Kings of the North College Football

The first College Football Playoff rankings are out with Oregon at No. 1, and where Penn State, Indiana, BYU, Ohio State, Iowa State and other Northern teams landed are on the minds of Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis. They’ll also talk about the arrival of MACtion this season with mid-week games underway, and they also wrap the show with Whatcha Watching. Eating and Thinking. But the show starts w...

How did BYU wind up at 8-0 and in the driver's seat for a College Football Playoff spot in a season where even a 6-6 record would have bene viewed as success? On this Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises is joined by BYU reporter Mitch Harper of KSL Sports to go inside the Cougars' stunning success. Then Doug and Dan Wetzel cover some potential tiebreaker nightmares now that conferences have rid th...

Preseason predictions on Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, Indiana, West Virginia, BYU, Utah, Pitt, Nebraska, Notre Dame and more Northern teams are under the microscope on this Kings of the North. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis revisit the dumbest and smartest things they said about this college football season and why they were right or wrong. Plus trying to think like College Football Playoff Comm...

Ohio State beat Penn State 20-13 in a 3-4 matchup on Saturday. Oregon lost a key player but handled its business at Michigan. Upset losses for Iowa State and Kansas State scrambled the Big 12 race. Indiana continued its dominant ways against Michigan State. And Pitt and SMU played a primetime ACC game that mattered a lot to the College Football Playoff picture. Run through it all on KOTN Late Knig...

The college football best bets still have Tyler Shoemaker and Doug Lesmerises more than $800 ahead from their initial real money $5,000 bankroll on Bets of the North. The guys lost their $500 bet last week, but hit their Plus Money Swing, and they are back this week with betting thoughts and picks on Kansas State, Nebraska, Syracuse, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Iowa State, Army and more. Thanks fo...

No. 3 Penn State vs. No. 4 Ohio State gets the Big Game Breakdown as Kings of the North opens with Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis diving into this Top-5 Big Ten matchup and investigating both sides of the ball and the two head coaches, PSU's James Franklin and OSU's Ryan Day. The guys pick that game and then move through other Northern previews and picks including Pitt-SMU, Indiana-Michigan State...

The College Football Playoff race is even more wild than you might imagine. With chain restaurant gift cards at stake, Bill Landis and Doug Lesmerises are joined by Ari Wasserman to make 12-team playoff predictions for the end of the year that they are all willing to bet on. They do the same with the Heisman Trophy race, and pick lots of Northern names. Plus Doug and Bill start with a Big Game Bre...

The College Football Playoff race is in the final month and Kings of the North runs through the 10 most important games of the regular season that will affect the race. Then Doug Lesmerises and Dan Wetzel look at the playoff committee and the first rankings that will come out in a week. Is this the best way to do this? Then it’s Punt and Block of the Week, Overrated Southern Team of the Week and n...

BYU, Pitt and Colorado put college football on notice with weekend wins, while the Ohio State-Nebraska game produced a winner with questions and a team in defeat that showed why it was proud of itself. On this Monday Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis investigate the most interesting parts of Northern college football, including a possible quarterback change at Iowa, a Michigan re...

Ohio State barely survived against Nebraska on Saturday, holding on 21-17 in Ohio Stadium. Elsewhere in the Big Ten race, Oregon dominated Illinois in a Top-25 matchup and Indiana (with a backup QB) handled Washington. In a primetime showdown, Penn State quarterback Drew Allar was forced to leave the game against Wisconsin with a knee injury. So on this KOTN Late Knight, Doug Lesmerises and Bill L...

Which college football teams are the best against the spread the season? Army at 6-0-1 is the only FBS team undefeated on the betting lines, and they only pushed last week because Doug Lesmerises noticed it and jinxed them. On this Bets of the North, Doug and Tyler Shoemaker run through the best teams vs. the spread and talk about what to do with winning teams like Indiana, BYU, Illinois, Navy and...

Pitt's defense picked off Syracuse quarterback Kyle McCord four times in the first half Thursday night, returning three of them for touchdowns, as the Panthers dominated this major Northern football and ACC matchup. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis were on the scene and react live from Acrisure Stadium to Pitt moving to 7-0 on the season. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.co...

Notre Dame-Navy is unexpectedly a Top-25 matchup on Saturday, and it joins Oregon-Illinois and Boise State-UNLV in getting the Big Game Breakdown treatment from Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis on this Week 9 Picks and Previews show on Kings of the North. Among the other games of interest are Michigan-Michigan State, Kansas-Kansas State, Penn State-Wisconsin, Indiana-Washington, Rutgers-USC and BYU...

A major Group of 5 game looms on Friday night between UNLV and Boise State, plus there are huge and underrated games this week in the race for the ACC and Big 12 titles between Pitt and Syracuse on Thursday night and Cincinnati and Colorado on Saturday night. On this Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises welcomes Steven Godfrey of Split Zone Duo to talk about Boise-UNLV and the hopes for the G5 in t...

National champion Michigan and modern dynasty Alabama are a combined 9-5 under first-year head coaches a year after making the College Football Playoff. On this Kings of the North, Doug Lesmerises and Dan Wetzel compare the issues in Ann Arbor and Tuscaloosa and discuss how much we should expect new playoff teams in the 12-team playoff era. While looking at Sherrone Moore and Kalen DeBoer, Doug al...

Iowa State and BYU staged huge comebacks in Week 8 to stay undefeated, as The North continued to dominate the ranks of remaining teams without a loss. On this Kings of the North, Oregon, Penn State, Pitt and Indiana join BYU and Iowa State as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis open with a discussion of the undefeated teams in college football. They they run through every other group in The North: 1-l...

The Indiana Hoosiers destroyed Nebraska 56-7 to make a College Football Playoff case on Saturday, and KOTN Late Knight is here to talk about it. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis also discuss: • Illinois taking care of Michigan as the Wolverines' QB problems were not solved. • Tennessee beating Alabama in a game where both teams looked terrible. • Kansas State rolling over West Virginia in a result...

Betting against Georgia was a successful play for Tyler Shoemaker and Doug Lesmerises last week, as their $500 bet on Mississippi State +34 against the Dawgs hit to make them 5-2 on real money $500 bets this year, and pushing their bank roll to more than $1,800 ahead. Now they are back to bet against Georgia again as part of their Plus Money Swing. They like Iowa as a $500 bet this week, and there...

College football Week 8 brings two major matchups in the strong middle of the Big Ten, as Michigan visits Illinois and Nebraska goes to Indiana. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis give both those games the Big Game Breakdown treatment. In other previews, Michigan State thinks it figured out its offense in the off week, and will test it against Iowa. Oregon gets a Friday night trip to Purdue off its h...

From Ohio State’s Jeremiah Hunter to Oregon’s Derrick Harmon, from Colorado’s Travis Hunter to Indiana’s Kurtis Rourke, from Penn State’s Tyler Warren to Syracuse’s Orande Gadsden, Kings of the North reveals its midseason All-North team on Wednesday. Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis picked first and second teams on both sides of the ball, including a tough call at quarterback. Plus, Punt and Block...

Nebraska travels to Indiana for Saturday’s game as a 6.5-point underdog to the Hoosiers, who are having the season many expected the Cornhuskers to have. A week before a trip to Ohio State, this is a huge moment for Nebraska and Doug Lesmerises talks to Cornhuskers reporter Zack Carpenter about it. Plus, in a packed show: • Doug sets up how Michigan, Cincinnati and Wisconsin will factor into the p...

BYU, Oregon, Iowa State and Pitt continued to take care of business as undefeated teams while Georgia coach Kirby Smart looked out of control during a sideline incident where he shoved the Mississippi State quarterback. That’s all on this Monday Kings of the North with Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis, which also includes their rankings, The South Cram-o-Meter, a look back at Kansas State-Colorado...

Ohio State-Oregon led a slate of huge Northern college football games in Week 7 that matched the hype. Beyond the Buckeyes and Ducks, Penn State came back to beat USC in overtime to get to 6-0. Purdue stormed back to force overtime vs. Illinois and fell after going for a two-point conversion and the win. Pitt and BYU both won to advance to 6-0, Cincinnati pulled out at win at UCF, Wisconsin made a...

After a loss on Ohio State-Iowa last week, Bets of the North is still up more $1,200 on the year after starting with a $5,000 bankroll. To get back on the horse, Doug Lesmerises and Tyler Shoemaker are returning to an old favorite -- rooting against Georgia. They aren't just rooting against the Dawgs, they are betting against the Dawgs. There's also a plus-money parlay involving Ole Miss, a TShoe...

Colorado-Kansas State, USC-Penn State and West Virginia-Iowa State get the Big Game Breakdown treatment as Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis preview and pick every Northern college football game in Week 7. Other showdowns involving Northern teams include Iowa-Washington, Notre Dame-Stanford, Illinois-Purdue, Rutgers-Wisconsin, Pitt-Cal, BYU-Arizona, Minnesota-UCLA, Syracuse-NC State and Maryland-Nor...