Ranks according to AP poll:
#13 Mississippi State at #1 Alabama
#10 Southern California at #34 Arizona
#3 Florida vs #12 Georgia
#15 Texas Tech at #4 Kansas State
#20 Michigan at #30 Nebraska
#5 Notre Dame at #8 Oklahoma
#9 Ohio State at #31 State Penn
2 Big10 matchups and 5 National Matchups that will make it a fun, educational football weekend.
Bama, USC, Georgia, KSU, Michigan, Okalahoma, PSU
Those who stay will be CHAMPIONS!
~Bo Schembechler
Bama - Miss. St. always plays them tough for like a half and you think theyll pull it off but they never do
USC - when is the last time DickRod beat a top 10 team?
UGA - think this is the only signature win of the Aaron Murray era
KSU - another showcase for front runner Optimus Klein
Nebraska - this game is Pelini's job IMHO and NCAA approves new rule that lets Martinez skip footballs like stones for completions which confuses Fred Flinstone and Co.
Oklahoma - tough to win in Norman plus ND hasnt faced a team with a decent QB that can actually complete a forward pass yet Landry Jones>>>Detard
tOSU - the real Pork McGloin hasnt showed up in a few weeks. Pro style teams do not scare me as much with our D plus Pork puts too much Moxie powder in his coffee and moxies himself out of playing above his talent level like the last few weeks. Other than Mauti name me another starter on that D that struggles with spread teams also forgot to mention they lost to OU and even worse UVA
@spooner Pro style teams don't scare you? Teams with QBs that can effectively throw bubble screens that average like, 10 yards, and a shifty RB who can occasionally break away and hurt you? Sounds almost exactly like the team that almost took our lunch money on saturday
Bama rolls at home. Miss St. hasn't played anybody.
USC continues to improve, and smacks down dick-rod. Zona will score though, so expect a score around 42-28.
Florida wins. UGA is inconsistent this year.
Kind of think that Texas Tech may pull off the upset. Seems like a game that k-state may sleep walk through. Closer than the experts think, but k-state pulls off 4th quarter herioics to win.
Nebraska wins at home. Michigan's offense will struggle, as it has in multiple games this year. This game is huge, as the winner will most likely take on wisky in the championship game.
Okla/ND will be a battle royale. I'll take Okla at home, because I think ND won't score enough to win. I'll say Okla wins 21-17 in a great game.
tOSU wins by 7-10 points. I agree about the pro-style, and think that we will force some turnovers.
Looking to another great week in college football.
@Buck-I.8 no they dont they are more similar to MSU than they are Purdue unless I missed something over the years but Purdue is a spread team that uses quick screens and short passes to setup their running game. Also since when is PSU in shotgun 98% of the time like Purdue spread out with 4-5 wide with McGloin at the helm? Does PSU now run QB sweeps like Purdue did when Henry came in? As for shifty RB he is now in California Belton is a good player maybe but not the type of player that scares me at least not as much as Bell did for the MSU game.
@oregonian
Michigan doesn't have it the bag, by any means, but I'm curious why you think Michigan's offense will struggle vs the same team OSU put up 63 against. Michigan's offense struggled against Bama, MSU, and ND (#1, #5, and #6 in total defense and #1, #11, and #2 in scoring defense).
Those who stay will be CHAMPIONS!
~Bo Schembechler
Bama (defensive battle and Alabama is at home), Georgia (something weird always happens here and Georgia has a better offense than FLA has faced recently), KSU (Colin Klein is a beast and their defense is real good fundamentally), Oklahoma (ND has no offense and Okla. defense is underrated), OSU, USC (best offense USC has faced but Arizona cannot stop anyone and USC should get a couple stops), Nebby (Denard is not as good as braxton and we had our hands full...plus burkhead should be back and he makes their offense go along with martinez)
Alabama over Mississippi State. If Miss St. can come within 2 TDs, then they may be pretty good. If they get blasted, then their start was just a result of a weak schedule. I like Bama 34-13.
USC over Arizona. Closer than you may think. USC 38-28.
Florida over Georgia. Not as close as you may think. Florida killed the team that killed Georgia a few weeks ago. Florida wins 44-21.
Kansas State over Texas Tech. 31-20.
Nebraska over TSUN. Night game in Lincoln. I'll go Nebraska 35-34. Best game of the weekend.
Oklahoma over Notre Dame. Notre Dame's offense catches up with them. OU 24-14.
Ohio State over State Penn. 28-20.
Class of 2010.
@Hail Fair point, especially about the quality of defenses they have faced. Michigan will score, I just think that they may turn the ball over. Lincoln isn't an easy place to play, though it should be a great game.