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🏈 Your College Football Saturday Cheat Sheet

An eight-game menu kicks off Week 0 in college football.

Let's take a tour around VSiN.com for the resources available to you today.

🏈 Everything We've Published

Every week, we compile our best-bet columns, Steve Makinen's analytics and the rest of our college football coverage in one place.

👉 CFB Week 0 Betting Hub →

📊 Where's the Money Going?

On Saturday mornings, two of the most popular pages on VSiN.com are our Betting Splits and VSiN Pro Picks pages. Both are available to VSiN Pro subscribers.

Here's where the spread money was at Circa heading into Saturday:

📊 Follow the Circa CFB Betting Splits →

🎯 Today's Picks From VSiN Hosts & Guests →

🔎 Scout Every Game

Our Today's Matchups page packs a ton of information into a small space — odds, trends, team data and more for every game on today's board.

👉 Today's CFB Matchups →

👉 Vegas Odds & Line Tracker →

⭐ Find the Value

Steve Makinen's Weekly Power Ratings page gives you all three of his CFB ratings systems in one place. A green star flags a spread or total where Steve's number differs from the market by more than three points.

Take UNC-TCU. Steve's number makes TCU only a 3.2-point favorite, compared with the market at TCU -9.5 — hence the green star signaling value on North Carolina.

Steve Makinen's Weekly CFB Power Ratings →

And a reminder: when we synthesized Steve's analytics Friday, these were our three plays:

🥇 North Carolina +9.5 vs. TCU
🥈 UNLV -4.5 vs. Memphis
🥉 Hawaii +4 at Stanford


🏈 Two Preseason Games Left

We've reached the final day of the NFL preseason: Lions-Colts and Bears-Titans.

Earlier this week, our dive into Steve Makinen's analytics produced Lions +3.5 as one of our three Week 3 plays.

The other two didn't go our way Friday: Chiefs +2.5 (L) and Dolphins +3.5 (L).

So we're 0-2 in Week 3 with one to go — and 4-4 overall in our preseason analytics experiment.

👉 NFL Week 3 Picks, Analysis & Betting Tools →


🏈 Big Dreams at Circa

Football and big dreams are in the air here at Circa as Ultimate Contest Weekend continues.

Last night, Circa contest champions in their blue jackets and contestants with championship aspirations mingled at Legacy Club.

Today, Mike Palm leads an NFL preview discussion featuring former NFL running back Austin Ekeler, Circa oddsmaker Jeff Sherman, Chicago reporter Ruthie Polinsky and former VSiN host Amal Shah.

It's 2-4 p.m. PT on Circa's third floor. If you can't make it, we'll stream it live on @VSiNLive on X.

🎥 One Episode Left

The Circa Survivor: The Quest for $18.7 Million finale airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET. Catch up on the first six before then.

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Matty Simo's $2,000 “Beat Vegas Matty” Fantasy Football League drafts today at 1 p.m. PT, online or in person at Circa.

Finish ahead of Matty and you'll also get a $200 FootballContest.com proxy credit for 2027.

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🎾 US Open Betting Preview

The final tennis major of 2026 is here.

Gill Alexander is joined by Drew Dinsick and VSiN Senior Editor Zach Cohen on Beating The Book to break down the US Open draw, betting strategies, futures and their best bets.

📺 Watch the US Open Betting Preview →

🎧 Listen to the US Open Betting Preview →

🎾 Zach Cohen's US Open Predictions & Futures →

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🏇 Travers Day at Saratoga

It's Travers Day at Saratoga, and Ed Sehon, Adam Burke and DRF's Mike Beer have picks for today's card.

👉 VSiN's Travers Day Picks →

📺 Watch the VSiN At The Track Travers Preview →

🎧 Listen to the Travers Preview →


🏁 The Most Unpredictable Track in NASCAR

NASCAR's 2026 regular season ends Saturday night with the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona — the cutoff race that determines which 16 drivers advance to the Chase.

Steve Makinen calls Daytona the most unpredictable track on the circuit. In fact, it's the only track he gives an F for “Handicap-Ability” in his simulations.

There's good reason. One “big one” can wipe out 10-15 cars at once, including many of the favorites.

That didn't stop us from finding a +2000 Tyler Reddick winner in February's Daytona 500.

This time, Steve's final simulation has Chris Buescher — who was available at +1600 earlier in the week — on top after he earned a front-row starting spot.

Steve's Top 5:
Joey Logano, Chris Buescher, Ryan Blaney, Bubba Wallace, Chase Briscoe

Underdogs to Consider (+1200 or higher):
Kyle Larson, Austin Cindric, Chris Buescher, Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace

🏁 NASCAR Betting Hub: Odds & Predictions →

👉 More NASCAR Betting Coverage →


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