College Football Live Thread - Weekend Nine

Sportsline.com Scoreboard ^ | Thursday 26th of October to Sunday 29th of October 2006

[MikefromOhio]

Weekend Eight was the weekend of near-misses and close calls. Texas, Cal and Notre Dame all escaped their games with wins. Texas won on a last second field goal in Lincoln against Nebraska, while ND drove 80 yards for a winning TD pass from Brady Quinn. Cal, however, had to go to overtime to defeat a steadily improving Washington team. It was business as usual for most of the top 5, with West Virginia, Auburn, Michigan and Ohio State all rolling to relatively easy wins. Unfortunately ND’s narrow win and subsequent drop in the polls prompted whining from Charlie Weis, which is rebutted by ESPN columnist DJ Gallo here. Needless to say, putting Florida and Tennessee aren’t the biggest transgressions this past weekend. Having to come back against a mid-tier Pac10 team, with their backup Quarterback at the helm, at home, late in the 4th quarter, IS a problem for ND.

This week’s match up of the week pits Georgia and Florida in the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party”. This is a fun game every year to watch.

Saturday, October 28th, 2006 – 3:30 PM on CBS

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Georgia at (9) Florida (-13.5)

The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party pits Georgia against Florida. Generally this game is played in Jacksonville. Florida has all of the advantages on paper, but more than one good team on either side has been upset here before. Georgia could get back into SEC contention with a win here while Florida needs a win to hold serve to get to the SEC championship game. In the end, I think Georgia’s lack of offense will hold them back from winning this game. They will need points on every possession and the Florida defense is too good to allow that.

Florida 24 – Georgia 14

Thursday October 26th, 2006 (ESPN Thursday Night Game)

(10) Clemson (-4.5) at Virginia Tech

Clemson has a chance to take absolute and total control of the ACC with a win. This has been the type of game that Clemson has lost in the past. After winning a game that many thought they wouldn’t, they have a history of laying an egg the next week. Not this year.

Clemson 32 – Virginia Tech 24

Friday October 27th, 2006 (ESPN2 Friday Night Game)

UTEP at Tulsa (-14)

Tulsa has played one decent team (BYU) and lost. Look for Tulsa to roll over UTEP, although this game should be interesting for a while.

Tulsa 42 – UTEP 24

Saturday October 21st 2006 (in ranking order)

Minnesota at (1) Ohio State (-27)

Ohio State 38 – Minnesota 3

Northwestern at (2) Michigan (-30)

Michigan 45 – Northwestern 10

(3) USC (-10.5) at Oregon State

USC 37 – Oregon St. 13

(4) West Virginia BYE

(5) Texas (-10.5) at Texas Tech

Texas 34 – Texas Tech 20

(6) Louisville BYE

(7) Auburn (-19) at Mississippi

Auburn 38 – Mississippi 13

(8) Tennessee (-3.5) at South Carolina

Tennessee 28 – South Carolina 20

(11) Notre Dame (-13) at Navy

ND 38 – Navy 17

(12) Cal BYE

Louisiana Monroe at (13) Arkansas (NL)

Arkansas 49 – LA Monroe 6

(14) LSU BYE

(15) Boise St BYE

Illinois at (17) Wisconsin (-21.5)

Wisconsin 52 – Illinois 13

Buffalo at (18) Boston College (-35)

BC 48 – Buffalo 0

(19) Oklahoma at (23) Missouri (-2)

Mizzou 24 – Oklahoma 17

Oklahoma St. at (20) Nebraska (-5.5)

Oklahoma St. 28 – Nebraska 27

Miami (FL) at (21) Georgia Tech (-5)

Georgia Tech 32 – Miami 16

Baylor at (22) Texas A&M (-4.5)

Baylor 37 – Texas A&M 24

(24) Wake Forest (-8.5) at North Carolina

Wake 34 – North Carolina 10

Portland St. at (25) Oregon (NL)

BY REQUEST (FReepmail me to have your team included)

New Mexico at Colorado St. (-6.5) – Saturday, October 28th (Mountain West Conference)

Every time I pick against New Mexico, they win, and every time I pick them, they lose. I don’t know anymore.

Colorado St. 28 – New Mexico 17

Baylor at (22) Texas A&M (-4.5)

A&M needs to play better defense against Baylor than they did against OK St. Baylor can score in bunches. If it can ever figure out the defense thing, they could be a dangerous team.

Baylor 37 – Texas A&M 24

Sunday October 29th, 2006 (ESPN Sunday Night Game) UCONN at (19) Rutgers (-19)

As UCONN proved last week against West Virginia, it has a problem stopping the run. Ray Rice should get close to 200 yards in this one.

Rutgers 35 – UCONN 10

[MikefromOhio]

screw him :)

I used Red River Shootout as well earlier this year :)

[Dog Gone]

that's just to sort out the epileptics amongst us :)

The flopping around I'm doing is just my Michael J. Fox impersonation, not epilepsy, I swear!

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[MikefromOhio]

We have our first UPSET of the weekend:

VT 24

Clemson 7

[catholicfreeper]

Speaking For LSU we are well pleased(sneaking back into top 10 lol) I am sure Boise St is also happy

[Man50D]

GT beat Virginia Tech soundly, BC beat Tech soundly, BC beat Clemson by a point, Clemson destroyed Georgia Tech and now Virginia Tech is beating Clemson....

Why does that remind of the game Clue? I think the mascot did it with the football in the end zone!

[groanup]

Huh? Was that a final score? Thanks for the ping, btw.

[Lakeshark]

The poor ACC......how confusing will this get by the end? Will their champion lost to Boise State?

Gonna wade in here with the first 3 picks.

Ohio State 31 - Minn 10

Michigan 28 - NW 6

USC 30 - Ore St 13

[Lakeshark]

Duhhh.......Lost=lose

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Hey Mike...I have an interesting situation here in the 6th congressional district of GA. It appears that the republican congressman seeking re-election is a Univ of Michigan grad and the democrat attended Ohio State Univ. Could not believe that when I saw it. LOL!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I'm picking Virginia Tech to win. LOL!!!!

[cleveland gop]

Others await too. I just don't know where yet!!!!!Picking games AGAINST the spread require luck, more so than knowledge, I think. You just never know what will happen.
God I wish I could be in C-Bus Saturday to see Jack dot the I!!!!!I think another red sweater vest(makes a GREAT holiday gift doesn't it!!!!!!)is most definitely in order, no????

[mainepatsfan]

This makes the BC-WF game all the more important.

[MikefromOhio]

I don't think Minny will score 10....

There's no way that crappy defense at Northwestern holds Michigan under 40

the USC prediction looks good from here :)

[MikefromOhio]

I think so :)

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

[Boston Blackie]

Being a die-hard Irishman, I will have to say that Charlie Weiss is a legend in the Media's mind (Notre Dame has only beaten one ranked opponent this year, and will probably remain that way).

Is this the year Navy ends that crazy losing streak against ND?

[NittanyLion]

Hey Mike...I have an interesting situation here in the 6th congressional district of GA. It appears that the republican congressman seeking re-election is a Univ of Michigan grad and the democrat attended Ohio State Univ. Could not believe that when I saw it. LOL!

If the third party candidate is a Penn Stater, I recommend you vote for that person...

[catholicfreeper]

LOL Found this. South Park and the SEC

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

HeY ES, check it out...LOL