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

[dread78645]

And the other-other ball game:

Final
St Louis 0
NY Mets 2

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Did you hear the story about the Boston College kicker. He was in the student cheering section last year and a grad student/asst coach saw him kicking footballs on his own and recommended he try out for the team. Tonight the regular kicker was suspended so tonight this kid who was sitting in th stands last year got to kick off the opening kickoff. Go figure!

I'm feeling better about the buckeyes I think they'll win. A sexy pick this week is Penn State. People think PSU might win because Manningham is out. Just like Pittman had a good game versus PSU I think the Michigan RB will have a good game.

Go Auburn. Beat Floriduh!!!!

[LibertarianInExile]

Geez, the ACC is a mess this year.

[relictele]

Let's Goooooooooooo Mountaineers!

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to the Hokies - whoops they already got thumped!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****I think 1998 has been drubbed into OSU, and that aside from a single early possible score, that OSU will move out to a 28+ point lead before MSU breaks single digits - if they do at all.****

...and 1971 and 1972 and 1974 (yes I remember Essex Johnson running 88 yards for a TD UGHH!) and 1987.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

My upset special is Navy over Rutgers!!!!!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/scoreboard****

That's a great way to track the games...sundays too!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I thought Marcus Vick was on the Dolphins practice squad.

[dread78645]

My upset special is Navy over Rutgers!!!!!

Not much of an upset considing Navy is favorved by -2½.

[dread78645]

That's a great way to track the games...

FOXSports has something similar and updates faster, but doesn't break the score down by quarter :-/

[dread78645]

I thought Marcus Vick was on the Dolphins practice squad.

Oh yeah ... that's right.
He blew off his degree for the draft, except nobody wanted him.

[MikefromOhio]

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And now for your viewing pleasure, we have Pitt at UCF

Enjoy your Friday Night!

[Man50D]

Pitt and UCF about to kickoff?

[Man50D]

Touchdown Pitt on kickoff return!

[Man50D]

Pitt 14-0.

[MikefromOhio]

yeah I got bored with that one :)

Now I'm playing online poker :)

[Man50D]

Enjoy online poker while you can. Attached to a bill President Bush just signed today was a provision to ban online poker in the U.S.

[MikefromOhio]

It's not for money.

It's just for fun.

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Good Morning Everyone!!! Noon games should've kicked off or are in the process of doing so!!

Great day for football!!

[MikefromOhio]

Syracuse 7

West Virginia 0

1st Quarter


Wake Forest 7

NC State 0

1st Quarter