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By Marc Lawrence
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Weekend, Dec 13-14 |
Utah Utes head football coach Kyle Whittingham is stepping down after the Las Vegas Bowl, retiring following 22 seasons leading the program.
Whittingham is the all-time winningest head coach in Utah football history and will coach his last game for the Utes in the Las Vegas Bowl against Nebraska on Dec. 31.
"The time is right to step down from my position as the head football coach at the University of Utah," Whittingham said in a statement.
"It's been an honor and a privilege to lead the program for the past 21 years, and I'm very grateful for the relationships forged with all the players and assistant coaches who have worked so hard and proudly worn the drum and feather during our time here," he added.
Mark down the date; the Utes football players have.
Look for an inspired effort when they face the Cornhuskers in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve.
Good luck, and enjoy the games this weekend.
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ON TODAY'S SCORECARD
Let the Games Begin
The 2025 college bowl kicks off Saturday and will conclude with the CFP Championship Game on Monday, Jan 19.
To help get the ball rolling here is an excerpt from the 2025 PLAYBOOK College Bowl Guide, on sale now at PlaybookSports.com
Washington over Boise State by 3
Boise State might have been a contender for two straight CFP appearances but three turnovers in a loss at South Florida and four picks against Notre Dame led to high profile losses and no repeat performance. The knock on the Blue Broncos is they can’t handle a Power 4 team and the evidence is damning. BSU last beat a major conference team in 2019 vs. Florida State, and the Broncos are 0-4 outright vs. the Big Ten. Washington is 2-0 lifetime vs. Boise in bowl games but the Huskies are 0-5 ATS off one win-exact versus a team off a win. Head coach Jedd Fisch is 4-10 ATS coming off a win, including 3-9 ATS when on the road. Boise State is also 11-2 ATS lifetime in games as a dog of seven points or greater versus teams that boast a .500+ win percentage. Raise the stakes to .600-win percentage? The Broncos will be happy to call, going 8-4 SU and 9-3 ATS. If Boise QB Maddux Madsen can run the ball to take the heat off 1,000-yard rusher Dylan Riley, the Huskies will be in trouble: they are 0-4 this season when giving up 140 rush yards or more, and that includes the bad loss vs. Wisconsin. The Well-Oiled Machine wants a piece of this by pointing out bowl dogs on a three-game win streak are 50-25-1 ATS since 1998, which coincidentally is about the time Boise State began to enter. |
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GRINDING OUT THE PROFITS
Up and Over
From Victor King’s Totals Tipsheet:
2-MINUTE O/U STYLE - By Victor King
This week’s Playbook O/U TREND:
Flipping the calendar (from November to December) REALLY turned things around in Pro Football, at the very least from an Over / Under perspective. After three straight low-scoring weeks (only 43.2 combined ppg in Weeks 11,12, and 13), NFL games averaged almost a full TD HIGHER on the Week 14 schedule. In fact, HALF of all games (7 out of 14) had 49 or more combined points last week.
On the low side, only ONE GAME had 40 or less combined points (the Minnesota shutout win over Washington). With that said, the overall results of Week 14 was an amazing 11 OVERS and only 3 UNDERS.
Let’s see how it plays out this week.
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TRENDING TODAY
Tension in Oxford
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The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026, and with it, we know when Lane Kiffin will be back at Vaught Hemingway Stadium.
The league revealed its 2026 football schedule Thursday night and the new LSU coach won’t wait too long to visit his former employer. The Tigers are set to visit Ole Miss in Week 3 on Saturday, Sept. 19.
Kiffin dramatically left Ole Miss for LSU at the end of the 2025 regular season even though the Rebels were on the cusp of the College Football Playoff. Ole Miss is the No. 6 seed and will host Tulane on Dec. 20 in the first round of the playoff.
Ole Miss will be coached by former defensive coordinator Pete Golding in that game. Golding was promoted to head coach as Kiffin was in the process of heading to Baton Rouge on Nov. 30.
While Kiffin won’t be on the sidelines for the Rebels in the College Football Playoff, many offensive assistants who followed him to Baton Rouge will be, including offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr.
Ole Miss beat LSU 24-19 in 2025. That game was also in Oxford, Mississippi. The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026 as each team will play a rotating cast of six teams twice over four seasons and three teams every season for the next four years.
Ole Miss and LSU are permanent rivals in the current SEC schedule setup, and LSU is making back-to-back trips to accommodate the logistics of the new SEC schedule.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY |
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"The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations,
ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD.”
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STAT OF THE DAY
14-0 ATS |
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The Detroit Lions record in away or neutral games after playing a game at home.
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BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW
Going Going Gone
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The MLB Winter Meetings have come and gone, and though a few significant deals came together in Orlando, most of the biggest names are still out there waiting to be signed.
Who's off the board? 10 of our Top 50 free agents have inked new contracts so far this offseason.
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Kyle Schwarber, DH (our No. 3 free agent): Staying with the Phillies (5 years, $150M)
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Pete Alonso, 1B (5): Going to the Orioles (5 years, $155M)
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Dylan Cease, SP (10): Going to the Blue Jays (7 years, $210M)
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Edwin Díaz, RP (11): Going to the Dodgers (3 years, $69M)
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Josh Naylor, 1B (15): Staying with the Mariners (5 years, $92.5M)
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Trent Grisham, OF (16): Accepted Yankees qualifying offer (1 year, $22M)
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Gleyber Torres, 2B (17): Accepted Tigers QO (1 year, $22M)
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Shōta Imanaga, SP (20): Accepted Cubs QO (1 year, $22M)
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Brandon Woodruff, SP (22): Accepted Brewers QO (1 year, $22M)
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Devin Williams, RP (27): Going to the Mets (3 years, $51M)
Who's still available? 34 of our Top 50 are still available, including 12 of our top 20.
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Top 20 hitters: Kyle Tucker, OF (1); Alex Bregman, 3B (2); Bo Bichette, SS (4); Munetaka Murakami, IF (6); Cody Bellinger, OF (7); Kazuma Okamoto, 3B (13); Jorge Polanco, 2B (18)
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Top 20 pitchers: Framber Valdez, SP (8); Ranger Suárez, SP (9); Zac Gallen, SP (12); Tatsuya Imai, SP (14); Michael King, SP (19
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