about the idea of Ohio upsetting Penn State on Saturday, but we think that Western Michigan has every bit of a chance to take down Illinois. The Illini are in the midst of a lot of changes, and it is unknown how they are going to adapt. QB Alex Carder is experienced, and he knows what it takes to be able to win some of these big time games. The Broncos might be as good as any team in the MAC West this year, and that might make them good enough to be able to come into Champaign and pull off the upset of a stunned Illinois side that might be limping towards a 4-8 campaign.

College Football Upset Pick #4: Michigan Wolverines (+425 at Wager Web Sportsbook) vs. Alabama Crimson Tide, Saturday, 8:00 ET: Why not, right? The national media has done a great job building this game up, and though everyone at least wants to make it seem like this game is going to be close, in the end, there are nothing but college football predictions about Alabama winning a close game. Michigan is 20-5 SU all-time against the SEC, and though I know that a lot of that is totally irrelevant, we don’t think that this is a game that is an automatic loss for Big Blue. QB Denard Robinson might prove to be the real deal in the end, and if he is, he can exploit what might be a very inexperienced defense that lost a ton of players to the NFL last year.