This Week’s Top 25 Picks

Note:  Rankings courtesy of USA Today Coaches Poll

All Times Eastern

Lines courtesy of Bodog.com

Home team in Bold

Friday 9:00

(21)BYU -24 over Utah State
Max Hall will air it out on the shoddy Aggies D and it will get ugly.

Saturday Noon

(6)Virginia Tech -17 over Duke
The Hokies have played an impressive schedule and are kicking it into another gear.  Can’t say the same for the Dukies.

(20)Michigan +2 over Michigan State
The Wolverines are angry about last year’s game.  Rich-Rod has QB play this time around.  He also blew out Dantonio teams twice back in their Big East days.  Michigan doesn’t need the points.  They win it outright.

(17)Iowa NO LINE over Arkansas State
Well, there’s no line.  I guess that means Iowa will dominate….they did almost lose to Kurt Warner U though.

12:20

(3)Alabama -16 over Kentucky
Best defense in the country, great running game, mistake free football.  Kentucky took out Tebow and still got blown out at home.

1:00

(11)Cincinnati -29 over Miami U
Bring back the Cradle of Coaches, Ryne Robinson, Roethlisberger, the Redskins!  Anything but this!  The battle for the Victory Bell was once competitive.  These teams have gone in different directions in the last few years.

3:30

(14)Georgia -3 over (4)LSU
LSU has been squeaking by this season and UGA has dominated the last 3 in this series.  The Tiger D will keep it closer this time around but I’ll take the Dawgs at home.

(13)Penn State -7 over Illinois
Illinois has been horrible in every aspect this year.  Daryl Clark has gotten better as his career as gone on;  Juice Williams has been on a downhill slide for two years.  The Lions will shut them down and win easy.

7:00

Vanderbilt +9 over (18)Ole Miss
These teams have played close ones for ten years straight.  The Rebels will get revenge for last year but I see a close one in Nashville.

(9)Ohio State -17 over Indiana
The Hoosiers do not have a good D and their offense will actually face a D this week.

8:00

(8)Oklahoma -7 over (21)Miami
Bob Stoops is a better coach, with a better defense, and a better running game.

(19)Cal +5 over (7)USC
USC has not impressed me this year.  They lost a lot on defense, their Quarterbacks are unpolished, and Stafon Johnson is out.  The Bears will roar back after their no-show last week.

(10)TCU -28 over SMU
The pass-happy Mustangs won’t be in a barnburner this week.

(5)Boise State NO LINE over UC-Davis
Nuff said.

(15)Houston -15 over UTEP
Cougars will 2-step all over UTEP.  Case might throw for 800 in this.  Watch out Klingler…your records are not safe!

9:15

(25)Oregon -32.5 over Washington State
The Ducks slaughtered a good Cal team and have beat Wazzou by a combined 95 points the last two years.