Mississippi quarterback Bo Wallace is going to have to have a mistake-free, monster game to beat Alabama. I say it doesn't happen. My money is on Bama.
Great games in the SEC:
A&M at Miss. St
Alabama at Ole Miss
LSU at Auburn
Florida at Tennessee
Other Big games:
Nebraska at Mich St.
Oklahoma at TCU
Stanford at Notre Dame
Arizona St. at USC
I didn't think Northwestern winning was that much of an upset, although 29-6 was surprising. I'd think I'd go with Air Force 28-14 over Boise St as the upset for the week.
Great running game for sure but once A&M gets a lead, the piggies will have to throw to keep up. They haven't shown they can do that yet. They beat Tech with just 61 passing yards. The Aggies' D has a 15.8 percent sack rate on passing downs, good enough for tenth in the nation. I like the Ags in this one.
Lamar's wins have been against bad teams, especially the last two. SHSU has definitely not looked very good the last two games, but I think the Kats win this one. I would expect a close game.
Both teams playing well. Arkansas has scored a bunch of points and we know they ran all over Tech. Last year, this game was 45-33, and I would expect another shootout this year.
Some people have Kansas as the 10th best team in the conference, but I'll stick with 12th. Kansas is terrible. Even so, I wouldn't be surprised if they covered that spread.
Texas A&M may be without Speedy Noil for the foreseeable future. The WR sustained an injury to his MCL and could miss 3-5 weeks according to reports. Good thing the Ags are deep at WR, but hopefully he will be back before the Bama, Auburn, and LSU games.
K-State changed up their offensive signals at half-time because Bill Snyder said that Auburn was stealing signs. We didn't know that K-State had a special sign for "miss the FG", and "INT off of offensive player end zone tip drill", but I guess they did. Unfair advantage for Auburn.
SMU will be turning to redshirt-freshman QB Kolney Cassel (from Yakima, Wa.) against Texas A&M. Texas A&M has won five straight versus SMU with the average victory margin over the past three seasons is 35.3 points. Current spread is around 34. Looks like an A&M blowout.
So much for stability. 5 DC's in 5 years. He reportedly showed up to work under the influence of an unknown substance. Apparently, he may have caught some disease from a wild hog last Saturday that was uprooting Jones Stadium. He kept mumbling something about 7 rushing TD's.
Miami usually gets blasted when they play on the big stage. For example, Florida St 41-14, Notre Dame 41-3, K-State 52-13, etc. This year, Freshman QB up against the Nebraska defense, plus the explosive Nebraska offense adds up to big win for the Huskers.
K-State has the best chance at the upset on a home Thursday night game. LSU and Oklahoma should win if they show up. Bama and Florida State won't lose.
This week's games are worse than last week's games. At least we can watch the Texas beatdown so it's not all bad. Next week looks weak too, but we do get some SEC conference games starting up.
This has blowout written all over it unless UCLA just doesn't show up. The line at 7.5 is too low. Maybe the oddsmakers are giving home field too much credit. Especially since Texas has lost 12 times at home in the last 4 years. No home field advantage there. Heck, even Iowa St has gone to Austin and won.