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

[Ciexyz]

I root for Penn State, Pitt and WVU. Here's wishing them the best.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

The Irish are still down by 10, and Mussie and company can't stop brown-nosing Notre Dame. I expect this sort of thing from Musberger, but for Herbsteit and Davie this is pathetic.

[scott says]

MSU responds with a TD.
ND gives up 31 and its not even half time yet..good lord.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

So much for that awesome new ND defense....

[mainepatsfan]

Washington had just taken the lead and then UCLA threw an INT returned for a TD. 29-19 Huskies with six minutes left.

[scott says]

Maybe Romeo Crennel should have went to ND and Weiss to the Browns, LOL.....

[mainepatsfan]

At this point they'll be lucky to get an invite to the Alamo bowl.

[mainepatsfan]

Romeo wouldn't have had much to work with.

[scott says]

ND has no D...serious weakness. They are not going to win any "big" games with that crew.

[mainepatsfan]

Weis had better hit the recruiting trail pretty hard to build one.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Somehow, I don't think Charlie Buddha and the Golden Domer Child will go quite that low(I'm thinking Gator), because they have enough mid-majors on the schedule to win at least 7-8 games, but once MSU is finished with them tonight, they can forget about a BCS game, because I see them losing at least 1-2 more games.

[aft_lizard]

Nebraska weylays the would be giant killer Troy 56-0 almost 600yds of offense, darn third stringers.

[staytrue]

any guesses on MSU's margin of victory.

my guess is 30.

ND has no running game and no tackling.

That is bad.

[scott says]

I wish Nebraska's offense showed up last week....
Who do they play next?

[scott says]

My guess is 3 TDs...21 points or so.

[smith288]

In slow motion of slow motion, it appears the ball was in the end zone, in his control, during the spike...but his front foot was in the air and his rear foot was clearly in the field of play when he released it. Doofus.

Im a buckeye fan for one. And two, this isnt ESPN boards so leave the childish namecalling for elsehwere.

[aft_lizard]

Kansas. Revenge time for Nebraska.

[JonH]

Obviously bad planning.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Bob Davie with the understatement of the night after showing Mich. St. with over a 5-1 advantage in rushing yardage: "Michigan St. has a chance because they might be able to run the ball on Notre Dame"....

[scott says]

ND back to 10 down.
C'mon! Don't let 'em back in the game!