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September 10, 2004
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A second Friday feature, which was also done on a previous weblog, my for-entertainment-purposes-only Top 5 College Football Releases. If you want the 20 game package for only $29/week, email me with your credit card number.
- Fresno State +14 at Kansas State - K St. looked like crap last week against I-AA Western Ketucky and Fresno State has that giant killer rep. Remember, Marshall won at K St. last year.
- Georgia -8 at South Carolina - Sorry Cocks. Lou Holtz has done all he could. Georgia is just way, way better than anything SC can put on the field.
- USC -24 vs. Colorado St. - CSU barely lost to CU last week, but there's a big difference between playing a bad team in your home state and playing a very, very good team in the Coliseum.
- Arkansas +11 vs. Texas - Texas will probably win, but there's far too much at stake for this to be a double-digit victory. Houston Nutt and Mack Brown hate each other, and Texas is notoriously soft.
- Nebraska -14 vs. Southern Mississippi - The homer pick of the week. Southern Miss is playing their first game of the season on the road in one of the toughest places in the country to play. Callahan has had a week to iron out bugs from last week's game.
[UPDATE]
3-2 isn't a bad way to start off. It looks like the parity promised by the scholarship limitations is really starting to take hold. An average-at-best Notre Dame beat #8 Michigan. Perennial Big 10 doormats, Indiana, won at #24 Oregon, traditionally one of the tougher road games for any team. Ohio St. needed a last second field goal to hold off Marshall in Columbus.
Let's recap:
Fresno State looked far better than I expected, or maybe K St. is just that bad. Not only did Fresno State cover, but they won outright, 45-21.
Georgia won, but only by 4, and they probably should have lost. Columbia is a tough place to play.
USC dispatched Colorado State with ease, 49-0.
Arkansas lost to Texas, 20-22, but they covered, and that's really all that matters. The Hogs had plenty of chances to win outright, but their experienced senior QB turned the ball over twice down the stretch.
Nebraska looked like crap against Southern Miss. Having your inexperienced QB throw 42 passes into the teeth of one of the more complex defenses in the nation probably isn't a very good idea, especially when your running backs are knifing through the opponent's front 7 with relative ease. Passing is fine, passing for passing's sake is silly when the ground game is working.
Posted by Half-Cocked at September 10, 2004 10:45 PM