College Football Betting: How Will The Best And Worst ATS Teams Perform In 2010?
BetUS Sportsbook has more NCAA football betting analysis for you this week by picking apart the best teams against the college football spreads from last year. Check out whether we think these squads are going to be able to keep it up for NCAA football betting fans this year or not!
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Connecticut Huskies (11-2 ATS in 2009) – The Huskies are going to be a very interesting team to watch this year in the Big East, especially if Jordan Todman can keep the team going on the ground. The passing attack is going to be non-existent yet again for UConn, but head coach Randy Edsall has a history of putting together a team that plays some hardnosed ball. The defense should be able to carry the way well enough to set the table for Todman to roll right over a good chunk of Big East teams. Repeating an 11-2 ATS mark is going to be virtually impossible, but we’d be surprised it the Huskies weren’t NCAA football betting winners by year’s end.
Ohio State Buckeyes (10-3 ATS in 2009) – Yikes! We don’t think so. The Buckeyes are one of the most overrated teams in the land this year. Terrelle Pryor, year in and year out, is an overhyped field general, and though he led the team in both rushing and passing last year, we don’t see any significant value in him over some of the other average quarterbacks in the Big Ten. OSU is going to be asked to cover some hefty, hefty spreads this year, and we think that the 2010 Rose Bowl triumph over Oregon is going to install a false sense of security in the minds of NCAA football betting fans all year long.
Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders (10-3 ATS in 2009) – MTSU probably can’t be overrated this season. Dwight Dasher is one of the best dual threat quarterbacks in the game, and he won’t be contained by Sun Belt defenses. Until we start seeing some big numbers get thrown on the board, particularly when they are in Murfreesboro, the Blue Raiders are going to be a team to back all year long. Consider this a warning to both the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: Middle Tennessee State is coming to get you!
Central Florida Knights (9-3 ATS in 2009) – Head coach George O’Leary still has a major quarterbacking issue at UCF, and until that gets fixed, we are going to be awfully reluctant to back this team. One wrong step for Brynn Harvey, the team’s leading (and only legitimate) rusher, and it’s all over. The defense still has a lot of playmakers in spite of the fact that it lost second round draft choice Torrell Troup to the NFL. It all worked for the Knights last year, but now that they have the expectations on their shoulders for being one of the top teams in Conference USA, NCAA football betting on them could become awfully dicey.
For every great team, there has to be one that has a miserable time trying to pick up college football betting victories. BetUS Sportsbook has the top four teams that you needed to avoid last year on the NCAA football spreads and whether they will be detriments to you again this season.
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San Jose State Spartans (2-10 ATS in 2009) – The Spartans might have a new head coach now that Dick Tomey has retired, but that doesn’t mean anything has changed in San Jose for the upcoming season. There is still a significant lack of quarterback play for SJSU, and a porous defense isn’t helping any. The only good news is that the oddsmakers apparently aren’t opposed to giving the Spartans 40 points to start a game with early in the season. That’s what they’ll be catching in Tuscaloosa against the defending champions, the Alabama Crimson Tide in Week 1; it also might be what they need to be catching all season long to finish .500 against the NCAA football spreads.
Colorado State Rams (2-9 ATS in 2009) – This team was nothing short of brutal at times in 2009. The only thing that CSU could take away from last year was the fact that it beat its rivals from Colorado. Now, the Buffs are out for revenge, and unless the offense is going to find more than 21.7 points per game from somewhere this year, it could be a bad start to what could be yet another miserable campaign.
Arkansas State Red Wolves (2-9 ATS in 2009) – It’s difficult for a Sun Belt team to post an ATS record this bad since the conference gets such little respect as it is, but the Red Wolves found a way to pull the feat off last year. Things should get slightly better this year, if for no other reason than the fact that the “top performers” from last year’s 4-8 team are all gone. New blood has to help Arky State, which looks to inch towards .500 this year in a woeful conference.
Florida State Seminoles (3-9 ATS in 2009) – It’s been years since Florida State has been a viable team to back on the NCAA football spreads, and for good reason. The Noles are consistently overhyped. If the garnet and gold nation hears one more time that “this is the year” that the team comes back, it might haul off and smack someone. Guess what, Seminoles fans… This isn’t the year either. Christian Ponder is being touted as one of the best quarterbacks in the country, and though the offense for FSU is ready to go, the defense is still atrocious. Unless by chance the Seminoles plan on winning a lot of 42-38 games this year, this will be another year of disappointment in Tallahassee. Maybe the problem wasn’t Bobby Bowden coaching the team after all.
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