College Football - Live Thread - Week Six

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[MikefromOhio]

Week Six – College Football

Week Five was a fun week if you were a Buckeye fan. The weekend started out with Auburn getting a severe test at South Carolina in the super tough SEC. Ohio State went to Iowa and dismantled the Hawkeyes. USC was pushed by Washington State and Florida received a good push by Alabama. This week features the Red River Shootout between Texas and Oklahoma and another great match up in the SEC when LSU visits Florida in the Swamp.

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.

Saturday, October 7th, 2006 – 3:30 PM on CBS

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(9) LSU (-2) at (5) Florida

LSU and Florida will meet in the first of what should be a month of absolutely great games in the SEC. This will be the first of 3 top 10 opponents that Florida will see in a 3 week span. For LSU this is all about building momentum and staying in the SEC West race. One loss does not eliminate them from contention for the BCS Championship game. This game is at the Swamp and it will be a very LOUD game. LSU has been there and done that and that will be the difference. Florida cannot start slowly like they did against Alabama to have any shot in this one but they are also possibly having to play this game without DeShawn Winn, their starting Tailback. All of this equals an LSU win I think.

LSU 20 – Florida 14

Saturday, October 7th, 2006 – 3:30 PM on ABC



(7) Texas (-5.5) at (14) Oklahoma

In this game there is a young Quarterback for Texas, and a defense for Oklahoma looking to show that during the bye week, they were able to plug some of the holes. Being that Texas and Oklahoma both already have one loss, a loss here not only knocks one out of the National Title hunt, but also puts the loser a game back of the winner in the Big XII South. Texas has the edge in this game. They are the more experienced team, and they have the better defense. Rivalry games like this are fun to pick, because you can be so often wrong on a game by game basis. Anyway, I think Texas wins this game by a TD.

Texas 27 – Oklahoma 20

Wednesday October 4th, 2006 (ESPN2 Wednesday Night Game)

UCF at Marshall (-3.5)

This game is the battle of the cannon Fodder. UCF was killed by Florida while Marshall was a punching bag for Kansas State, Tennessee and West Virginia. This game should be relatively close with the home team getting the edge.

Marshall 27 – UCF 17

Thursday October 5th, 2006 (ESPN Thursday Night Game)

(17) Florida State (-10.5) at NC State

No way no how does NC State sneak up on Florida State. Right? RIGHT? Actually I think Florida State will make a commitment to running the ball and will win this game by 2 or 3 TDs.

FSU 33 – NC State 14

Thursday October 5th, 2006

TCU at Utah (-3)

TCU is looking to get back on track after being beaten by BYU. Utah was destroyed by Boise St. last week. This is TCU’s game to lose, they are the better team.

TCU 26 – Utah 13

Friday October 6th, 2006 (ESPN2 Friday Night Game)

(8) Louisville (-33) at Middle Tennessee St.

Louisville will annihilate Middle Tennessee. Nothing else needs to be said.

Louisville 56 - Middle TN ST 3

Saturday October 7th 30th 2006 (in ranking order)

Bowling Green at (1) Ohio State (-34.5)

Ohio State 45 – Bowling Green 7

Arkansas at (2) Auburn (-16.5)

Auburn 34 – Arkansas 10

Washington at (3) USC (-20.5)

USC 27 – Washington 13

(4) West Virginia (-26.5) at Mississippi St.

WVU 34 – Miss St. 6

Michigan State at (6) Michigan (-17)

Michigan 44 – Michigan State 20

(13)Tennessee (-2.5) at (10) UGA

Tennessee 18 - UGA 7

(11) Oregon at (16) Cal (-5.5)

Cal 34 – Oregon 24

Stanford at (12) Notre Dame (-31.5)

Notre Dame 53 – Stanford 10

Wake Forest at (15) Clemson (-16.5)

Clemson 45 – Wake Forest 19

Maryland at (18) Georgia Tech (-13.5)

Georgia Tech 35 – Maryland 10

Purdue at (19) Iowa (-11)

Iowa 33 – Purdue 24

LA Tech at (20) Boise St. (-35)

Boise St 55 – La Tech 17

(21) Virginia Tech BYE

(22) Nebraska (-7) at Iowa St.

Nebraska 24 – Iowa St. 10

(23) Missouri at Texas Tech (-4)

Missouri 30 – Texas Tech 27

(24) Rutgers BYE

(25) Boston College BYE

BY REQUEST

Wyoming (-1.5) at New Mexico (Mountain West Conference)

This game has all the makings of both a shootout OR a clunker, I’m not entirely sure. I think it’s a bit ludicrous to favor a BAD Wyoming team over an average New Mexico team when New Mexico is at home.

UNM 24 – Wyoming 20

I did a bit better with my picks this past week. I was 17-2 Straight Up and 13-5-1 Against the Spread.

88-14 Straight UP
61-38-3 Against the Spread

[quantim]

No doubt there is going to be a shake-up in the top ten after this.

[darkangel82]

TD OSU.

[catholicfreeper]

Thank God Fumble. That Florida drive was quickly starting to scare me. I hope to God our Defense adapts to this quick throwing game

[quantim]

I wish we could get this UM - MSU thing going already. Don't much care for these late Big Ten starts. There is going to be a lot of ugly shadows across Michigan Stadium by kickoff.

[CFC__VRWC]

AAARRRRRGHHH!

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Thought on Miami Fans- They need to get a life. I know they dont like Coker but the numerousempty seats in the stadium for two weeks in a row is just ridiculous. Miami fans need to know that College parity is here to stay and their supposed God Given right to be numero uno has long passed. Shame there not supporting their team more. Ok that is my rant

They didn't show up for the season opener against FSU...at home....nuts. UM has always been a mafia team; a small private school able to recruit pro caliber players year after year? C'mon.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

More on UM in a moment...

Touchdown LSU!!!!

[scott says]

Touchdown, up 7-0

[Richard Kimball]

Donna Shalala is the President of the University of Miami. That's reason enough for me to hope they lose every game.

[catholicfreeper]

I like how this lookin so far

[CFC__VRWC]

Yeah, this is looking like it's gonna be a long afternoon. :(

[scott says]

Florida looked good until that fumble. This should be a real close,tight, hard fought game.

[catholicfreeper]

Good Grief just look at that cluster arrggggggggggggggggggh

[scott says]

Um,er...LSU looked real good until that muffed punt,oh man.

[GOP_Raider]

Donna Shalala is the President of the University of Miami.

For some reason I thought she was the pres. at U of Wisconsin-Madison, or did that predate her time in the Clinton cabinet?

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Miami has always had trouble filling seats for home games. Part of the problem is the Orange Bowl, which is in one of the seedier areas of Miami, and part is the fact it's a small, private school. A third problem is the image they've cultivated over the years as a thuggish, gangsta, outlaw program. Sure, it sells jerseys and other stuff in the hood, but it doesn't put butts in the seats for games. As much as I despise Notre Dame, they have always managed to keep a reputation as a clean program(which is questionable), while Miami went for the WWE image.

[CFC__VRWC]

But Florida's doing all it can to help with the stupid penalties.

[catholicfreeper]

I wonder if good ole Donna is regretting having to put up with all those special Miami football fans

[CFC__VRWC]

Heck, even the Dolphins have trouble filling the seats in their stadium when they're good.

[scott says]

Touchdown, 7-7