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If you’re one who enjoys sweating out your player prop bets by watching the games live, it’s undoubtedly more amusing to have action on a player’s OVER relative to his UNDER. While our emotional state can be considered when making bets, to be a long-term winning sports bettor, consistently betting OVERS might not lead you to the profitability you’re aiming for. With all that being said, ultimately, it’s all about the number and its corresponding price....

That won’t stop us from picking the games. There are only two matchups between teams ranked in the AP Top 25, but they’re good ones. The SEC East race gets its first marquee matchup when No. 3 Georgia travels to No. 24 South Carolina. Then, No. 10 Stanford travels to No. 17 USC in a Pac-12 crossover matchup with major Playoff implications. From there, seven top 25 teams play FCS opponents this weekend....

(All times Eastern) MORE: SN Power Poll | 10 biggest overreactions | Week 1 photos | Cheerleaders Thursday, Sept. 10 Louisiana Tech at Western Kentucky, 8 p.m., FOX Sports 1 Friday, Sept. 11 Miami (FL) at Florida Atlantic, 8 p.m., FOX Sports 1 Utah State at Utah, 9 p.m., ESPN2 Saturday, Sept. 12 South Florida at FSU, 11:30 a.m., ESPN Jacksonville State at Auburn, noon, SEC Network Oregon State at Michigan, noon, ABC...

The 3:30 p.m. slot features the main event in the SEC East between No. 7 Georgia and No. 9 Florida. It’s a matchup of one-loss teams, and the winner will be in good shape heading into the final leg of the regular season. No. 18 Iowa also travels to No. 17 Penn State in that time slot. No. 14 Washington State travels to No. 24 Stanford in the primetime slot at 7:30 p....

The Ohio State University party, which occurred just a few blocks from campus, has been dubbed “Chitt Fest,” named after the street it took place on, according to Senior Vice President for Student Life Melissa Shivers. The weekend rave quickly turned violent, with police citing at least five overturned vehicles, several broken windows on local houses and hundreds of smashed beer cans. Police reported that at least 30 squad cars were sent to ultimately shut the party down at 3 a....

Napheesa Collier celebrated senior day by scoring 29 points and grabbing nine rebounds to lead the Huskies over Houston 83-61 on Saturday. Fellow senior Katie Lou Samuelson scored 11 points for UConn (27-2, 15-0 American) before injuring her back in a collision while diving for a loose ball in the second quarter. She returned to start the second half but struggled with muscle spasms and was pulled after the first minute....

The fire grew by about 150,000 acres since Wednesday morning, when it was reported to be at around 19,000 acres. By Thursday evening, the blaze expanded to about 170,000 acres, becoming the second largest wildfire by acreage in Colorado history, according to the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center and Colorado State Forest Service. “Obviously yesterday [Wednesday] was a significant fire day. We saw about 20 miles of fire growth through the afternoon and into the night, which equates to about 100,000 acres of additional fire activity,” Noel Livingston, the incident commander of the East Troublesome Fire, said at a Thursday briefing....

The Associated Press reported Irsay spent $2.2 million at an auction Friday to buy Ringo Starr’s first Ludwig drum set. MORE: The NFL’s richest owners | Aaron Rodgers auditions for James Bond role After picking up the drum set, Irsay mentioned the Beatles’ reunion of sorts in a text to the AP. “Finally, after 45 years, the Beatles are together again,” the text read. It’s not the first time Irsay has opened his checkbook to pick up Beatles memorabilia....

The Linemakers on Sporting News, a group of former sports book operators with dozens of years of collective experience making odds and handicapping games in Las Vegas, offer our opinions and picks on the Week 11 slate. Be sure to click through to the informative and entertaining videos, which are shot at the South Point sports book and our studios in Vegas. The lines and totals listed below are the Las Vegas consensus as of Friday afternoon....

Like we said, it’s a doozy of a week. MORE: Sporting News midseason All-Americans That said, there other interesting games to key in on, including the Third Saturday in October between No. 1 Alabama and Tennessee (which just beat Auburn in Jordan-Hare and is led by former Tide defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt). We have picks for all these games and more, many of which can be streamed online at fuboTV....

RENO – As we get near college football playoff time, part of the jockeying for position involves scheduling. Iowa is getting the biggest knock for its weak strength of schedule, while many SEC teams card the late cupcake game like Alabama against Charleston Southern this weekend. Not many teams in the hunt, however, have had it easier than Ohio State. The Buckeyes are 13.5-point favorites to upend Michigan State with a game total of 53....

Starting possibly in 2024 or 2025, but definitely by 2026, there will be a 12-team playoff in place. The four top teams may still end up in the semifinals, but the field will give more teams realistic chances to make the single-elimination field late in the regular season and set up more win-or-go-home games. MORE: Why more CFP games need to be on campus What a 12-team playoff bracket would look like A 12-team field would consist of the six highest rated conference champions and the six highest-rated at-large teams....

Championship weekend is in the books, and this is how we think the College Football Playoff pairings — which will be announced at 12:30 p.m. ET on Sunday — will look. The semifinals will be played at the Capital One Orange Bowl and Allstate Sugar Bowl on Dec. 29, and the College Football Playoff championship game will be Jan. 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. MORE: Jalen Hurts’ ‘fairytale’ moment is cold, hard reality for Bama...

For the NFL, it means the scouting season has officially kicked off, with the focus being on which players are standing out, where they need to improve, and what their 2014 college play could mean for their pro potential. Based on players’ 2013 performances and projections as to how they should perform in 2014, here’s our first mock draft for 2015. Note: Draft order is based on SportsBook.ag’s rankings of projected 2014 finishes based on their over/under win odds....

The Trojans and Bruins – at least for now – are representing the Pac-12 in those bowl games in Sporting News’ Week 7 bowl projections. No. 7 USC (6-0) averages 40.2 points per game under first-year coach Lincoln Riley, and quarterback Caleb Williams is among the Heisman frontrunners. The Trojans have stayed outside the fringe of the top four of the College Football Playoff conversation, but that could change with a victory at No....

His previous road trips … Year One, Year Two, Year Three, Year Four, Year Five. Follow along today … PHOTOS: Fagan’s basketball road trip | MORE: 16 teams that can win it all 11:23 a.m. RALEIGH, N.C. — Road trip day is the best day. That was true back in my undergrad years, whether the trip with my buddies was up to Chicago (where we somehow wound up on “Oprah”) or with seven or eight of us packed in a car headed up to Kansas City for a concert (in retrospect, two cars would have been a better idea) or if the trip was a weekend of loosely planned randomness (like the time four of us decided to visit a city that started with every letter of the alphabet, in order)....

The legend of TCU’s Luken Baker is beginning to grow, as the freshman slugger once again homered in the postseason.This time it was a go-ahead, 3-run blast in the top of the ninth that gave the Horned Frogs (48-16) their third consecutive CWS opening-game win, a 5-3 victory over Big 12 rival Texas Tech. Baker, named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, now has six homers in his last 12 games after blasting a pitch from Red Raiders closer Robert Duggar just inside the left field foul pole....

Heads-up poker tournament specialist Daniel Colman came out on top during ESPN’s televised coverage of the 2014 World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop charity poker tournament Tuesday—beating out Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu for the first place prize of $15.3 million. MORE: Schemion, Smith flip-flop at the top of GPI World Rankings | Daniel Negreanu Player of the Month | WSOP November Nine Set The sixth episode of ESPN’s broadcast of the $1 million buy-in tournament featured a key hand that played out between the two remaining players in which Colman enticed Negreanu to commit a good portion of his stack on the river with only King-high....