College Football Week 12 PICKS and BEST BETS

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Our College Football experts have ALL the best Week 12 Bets! Join Sia Nejad, Tom Casale, and Emory Hunt as they give their FAVORITE picks for Week 12's slate, including Oklahoma-Alabama, Arkansas-LSU, Iowa-USC, and MUCH MORE! (0:00) Intro + ACC Bets (14:30) Big Ten Bets (23:40) Big 12 Bets (28:26) Bad CFB Beats (32:55) SEC Bets (43:10) Best Bets for Week 12 (45:05) Underdogs for Week 12 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Get your daily bets here FIRST! The No. 1 sports betting show and podcast—powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports—delivers the day's best bets in a fast-paced, fun environment, first thing in the morning. Starting at 10 a.m. ET every weekday, The Early Edge goes live on YouTube, breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, college football, NBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball, soccer, and more! The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for everyone—from first-time bettors to sharps, and everyone in between. From point spreads to totals, player props to parlays, and so much more, we're here to win. Together. 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️MERCH • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! #CollegeFootballBets #CFBPicks #sportsbetting #CFBPredictions #Week12CFB #michiganfootball #alabamafootball #lsufootball #georgiafootball #clemsonfootball To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone.
0:12.0	And you're watching the Early Edge College Football Picks show.
0:17.1	I'm joined by Emery Hunt and Tom Casale to break it all down for college football week 12.
0:23.3	Emery, Tom, we've got a lot of games to get into.
0:26.5	But I want to start with this.
0:28.5	Emery, you were talking pre-show with me and Tom about the playoff system and potentially a 24 team playoff. Can you expound upon that for the audience here?
0:41.3	Guys, this season has shown us why the college football playoff at the FBS level needs to be expanded.
0:48.6	I've always been a proponent for the 2014 playoff like we've seen at the FCS level for decades upon decades.
0:55.7	And the reason why is because every spring, every summer, every winter workouts,
1:00.6	coach tell you, we work hard, we have a chance to win a national championship.
1:04.3	That doesn't ring true for 75% of the teams in college football.
1:09.8	And now they throw in this one G5 representative.
1:12.6	But when you look around the landscape, who's that G5 representative?
1:16.1	Right.
1:16.4	So if you look at it from a, if you win your conference, you get an auto bid.
1:20.3	So that's 10 conference champions.
1:21.9	And now you can have your 14 at large bid.
1:24.3	So therefore, everyone gets a seat at the table.
1:27.4	Obviously, the strength of schedule and obviously those teams that are worthy of the at
1:31.1	large bids will work themselves into the conversation.
1:34.3	But that eliminates the need for, man, you could only have one ACC team or one Big 12 team.
1:39.7	If you have the conference champs and that 14 teams of at large bids will work itself out easily
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