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

[Man50D]

Hmmm...interesting.Give us your top five.

OK. Keep in mind games are still being played.

1. Florida
2.Michigan
3.USC
4.Ohio State
5.Clemson

The Oregon/California winner may move into the top five.

[aft_lizard]

Umm, are we talking about that, or can we talk about the here and now? Does somehow talking abut all of these other mistakes somehow ease your conscious? Does it somehow make it a-ok for it to be because "oh geez well in 1997 Nebraska got a lucky call, so ummm since they can get one why don't we!"

Give it a break.

[Jrabbit]

Tech scores! Now it's 24-14.

[aft_lizard]

TTech making a game of it now, 24-14 Mizzou still up.

[Pharmboy]

Reasonable...but I would rate OSU and Mich ahead of the Gators only because the Gators have struggled at times. OSU and Mich have always been in command. But, there are more games to play.

[Dog Gone]

I agree with you. Are you a Texas fan? If so, you must be happy today.

If I'm a fan of a Texas team, it's A&M. My son is a senior there.

My wife and I are going to go up there to watch their game next week against Missouri. We've never been there to see a game, and I think we have to experience one game at Kyle Field before he graduates this spring.

[SoCal Pubbie]

My wife's ex boss, now her business partner (in a sense, she took over his store and now pays him licensing fees) is in Texas, and he's an A & M fan, I believe.

[Dog Gone]

t there was confusion about when exactly he was blowing the whistle

Yeah, I guess ears don't work.

Give it up.

[aft_lizard]

Ugggh looks like Nebraskas D is AWOL again, its 7-7 now.

[dread78645]

Bad news for the spread ...

Duke up 14-10 over Alabama at the half.

[aft_lizard]

14-7 Nebraska now, come on Blackshirts!

[daybreakcoming]

Yep, congrats to the Gators. They pulled it together today. LSU will pull it together for Kentucky next week.
Just nothing like SEC football - win or lose.

[aft_lizard]

Mizzou 24-TT-21 its a game in Lubbock.

[Rte66]

I didn't see the controversial call, thank goodness. I was off doing something else. I get too upset during the TX game and have asthma, so I have to pace myself.

We had 5 turnovers - 3 lost fumbles and 2 interceptions. Also, 11 penalties for 72 yards. Don't know why we played so poorly, other than my jinxing them, lol. We get wired for this game, but so do they.

I truly hadn't been too worried and was going about my business of pretending to not pay attention to the game - one minute it was 10-7, us - the next minute it was 14-10 them.

I had been playing around on a Jimmy Buffett thread here on FR to keep my mind off of it. That must be when the tide turned, during that short period of time - it was about 2-3 minutes.

*oh well* Win some, lose some. After 50+ years as a diehard Sooner fan who bleeds crimson, I tend to go with the flow. Thanks for the kind words.

South FL? We played them 4 years ago - when Lee Roy came back and we beat his team pretty well, IIRC. Thompson's first playing time as QB.

[CFC__VRWC]

More bad spread news - Tennessee just closed to 24-14 against Georgia. Just hit halftime.

[CFC__VRWC]

Either of you watching Tennessee-Georgia? Georgia just ran all over UT in the first half, though the Vols managed to close to 24-14 before the half.

[aft_lizard]

Mizzou 31-tt-21

[daybreakcoming]

Who's carrying that game?

[CFC__VRWC]

ESPN

[quantim]

There is no excuse for not being ready to snap the ball after a minute wait.

True, Michigan got a freebee TD against MSU (not like they needed it) when the receiver jumped so high and was knocked out of bounds without ever touching the end zone.

They had the field goal kicked in some 23 seconds.