College Football - Live Thread - Week Seven

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[MikefromOhio]

College Football – Week Seven

Week Six brought the first major upset of the year down on the plains in Auburn. Arkansas went in and physically dominated Auburn for 4 quarters en route to a shocking 27-10 victory over the Tigers. Florida followed that up by winning rather easily against LSU at the Swamp. The Buckeyes and Michigan held serve, while West Virginia had another easy game. USC was pushed again by the Huskies of Washington. This week features what was looking to be the game of the year in the SEC only last Friday night. Florida leaves the friendly confines of the Swamp to visit Auburn.

Saturday, October 14th, 2006 – 7:45 PM on ESPN

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(2) Florida (-2) at (11) Auburn

Generally the home team is given a 3 to 3.5 point advantage when the lines are put out. Given that Auburn is a home underdog by 2 points (meaning to cover the spread the Gators need to win by more than 2 points), the odds makers think that Florida is around 5 points better than Auburn. Seeing as Auburn was absolutely dominated last Saturday by Arkansas, I’d say that is a pretty good bet. One development to be aware of college football fans, Auburn was missing one of their better linebackers for the Arkansas game. His return will allow Auburn to put their best defensive lineup in the game against Chris Leak and Tim Tebow. The key is the continued good play of the Florida quarterbacks. If they continue to play mostly error free, the Gators will win easily. Being that this game is at night, at Auburn, with Auburn’s season hanging in the balance, expect the Tigers to play hard. Can Florida stand up to being #2 in the nation? We will see. What’s for sure is that this is a classic trap game for Florida.

Florida 22 – Auburn 19

Thursday October 12th, 2006 (ESPN Thursday Night Game)

(22) Virginia Tech (-3) at Boston College

This is a critical game for both teams in the weakened ACC. The winner stays in the race for the ACC championship game, while the loser is possibly out of the race altogether.

VT 24 – BC 13

Thursday October 12th, 2006 (ESPNU Thursday Night Game)

Temple at (12) Clemson (-45)

Temple is Temple. Clemson usually struggles against teams they should smoke. I think they come out focused and they MIGHT put up 70 in this game.

Clemson 67 – Temple 0

Saturday October 14th 30th 2006 (in ranking order)

(1) Ohio State (-14) at Michigan St.

Ohio State 35 – Michigan St. 17

Arizona St at (3) USC (-19.0)

USC 35 – Arizona St. 10

(4) Michigan (-6) at Penn State

Michigan 25 – Penn State 20

Syracuse at (5) West Virginia (-25)

WVU 42 – Syracuse 13

Baylor at (6) Texas (-27)

Texas 45 – Baylor 12

Cincinnati at (7) Louisville (-25)

Louisville 37 – Cincy 10

(8)Tennessee BYE

(9)Notre Dame BYE

(10) Cal (-8) at Washington St.

Cal 32 – Washington St. 20

(13) Georgia Tech BYE

Kentucky at (14) LSU (-26)

LSU 39 – Kentucky 17

(15) Iowa (-18.5) at Indiana

Iowa 45 – Indiana 13

Vanderbilt at (16) Georgia (-13.5)

Georgia 27 – Vandy 7

SE Missouri St. at (17) Arkansas (NL)

Arkansas 52 – SE Mizzou St. 7

UCLA at (18) Oregon (-8.5)

Oregon 35 – UCLA 17

(19) Missouri (-2) at Texas A&M

Mizzou 28 – Texas A&M 13

(20) Boise St. (-26.5) at New Mexico St

Boise St 48 – New Mexico St. 14

(21) Nebraska (-9) at Kansas St.

Nebraska 28 – K-State 24

Iowa St. at (23) Oklahoma (-19)

Oklahoma 34 – Iowa St. 10

(24) Rutgers at Navy (-2.5)

Navy 28 – Rutgers 22

Minnesota at (25) Wisconsin (-8)

Wisconsin 34 – Minnesota 21

BY REQUEST

New Mexico (-3) at UNLV (Mountain West Conference)

UNLV isn’t a good team and New Mexico can climb back into the MWC race with a win. They should win relatively easily.

UNM 21 – UNLV 15

(19) Missouri (-2) at Texas A&M

Missouri is on a roll. They finally beat someone of note last weekend. Texas A&M was 3 bad play calls by Bobby Ross away from being upset by Army. With another heartbreaking loss against Texas Tech, they came out listless against a mediocre Kansas team. Missouri is looking at a showdown with Nebraska coming up, but they shouldn’t overlook Texas A&M.

Mizzou 28 – Texas A&M 13

Overall:

It wasn’t a good week for the home team. My picks weren’t the best and even my normally reliable straight up picks were bad (14-7).

102-21 Straight UP
69-51-3 Against the Spread

[JLS]

Sorry that should have been Moore and Wynn are much more important to me.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

exactly!!

[dread78645]

And Mets up 2-zip over the Cards Top of the 8th ...

[MikefromOhio]

Wow Herbstriet just went OFF on that VT player celebrating during the TV timeout.

[scott says]

Well...it is a Snappy song..
Sweet Caroline! bah bah bah.....

[MikefromOhio]

LOL I don't know about you, but when Goiter Beamer seems this game tape, he's going to put a coffee mug off of the wall....

[MikefromOhio]

WOW!!!!!

Beamer Ball is dead.

BC 22

VT 3

[scott says]

Oppss...safety, the whole coffee machine is in jeopardy now....

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[MikefromOhio]

UPSET REALIZED:

BC 22

VT 3

Embarrassing game for VT.


Air Force escapes:

Air Force 24

Colorado St. 21

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I like Fowler kidding "Maybe he's just a big Neil Diamond fan"...to which Herbstreit said "Maybe he can tell that to Beamer".

Herbstreit was letting VT have it.

[MikefromOhio]

He should've.

This was an embarrassing performance for VT.

[JLS]

He sure did go off on that player. I heard this week UAL coaches had to go back to the players on the back of the plane on the way home from their UF loss and remind them they loss. The commentator, Finebaum, suggested players just don't take game as hard these days?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I agree. I enjoy seeing a commentator tell it like it is. PS - another awful game by the officials, eh?

[dread78645]

I wonder what Marcus Vick is doing these days ...

[MikefromOhio]

It's immaturity.

You see it from some teams and you don't from others.

I don't think it's epidemic, it's been going on for at least 10 years. But we are seeing in some of the traditional powers now, instead of on smaller school teams.

[MikefromOhio]

They could use him, that's for sure.

[MikefromOhio]

seemed like one.

Although while there is absolutely NO excuse for screwing up a play on replay, calling the game with a split second to make a decision and call is a hard thing to do.

The college game has gotten much faster in the past 7 years or so. The refs and officals haven't quite caught up yet.

[scott says]

Can You Blame the VT Player?

[MikefromOhio]

LOL