College Football - Live Thread - Week Four

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[MikefromOhio]

Week Four – College Football

Week Three was dubbed “Separation Saturday” by all of the big media outlets, but, sadly, only really three of the games lived up to the billing. Oklahoma-Oregon, Tennessee-Florida and especially LSU Auburn were the exceptions to this. As has been the norm for the past few years, a few of these games were not without their controversy and blown calls. Thankfully another week of college football is upon us. The Big Ten, Big East and Big XII conference schedules begins this week, while some of the SEC heavyweights take a week from conference competition.

As always, all rankings are from the ESPN.com Scoreboard page. The betting lines (used sorely for the basis of predictions) are from Yahoo.com. I will 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. I have a new feature this week. In each game that I do not have any confidence, or any game that I think a team could have an unexpected struggle, I will post a picture of a landmine for illustration.

GAME of the WEEK

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 – 3:30 PM on FSN (Subject to change)

(20) Arizona St. at (22) Cal (-7.5)

This happens to be a make or break game for Cal. For a team that was a sleeper pick to be in the national title game, having 2 losses coming out of September would be a major disappointment. Now for Arizona St, this is a yardstick game. They will be able to see where they stand with one of the supposed elites of the Pac-10. Look for Cal to try to stop the passing attack of ASU and look for ASU to try to hit Cal as much as possible, which is exactly what Tennessee did. The betting line just doesn’t look quite right to me. It will be closer than a TD.

Cal 33 – ASU 30

Thursday September 21st, 2006 (ESPN Thursday Night Game)

Virginia at Georgia Tech (-17)

Virginia is a major disappointment this year. Georgia Tech had a shot to beat Notre Dame and be easily in the top 15 had they done so (given that they would be 3-0 at this point).

Georgia Tech 35 – Virginia 10


Saturday September 23rd 2006 (in ranking order)

(24) Penn State at (1) Ohio State (-16.5)

Ohio State 27 – Penn State 7

Buffalo at (2) Auburn (-42)

Auburn 58 – Buffalo 3

(3) USC (-21.5) at Arizona

USC 44 – Arizona 13

(4) West Virginia (-21) at East Carolina

West Virginia 47 – ECU 16

Kentucky at (5) Florida (-24)

Florida 34 – Kentucky 7

Wisconsin at (6) Michigan (-14)

Michigan 23 – Wisconsin 13

Iowa St at (7) Texas (-24.5)

Texas 43 – Iowa St. 10

(8) Louisville (-14) at Kansas State

Louisville 38 – K-State 10

Colorado at (9) UGA (-27)

UGA 28 – Colorado 7

Tulane at (10) LSU (-36)

LSU 45 – Tulane 6

Cincinnati at (11) Virginia Tech (-26.5)

VT 38 – Cincy 8

(12) Notre Dame (-3.5) at Michigan St

Michigan St. 34 – Notre Dame 27

(14) Iowa (-21) at Illinois

Iowa 34 – Illinois 3

Marshall at (15) Tennessee (-22)

Tennessee 42 – Marshall 9

Middle Tennessee St. at (17) Oklahoma (-28.5)

Oklahoma 48 – Middle Tenn. St. 14

Rice at (18) Florida State (-30.5)

FSU 41 – Rice 7

North Carolina at (19) Clemson (-16.5)

Clemson 24 – North Carolina 7

(20) Boston College (-7) at NC State

BC 26 – NC State 6

Troy at (23) Nebraska (-23.5)

Nebraska 28 – Troy 7

Hawaii at (25) Boise State (-14.5)

Boise St. 52 – Hawaii 27

52-8 Straight UP
40-19-1 Against the Spread

[scott says]

Georgia is 27 point favorite and looks like they may get beat outright.Very surprising so far.

[Pharmboy]

Michigan has definitely taken the Badgers waaaay to lightly. After coach kicks their butts at halftime, they should pull away. This is not pretty...

[scott says]

Michigan has not started well....I hope you are right.

[catholicfreeper]

Yikes. Boy that makes the SEC look great. Colorado lost to Montana State I think

[scott says]

Colorado is up 10-0 with 2 minutes to go in the first half.
Georgia is looking horrible,dropped passes,penalties...
This could be a HUGE upset.
Georgia just missed a long FG.....wow.

[catholicfreeper]

I heard the same controversal offical that was at the Auburn/LSU game is at this one lol. I hope Georgia pulls it out. They are one my few picks that could upset Auburn

[aft_lizard]

To all interested you can watch the upset on Yahoo! Sports.

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/collegebroadcast

[scott says]

I have DirecTV with the College Football package...
I drive myself nuts flipping through all the games
But thats great to know about,thanx!
Colorado goes up 13-0, holy cow!

[Pharmboy]

Blue and Maize have awoken. Manningham is incredible, and Breaston is having his best game so far this year.

What will Mario be like as a junior?

[scott says]

UPSET ALERT
Georgia down 13-0 to Colorado in the 4th quarter

[Dog Gone]

You gotta be kidding me.

[NorCalRepub]

oh yeah.......I may be on the west coast but I know someone is Dawg is getting a bit worried......Georgia down 13- 0 to Colorado.......weren't they supposed to go 0 - 12 this year.......yikes......light the fire big guys or Ralphie is gonna stampede all over ya

[Pharmboy]

I tried to get to the yahoo link on my laptop for the Bulldogs game but it keeps crashing. Oh well...I'll have to be satisfied with the Wolverines.

[scott says]

Hard game to watch....Georia is in serious trouble. They went for it on 4th down at the CO 10 and turned it over on downs.

[Dog Gone]

I guess I'd better go check to see if I can get it on satellite. That's unbelievable.

[scott says]

Michigan scores 17 unanswered in the second half...safely covering the spread...Yeah!

[scott says]

If you have DirecTV its on channel 777.

[scott says]

Georgia scores TD- now down 13-7

[LA Woman3]

http://media.yahoo.com/broadband/m/go/col/player?key=/jp/secfb/gaf092306cbl

[NorCalRepub]

Cant get GA game on west coast.....how many minutes remaining after Bulldogs scored....and even if they pull it out, it will knock them down in the rankings anyway