The Florida Gators went to the Sugar Bowl last season, and they have to figure that they are going to be back on the BCS trail once again this season. They think that the start to the 2013 schedule is going to be a relatively easy one against the Toledo Rockets, but we’re here to tell those who plan on laying the 23 points on the college football odds that perhaps they should think twice about this one at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

The Northwestern Wildcats don’t start many seasons ranked in the Top 25 in the country, but this year, there is a lot of hype surrounding a team that has a heck of a lot of talent on it. The first game of the year comes against the California Golden Bears, who are going to begin the Head Coach Sonny Dykes era on Saturday night in the final game of the evening.

David takes on Goliath on Saturday night in Arlington, where college football betting buddies will all get together and gather around to watch the TCU Horned Frogs try to slay the LSU Tigers. With a number of great defensive players on both sides of the field, the ‘under’ has to be a tempting play, but we have a different take for our college football betting picks in Week 1 here at TCSP.

I must admit that I despise this Maryland team this season. I really do. I think that the whole WR Stefon Diggs thing is overplayed. I’m not all that sold that QB CJ Brown, who missed all of last season with an ACL injury is the answer to all of the problems that this team has had at the quarterback position. However, what I do know is that there is a lot of hype for this program, and things can’t get much worse than they were at the end of last season.

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You’re not going to find a bigger game on the Week 1 college football schedule than the duel in Death Valley between the Clemson Tigers and the Georgia Bulldogs. This is the first of two consecutive games against Top 10 teams that the Dawgs are going to have to face, and though they are only the slender -1.5 favorites in this one on the NCAA football odds, they have to think that they are going to find a way to sweep these games and start perhaps a National Championship Game run.

Is Washington State really ready to come to SEC country and beat anyone that the SEC is bringing to the table at this point? Probably not. However, Head Coach Mike Leach has a program that is on the rise, and now that he is rid of QB Jeff Tuel, he has a full offseason to prepare his team for the style of offense which he wants to run.

Once I saw this college football Vegas line jump all the way up to 21.5, I knew that the time was right to pounce. There are a few factors here that I think are really going to come into play on Saturday night at the Georgia Dome, and they really might play into Virginia Tech’s hands.

The Los Angeles Angels continue their odd sort of all over the map road trip on Friday night at Miller Park, where they will attempt to beat the MLB betting odds against one of the most suspect teams in the baseball betting world, the Milwaukee Brewers.

There isn’t a whole heck of a lot on the Friday college football picks that we are in love with here at TCSP, but the game that we really want to take a look at right now is the duel between the Western Michigan Broncos and the Michigan State Spartans. Western Michigan is catching four touchdowns, and we firmly believe that the Spartans are overrated in this one.