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

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

The whole ABC crew is so pro-Notre Dame it's nauseating. I'm gonna mute it for awhile and listen to some cool Jazz...

[scott says]

RightOn!--
Coltrane or Miles? ;)
I always like some Monk.....

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

George Benson. I was going to go for some Miles, but MSU is making the game interesting again by stuffing the Irish, so I don't want to get too wrapped in it because I want to hear the banshee cries from Mussie and the other Domer faithful in that booth... ;^)

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

George Benson. I was going to go for some Miles, but MSU is making the game interesting again by stuffing the Irish, so I don't want to get too wrapped in it because I want to hear the banshee cries from Mussie and the other Domer faithful in that booth... ;^)

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Sorry for the double post. Admin, if you have a chance, pleace remove it. Thanks...

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

TD MSU. This is the most entertaining game of the day by far! LOL!

[sean327]

New Mexico beats UTEP 26-13, and sends "Table Dance" Mike Price back to Hell Paso with his tail between his legs!!!!!!! Hey Price, how does that pick axe feel embedded in your backside!!!!!!!!

[staytrue]

Quinn and the ND skill players are not bad, but the rest of the team acts like they never heard of blocking and tackling.

[scott says]

I love Geore Benson. I have a huge Live bootleg collection of music. One of my favorite recordings is Benson at the Newport Jazz Festival, June 20,1980. A buddy of mine taped it and I have a cd transfer off the master cassette-
George with Chick Corea, Steve Swallow,Kenny Burell, others.
They play some standards and a lot of Benson's "hits" It is an amazing Live recording- one of my many GEMS...
Freepmail me with your address and I'll send you a copy...it really is awesome!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

FReepmail sent. Many thanks! :^)

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Oops, I forgot the zipcode, expect another quick FRnote... sorry. ;^)

[half-cajun]

In case anyone's interested, LSU won 49-7 over Tulane.

[scott says]

Yes...good for LSU. One of the few teams that actually covered the spread.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I figured the Tigers would be a little PO'd after the Auburn game...

My guess is they'll take out a lot of frustration on opponents leading up to Florida...

[scott says]

ND down by 4....4 minutes to go...damn!

[half-cajun]

Let's hope so. I was ticked because my satellite went out because we're having a lightning storm. I had to listen to the end on WWL which is not good either because I'm in Texas and the only time I can get it is at night, but it's not very good. But of the game that I did see, they looked good. Very good.

[scott says]

WTF!!!! ND scores on turnover...oh my gosh......

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I know it'll never get overturned, and I tip my hat to AU, but they got robbed at Auburn last week.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Yep, MSU played prevent-the-win offense and defense. Now, let's see what Sparty can do when it's b*lls to the wall...

[scott says]

Holy Crap...as I was saying- this ND is spectacular and will win many games, wow.....