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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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The 2010 college football betting season will kick off in less than two months, and here at BetUS sportsbook, there’s no such thing as a bad time to start talking about the boys on the gridiron.
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Today, we will look at the 2010 NCAA Football betting futures and pick out a few longshots to win the BCS National Championship.

Pittsburgh Panthers (+5000) – Someone is going to have to win the Big East, and whoever successfully pulls it off is at least remotely going to have their names etched in the BCS title run, just as the Cincinnati Bearcats did last year. The Panthers are coming off a great regular season in which they only lost one game in the conference and two games overall. Though QB Bill Stull has departed, HC Dave Wannstedt has never heavily relied on his quarterback to win games. Instead, the “Stache” is going to be reliant upon the legs of RB Dion Lewis, who crushed every freshman rushing record in the U-Pitt books last year with 1,799 yards and 18 TDs. Beyond a visit to Utah, the rest of this schedule is very manageable. Trips to Connecticut and Cincinnati won’t be fun, but will be very doable for a team that should be fun to watch in ’10.

Florida State Seminoles (+5000) – It’d be a shame to see the ‘Noles do this well in the first year without HC Bobby Bowden, but there is a real possibility for it to happen. They are +125 favorites to win the ACC in the BetUS NCAA football divisions futures. QB Christian Ponder is considered one of the top quarterback prospects for the NFL Draft of 2011, and he is going to be leading an offense that should simply be amazing under new HC Jimbo Fisher. The ‘Noles averaged 30.1 points per game last year with Ponder throwing for just 2,716 yards. It looks as if a 3,000+ passing yards season is a foregone conclusion. Florida State could lose to Oklahoma in Week 2 and still be a title contender, particularly with wins at Miami and at home against Florida. If the FSU defense figures out how to avoid giving up 433.8 yards and 30.0 points per game again, look out for the garnet and gold.

Oregon State Beavers (+5000) – With the USC Trojans out of the picture in terms of the National Championship, any Bowl games or Pac-10 races, the door is going to swing open for a ton of teams. Though we don’t really believe that the Beavers can run the table with the atrocious schedule in front of them, they can clearly go to the BCS title game with one loss this year thanks to what should be very strong computer numbers. One win from games at TCU and Boise State would be great, while the Pac-10 seems reasonable, especially with USC and rival Oregon both coming to Reser Stadium. Throw into the mix the fact that RB Jacquizz Rodgers (1,440 yards, 22 TDs) is back for a Heisman Trophy run and OSU can drastically improve upon its 8-5 record from a season ago.

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