College football - Week One

ESPN.com Scoreboard ^ | For the week of August 28th to September 4th

[RockyTop4GOP]

Go Vols! It seems like we're back!! This is what a football team should look like.

[scott says]

Its a blow out-
Luckily we got a bunch of games starting in the next hour or sooner--

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboard

[commish]

Good to see the Vols looking sharp, will make my dawgs beating them in a few weeks all the sweeter. LOL.

Seriously, next week in Columbia should be interesting -- actually THE WHOLE WEEK in Athens should be interesting. Joe T III was more than UNDERWHELMING today (7-17 against W. kentucky .. PUHLEESE). Cox had a TD but also forced a bad INT. Was shocked to see Richt put Stafford in and throw away the redshirt -- combine that with Stafford looking awesome on all his plays, and one has to wonder if Richt may actually be toying with throwing the kid to the woves and letting this year be an On The Job Training session.

[Dog Gone]

Look, maybe I'm wrong. When the Texas/OSU deal was announced, OSU wasn't a top contender. I'm not sure of the timing and I don't really care. If it's that important to you, look it up and tell me.

[Perdogg]

I made a bet with a guy at work who went to Rutgers, what a way to start off the season (Rutgers 21 UNC 16).

[RockyTop4GOP]

Riigght. The only advantage the Dawgs have is that the game is in Athens.

The SEC is strong this year. Sadly, the conference will be so bloody, that I doubt anyone will have a chance at a national championship. That'll probably go to some other pansy division.

Nothing beats good, old-fashioned defensive SEC football game on a Saturday evening during the fall.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Texas Tech 35, SMU 3

[Lunatic Fringe]

Hey, we scored a TOUCHDOWN against Texas! WooHoo! And it wasn't a fluke, either.. it was an 80-yard 9 play drive.

[mainepatsfan]

Interesting day to say the least.

I picked the Vols but I never thought they'd put a beating on Cal like they did.

What's more surprising...Notre Dame winning at GA Tech despite only scoring 14 points OR Montana St. walking out of Boulder with a win?

[MikefromOhio]

Montana State without a doubt.

I think we all kinda knew that ND was going to have some issues at Georgia Tech.

[MikefromOhio]

I was close with my score pick on that one too :)

[MikefromOhio]

Prediction:
Ohio State 45 (-18.5) – Northern Illinois 10
OSU 35 – NIU 12
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Notre Dame (-6.5) 28 – Georgia Tech 24
ND 14 – GT 10

Texas 60 (-41) – North Texas 0
Texas 56 – North Texas 7

Auburn (-14.5) 45 – Wash. St.13
Auburn 40 – WAZZU 14

WVU (-22) 42 – Marshall 14
WVU 42 – Marshall 10

USC (-8) 52 – Arkansas 20
USC 50 – Arkansas 14

Florida (-20) 44 – USM 13
Florida 34 – USM 7

LSU (-30.5) 45 – La Lafayette 7
LSU 45 – LA-Lafayette 3

Cal 17 – Tennessee 24(-1.5)***
Tennessee 35 – Cal 18

Oklahoma (-21.5) 33 – UAB 13**
Oklahoma 24 – UAB 17

Michigan (-26) 33 – Vandy 9
Michigan 27 – Vandy 7

Georgia (NL) 35 – WKU 14
UGA 48 – WKU 12

Iowa (NL) 52 – Montana 10
Iowa 41 – Montana 7

Va Tech (NL) 32 – Northeastern 0
VT 38 – Northeastern 0

Clemson (NL) 38 – FAU 7
Clemson 54 – FAU 6

Penn State (-16.5) 24 – Akron 0
Penn State 34 – Akron 16

Nebraska (-20.5) 37 – La Tech 3
Nebraska 49 – La Tech 10

Oregon (-11) 34 – Stanford 12
Oregon 48 – Stanford 10

Texas Tech (-26) 59 – SMU 13
Texas Tech 35 – SMU 3

I didn’t do too badly.

I only missed one by the spread (Oklahoma), and I’m perfect straight up on my picks. We are still waiting on 2 more games for this week, Miami - Florida State and Louisville - Kentucky.

ATS: 18-1 (For the year 19-1)
Straight up: 19-0 (For the year 20-0)

[scott says]

Pretty good work there...you should get a tv commercial thing going.
"Mikes Picks- sign up for only 19.95 a month..."

[Dog Gone]

Take me to Las Vegas with you!

[Michael.SF.]

Good job, Mike. You called the Cal-Tenn. game almost spot on. I always find it humorous, here in the bay area, how they tout Cal's greatness potential. It always seems to be a bit more then normal home team favoritism and extends into a denial of their vulnerability.

I knew they were overated, but I really did not think that they would be embarrassed as they were.

I also think that ND should drop a peg or three (they probably won't)after they just got past GT.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Montana State's win is huge for their program, and an embarrassment to Big 12 football.

[aft_lizard]

My picks were busted on a couple by the spread, I really bought into the California hype and a few Big Ten games beat the spread that I didnt, I may be last this first go round.

[aft_lizard]

I know, I held my head in shame, but it couldnt have happened to a nicer program than sCUm. The Big 12 North may be the worst division in all of Div 1A this year, save for Nebraska, it will suck. I just hope and pray that Nebraska beats USC in 2 weeks to restore pride for the North.

[scott says]

I forgot that we were using the point spread on the pick em game.
I got 3 wrong because of it- Michigan,Oklahoma and ND.
I picked Cal and that was just wrong!
TN looks much improved.

[JeffAtlanta]

Go Vols! It seems like we're back!! This is what a football team should look like.

Disclaimer: Alabama fan here.

I had strong feelings that UT would whip up on Cal. Cal is usually overrated and UT just has too much talent from years of cleaning up in recruiting.

Last year was just an aberration, but Fulmer does need to get a firmer grasp on his program and maybe avoid some of the more troubled recruits.

I think the program hit a hump last year where the players were getting too big for the program and not really part of the school anymore. That is not a knock against UT - it can happen at any bigtime school that has an amazing run of success like UT has had over the last 10 years.