2010 NCAA Football Week 5a

A&M over OSU at Kyle Field.
Expanded picks before Saturday's games coming later.

2010 NCAA Football Week 4

After a late switch of the Hawaii-Colorado game, I went 12-0 in the Big XII, bringing my season record to 33-3. Special thanks to Mizzou and A&M for finally waking up in the 2nd half. I thought TCU-Baylor would be close, but boy was I wrong.

For the national games, I went 4-1 with the Iowa loss to bring those picks to 9-2. Not bad.

Big XII Games:
K-State over UCF
Mizzou in another squeaker over Miami (OH)
OU big over Cincy on the road...I'm thinking half a hundred
Iowa State over UNI
Nebraska scores 70 on South Dakota State?
KU over NMSU at home by 10
Baylor over Rice on the road
Texas way over UCLA

A couple of notes on the Texas season so far. I have the Big 12 going Nebraska, OU, UT. The Cornhuskers have been the most consistent so far and OU has the higher profile victory over FSU. But, and this is a huge BUT, the Texas defense is SICK!!


National Games
Miami over Pitt
'Bama crushes Arkansas as Ryan Mallett gets picked twice and sacked five times
Stanford destroys Notre Dame as Touchdown Jesus cries as the Irish start 1-3
Penn State hands Temple (TEMPLE!) their first loss of the season
Florida over Kentucky at The Swamp
Boise over Oregon State by 27 on the Smurf Turf
TCU by 31 over SMU
LSU by 9 over WVU, the difference being the Bayou Bengals defense
Oregon only wins by 23 over Arizona State in Tempe
And the hardest to pick: South Carolina versus Auburn on The Plains. The spread is Auburn by 3 over the other USC. I just don't see it. I think that the Cocks harass Cam Newton. Sure he'll break off a couple of runs when avoiding pressure, but the D keeps him bottle up for the most part. Take the Under (O/U 46) with South Carolina over Auburn 19-13.

Some national rankings for your pleasure. My Top 5...
1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. TCU
4. Boise State
5. Nebraska

If Texas were to play TCU, whether here, there or Jerry World, I'm thinking we'd lose 27-17.

2010 NCAA Football Week 3

[Editors Note: This column originally posted Friday, but I'm changing two picks before the games start today: Arkansas over Georgia and Colorado over Hawaii].

Last week I went 10-2 for the Big 12, bringing my record to 21-3 for the year.
So what happened?
1. Kansas changed its QB from Mr. Pick
2. OU showed why its a bad idea to pick against Stoops and Co. Maybe this year he'll revive his "Big Game Bob" aura. I'm just glad UT has two more weeks after the Tech game.

In the national games, I went 5-1 with my only loss the toss-up between Michigan and Notre Dame. What an individual performance by Denard Robinson.

Here's what I think's in store this weekend:

Big XII
Southern Miss over Kansas? Who knows.
K-State over Iowa State
Nebraska over Washington
OU over Air Force; a frisky performance by Air Force, but I'm not going to make the same mistake twice
Hawaii over Colorado
TCU over Baylor
Mizzou over SDSU
A&M over FIU
And finally, Texas over Tech. I know I always feel like we're going to lose these games. We've got a young team on the road, Tech has upgraded their coaching staff, Greg Davis is still our offensive coordinator. But Tech hasn't exactly played anyone either. I just have to bleed orange on this one even though my gut says we walk out with an L.

National Games
Iowa over Arizona despite the history
Wisconsin over Arizona State
Michigan State over Notre Dame - this one will end with the winner by 4 points or less
Georgia over Arkansas - Ryan Mallett comes back to Earth
Va Tech gets off the schneid against ECU

2010 NCAA Football Week 2

Okay, so I blew the Kansas game, but no one told me that the QB's last name is Pick. Shouldn't that be an automatic no-scholarship for a signal-caller? That's a red flag, right?

Here's how my picks go this week:
Georgia Tech over Kansas
Nebraska over Idaho
Cal over Colorado (expecting Cal's usual 5-0 start before the free-fall)
Iowa over Iowa State
Texas over Wyoming
Tech over New Mexico
Baylor over Buffalo
Mizzou over McNeese State
Oklahoma State over Troy
A&M over LaTech

And the hardest game of the week:
I'm just not that sure about Oklahoma. Barely surviving against WAC bottom-feeder Utah State while giving up 24 points? FSU looked good against it's week 1 cupcake, but must travel to Norman this week. My guess: Florida State over Oklahoma.

In other news, what a whale of a weekend, or a Monster as ESPN keeps shoving down our throats. Miami-Ohio State, Notre Dame-Michigan, Florida State-Oklahoma and Penn State-Alabama. My picks for the national games: OSU over The U, 'Bama over PSU and a toss-up with ND-UM: I think I'm drinking the Brian Kelly kool-aid in this one and picking Notre Dame on the road.

I'm also going with South Carolina over Georgia, Oregon over the other UT and a nail-biter Florida versus South Florida. I'm taking Florida based on three things: 1) The Swamp, 2) overall better talent and 3) big-playability.

We'll see how I did next week.

College Football Is Back!

I've got my spreadsheet ready to go for my BCS Rankings.
This year I'm going to do predictions on Big XII games.

My guess is we open up 12-0.