Dr. Bob takes a look at the Georgia Tech v. Miami match-up: Miami has had some time to come down from the high of their thrilling 38-34 win at Florida State on opening week and the Hurricanes’ sophomore quarterback Jacory Harris looks like he’s made huge strides as a passer based on his 21 for 34 for 386 yards performance in that win. Harris could post some good number tonight too against a questionable Georgia Tech secondary that was...
Dr. Bob’s review BYU at Oklahoma Saturday, Sep-05 07:00 PM Favorite: Oklahoma -22.5 Total: 67.5 Expectations of BYU fans were far too high last year, as expecting a perfect regular season and a BCS bowl bid with just 3 starters returning on defense made little sense. The Cougars struggled defensively as expected (0.1 yards per play worse than an average team) and facing TCU and Utah both on the road was too much to overcome. The Cougars should be more...
Dr. Bob breaksdown Georgia at Oklahoma St. Saturday, Sep-05 3:30 PM (EST) Favorite: Oklahoma St. -4.5 Total: 61.5 Georgia entered last season as the nation’s #1 rated team, which was higher than my rating of the Bulldogs as the 8th best team in the nation prior to last season. Georgia actually ended last season as the 21st best team in the land thanks to a defense that had trouble defending good offensive teams. Quarterback Matthew Stafford, the NFL’s 1st...
Dr. Bob breaksdown Oregon at Boise St. Thursday, Sep-03 07:15 PM Favorite: Boise St. -3.5 Total: 64.0 Boise State was one point away from a perfect 13-0 season in 2008, losing their bowl game 16-17 to a very good TCU team. If the Broncos can open the season with a home win over Oregon then they’ll have a good chance at another unbeaten regular season even though they probably won’t be quite as good this season. Boise was great offensively...
Dr. Bob breaks down USC: USC and Florida were about even in my ratings at the end of last season and it’s a shame that the two best teams didn’t get to face each other in the National Championship game. The reason for the Trojans’ exclusion was a late September loss at Oregon State by a 21-27 count in a game in which USC out-played the Beavers 6.1 yards per play to 5.0 yppl but were -2 in turnover...
Dr. Bob breaks down Nebraska: Former Nebraska defensive coordinator Bo Pelini was brought in as head coach after a disappointing 2007 season under Bill Callahan, whose final team was very good offensively (6.3 yards per play against teams that would combine to allow 5.2 yppl to an average attack), but went from good to horrible defensively, allowing 6.1 yppl to a schedule of mostly good offensive teams that would average a combined 5.7 yppl against an average stop unit....
Dr. Bob is widely considered the most influential sports handicapper in the nation, and his betting recommendations regularly move point spreads by several points. Bob Stoll has been analyzing professional and college sports since his days studying statistics at UC Berkeley in the mid-80’s and his advanced mathematical models and knowledge of personnel allow him to forecast the outcomes of games with incredible accuracy. In 2007, both the Wall Street Journal and ESPN E60 ran stories describing his success,...
