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

[MikefromOhio]

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[Dog Gone]

I'm going to the A&M game. With my son a senior there, I think it's high time I made my first (and probably last) visit to Kyle Field.

[MikefromOhio]

It's one of the fields I want to get to.

The triple decker stadium, the field and the traditions the Corps of Cadets have there are something to behold

[Dog Gone]

I understand it's loud. My wife and I aren't sitting with my son, because the students stand up the entire game. I don't know why they even installed seats on that side of the field.

Apparently the new Jumbotron screen they put on one end of the field is something to behold.

I'm looking forward to the game. Missouri is slightly favored, but this A&M team isn't predictable. Very inconsistent. Big game for them. Should give a good predictor for the rest of the season.

[lesser_satan]

[dfwgator]

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

[MikefromOhio]

yeah...

it's not as big as they one they put in there at UT, but it's huge none the less....

I JUST missed out on OSU tickets for the Minny game in a couple weeks. Darn :)

[MikefromOhio]

Did you hear them chanting "Fire Mason" during the Penn State game?

[MikefromOhio]

well it's clear sailing to the SEC Championship game at least.

Don't get ahead of yourself :)

[JLS]

Why is this a trap game for UF? Auburn beat LSU and UF is on the road. Trap games would be games like UAR at AU when AU might be looking ahead to UF.

[Gumlegs]

I fearlessly predict Notre Dame will not lose this weekend!

[dfwgator]

Florida's Strength of Schedule has taken a hit with Georgia and Auburn losing, and FSU sucking this year.

That could hurt us if USC and the winner of Michigan/Ohio State both go unbeaten.

[sean327]

Mike,
You know that I'm the biggest New Mexico homer around, but after their last 2 games I don't think they can get back in the race for a conference title. The Lobos are terrible on offense this season. They have a new system, their no 1 QB is out for the season, and they are going to start a Freshman at QB Saturday. It ain't looking good in Lobo land. You might want to put a land mine next to this one also.

[dfwgator]

I don't think last week's game has changed UF's opinion of Auburn. If anything, it makes them even more dangerous.

It boils down to can UF stop Auburn's running game. If we do that, I think UF squeaks out a win in a close, low-scoing game.

I think we'll destroy Georgia, though.

[JLS]

I am encouraged that Meyer has a good road win under his belt this year. But it is his only one at UF. So there is reason for concern.

I am not ready to look at UGa yet. It depends on who UF has at QB playing what snaps. If we waste snaps at QB with a guy who can not play, we keep opponents in games.

[Dog Gone]

it's not as big as they one they put in there at UT, but it's huge none the less....

I have no idea, but a UT guy at the office told me that their screen is one inch bigger.

It's a Texas rivalry thing, obviously. A&M should never have branded UT's longhorn 13-0, which required UT to rebrand the dumb cow BEVO.

It's gone downhill ever since.

[lepton]

1) Ohio State (-14) at Michigan St. Ohio State 35 – Michigan St. 17

So you're predicting the closest game to date for OSU, and the highest scoring for an OSU opponent all season (tied with Iowa)?

[dfwgator]

What impresses me the most about this year's team, is the ability to make adjustments (something that NEVER happened during the Zook-era), and the ability to overcome bad starts, we've trailed in every conference game this year. And we need DeShawn Wynn back in the worst way for Auburn.

But my fear is that our woeful placekicking is going to get us killed, we haven't made a FG all year.

[lesser_satan]

No, I didn't see that one. I'll be paying more attention now since the Twins season is over.