In addition to my picks of the week entries, I will also be publish my weekly upsets to watch out.  Last year I had particular success with longshot underdogs of 10 points or more.  I picked one of these teams each week and 10 of 14 covered, and 5 won straight up.  These are ordered from smallest [...]

Brad’s world famous weekly college football picks are back!  I finished with an impressive 78-62 mark last year, and I hope to replicate that kind of success this season.  These spreads are based on the current lines according to the World Sports Exchange, and they are ordered based on my personal confidence in each. Pick # 1: [...]

Please go to http://www.cfrapoll.com to see the preseason CFRA poll which was published yesterday. Also, I’m happy to announce that the CFRA’s re-emergence has been officially been acknowledged by the NCAA. Here is a link to the 2010 NCAA Football Record: http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2010/2010FBS.pdf. You will see that on page 68 the origins of the College Football Researchers [...]

College football is back, and so is the College Football Researchers Association top 25 poll.  As most of you know, this poll was started last year under the same name of a formerly prestigious poll from the 1980s and 90s.  With the permission and involvement of past members, this poll has been re-energized, and I’m happy to announce  that it’s [...]

Those of you who began reading my blog last fall will remember the CFRA poll that was published every week on this site and then was eventually moved to its own site: http://www.cfrapoll.com.   I’d like to announce that the poll will be returning for its second season and hopefully will gain even greater notoriety across sporting nation.  [...]

Now that I have posted my entire college football guide, I thought I should keep hyping up the start of the season by posting my list of the greatest college football upsets of all-time.  I will apologize in advance for showing a strong bias towards the past two decades, as those are the games I actually watched live. Feel free [...]

The 2010 college football bowl season should be particularly engaging because most bowls have changed their conference  tie-ins.  We also add two new bowls in the Pinstripe Bowl and Dallas Football Classic but consequently lose the much-maligned International Bowl. As you may know, I annually make a more comprehensive and obviously more accurate set of bowl predictions during Thanksgiving weekend in [...]

When all the smoke is cleared, here’s how I see the final postseason rankings for the 2010 season. For full analysis of each team, see the conference predictions in the prior entries.  Here’s a  quick guide to deciphering the chart below.  The numbers to the left of all the teams my predicted rankings.  The number in the experts column is [...]

First of all, I’d like to announce that today marks the one year anniversary of “The Ramblings of the Ultimate Sports Sentimentalist” blog.  I just want to thank the readers who have taken the time to read my material over the past year.  It has been very much appreciated.  Now, let’s move on to the bad news of the day and that is the [...]

Now that I have provided you with a comprehensive analysis of every Divison 1-A conference, I will now proceed to post a few additional portions of my preview guide.  The first of these posts will be a summary of my surprise picks.  As you probably noticed, I chose ten teams in all of 1-A who I believe will [...]

First of all, let’s get one thing straight: The SEC is still the best football conference in America.  Some conferences may be as deep as them and others may be as dominant up top, but no conference combines these two characteristics in quite the same way that the SEC does.  For more information as to [...]

The Big 12 will have one last season to enjoy its 12-team super conference before Nebraska and Colorado secede to rival leagues.  Now one really knows what will happen to the Big 12 then, but at least they avoided extinction this summer by holding onto Texas.  As for the upcoming season, expect your usual Texas-Oklahoma [...]

Now that the Trojans are out of national title contention for at least a couple of years, the Pac-10 becomes like the ACC in that it has great depth but lacks a team that will contend for the national title.  In fact, the two teams I have picked at the top of the conference are surprised [...]

Yes, I know that now that picking the Big 10 as the fourth strongest conference is probably based on my anti-Big 10 bias, but I just can’t take a conference seriously that possesses an obscure uneven scheduling system that doesn’t result in a title game.  I know they go to 12 teams next year, but [...]

Many feared that conference realignment might hurt the ACC as rumors swirled of possible defections by Miami, Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Clemson.  In the end, the conference was unaffected by the changes and still looks to overcome its stigma of being a “basketball-only conference”.  The problem with the ACC has not necessarily been its [...]

I think we all saw just how weak the Big East can be when Cincinnati got absolutely demolished in the Sugar Bowl by Florida.  The top teams of this conference are just several steps behind the powerhouses in the other five major conferences.  However, the depth of the Big East is pretty solid with six [...]