The 'Hey, it's your money' Picks of the Week
Overall record: 15-17-6
Arkansas +15.5 Auburn
Wake +17 Clemson
Rice -2.5 Tulane
Notre Dame -29.5 Stanford (don't think i've gotten a pick right with either of these teams this season)
Baylor +5 Colorado
LSU +1.5 Florida
GT -14 Maryland
Oklahoma +4 Texas
Michigan -15.5 Mich state
Tennessee -2.5 Georgia
Point picks
Season total -1400
Going to dig myself out of the hole this week, i feel it. in fact, lets go crazy and try to do it with one pick.
1400 points LSU +1.5
NEW! Reader Pick of the Week NEW!
Ok, guys and gals, i want to see if you can do a better job than the crap I've been doing the last couple of weeks. So if you want to leave any picks in the comments section, be sure to include a guess on this one.
West Virginia (-21.5) at Mississippi State
My rambling thoughts: Mississippi State was a 33 point dog at LSU last week and covered by a point. They are excellent at stopping the run, neutralizing both Auburn and LSU on the ground this year. West Virginia QB Patrick White and RB Slaton (Can't remember his first name) are as lethal a ground attack as there is in college football. LSU has the best defense in the country, while West Virginia's will give up points on occasion. Yes, Mississippi State still managed to cover last week, but one touchdown came on a pick-six thrown by back-up QB Matt Flynn and the other came against LSU's second team defense. Even without a run game, LSU moved up and down the field on them. Russell was 18-20 with three touchdowns and 14 straight completions at one point. I've never watched a game where WVU had to throw the ball to win, but they have a couple of weapons at wideout.
So did the odds makers take all this into account when they set the spread a dozen points lower? My brain thinks this is a line the Mississippi State front 7 should be able to cover even with their horrible offense. My gut says this one is never close and WVU covers easily.
What say you?
*****
Well, this is the week I've been looking forward to/dreading since the Auburn game. Part of me is looking forward to seeing how the LSU defense coupled with a new wide-open passing attack will look against a top-5 team.
The rest of me is scared to death we'll see a replay of the Auburn gameplan and i'll have to go in my backyard and set myself on fire.
But I'm feeling optimistic. If you could put the talent level of LSU and Florida into a video game match-up and let the CPU control both teams, LSU wins it. Saturday will come down to coaching, plain and simple.
fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice? we'll see, but i think LSU rolls in this one.
24-6 Tigers
2 comments:
Hmmm...well most of my family is from Arkansas, so I was glad for the Arkansas victory over Auburn.
I watched the start of the LSU game with one of those crazy LSU fans (you know who you are...). I didn't see the much of the game, but when I checked in on him he looked like he was going to throw up or something.
bon jovi fact #237:
bon jovi does not watch tv.... the tv watches bon jovi
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