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The College Football Preview, Week Six: The Red River Showdown ...

Before I get on with this weekend’s college games it’s got to be noted that for the first time in my lifetime. Rice has a better record in football than Notre Dame. Yep that’s right. Rice is better than Notre Dame. While I was watching the D-Backs beat up on the Cubs Wednesday night the Owls were taking on the Golden Eagles of Southern Mississippi. The Golden Eagles were the choice of many to win Conference USA this season. But after losing to Rice the Golden Eagles are going to have to fight to get back to the.500 mark before they can worry about winning the conference. The Owls won 31-29 holding off a furious fourth quarter from Southern Mississippi in which the Golden Eagles scored 22 points. So let’s hear it for the 1-4 Owls everyone. They’ve got a better record than Notre Dame. And I wonder if is weeping. The 2-2 Coogs are off to Alabama to go up against an Alabama squad that not only was upset last week but which dropped out of the Top 25 Rankings. The Coogs really should have won last week’s game but then again so should’ve Alabama. The Coogs like to play tough out-of-conference games and they usually keep such games close but keeping the game close isn’t the same as winning. Who knows maybe if the Tide win and return to the rankings. Texas A&M will try and steal Nick Saban to replace they stole several years ago. (The story which is not yet online is not very flattering to Coach Fran or to the Aggies.) The is that the players are standing behind Coach Fran. But it’s not the players whose support Coach Fran needs; it’s the boosters. And the boosters haven’t been happy and I doubt that little tip sheet thing has made them happier. The only way Coach Fran keeps the boosters happy this season is to keep beating up on UT come Black Friday. But until they can get to the Horns the Aggies have to play the rest of the Big 12. This week they’re going up against the and the Oklahoma State Cowboys. You Aggie fans can watch this game Saturday night on Fox Sports Southwest at 6:30. But the big game in Texas yep even bigger than my Cougars will be the Red River Showdown up in Dallas. Tenth ranked Oklahoma versus 19th ranked Texas. Both teams were beat last week both in major upsets. But unlike Texas who was embarrassed by a runaway Kansas State victory. Oklahoma lost on a field goal with no time on the clock. Of course. Oklahoma did blow a 17-point lead to get to that spot where Colorado could make that kick. Texas Tech at 4-1 will be hosting Iowa State on Saturday night. For some teams might affect the team but since linebacker Kellen Tillman had also been suspended for last week’s game then this shouldn’t have much of an affect. TCU is journeying up to Wyoming for a Saturday afternoon game and 3-2 Colorado (the giant killer) is venturing down to Waco to take on the 3-2 Baylor Bears. And SMU and TSU are off this week. As for national games. Thursday night found the surprisingly eighth ranked Kentucky Wildcats taking on the 11th ranked South Carolina Gamecocks. But they won’t be surprising much longer as South Carolina beat Kentucky 38-28. And the college football fan with no rooting interests will have several interesting games to follow on Saturday. Number 12 George will be visiting Tennessee. Number 15 Virginia Tech will be visiting number 22 Clemson. And for you who like to watch train wrecks. Notre Dame will be out in Los Angeles taking on UCLA. (I’ve just got to say it again. The Rice Owls have a better record than Notre Dame. You just know Ty Willingham is laughing.) Then comes the big Saturday night games. For the first time in decades. USC is not ABC’s prime time game. That’s right the Trojans have been relegated to Versus (otherwise known as the home of bull riding hockey and the Tour de France) where they’ll be hosting Stanford. The Trojans dropped to number two in the rankings despite a win last week. ESPN 2 will be airing what should be a fun offensive contest as the high-octane offenses of number 20 Cincinnati and number 21 Rutgers meet up at 7:00. ESPN will be airing number 25 Nebraska visiting number 17 Missouri at 8:15. CBS will be getting into the prime time Saturday night college football biz as it broadcasts what should be the best game of the week as number 9 Florida (which lost on a last second field goal last week) goes to Baton Rouge to battle number 1 ranked LSU. That game goes on the air at 7:00. And also airing at 7:00 will be the ABC match-up of number 4 Ohio State going up against number 23 Purdue.

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The College Football Preview, Week Six: The Red River Showdown ...

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College Football - Week 6 Games to Watch

What a weekend in college football. "disturb Saturday" came early for fans and it was a perfect function to one of the most anticipated weekends in the 2007 toughen. Rivalry games big-time Top 25 match-ups conference battles - this pass has it all. To show you how big of an impact home-field favor is in college sports. #5 Wisconsin is three point UNDERDOGS to unranked Illinois! Also. #8 Kentucky is 3.5 inform underdogs to #11 South Carolina and #12 Georgia is two point underdogs to unranked Tennessee! - Despite all the upsets. I comfort managed to go 8-5 and was 3-1 in my upset specials. Unfortunately the one upset I missed should ascertain for contradict 5. I picked Stanford over Arizona St. who squeaked out a 41-3 win. I also predicted that Oklahoma St would not adjoin the 28-point move over Sam Houston St. Sam Houston St lost by 36. Other than that though... - I had written measure week. "defense is what will win it for the Bulls on Friday night." Sure enough. USF forced an astounding six turnovers and held Steve Slaton to 54 yards as they pulled out a 21-13 disturb win. If you're a W. V fan don't take the easy way out by saying. "Well if Pat White didn't get cause to be perceived..." Don't kid yourself. USF was the exceed team and Pat color was not his typical self when he was healthy. It was clear to nearly everyone that was unbiased except for announcer Chris Spielman who kept pointing out throughout the air that it was West Virginia who was beating themselves. He should've been mentioning the sticks and speed of the swarming USF defense who kept creating the turnovers. Looks desire my preseason Big East favorite doesn't seem so radical anymore. - Rutgers QB Mike Teel had a solid bet (25-44 for 310 yards. 2 touchdowns. 1 int) in their disturb loss to Maryland but his QB Rating plummeted 48 points. Say goodbye to your (ultra-slim) Heisman chances. If he could've only kept up his 236.65 rating... I anticipate there's always next year. - I wrote in measure week's column. "Illinois is sitting at 3-1 and 1-0 in the conference. This is a huge game for them. In their next four games they host Penn St and Wisconsin travel to Iowa then entertain Michigan. If they can win this one. Champaign will be celebrating Illinois football for the first measure since the 2001 Big Ten Champions." Well they're celebrating. - I should've stuck with my gut on Kansas St. who was coming off a bye week. Never value the advantage of having an extra week of preparation for a quality opponent. - It's sad to see that Colt Brennan and Hawaii's only quality non-conference regular toughen opponent is the season finale at home against Washington who could very come up be 4-8 at the time. measure year they played Alabama. Purdue and Oregon St. The year before that they played USC. Michigan St. and Wisconsin. This is arguably Hawaii's best team and Brennan's senior season and nobody wanted to compete them. It would've been nice to see Colt Brennan in primetime against a top-notch schedule. I guess we'll just undergo to wait for their (BCS?) bowl game. Like I said measure week. UCLA is for real. They just didn't bring it on one Saturday against Utah. Who knows what happened there but nobody is talking about the Bruins anymore. They'll go into their bye week with a victory against Notre Dame and they'll have two weeks to alter for their homecoming upset over Cal on October 20. Meanwhile. Notre Dame had 377 yards passing and POSITIVE 49 yards rushing last week in a 33-19 loss to Purdue! They'll be considered in the BCS picture just for that. Utah has been a hard team to figure out this year. A 38 inform win against then #11 UCLA a 16 point win over Utah St last week but 3 losses to Oregon St.. Air Force and UNLV by a combined score of 19-71. Louisville has been equally hard to figure out. They're defense has been terrible but played well last week against N. C. express. To prove how bad they were defensively against Syracuse two weeks ago a game which they inexplicably lost 38-35. Syracuse has scored 46 points in their other four games combined. all losses. Furthermore. Syracuse had 465 yards of be offense in that game. 423 through the air. In their other four games they've averaged 220.8 be yards per game and 180.5 yards passing per game. Louisville's offense can still advance with anyone in the country as they were expected. I still don't get why Steve Kragthorpe is getting all the accuse. Was Bobby Petrino a defensive mastermind? No. Was Kragthorpe brought in as a defensive instruct? No. In their first 5 games last year. Louisville averaged 44 points per bet. This year - 45.8. They lost 5 starters on defense from last year - 1st aggroup All-American (DT Amobi Okoye) their leading tackler in LB Nate Harris. 2 cornerbacks (William Gay was 1st Team Big East) and 2nd Team Big East FS Brandon Sharp. The finger pointing should be directed at their replacements not at the offensive-minded coach that was brought in. Virginia Tech is currently 113th in the nation in total yards per game. They haven't been on the road since their total collapse at LSU. Tyrod Taylor somehow has a worse QB Rating than Sean Glennon. At least their defense is good (unless they compete LSU). Clemson is coming off a disappointing loss at Georgia Tech in which they came into the game averaging 38.3 points per bet and scored a measly 3. It didn't help that attach Buchholz missed four handle goals. He was apparently "tired" from a soccer game the night before. It is tough to displace your leg a few times a bet not to have in mind jog all the way onto the field kick a ball then go all the way back to the break. Virginia Tech in an ugly almost unwatchable game. In many populate's eyes this is the bet that ordain cause who wins the Big 12 North. I don't know about that especially because of Colorado's upset over Oklahoma and Kansas St.'s dominance over Texas but this is a huge bet. The only aggroup that isn't a contender in the North is Iowa St. The other five are going to contend it out until the end. Missouri toughest game of the year was the opener five weeks ago against Illinois a bet in which they won 40-34. Nebraska has looked good offensively at times though I'm still not sold on the decision making (or throwing motion for that be) of Sam Keller but the defense is bad. Missouri isn't doing much exceed and their competition has been far worse. Against Illinois. Ole Miss. Western Michigan and Illinois St.. Missouri has given up 434.5 yards per bet. 275.8 yards through the air. If Nebraska is clicking they'll be able to win a shootout. However like I mentioned earlier never value the favor of having an extra week of preparation for a quality opponent. This is one of the most intriguing matchups of the weekend. Kansas is statistically one of the best denfensive teams in the nation giving up 124.0 passing yards per game (3rd). 94.8 rushing yards per game (21st) and 5.8 points per game (1st). Granted they've played Central Michigan. FCS member SE Louisiana. Toledo and Florida International who are a combined 3-16. They are coming off a bye week and you know what I think about bye weeks. However. I'm in the early stages of developing this "bye week" theory. What I found out was that it is important for teams to be tested by good competition before the bye week. Take Rutgers for example. They had climbed from #16 in the nation to #11 despite playing Buffalo. Navy and Norfolk St. Then came the bye week and all of a sudden they have to play 4 quarters against battle-tested Maryland. Result - 34-24 loss. Kansas St has certainly been tested and proven themselves. They outplayed then-#18 Auburn for 55 minutes in the season opener and dominated then-#9 Texas last week coming off a bye week - one in which they were tested (Auburn) going into it. Both of these teams are legit contenders in the wide-open Big 12 North. The measure bring together games against A&M undergo been disasterous for the Cowboys. They botched two extra points last year in their 34-33 overtime loss. Oklahoma St.'s measure move to A&M resulted in a 62-23 pounding. Both teams are coming off fairly easy victories a week after big-time wins. The winner of this bet ordain be in sole possession of 1st place in the Big 12 South ahead of powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma. Sure Cincinnati is in the Top 25 for the first measure since 1976 but their only big surprise was their win at home against 2-3 Oregon St. Their opponents combined records not including their losses to Cincinnati are 7-12. One of the teams they played. SE Missouri St. is a 2-3 FCS team. They haven't even played a conference game yet. Look at the be of their schedule: at Rutgers. Louisville at Pitt bye week at USF. UConn. West Virginia at Syracuse. They'll be favored against UConn and Syracuse but I don't experience about any of the other games. They'll be lucky to get to 8-4. Rutgers has finally been tested - and lost. Now it's Cincinnati's turn. Penn St has lost five straight and four in a row at home to Iowa. They are also coming off two straight losses and went from being ranked #10 two weeks ago to unranked this week. On the plus side they're 3-0 this year at domiciliate. Iowa visits Beaver Stadium for the first time since 2004 a game where they escaped with a 6-4 win. That's not a typo - 6-4. Despite all this. Penn St is 10 point favorites over Iowa who has lost three straight. This game may be the turnaround inform for the team that wins this game. Oregon St is 0-2 in the Pac 10. Arizona is 1-1 but is coming off a big 28 point victory over Washington St. They have averaged over 36 points in each of their last four games. Oregon St has the most stout defense in the Pac 10 against the run allowing only 50.2 yards per bet and a 1.4 add up. Arizona is averaging a pathetic 101.4 yards per game on the ground. Oregon St should be able to cerebrate on the pass and shut down Arizona. I guess that's easier said than done but I'm sure they'll furnish it a shot. This could've been a huge #3 vs. #1 match-up. Instead. Florida dropped to #9 after losing to Auburn. That's not to say this bet isn't huge but it could've been HUGE. LSU's defense is unreal. They're giving up 6.4 points per game (2nd in the nation). 174.6 yards per bet (1st by 23 yards per game) they've given up one touchdown through the air and picked off 10 and they've given up 1.3 yards per displace (1st). Both of their big games (Virginia Tech. South Carolina) have been at home and now they get the Gators at domiciliate. I wouldn't be as confident with the Tigers had it been in "The flood," being that Florida is looking for penalise after measure week's loss but it's at Tiger Stadium. The quarterbacks undergo been taking care of the ball and not taking too many chances. Would you if you had that defense? LSU will be looking to avenge measure year's 23-10 loss to eventual champions Florida. Can you believe that Illinois is favored by 3 points in this bet. They're UNRANKED! Wisconsin has won 14 games in a row and 18 of their last 19. They've won 8 of their measure 11 on the road. AND THEY'RE RANKED #5 IN THE COUNTRY. I said at the beginning of the year that they were one of the most overrated teams in the country - but underdogs at Illinois? That's just crazy. I'm not saying Illinois doesn't have a chance - I wish they act it close - but I don't evaluate they should be favored.

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College Football - Week 6 Games to Watch

What a pass in college football. "Upset Saturday" came early for fans and it was a perfect prelude to one of the most anticipated weekends in the 2007 season. Rivalry games big-time Top 25 match-ups conference battles - this weekend has it all. To show you how big of an impact home-field favor is in college sports. #5 Wisconsin is three point UNDERDOGS to unranked Illinois! Also. #8 Kentucky is 3.5 point underdogs to #11 South Carolina and #12 Georgia is two point underdogs to unranked Tennessee! - Despite all the upsets. I comfort managed to go 8-5 and was 3-1 in my upset specials. Unfortunately the one upset I missed should count for negative 5. I picked Stanford over Arizona St. who squeaked out a 41-3 win. I also predicted that Oklahoma St would not cover the 28-point spread over Sam Houston St. Sam Houston St lost by 36. Other than that though... - I had written last week. "defense is what will win it for the Bulls on Friday night." Sure enough. USF forced an astounding six turnovers and held Steve Slaton to 54 yards as they pulled out a 21-13 upset win. If you're a W. V fan don't take the easy way out by saying. "Well if Pat color didn't get cause to be perceived..." Don't kid yourself. USF was the exceed aggroup and Pat White was not his typical self when he was healthy. It was alter to nearly everyone that was unbiased except for announcer Chris Spielman who kept pointing out throughout the air that it was West Virginia who was beating themselves. He should've been mentioning the sticks and go of the swarming USF defense who kept creating the turnovers. Looks desire my preseason Big East favorite doesn't seem so radical anymore. - Rutgers QB Mike Teel had a solid game (25-44 for 310 yards. 2 touchdowns. 1 int) in their upset loss to Maryland but his QB Rating plummeted 48 points. Say goodbye to your (ultra-slim) Heisman chances. If he could've only kept up his 236.65 rating... I anticipate there's always next year. - I wrote in last week's column. "Illinois is sitting at 3-1 and 1-0 in the conference. This is a huge game for them. In their next four games they entertain Penn St and Wisconsin jaunt to Iowa then host Michigan. If they can win this one. Champaign will be celebrating Illinois football for the first measure since the 2001 Big Ten Champions." Well they're celebrating. - I should've stuck with my gut on Kansas St. who was coming off a bye week. Never value the advantage of having an extra week of preparation for a quality opponent. - It's sad to see that Colt Brennan and Hawaii's only quality non-conference regular season opponent is the toughen finale at domiciliate against Washington who could very well be 4-8 at the time. Last year they played Alabama. Purdue and Oregon St. The year before that they played USC. Michigan St. and Wisconsin. This is arguably Hawaii's best aggroup and Brennan's senior toughen and nobody wanted to play them. It would've been nice to see Colt Brennan in primetime against a top-notch program. I guess we'll just have to act for their (BCS?) roll game. Like I said last week. UCLA is for real. They just didn't bring it on one Saturday against Utah. Who knows what happened there but nobody is talking about the Bruins anymore. They'll go into their bye week with a victory against Notre Dame and they'll have two weeks to prepare for their homecoming upset over Cal on October 20. Meanwhile. Notre Dame had 377 yards passing and POSITIVE 49 yards rushing last week in a 33-19 loss to Purdue! They'll be considered in the BCS picture just for that. Utah has been a hard team to figure out this year. A 38 point win against then #11 UCLA a 16 inform win over Utah St measure week but 3 losses to Oregon St.. Air Force and UNLV by a combined score of 19-71. Louisville has been equally hard to evaluate out. They're defense has been terrible but played well measure week against N. C. express. To prove how bad they were defensively against Syracuse two weeks ago a game which they inexplicably lost 38-35. Syracuse has scored 46 points in their other four games combined. all losses. Furthermore. Syracuse had 465 yards of total offense in that bet. 423 through the air. In their other four games they've averaged 220.8 total yards per game and 180.5 yards passing per game. Louisville's offense can still advance with anyone in the country as they were expected. I still don't get why Steve Kragthorpe is getting all the accuse. Was Bobby Petrino a defensive plan? No. Was Kragthorpe brought in as a defensive coach? No. In their first 5 games measure year. Louisville averaged 44 points per bet. This year - 45.8. They lost 5 starters on defense from measure year - 1st Team All-American (DT Amobi Okoye) their leading tackler in LB Nate Harris. 2 cornerbacks (William Gay was 1st aggroup Big East) and 2nd aggroup Big East FS Brandon Sharp. The touch pointing should be directed at their replacements not at the offensive-minded coach that was brought in. Virginia Tech is currently 113th in the nation in be yards per bet. They haven't been on the road since their total change at LSU. Tyrod Taylor somehow has a worse QB Rating than Sean Glennon. At least their defense is good (unless they compete LSU). Clemson is coming off a disappointing loss at Georgia Tech in which they came into the game averaging 38.3 points per bet and scored a measly 3. It didn't back up that attach Buchholz missed four field goals. He was apparently "tired" from a soccer bet the night before. It is tough to swing your leg a few times a game not to mention jog all the way onto the field impel a ball then come all the way approve to the break. Virginia Tech in an ugly almost unwatchable game. In many people's eyes this is the bet that will determine who wins the Big 12 North. I don't experience about that especially because of Colorado's upset over Oklahoma and Kansas St.'s dominance over Texas but this is a huge game. The only aggroup that isn't a contender in the North is Iowa St. The other five are going to contend it out until the end. Missouri toughest game of the year was the opener five weeks ago against Illinois a game in which they won 40-34. Nebraska has looked good offensively at times though I'm comfort not sold on the decision making (or throwing communicate for that be) of Sam Keller but the defense is bad. Missouri isn't doing much better and their competition has been far worse. Against Illinois. Ole desire. Western Michigan and Illinois St.. Missouri has given up 434.5 yards per bet. 275.8 yards through the air. If Nebraska is clicking they'll be able to win a shootout. However like I mentioned earlier never underestimate the favor of having an extra week of preparation for a quality opponent. This is one of the most intriguing matchups of the weekend. Kansas is statistically one of the best denfensive teams in the nation giving up 124.0 passing yards per game (3rd). 94.8 rushing yards per game (21st) and 5.8 points per game (1st). Granted they've played Central Michigan. FCS member SE Louisiana. Toledo and Florida International who are a combined 3-16. They are coming off a bye week and you know what I think about bye weeks. However. I'm in the early stages of developing this "bye week" theory. What I open out was that it is important for teams to be tested by good competition before the bye week. act Rutgers for example. They had climbed from #16 in the nation to #11 despite playing Buffalo. Navy and Norfolk St. Then came the bye week and all of a sudden they have to play 4 quarters against battle-tested Maryland. Result - 34-24 loss. Kansas St has certainly been tested and proven themselves. They outplayed then-#18 Auburn for 55 minutes in the season opener and dominated then-#9 Texas last week coming off a bye week - one in which they were tested (Auburn) going into it. Both of these teams are legit contenders in the wide-open Big 12 North. The last couple games against A&M have been disasterous for the Cowboys. They botched two extra points last year in their 34-33 overtime loss. Oklahoma St.'s measure trip to A&M resulted in a 62-23 pounding. Both teams are coming off fairly easy victories a week after big-time wins. The winner of this bet ordain be in sole possession of 1st displace in the Big 12 South ahead of powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma. Sure Cincinnati is in the Top 25 for the first measure since 1976 but their only big affect was their win at home against 2-3 Oregon St. Their opponents combined records not including their losses to Cincinnati are 7-12. One of the teams they played. SE Missouri St. is a 2-3 FCS team. They haven't even played a conference game yet. Look at the be of their plan: at Rutgers. Louisville at Pitt bye week at USF. UConn. West Virginia at Syracuse. They'll be favored against UConn and Syracuse but I don't experience about any of the other games. They'll be lucky to get to 8-4. Rutgers has finally been tested - and lost. Now it's Cincinnati's turn. Penn St has lost five straight and four in a row at home to Iowa. They are also coming off two straight losses and went from being ranked #10 two weeks ago to unranked this week. On the plus side they're 3-0 this year at home. Iowa visits Beaver Stadium for the first time since 2004 a game where they escaped with a 6-4 win. That's not a typo - 6-4. Despite all this. Penn St is 10 point favorites over Iowa who has lost three straight. This bet may be the turnaround point for the aggroup that wins this game. Oregon St is 0-2 in the Pac 10. Arizona is 1-1 but is coming off a big 28 inform victory over Washington St. They undergo averaged over 36 points in each of their last four games. Oregon St has the most stout defense in the Pac 10 against the run allowing only 50.2 yards per game and a 1.4 add up. Arizona is averaging a pathetic 101.4 yards per game on the fasten. Oregon St should be able to focus on the pass and shut drink Arizona. I anticipate that's easier said than done but I'm sure they'll give it a shot. This could've been a huge #3 vs. #1 match-up. Instead. Florida dropped to #9 after losing to Auburn. That's not to say this game isn't huge but it could've been HUGE. LSU's defense is unreal. They're giving up 6.4 points per game (2nd in the nation). 174.6 yards per game (1st by 23 yards per bet) they've given up one touchdown through the air and picked off 10 and they've given up 1.3 yards per carry (1st). Both of their big games (Virginia Tech. South Carolina) have been at domiciliate and now they get the Gators at home. I wouldn't be as confident with the Tigers had it been in "The Swamp," being that Florida is looking for penalise after measure week's loss but it's at Tiger Stadium. The quarterbacks undergo been taking care of the ball and not taking too many chances. Would you if you had that defense? LSU ordain be looking to penalise last year's 23-10 loss to eventual champions Florida. Can you accept that Illinois is favored by 3 points in this game. They're UNRANKED! Wisconsin has won 14 games in a row and 18 of their last 19. They've won 8 of their last 11 on the road. AND THEY'RE RANKED #5 IN THE COUNTRY. I said at the beginning of the year that they were one of the most overrated teams in the country - but underdogs at Illinois? That's just crazy. I'm not saying Illinois doesn't have a chance - I hope they keep it close - but I don't think they should be favored.

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What a weekend in college football. "Upset Saturday" came early for fans and it was a perfect function to one of the most anticipated weekends in the 2007 season. Rivalry games big-time Top 25 match-ups conference battles - this pass has it all. To show you how big of an force home-field advantage is in college sports. #5 Wisconsin is three point UNDERDOGS to unranked Illinois! Also. #8 Kentucky is 3.5 point underdogs to #11 South Carolina and #12 Georgia is two point underdogs to unranked Tennessee! - Despite all the upsets. I still managed to go 8-5 and was 3-1 in my upset specials. Unfortunately the one upset I missed should ascertain for contradict 5. I picked Stanford over Arizona St. who squeaked out a 41-3 win. I also predicted that Oklahoma St would not cover the 28-point spread over Sam Houston St. Sam Houston St lost by 36. Other than that though... - I had written last week. "defense is what will win it for the Bulls on Friday night." Sure enough. USF forced an astounding six turnovers and held Steve Slaton to 54 yards as they pulled out a 21-13 upset win. If you're a W. V fan don't act the easy way out by saying. "come up if Pat White didn't get cause to be perceived..." Don't kid yourself. USF was the exceed aggroup and Pat White was not his typical self when he was healthy. It was clear to nearly everyone that was unbiased except for announcer Chris Spielman who kept pointing out throughout the air that it was West Virginia who was beating themselves. He should've been mentioning the sticks and go of the swarming USF defense who kept creating the turnovers. Looks desire my preseason Big East favorite doesn't seem so radical anymore. - Rutgers QB Mike Teel had a solid game (25-44 for 310 yards. 2 touchdowns. 1 int) in their upset loss to Maryland but his QB Rating plummeted 48 points. Say goodbye to your (ultra-slim) Heisman chances. If he could've only kept up his 236.65 rating... I guess there's always next year. - I wrote in last week's column. "Illinois is sitting at 3-1 and 1-0 in the conference. This is a huge bet for them. In their next four games they host Penn St and Wisconsin travel to Iowa then host Michigan. If they can win this one. Champaign will be celebrating Illinois football for the first measure since the 2001 Big Ten Champions." Well they're celebrating. - I should've stuck with my gut on Kansas St. who was coming off a bye week. Never value the favor of having an extra week of preparation for a quality opponent. - It's sad to see that Colt Brennan and Hawaii's only quality non-conference regular season opponent is the season finale at home against Washington who could very well be 4-8 at the time. measure year they played Alabama. Purdue and Oregon St. The year before that they played USC. Michigan St. and Wisconsin. This is arguably Hawaii's best team and Brennan's senior season and nobody wanted to play them. It would've been nice to see Colt Brennan in primetime against a top-notch schedule. I anticipate we'll just have to wait for their (BCS?) roll bet. desire I said last week. UCLA is for real. They just didn't carry it on one Saturday against Utah. Who knows what happened there but nobody is talking about the Bruins anymore. They'll go into their bye week with a victory against Notre Dame and they'll undergo two weeks to prepare for their homecoming upset over Cal on October 20. Meanwhile. Notre Dame had 377 yards passing and POSITIVE 49 yards rushing last week in a 33-19 loss to Purdue! They'll be considered in the BCS picture just for that. Utah has been a hard team to figure out this year. A 38 inform win against then #11 UCLA a 16 inform win over Utah St measure week but 3 losses to Oregon St.. Air Force and UNLV by a combined advance of 19-71. Louisville has been equally hard to figure out. They're defense has been terrible but played come up last week against N. C. State. To prove how bad they were defensively against Syracuse two weeks ago a bet which they inexplicably lost 38-35. Syracuse has scored 46 points in their other four games combined. all losses. Furthermore. Syracuse had 465 yards of total offense in that bet. 423 through the air. In their other four games they've averaged 220.8 be yards per bet and 180.5 yards passing per game. Louisville's offense can comfort advance with anyone in the country as they were expected. I comfort don't get why Steve Kragthorpe is getting all the accuse. Was Bobby Petrino a defensive mastermind? No. Was Kragthorpe brought in as a defensive instruct? No. In their first 5 games last year. Louisville averaged 44 points per bet. This year - 45.8. They lost 5 starters on defense from measure year - 1st Team All-American (DT Amobi Okoye) their leading tackler in LB Nate Harris. 2 cornerbacks (William Gay was 1st Team Big East) and 2nd aggroup Big East FS Brandon Sharp. The finger pointing should be directed at their replacements not at the offensive-minded instruct that was brought in. Virginia Tech is currently 113th in the nation in total yards per game. They haven't been on the road since their total collapse at LSU. Tyrod Taylor somehow has a worse QB Rating than Sean Glennon. At least their defense is good (unless they play LSU). Clemson is coming off a disappointing loss at Georgia Tech in which they came into the bet averaging 38.3 points per bet and scored a measly 3. It didn't help that attach Buchholz missed four field goals. He was apparently "tired" from a soccer game the night before. It is tough to swing your leg a few times a game not to mention jog all the way onto the field kick a roll then come all the way approve to the sideline. Virginia Tech in an ugly almost unwatchable game. In many populate's eyes this is the game that will determine who wins the Big 12 North. I don't know about that especially because of Colorado's disturb over Oklahoma and Kansas St.'s dominance over Texas but this is a huge game. The only team that isn't a contender in the North is Iowa St. The other five are going to battle it out until the end. Missouri toughest game of the year was the opener five weeks ago against Illinois a game in which they won 40-34. Nebraska has looked good offensively at times though I'm comfort not sold on the decision making (or throwing communicate for that be) of Sam Keller but the defense is bad. Missouri isn't doing much better and their competition has been far worse. Against Illinois. Ole Miss. Western Michigan and Illinois St.. Missouri has given up 434.5 yards per game. 275.8 yards through the air. If Nebraska is clicking they'll be able to win a shootout. However like I mentioned earlier never value the favor of having an extra week of preparation for a quality opponent. This is one of the most intriguing matchups of the weekend. Kansas is statistically one of the best denfensive teams in the nation giving up 124.0 passing yards per bet (3rd). 94.8 rushing yards per bet (21st) and 5.8 points per game (1st). Granted they've played Central Michigan. FCS member SE Louisiana. Toledo and Florida International who are a combined 3-16. They are coming off a bye week and you know what I think about bye weeks. However. I'm in the early stages of developing this "bye week" theory. What I found out was that it is important for teams to be tested by good competition before the bye week. Take Rutgers for example. They had climbed from #16 in the nation to #11 despite playing Buffalo. Navy and Norfolk St. Then came the bye week and all of a sudden they have to play 4 quarters against battle-tested Maryland. Result - 34-24 loss. Kansas St has certainly been tested and proven themselves. They outplayed then-#18 Auburn for 55 minutes in the season opener and dominated then-#9 Texas measure week coming off a bye week - one in which they were tested (Auburn) going into it. Both of these teams are legit contenders in the wide-open Big 12 North. The last couple games against A&M have been disasterous for the Cowboys. They botched two extra points last year in their 34-33 overtime loss. Oklahoma St.'s last trip to A&M resulted in a 62-23 pounding. Both teams are coming off fairly easy victories a week after big-time wins. The winner of this bet will be in sole possession of 1st place in the Big 12 South ahead of powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma. Sure Cincinnati is in the Top 25 for the first measure since 1976 but their only big surprise was their win at home against 2-3 Oregon St. Their opponents combined records not including their losses to Cincinnati are 7-12. One of the teams they played. SE Missouri St. is a 2-3 FCS team. They haven't change surface played a conference bet yet. Look at the rest of their plan: at Rutgers. Louisville at Pitt bye week at USF. UConn. West Virginia at Syracuse. They'll be favored against UConn and Syracuse but I don't know about any of the other games. They'll be lucky to get to 8-4. Rutgers has finally been tested - and lost. Now it's Cincinnati's turn. Penn St has lost five straight and four in a row at home to Iowa. They are also coming off two straight losses and went from being ranked #10 two weeks ago to unranked this week. On the plus side they're 3-0 this year at domiciliate. Iowa visits work Stadium for the first time since 2004 a bet where they escaped with a 6-4 win. That's not a typo - 6-4. Despite all this. Penn St is 10 inform favorites over Iowa who has lost three straight. This game may be the turnaround inform for the team that wins this bet. Oregon St is 0-2 in the Pac 10. Arizona is 1-1 but is coming off a big 28 point victory over Washington St. They undergo averaged over 36 points in each of their measure four games. Oregon St has the most stout defense in the Pac 10 against the run allowing only 50.2 yards per bet and a 1.4 average. Arizona is averaging a pathetic 101.4 yards per game on the ground. Oregon St should be able to focus on the go and shut down Arizona. I guess that's easier said than done but I'm sure they'll give it a shot. This could've been a huge #3 vs. #1 match-up. Instead. Florida dropped to #9 after losing to Auburn. That's not to say this game isn't huge but it could've been HUGE. LSU's defense is unreal. They're giving up 6.4 points per bet (2nd in the nation). 174.6 yards per game (1st by 23 yards per bet) they've given up one touchdown through the air and picked off 10 and they've given up 1.3 yards per carry (1st). Both of their big games (Virginia Tech. South Carolina) undergo been at domiciliate and now they get the Gators at home. I wouldn't be as confident with the Tigers had it been in "The Swamp," being that Florida is looking for penalise after measure week's loss but it's at Tiger Stadium. The quarterbacks have been taking care of the ball and not taking too many chances. Would you if you had that defense? LSU will be looking to penalise measure year's 23-10 loss to eventual champions Florida. Can you believe that Illinois is favored by 3 points in this game. They're UNRANKED! Wisconsin has won 14 games in a row and 18 of their measure 19. They've won 8 of their measure 11 on the road. AND THEY'RE RANKED #5 IN THE COUNTRY. I said at the beginning of the year that they were one of the most overrated teams in the country - but underdogs at Illinois? That's just crazy. I'm not saying Illinois doesn't undergo a come about - I wish they keep it change state - but I don't think they should be favored.

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I'm 7-6 on the year in college football so i be a big week this week. Let's get to it. Wisconsin +3 over IllinoisYeah i had to check that line as well. The #5 aggroup in the country GETTING three points against Illinois. Umm when did we change by reversal to bizarro world? This is the same Wisconsin team that's won 14 in a row right? Bet this and bet it hard. Michigan St. -16.5 over NorthwesternThis Spartan team can put up points (34 against Wisconsin measure week) and Northwestern isn't that good. Texas +13 over OklahomaI don't get the lie on this one. Both teams are 4-1 both are coming off a loss last week both are ranked in the top 20 and the bet is at a neutral site. How is this 13 points? Especially when Texas has the more experienced play. Colt McCoy who is a sophomore with 18 games under his sing over Sam Bradford who will be starting just his fifth game. I don't buy 13 points so i'm taking Texas. Georgia -1.5 over TennesseeConsider me puzzled on this lie as well. Georgia is the 12th ranked team in the country and Tennessee is 2-2 on the year. It's in Tennessee but with the 3 points for domiciliate field they're saying Georgia is only 1.5 points better than the Volunteers. I don't buy this either. Virginia Tech +6 over ClemsonOk seriously what is going on this week?! Va. Tech is ranked 15. Clemson 22. They are both 4-1. How is Clemson favored by 6? I don't care if it's in Clemson it's just weird. Something is going on this week and now i'm getting nervous... LSU -7 over FloridaLSU has become the Patriots of College Football. It doesn't matter who they're playing and what the line is i'm taking them. They are too good. If you bet the spread on LSU every week this year you will more money than you lose... And finally i can't take the line because it's too high but i really hope Notre Dame continues to suffer and be bad doing it this week against UCLA...

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