Posted on 09/06/2006 5:57:30 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
Week Two – College Football
Week One finally brought some much needed intensity to the summertime months for most of us. It was a relief for some (Ohio State, Notre Dame) and a crushing time for others (Colorado and Cal especially). Now that we’ve seen most every team in action, now we have something to go on other than perceptions when making picks.
As always, all rankings are from the ESPN.com Scoreboard page. I will also list any games of interest (FReepmail me if you want your team included and I will include them from here on out) and any other games listed in my Yahoo league.
GAME of the WEEK
Saturday, September 9th, 2006
(1) Ohio State at (2) Texas (-2.5)
Ohio State’s offense is fine. Their defense remains a question mark. Texas looked ok on offense and their defense is seemingly solid. Might we have another #1 after this week? Yes, probably. While there was quite a bit of holding in the Northern Illinois game, there was more of an issue of the Ohio State defenders getting off of blocks and making tackles. Now sure Garrett Wolfe would PROBABLY start on a team like Texas (he’s that good), NIU doesn’t have the offensive line that Texas does. Going into a hostile environment with a young and unproven defense isn’t quite as bit a hinderance as going in with a young and unproven offense, but Texas as a relatively experienced offense, just a redshirt freshman QB. Assuming he makes no mistakes, which is a hard thing to do in a game like this, Texas will win outright. Ohio State’s offense won’t make very many mistakes either, but their defense is the major question mark of this game.
Ohio State 25 – Texas 22
Thursday September 7th, 2006 (ESPN Thursday Night Game)
Oregon State at Boise State (-8)
This game should be a shootout. Neither team is especially known for defense. And we get to see that horrible blue turf they have in Boise very early this year.
Saturday September 9th 2006 (in ranking order)
(19) Penn State at (4) Notre Dame (-8)
The Prediction:
Penn State 21 – Notre Dame 17**** UPSET ALERT
(4) Auburn (-20) at Mississippi State
Auburn 38 – Miss St. 10
Eastern Washington at (6) West Virginia (NL)
WVU 56 – Eastern Washington 7
UCF at (7) Florida (-23)
Florida 40 – UCF 14
Arizona at (8) LSU (-16)
LSU 32 – Arizona 10
Troy at (9) Florida State (-30)
FSU 55 – Troy 3
Central Michigan at (10) Michigan (-28)
Michigan 35 – Central Michigan 14
Air Force at (11) Tennessee (-20)
Tennessee 43 – Air Force 7
(12) UGA (-3) at South Carolina
UGA 28 – South Carolina 10
(13) Louisville (-40.5) at Temple
Louisville 70 – Temple 3
(14) Iowa (-20) - Syracuse
Iowa 45 – Syracuse 17
Washington at (15) Oklahoma (-17)
Oklahoma 34 - Washington 14
(16) Virginia Tech (-12) at North Carolina
VT 32 – North Carolina 10
(18) Clemson (-2.5) at Boston college
Clemson 17 – BC 14
(20) Oregon (-11) at Fresno State
Oregon 34 – Fresno State 18
Nicholls St. at (21) Nebraska (-20.5)
Nebraska 45 – Nicholls State 0
Minnesota at (22) California (-8.5)
Minnesota 32 – Cal 28*****UPSET ALERT
UC Davis at (23) TCU (NL)
TCU 54 – UC Davis 10
(24) Texas Tech (-7) at UTEP
Texas Tech 59 – UTEP 16
Nevada at (25) Arizona St. (-14.5)
ASU 43 – Nevada 12
20-1 Straight UP
19-2 Against the Spread
And 8 hours and counting until that Freshman QB of yours gets hit by a real college football player :)
Thank GOD Corso picked Texas. It's reassuring :)
TV Listings along with some announcing crews
Sep. 9 Sat. Virginia Tech @ North Carolina Noon ESPN
Sean McDonough/Chris Spielman
Sep. 9 Sat. Illinois @ Rutgers Noon ESPN2
Pam Ward/Mike Gottfried
Sep. 9 Sat. Akron @ NC State Noon ESPNU
Clay Matvick/Brian Kinchen
Sep. 9 Sat. Central Michigan @ Michigan Noon GP (Ch. 775) - Wayne Larrivee/Kelly Stouffer
Sep. 9 Sat. Duke @ Wake Forest Noon LFS/GP (Ch. 776)
Sep. 9 Sat. Louisville @ Temple Noon GP (Ch. 777)
Ari Wolfe/Doug James
Sep. 9 Sat. Ole Miss @ Missouri 12:30 p.m. FSN
Joel Myers/Dave Lapham
Sep. 9 Sat. Auburn @ Mississippi State 12:30 p.m. GP (Ch. 778
Dave Neal/Dave Rowe
Sep. 9 Sat. Kent State @ Army 1:00 p.m. ESPN Classic
Sep. 9 Sat. UMass @ Navy 1:30 p.m. CSTV
Sep. 9 Sat. Vanderbilt @ Alabama 3:00 p.m. GP (Ch. 777) - Bill Rosinski/David Archer
Sep. 9 Sat. New Mexico @ New Mexico State 8:00 p.m. GP (Ch. 780)
Sep. 9 Sat. Washington @ Oklahoma 3:30 p.m. ABC/GP (Ch. 775) - Brad Nessler/Bob Griese/Paul MaGuire
Sep. 9 Sat. Clemson @ Boston College 3:30 p.m. ABC/GP (Ch. 779) - Mark Jones/David Norrie
Sep. 9 Sat. Iowa @ Syracuse 3:30 p.m. ABC/GP (Ch. 780)
Gary Thorne/Andre Ware/Todd Harris
Sep. 9 Sat. Eastern Mich @ Michigan St 3:30 p.m. GP (Ch. 776)
Craig Coshun/Mike Tomzcak
Sep. 9 Sat. Penn State @ Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. NBC
Tom Hammond/Pat Haden
Sep. 9 Sat. Western Illinois @ Wisconsin 3:30 p.m. ESPNU
Dave Armstrong/Randy White
Sep. 9 Sat. Idaho @ Washington State 4:00 p.m. FSN Regional
Sep. 9 Sat. Colorado @ Colorado St. 5:00 p.m. CSTV
Tom Hart/Trev Alberts
Sep. 9 Sat. UCF @ Florida 6:00 p.m. GP (Ch. 778)
David Steele/Nat Moore
Sep. 9 Sat. Arizona @ LSU 6:30 p.m. ESPN2
Ron Franklin/Ed Cunningham
Sep. 9 Sat. Minnesota @ California 7:00 p.m. TBS
Ron Thulin/Charles Davis
Sep. 9 Sat. Oklahoma State @ Arkansas State 7:00 p.m. ESPNU
Sep. 9 Sat. Air Force @ Tennessee 7:00 p.m. GP (Ch. 779)
Randy Smith/Pat Ryan
Sep. 9 Sat. Georgia @ South Carolina 7:45 p.m. ESPN
Mike Patrick/Todd Blackledge
Sep. 9 Sat. Ohio State @ Texas 8:00 p.m. ABC
Brent Musburger/Kirk Herbstreit/Bob Davie
Sep. 9 Sat. Texas Tech @ UTEP 9:00 p.m. CSTV
Carter Blackburn/Brian Jones
Sep. 9 Sat. Oregon @ Fresno State 10:00 p.m. ESPN
Dan Fouts/Tim Brant
Sep. 9 Sat. Rice @ UCLA 10:00 p.m. FSN Regional
Bill MacDonald/Petros Papadakis
Sep. 9 Sat. Nevada @ Arizona State 10:00 p.m. FSN Regional
Trey Bender/Doug Plank
College Gameday picks (admittedly I missed a few)
OSU - Texas
Corso Texas - Herbstreit No pick
PSU - ND
Corso PSU - Herbie ND
Arizona - LSU
Corso LSU - Herbie LSU
CMU - Michigan
Corso Michigan - Herbie Michigan
Clemson - BC
Corso Clemson - Herbie Clemson
Oregon - Fresno
Corso Oregon - Herbie Oregon
UGA - S. Carolina
Corso UGA - Herbie South Carolina
Alabama fans have no problem with Mike Price and wish him well - just wrong place and the wrong time. Now, UAB is a different story...
I see South Carolina as having the advantage in this game. As was noted, the UGA QB situation is very weak at this point - a couple of costly interceptions would not surprise me at all. USC will load up in the box and dare UGA to throw.
USC also always plays UGA very tough, even when the talent difference is severe. Spurrier also has a hard on for UGA as they had UF's number during the Dooley years.
This is a huge game because if Spurrier wants to be competitive then he will have to able to come in and cherry pick the state of Georgia in recruiting.
If this game were in week 8 then UGA would walk all over USC, but it's week 2 and USC has a serious advantage.
Come on, you know Herbie wanted to make the Homer pick for his Buckeyes. It's going to be fun hearing him have to praise Texas after the game when we are all singing the Eyes of Texas. He'll have raise his voice to drown that out!
Go Horns! Hook'em and Cook'em!
Actually I think he was going to pick Texas.
On his show in Columbus he was pretty much singing to the tune of that it will be a very hard game for the Buckeyes to win and that unless the OSU defense plays much better, Texas has every advantage except an experienced QB.
Having watched and listened to him for years, his tone and comments seemed to indicate to me that he would have picked Texas.
And don't get too obnoxious, I did that last year and it bit me.
That is the big equalizer though. Texas would be in much better shape if this game were later in the season.
In this game the UT defense is the key to the game - if it can keep the OSU to 3 and outs and cover up for any early game jitters by the UT offense then UT should be ok.
In the exact same way, the UGA defense is the key to the UGA-USC game.
It would certainly help both UT and UGA if their QBs were able to connect on a couple of early passes to take some men out of the box.
I believe that it both games, the game may swing on a couple of costly pics by inexperienced QBs.
There's where I think both will change, although I'm not 100% convinced that UGA will lose the game even with a couple picks...
Looks like Nebraska, to no ones surprise, is laying a shellacking down on Nicholls State, 2nd Quarter and we have alreader rotated 2nd and 3rd stringers in.
yeah....
Nebraska shouldn't be playing Nicholl's State though :)
I agree, but I think Callahan wanted to just fill a blank spot on the schedule, otherwise we could have just taken a bye like USC did. Which is better a bye or a patsy?
that depends on how hard your first game was....
meh, true. However Coz and Callahan have both essentially said they are treating these teams as warmups for USC, take that for what its worth though.
Also in other news Div II powerhouse Chadron State is whooping Div 1-AA Montana St., lol will that be funny, Div 1 gets beat by Div 1-AA which then gets beat by Div II.
Early in the year a patsy, later in the year a bye. A team with national championship hopes should never schedule a big game within the first two weeks, though the losing early is the best time to lose as it gives you time to climb back up.
The "Luckeyes" are getting another big break. Overcast skies in Austin today. High temperatures continue to be forecast downward. Kickoff will be mid to low 80s.
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