The College Football Playoff semifinals are underway after Notre Dame beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl on Thursday night. The Irish will face the winner of Friday’s Cotton Bowl, which features No. 8 Ohio State (12-2) and No.

The worst nightmare of any Ohio State Buckeyes fan will soon rank among the best things ever to happen to the team. The stunning home loss to Michigan in the regular-season finale has brought out the best in the most talented team in the nation,

With only three college football games left, bettors will soon need to turn to a different sport— but not yet! However, with so few games, bettors may want to pull out all the stops to maximize their earning potential on games like the Cotton Bowl with same-game parlays.

SportsLine's computer simulation model has locked in a $10 six-leg NFL Wild Card Weekend parlay that pays over $1.7 million

But almost all the bets in this column will be based on the outputs of models built by me, or occasionally by my colleagues at ESPN Analytics. A less-efficient market. NFL sides and totals are voluminous markets,