Every once in a while online sports betting fans are able to watch one player absolutely dominate the specific sports league they are wagering on. From Albert Pujols torching the MLB betting online community over the last decade, to Sidney Crosby lighting up the NHL, fans have seen it all. In college football, that star player was Tim Tebow, a quarterback who made Florida football what it is today. However, we are always looking for the next big thing, and here are three pivots that could be bigger than Tebow by the time their college careers come to an end.

• Taylor Martinez Nebraska Cornhuskers - With Nebraska set to debut a new coaching staff to compliment Bo Pelini, current junior quarterback Taylor Martinez could be the beneficiary of the change in personnel. Similar to Auburn alumni Cam Newton, Taylor Martinez can both throw and run the ball. Last season, Martinez threw for 1161 yards with 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions in 12 games. However, on the ground, like Newton, Martinez was incredible. He ran for over 900 yards while scoring 12 touchdowns. If Martinez can learn how to hang on to the ball longer when throwing, he may emerge as one of the best players of the 2011-12 seasons.

• Darron Thomas Oregon Ducks - Despite missing out on a National Title victory during the 2010-11 college football seasons, Darron Thomas proved to the NCAA football world, that Oregon's quarterback situation was just fine without Jeremiah Masoli. While his running back LaMichael James gets all the publicity, it is Thomas who is the true catalyst for the Ducks offense.

For instance, this past season, after spending two years as a back up to Masoli, Thomas like Aaron Rodgers, stepped into the limelight and didn't appear to be out of place. He threw for over 2800 yards while passing for 30 touchdowns and only nine interceptions. If he wasn't playing with LaMichael James or against Cam Newton, Thomas would have been the Heisman Trophy winner last season.

Perhaps no other team in American sports has fallen from such great heights in so little time as the USC Trojans football team. Southern California's historic squad was humbled in June 2010 after the NCAA imposed sanctions on the program for violating a wide range of NCAA protocol, summed up vaguely as a "lack of institutional control". USC was banned from postseason participation for the next two years, lost a significant portion of its scholarships over the next three years, and was forced to forfeit all its wins from 2005, when the Trojans won the Orange Bowl and the BCS National Championship game. Current New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush was also asked to return the Heisman Trophy he won that season, after the investigation revealed that Bush had received improper benefits during his college playing days.

In their first season dealing with NCAA sanctions, the Trojans' program has looked like what it is: young, shaken, but still talented enough to win games in a tough conference. USC sits at 7-3 overall and 4-3 in the Pac-10 with three games to go on their regular season schedule. After the departure of legendary head coach Pete Carroll to the Seattle Seahawks, the Trojans' place in the college football standings this season is without question a happy surprise. New head coach Lane Kiffin has done a quality job utilizing the talent at his disposal, and keeping his team focused on winning games and avoiding getting caught up in the swarm of negative publicity the program has a generated.

Quarterback Matt Barkley has shown great improvement from a year ago, when the first-year pivot threw 14 interceptions to 15 touchdowns. This season, Barkley has completed nearly 64 percent of his passes and has 25 scores to nine picks. Kiffin has to be slightly concerned about the number of sacks (13) his quarterback has taken this season, but many of those hits can be attributed to a shaky offensive line.

Freshman tailback Dillon Baxter has shown great potential in limited minutes and should be a cornerstone of USC's offence next season. The receiving tandem of freshman Robert Woods and senior Ronald Johnson have combined for 14 touchdowns this season, and the Trojans' defence, which was nothing short of awful early in the season, has made tremendous strides.

Most recently, USC beat 18th-ranked Arizona away from home in a stunning display of physical dominance. For the young Trojans, this is the type of morale-boosting win needed to create the aura of confidence that will be necessary for the team to succeed next year. Recently, USC athletic director Pat Haden announced that the football team will be receiving a huge bonus in the form of a new athletic building with top-notch football facilities. The Trojans will continue to play in the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but the new facilities will undoubtedly help the program maintain its impressive recruiting classes. USC is making the best out of their rebuilding process, and if this season is anything to go by, the Trojans will once again be putting up football scores in high-profile bowl games in a few years' time.

Earlier this week fans betting on college football tuned in to watch America’s second version of ‘The Decision’ when the realignment of the Big Ten conference was announced. Unlike Lebron James one hour, NCAA football betting fans are happy to have lost an hour as they now understand what the Big Ten will look like at least on paper. Here are a few observations we had from Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney’s television special.

• How Nine Months Makes a Difference – Last December, reports began to surface that the Big Ten was looking to expand in order to get a national television deal. The plan was to expand over the next 18 months into a super conference.

Nine months later, the Big 10 has added a formidable powerhouse in Nebraska, a rather attractive championship game and divided into two divisions that have maintained the competitive spirit we have come to love in the Big 10.

• Trading Places – The realignment of the Big 10 meant that annual rivalries would now only return if the two teams faced off in the Big 10 Championship Game, while new rivalries would be created.

For instance, moving Michigan and Wisconsin into a division with Ohio State, Penn State, and Nebraska appears to be more of a glamour move than a logistics move. Illinois and Indiana head to the other division, which will bring an end to one of the best rivalries in college football. That’s ride Badger fans, no longer will you be able to watch Wisconsin duke it out with their arch rival from Iowa.

• Attendance Playing a Role in Realignment – With the moves of Michigan and Wisconsin over to its new division featuring Ohio State, Penn State and Nebraska, it is clear Delaney and the Big 10 committee was looking at attendance records.

Although they have struggled mightily since Rich Rodriguez arrived in Anne Arbor, it is clear that the Wolverines, the conference’s biggest money maker will turn around in a year or two. In doing so it benefits the whole conference as fans will be selling out the seats at the Big House to see the Wolverines win the newly created Big 10 Championship.