Thursday, September 18, 2008

Weekend predictions

Here are some predictions for weekend games:
FAU 24, Minnesota 21: two straight seasons beating the Gophers? Sure. Minnesota is 3-0, but they haven't played anybody half as good as FAU. Wait, that doesn't sound right.
ECU 27, NC State 28: Cinderella left her slipper back in Greenville. NC State will be up for this game more than the two Virginia squads were.
Troy 20, Ohio State 24: Ohio State's offense is going to be better than it has been this season. I think Pryor will enjoy his new, expanded role. Troy is good, but it's tough for anybody to win in Columbus.
Notre Dame 17, Michigan State, 28: Jimmy Clausen, welcome back to reality. They've eased in to the season nicely, but this game will remind the Irish QB about the 58 sacks last season. No more SDSU offense, no more 5 UNFORCED fumbles by Michigan, they are playing a team not in shambles for the first time this season.
Utah 28, Air Force 23: Air Force must establish the fullback. They must run Iso's. They've got to run the ball up the middle. The ends and OLBs for Utah are just too good. Will Utah's offense play a complete game? Not likely, they always struggle against disciplined defenses. Their offense is based on misdirection and trickeration. Discipline cancels that out to some degree. Utah has too much size and speed though.
Rutgers 13, Navy 27: I'm done with analysis, just trust my scores.
Boise State 24, Oregon 28
Idaho 49, Utah State 50: or 3, 2: 1-point game
New Mexico 27, Tulsa 38
LSU 11, Auburn 8 (or some other very odd score where LSU wins by 3: 12-9?)
Georgia 42, Arizona State 24
Houston 28, CSU 31
Fresno State 27, Toledo 24
TCU 39, SMU 10
UNLV 27, Iowa State 16
Wyoming, BYU: yeah right. You'll get my analysis for this game tomorrow night/Saturday morning.

3 comments:

  1. you need to give us your record from last week. That way, we'll know if we should even bother reading your predictions.

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  2. I missed 11 games last weekend:
    UNC beat Rutgers
    Maryland beat Cal
    Duke beat Navy
    Oregon beat Purdue in double OT
    Notre Dame beat Michigan b/c Michigan fumbled 6 times (5 of them unforced)
    Air Force beat Houston in a monsoon
    Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech
    Marshall beat Memphis
    San Jose State beat San Diego State
    UNLV beat Arizona State
    and for some reason I picked Ohio State to win

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