Posted on 10/12/2006 3:30:11 PM PDT by 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, Id 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 Auburns season hanging in the balance, expect the Tigers to play hard. Can Florida stand up to being #2 in the nation? We will see. Whats for sure is that this is a classic trap game for Florida.
Florida 22 Auburn 19
(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
(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 shouldnt overlook Texas A&M.
Mizzou 28 Texas A&M 13
Overall:
It wasnt a good week for the home team. My picks werent the best and even my normally reliable straight up picks were bad (14-7).
102-21 Straight UP
69-51-3 Against the Spread
I wouldn't bet the farm on that. Oklahoma got in the title game after getting blasted by Kansas State in the Big XII title game in 2003, and let's not forget Nebraska going to the Rose Bowl(for the BcS crown, no less) after Colorado annihilated them to win the division and conference and were relegated, along with Oregon, to the Fiesta Bowl.
Glad to see thugball is back at the "U"! It seems like forever since Dennis Erickson was prowling the sidelines while his players, awaiting multi-year NFL contracts, or multi-year prison sentences, were doing their best to make college football look like a gangsta brawl in the hood. The multiple suspensions are meaningless because the Canes could start their second or third stringers and still beat Duke. Suspend them for the rest of the season, or kick them out of school, and maybe Miami could salvage a bit of it's reputation, even if it means a losing season. Of course, that'll never happen, because Donna Shalala, former X42 cabinet member, won't throw anybody overboard, unless she finds out the player or his parents are Republicans...
Because of Oklahoma (and partly at the SEC's insistence), you MUST win your conference crown to be eligible for the BCS title game.
It's out of Shalala's hands.
The ACC has suspended those players. Supposedly they are indefinite.
I didn't know that, but it's a good rule. If you aren't good enough to win your own conference, how can you argue that you're good enough to win the national title?
I'd love to see the ACC suspend them for the season, but since that would guarantee a losing season, and less TV and bowl revenue, they might fold on this.
exactly.
that's one of the few things they've gotten right in their tweaks of the BCS.
Some of the players deserve a season suspension, but some don't.
They need to go player by player.
I keep reading on the Miami boards that Miami President Donna Shala (and Former Clinton Cabinet member )was down on the field trying to restore Order. That would be a awesome pic to have and I would love to see it if she was out there pulling players off each other lol.
Has anyone seen a pic of this or is this all just some rumor lol
I honestly don't know, but this sounds Clintonian. Unless she has video proof, I'm gonna write this off along with Chelsea's recount of 9-11 that was written for her by Her Heinousness' spinmeisters...
Glad to see thugball is back at the "U"!
And now The "U" stands for "Unranked."
Larry "The Zombie" Coker is getting blamed for this, but the simple fact is Miami just isn't that good, and I honestly think that trash talk by the "U"nranked players is what got FIU so riled up in the first place. The one clown using his helmet as a weapon should be charged with assault.
"Stay here, kid, I have to go break up the riot on the field!" LOL!
Somehow I knew bringing on Shalala would mean the death of Miami's dominance in football.
LOL well let me be clear. I have seen no statements of hers saying she did that. Just you know wild accounts of supposed eyewitness on internet Fan boards lol.
I just think that would be funny to see if that happen.
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