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College Football Pick'em Pool Picks (Week 2, 2025) - Targets, Avoids, Predictions for ESPN Pick'em Contests
We have a good turnout this year with 65 entries in the RotoBaller Reader's Group. All but two entries got at least half of the picks right, which is why we do the confidence version. Three entries (PAPI PEREZ, WeagleweagleWDE, and chrismiller19) led the way this week with 48 points. That's not bad out of […]
Mike Marteny
College Football Power Rankings: Top 25 Teams for Week 2
This was one of the more enjoyable “official” opening weekends in college football history. After all, no No. 1 team has faced a No. 2 team in the first week of the season. That should...
Mike Marteny
DraftKings CFB DFS Lineup Picks: Daily College Fantasy Football Late Saturday Slate (8/30/25)
I love these late slates, especially early in the season. We see some very interesting matchups on these slates at this time of year. It makes me nostalgic for the old Pac-12 after dark. It will kind of be back next year, but it will never be the same. Who's burning the midnight oil with […]
Mike Marteny
DraftKings CFB DFS Lineup Picks: Daily College Fantasy Football Saturday Evening Slate (8/30/25)
We're not done yet! There are a lot of good games in prime time as well. LSU and Clemson highlight this slate, but we have some other high-powered offenses in action. Freshman phenom Bryce Underwood is on here, as is former top recruit Malachi Nelson. Are either one of them worth using? We'll get into […]
Mike Marteny
DraftKings CFB DFS Lineup Picks: Daily College Fantasy Football Saturday Main Slate (8/30/25)
We have a dozen games on the Saturday main slate on DraftKings, and boy, do we have some monsters! Ohio State and Texas highlight this slate, but the undercard matchups between Tennessee and Syracuse and Alabama and Florida State aren't bad either. Add in the Misery Bowl between Temple and UMass to go with an […]
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10 College Football Bold Predictions for 2025: LSU, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Nebraska, UTSA, UTEP, more
Farmageddon just passed. We waited for that moment through eight long months of baseball (even though it was my first love), flopping, more flopping, the NCAA Tournament, the WNBA season, and two months of NBA playoffs. It's refreshing to get back to the best sport of all. I do make some bold(ish) predictions from time […]
Mike Marteny
College Football Picks Against the Spread: Expert Betting Predictions for Week 1
The college football season is only a couple of dozen games old, and we have already seen some crazy things. I'm here for it! With so many marquee matchups going on in Week 1, there promises to be many more good finishes. There are 63 games over the next three days, but only 29 of […]
Mike Marteny
College Football Pick'em Pool Picks (Week 1, 2025) - Targets, Avoids, Predictions for ESPN Pick'em Contests
We know that college football is really back once the ESPN College Pick'em pools are opened. Now, we can finally make some picks! As those of you who have been around for a while know, we run a Pick'em pool for RotoBaller readers. We encourage you to join because RotoBaller is giving away some prizes […]
Mike Marteny
DraftKings CFB DFS Lineup Picks: Daily College Fantasy Football Friday Slate (8/29/25)
The greatest weekend in college football rolls on with another packed Friday slate. There are some intriguing matchups in these seven games, but there aren't as many good defenses as on last night's slate. We should see some higher scores out there. Unlike last night's slate, all seven games are included in the main slate. […]
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DraftKings CFB DFS Lineup Picks: Daily College Fantasy Football Thursday Slate (8/28/25)
We have waited over eight months for this! We have a total of 91 games over the next five days. I do wish there were more on Sunday and Monday, but I will take what I can get. That means a whole lot of teams making DFS tournaments who usually aren't in these. Sometimes you have […]
Mike Marteny
College Football Picks Against the Spread: Expert Betting Predictions for Thursday, Friday Slates (Week 1)
Last weekend was the appetizer. Thursday and Friday are the soup and salad leading up to Saturday's 25-plate main course. We finish with dessert on Sunday and coffee on Monday. Labor Day weekend is such a blast without the NFL getting in the way! There are 28 games over the next two days, but only […]
Mike Marteny
College Football Rankings: Top 10 Group Of Five Teams for 2025
Why should the so-called “power schools” have all the fun? We finally get a chance to see how one of these teams fare against elite competition. It still isn’t enough, but itR...
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College Football Power Rankings: Top 25 Teams for Week 1
There were only five games in Week 0, so these rankings are going to look a little out of whack. My rankings may look out of whack, but I go solely by what has happened on the field. It seems a li...
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DraftKings CFB DFS Lineup Picks: Daily College Fantasy Football (8/23/25)
We have waited over eight months for this! College football is finally back! I'll be with you every step of the way this season with DFS picks for every slate, ESPN College Pick 'Em picks, Top 25 rankings every week, and every game picked against the spread. That's right...every single one! Our opening salvo of […]
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College Football Betting Picks: Futures Predictions Include Win Totals, Conference Champions, and CFP Odds (2025)
I don't usually get too involved with college football futures bets, but the massive realignment that happened just over a year ago offers a chance to make some serious coin if you know where to look. With unbalanced conference schedules come chances to catch people sleeping on certain teams. For example, Virginia doesn't play a […]
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2025 College Football Viewing Guide: Top 130 Games of 2025
The long and dreary eight months without college football are almost over! Farmageddon in Dublin is less than 48 hours away! We will have plenty of college football games worth watching every week of the 2025 season. Week 0 isn't much, but it's still college football. Some college football is better than no college football, […]
Mike Marteny
Top 25 College Football Rivalry Trophies of All Time
Since the college football rivalry names were a hit, we'll go for another one with the best college football trophies. There are so many trophy games in college football that it can be hard to remember all of them. We are just doing the best with another top 25. First, we need to establish a […]
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RotoBaller's College Football 2025 Pick'em Pool Challenge - CFB Pick'em Contest on ESPN
We are happy to announce the fifth annual RotoBaller ESPN College Football Pick'em contest! I brought this over here when I joined RotoBaller, and it's a great way to match wits with fellow RotoBaller writers and readers! ESPN College Pick'em highlights 10 games per week. All you have to do is pick the winner of […]
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Top 25 College Football Rivalry Names of All Time
Some rivalries have good names. Some rivalries have great names. We're going to sort through those here for my first top-25 list for the 2025 college football season. This isn't about the top rivalries. Just the name. "The Game" and "The Big Game," while great rivalries, aren't going to cut it here. We want those […]
Mike Marteny
Overrated, Underrated College Football Teams: Top 25 Preseason Polls Analysis for 2025
All of the preseason polls are out, including the most important one: mine. Of course, I’m kidding, but there are some major discrepancies in the polls. Not just in mine, but between the Coa...
Mike Marteny
College Football Picks Against the Spread: Expert Betting Predictions for August 23, 2025 (Week 0)
The long and dreary eight months without college football are almost over! The NCAA whets our whistle with five games on Saturday this week before the giant Labor Day Weekend extravaganza. I'll take all of the college football that I can get, thank you! Unlike last year, four of the five games are FBS vs. […]
Mike Marteny
Preseason College Football Power Rankings: Top 25 Teams for 2025
Western Kentucky and Memphis kept adding players even after the spring transfer portal window “closed,” proving that the transfer portal is never truly closed. Some of those additions ...
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College Football Power Rankings: Top 25 Toughest Schedules This Season
Toughest schedules are tough to gauge. They are all subjective, based on a rankings system that is biased towards teams that did well the previous season or on teams that are traditionally good. D...
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Top 25 College Football Rankings: First AP Poll of 2025
The first AP college football top 25 poll of the 2025 season dropped today. These differ from the USA Today Coaches Poll since this poll is voted on by writers and not coaches. As with the Coaches...
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Top 25 College Football Rankings: First Coaches Poll of 2025
The first major poll of the 2025 college football season has dropped. That means we are getting closer! We are under three weeks away from Farmageddon. That’s not a bad thing! The USA Today ...
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Greatest College Football Players Since 2000: CFB All-Quarter Century Team
A list like this is nearly impossible to curate. Inevitably, some really good, if not great players, will be left off. Heisman winners will be left off the list. So will National Champions. So wil...
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Predicting the 12-Team College Football Playoff Bracket: New-Format Projections for 2025
College Football did the right thing and improved the playoff seeding for 2025. The top four overall teams will get the byes this year, which means teams like Arizona State won’t be rewarded...
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College Football Power Rankings: Post-Spring Top 25 Teams for 2025
College football rosters are about as finalized as they can be in this day and age. We are only a little over three months from the beginning of the college football season. While some battles wil...
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Top 10 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Snubs - 2025 Edition
With this week’s news that Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson are no longer banned from baseball, we have a couple of players who could (should?) be in the Hall. Now that no pl...
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Every Perfect Game In MLB History: The Complete List
Perfection. We all strive to achieve it, but most never do. The same is true of baseball players. In 154+ years of Major League Baseball, only 24 pitchers have pitched a perfect game. The definiti...
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