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

[lepton]

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.

[GOP_Raider]

UNLV isn’t a good team

I think about 1/3rd of the 5A High School squads in Nevada could beat UNLV. Mike Sanford didn't really have any idea what he was getting himself into when he took that job. Fortunately, no one gives a crap about UNLV football.

[aft_lizard]

I would like to disagree with you on the score of the NU-KSU game because frankly KSU's offense has sucked until the last quarter against OSU last week. They are starting 3 Freshman and 1 sophmore on the O-Line(Not to mention they have had 11 players leave the team, including the #2 rated lineman coming out of HS a couple of years ago) and two freshmen in the backfield, there QB and RB. Not to mention they lost to Baylor and struggled to beat a 1-AA team. THe only reason why this ame will be close is because Coach Callahan likes to go conservative when the Cornhuskers get a lead, otherwise look for NU to open a big lead early and for KSU to get a couple of TD's in mop up duty leaving the final score to be 35-14 for Nebraska.

[MikefromOhio]

It's happened a LOT when a team has a big game at home and immediately has to go on the road against another good team.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

You get 16 points!!

[MikefromOhio]

Nah.

If UF wins out, and one of the Big Ten schools goes undefeated, USC is the odd man out.

[MikefromOhio]

well it could also work out that starting the Freshman is exaclty what they needed...

Look at K State....

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

Mmmmm Steak....

hehe :)

[MikefromOhio]

yeah

Michigan State has this annoying knack of playing Ohio State tough.

[MikefromOhio]

I hope you're right :)

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[MikefromOhio]

well there is always a game during the week that no one gets right.

I'm trying to find out.

The Nebraska game was a bit TOO obvious to me, if you know what I mean.

[aft_lizard]

Well if Nebraska can stop a well aged and experienced O like ISU that is very similar to KSU then it shoudn't be a close game, I still believe the KU game to be a fluke on our D if thats the comparison.

[MikefromOhio]

maybe....

I've been wrong before, but we never know until they play.

that said, I'm not the only one seeing it as a close game. The line has adjusted nearly 3 points towards KState (from 11.5 to 9)

[Man50D]

The Auburn game is our season, if we win, it's clear sailing to the SEC Championship game, and an NC shot.

I have Florida ranked #1 in my own very unofficial poll and they may win the rest of their games after Auburn but I wouldn't make it sound so easy considering Florida still has to play Georgia.

[aft_lizard]

Well yeah thats because of betters so the bookies want to hedge there bets. Nebraska has been very good against the spread this year BTW.

[aft_lizard]

Except for the KU game.

[Man50D]

I fearlessly predict Notre Dame will not lose this weekend!

Careful!

[MikefromOhio]

except for one big exception

3-1 isn't bad Against the Spread.

Nicholl and Dime State doesn't count :)

[aft_lizard]

Wouldnt think of counting it.