It’s important to note some games will be held on “Neutral sites.” These games will still highlight a designated home team. Our picks however will take into consideration which team will truly be the home team based on expected ticket sales. For example, LSU playing in the Sugar Bowl as the away team would still be considered the home team in our analysis.

University Foot-Ball, at its core, provides expert analysis of what we anticipate the line truly is in our power score differential column. For example:

Iowa State last year was hosting Oklahoma in Week 9 last year. Oklahoma was the Away team and was favored by 1.5 points. This is reflected under the Spread column where a -1.5 is next to Oklahoma. However, our analysis liked Oklahoma by 4 points so our power score was Oklahoma -4. Accordingly, we colored Oklahoma gold and were advised to pick them in the game against the spread.​

Don’t worry if you are still confused or maybe waking up having a senior moment, we will mark the side to pick in gold. Just remember the lines change over the week, so the earlier you bet, the closer to the opening line you receive. If the line does move, then be sure to check our power score difference to make sure you are still covered.

We want all our users to have proper and realistic expectations about our services. We will never get all our picks correct, but over the course of the season, our users will see the value and precision in our analytics. As a good rule of thumb, never bet more than you would spend on a nice evening meal.

Note: We don’t give out advice on over/under as these bets are hard to prognosticate and tend to be coin flips over a season.