Conference standings are starting to shake out, injuries are compiling and coaches are getting canned.

It’s officially the midseason of college football.

The betting equation changes with game-by-game stakes now heightened, or lowered, by virtue of having a half-season’s worth of data on virtually every team.

It’s now time to primarily handicap based on what’s happened the last month and a half, not any preconceived notions or ratings on teams or players coming into the season. That may sound obvious, but it’s not a stance I would have taken as recently as two or three years ago.

In most sports, sticking to priors to some degree is a must even as the season stretches past the early portion. College football was squarely among that group for arguably its entire history until the recent

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