Here are my picks for week 3! I’ve opened up the 2016 season with back-to-back 11-5 weeks, placing me in the 96th percentile in Yahoo’s Pro Football Pick’em. This week (in my opinion) looks like the most difficult slate so far, with many matchups that could easily go either way….
Week 2 of the NFL season gave everyone a cruel reminder: injuries are still a big part of football. Despite continued efforts to make the game safer, Sunday saw many big names go down with serious injuries likely to keep them for an extended period of time. And while some…
A referee’s job is to go unnoticed. It’s not glamorous, but at the end of the day, if a game finishes and the talking points are the players and not controversial decisions by the officials, the refs have succeeded. However, recently in college football there have been several situations where the…
Pretty strong start last week at 11-5, good for the 93rd percentile on Yahoo. Let’s keep it up this week! For any questions about my predictions or to discuss upcoming matchups, comment below. Connor
The first week of the NFL season is always special. Seven months removed from the Super Bowl, each team has undergone a facelift, with new players acquired through free agency and the NFL Draft. Additionally, seven teams have signed new head coaches, including four first-time NFL head coaches. At the beginning…
In 2015, an estimated 56.8 million people in the United States and Canada played fantasy sports, with easily the most popular of them all being fantasy football. As the NFL kicks off this week, so does the annual craze which has brought us everything from hilarious team names, ruthless smack…
It’s that time of year, again: football season! Here are my predictions for the first week of games. The plan this year will be to release a weekly NFL recap with power rankings on Tuesdays (beginning next week) and to give out my game picks on Wednesdays. Post your picks…
We are just hours away from Super Bowl 50, where the Carolina Panthers will take on the Denver Broncos in a historic matchup. Not only is it the 50th Super Bowl ever, a number that made the NFL temporary suspend their roman numeral method of naming Super Bowls, but it…
For the entirety of its existence, the NFL’s two-point conversion rule has been used in obvious late-game situations and little more. In fact, three situations probably account for over 95% of two-point attempts. Scenario 1: a team scores a touchdown late in the fourth quarter and is down…