Kings of the North College Football

The Big Ten Championship Game and ACC Championship Game are two of the matchups this weekend where Tyler Shoemaker and Doug Lesmerises have betting suggestions on this episode of Bets of the North. The guy are licking their wounds after a rough Rivalry Week, but they remain ahead on the season in their betting to give money to FeedingAmerica.org. They are back with two more real money bets this we...

The Big Ten Championship Game battle between No. 1 Oregon and No. 3 Penn State gets the Big Game Breakdown on this Kings of the North, as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis dive into this matchup between the Ducks and Nittany Lions. Then its breakdowns of the Mountain West title game, with a playoff spot on the line for Boise State and UNLV, and the MAC title game between Miami (Ohio) and Ohio Univer...

New College Football Playoff rankings and National Signing Days news means that the Kings of the North have a lot to react to on this Wednesday show. But it's also time to start breaking down games for conference championship weekend. So Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis offer a Big Game Breakdown on the Big 12 Championship Game between Iowa State and Arizona State, with history on the line for the...

National Signing Day is Wednesday, and Kings of the North breaks down the recruiting battles between the North and the South like no one else does. Of course the South has a numbers edge, but how big is it? Is the North gaining or falling back? And how much does recruiting matter for winning? Then Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis are joined by Dan Wetzel to discuss what rivalry weekend in the first...

The College Football Playsoff field has taken shape and Oregon, Penn State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Indiana are ready to play for it all. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis look at the final remaining playoff questions entering Conference Championship Week. Then they discuss the firings of Neal Brown at West Virginia and Ryan Walters at Purdue and what’s ahead for those teams. Finally, it’s a look...

Michigan's 13-10 upset of No. 2 Ohio State sent shockwaves through Northern football as the Wolverines leaned on their defense and special teams to beat the Buckeyes for the fourth straight time. Across the rest of The North, a bunch of teams handled necessary business, including Penn State's rout of Maryland, Notre Dame's win at USC, and Indiana's mashing of Purdue in a rivalry game setting up th...

Bets of the North hit the Florida upset of Ole Miss last week, and there's another SEC underdog that Doug is taking a swing on this week. But the big bet is where Doug Lesmerises and Tyler Shoemaker need a cash after getting busted by Iowa State last week. The call here? The red-hot Kansas Jayhawks. Find out why. With both guys ahead on their individual best bets for the year and with the real mon...

Ohio State-Michigan gets the Big Game Breakdown treatment from Doug and Bill on a third day this week of Northern game previews on Kings of the North. Oregon-Washington, Penn State-Maryland, Notre Dame-USC, Indiana-Purdue, Illinois-Northwestern, and Rutgers-Michigan State are also previewed and picked. Plus there’s another upset call in the SEC playoff picture. Then it’s Whatcha Watching, Eating a...

Syracuse-Miami and Iowa State-Kansas State get the Big Game Breakdown treatment on this Kings of the North, as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis continue to preview Northern games in Week 14. This episodes focuses on the ACC and Big 12 Northern games, including Boston College-Pitt, BYU-Houston, and Kansas-Baylor, with the Big Ten previews coming Wednesday. Also, Doug lays out the stakes for every pl...

College football Rivalry Week is here with the final week of the regular season, and Kings of the North is jumping right into some previews, as all three episodes this week will dive into Northern games of Week 14. Among the games previewed by Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis here are Nebraska-Iowa and the Paul Bunyan's Axe game between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Plus Doug and Bill tip the cap to som...

College football in the North got wild Saturday afternoon, as Penn State survived by a point on the road at Minnesota, BYU got field stormed twice in a loss at Arizona State, and Illinois and Rutgers traded final-minute TDs before the Illini prevailed on a fourth-down game-winner. But the day started in the North with No. 2 Ohio State smothering No. 5 Indiana in Ohio Stadium, beating the Hoosiers...

Iowa State, BYU, Notre Dame, Michigan State and Syracuse are among the Northern college football teams that Tyler Shoemaker and Doug Lesmerises are firing away on this week on Bets of the North. The guys bemoan their close Purdue miss on their $500 bet last week, and celebrate their big victory on their plus money swing. And they're back to bet another $600 in real money (including a $25 bet that...

From Penn State-Minnesota to Illinois-Rutgers, Nebraska-Wisconsin to Notre Dame-Army, Colorado-Kansas to BYU-Arizona State, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis preview and pick all the Northern college football games on this Thursday episode of Kings of the North. The Ohio State-Indiana preview of that Top 5 game was on the Wednesday show, but this edition still features six Northern playoff contender...

Indiana at Ohio State is another Northern college football banger, the third Top 5 matchup involving the Buckeyes this season as the No. 4 Hoosiers take on the No. 2 Buckeyes in Ohio Stadium on Saturday. On this Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis break down both sides of the ball for this big game, as the two most efficient offenses in the power conferences take the field. Ohio St...

Georgia is actually right. It’s the rest of the SEC discussion that is wrong. Busting myths about the SEC in the College Football Playoff debate is a priority on this Kings of the North. Doug Lesmerises and Steven Godfrey dig into that to start the show, before Doug digs in deeper at the end of the show. Doug and Steven also discuss the Boise State-Big 12 playoff seeding debate and whether the NFL...

From Colorado's Deion Sanders and Oregon's Dan Lanning, to Indiana's Curt Cignetti and Penn State's James Franklin, to Syracuse's Fran Brown and West Virginia's Neal Brown, Northern college football coaches are getting rated on this Kings of the North. With Cignetti getting paid over the weekend, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis use the results of Week 12 to guide their evaluations of all 28 Northe...

From Oregon-Wisconsin to Penn State-Purdue, from Colorado-Utah to Ohio State-Northwestern, from Notre Dame-Virginia to Kansas State-Arizona State, the biggest college football games involving Northern teams are covered on this KOTN Late Knight show with Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis. Plus ... SEC players are cold when it's 55 degrees? Thanks for joining Kings of the North. Hosted by Simplecast,...

Off another college football betting win, Bets of the North likes Penn State to take care of business this week. Now 7-4 on the season on their $500 bets, Doug Lesmerises and Tyler Shoemaker turn toward the Penn State defense against Purdue for this major wager. Then it's a parlay with more on the Nittany Lions and a Big 12 team that could be in for an upset. Finally, with TShoe coming off a 4-0 w...

Week 12 college football picks and previews fill this Kings of the North as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis dig into 19 games, including eight between Northern teams: Iowa State-Cincinnati, Oregon-Wisconsin, Colorado-Utah, Ohio State-Northwestern, Illinois-Michigan State, Penn State-Purdue, Rutgers-Maryland and Kansas-BYU. Can Boston College, with a new starting QB, upset the Big 12 race at SMU? C...

Oregon is the undefeated No. 1 team in the country -- so are the Ducks headed toward a national title? On this Kings of the North, Yogi Roth of Y-Option and the Big Ten Network joins Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis to discuss Oregon's success, head coach Dan Lanning and whether the Ducks are entrenched as a new power. Then Doug and Bill ponder what a second Oregon-Ohio State game might look like....

College football's biggest upsets this season have happened in one area -- The South. Doug Lesmerises runs through them all and how they should affect the view of the second College Football Playoff Rankings that will be released Tuesday night. Along those lines, gambling expert Tyler Shoemaker from our Friday Bets of the North show stops by to talk Power Ratings vs. Rankings and how somebody with...

From West Virginia and Colorado to Boston College, Kansas and Rutgers, Northern teams assumed at various times this season to be done rose up with big wins on Saturday. And that doesn’t even include BYU’s wild comeback against Utah in the Holy War. It all made for a great Week 11 in college football and Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis are talking greatest players, toughest teams and biggest moment...

Miami was exposed as a fraud and Georgia exposed as a myth in college football losses on Saturday as the top two Southern teams in the College Football Playoff rankings went down. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis discuss that on KOTN Late Knight on Kings of the North, while noting how the top-ranked Northern teams that played before late night on Saturday all handled their business. That's No. 1 Or...

Why Notre Dame is the play against Florida State is the focus of Bets of the North this week, as Doug Lesmerises and Tyler Shoemaker are still more than $1,200 ahead for charity off their initial $5,000 bankroll. The guys also like a parlay against Georgia coach Kirby Smart and Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, and they explain best bets they like involving Cincinnati, West Virginia, Minnesota, Boston C...

From Indiana-Michigan to West Virginia-Cincinnati, from Penn State-Washington to Syracuse-Boston College, from Minnesota-Rutgers to BYU-Utah, there are a load of interesting All-North bangers ready to kick off in college football's Week 11. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis run through them all with previews and picks on this Kings of the North, with other focuses on Colorado's major Big 12 chance a...