For a beginner, check out the pix being made by the hottest posters in the College FB forum and go with their consensus plays. Not all posters, the top 6 or 7 this season. You can usually come up with 5 to 7 plays (sides and totals) where at least 2 or 3 posters are on the same side, with no one going the other way.
For the second year, now, these plays in Late Sept through October have been winning at an unbelievable rate of 70% or so. Last year, this system cooled in November.
Of course,now that I have posted this trend.....