Eventual 2019-2020 National Champion Michigan State 24, Northwestern 6
Yes, our offense only managed 7 points, but we moved the ball. Now to put the biscuit in the basket! Eventual 2019 Heisman Trophy Winner Brian Lewerke looks to have recovered from his injuries of last year and has picked up where he left off in 2017. For better and worse. I doubt Matt Coghlin goes 0-3 on field goals again. Defensively, we can clog up anyone’s run game, and I don’t see much in the air from NU. Defensive game, but I think we can get three or four scores on the Cats.
University of California* 27, Utah 21
If I am right, by the way, that will effectively drop the PAWCP Conference from the playoffs again. I suppose that technically Wazzou can run the table, but I doubt it. Anyway, a regrouping by the Scottsdale flash, as Clay Helton trembles on the cusp of Most Fired again. Can he last until the new AD is hired? The Urban Meyer watch is on.
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Oregon 31, Stanford 14
I guess if the PAWCP has a playoff chance, it rests with Oregon running the table. Their one loss is opening night against a solid team, and the committee is pretty lenient with the early season loss – provided that is the only loss. I am not sure what has happened to Stanford, but they are looking like a shell of the team they have been under Shaw.
Old Missississippi 24, University of California* 17
Cal has not shown much offense this year, but then Missississippi lost to Memphis. I think Cal is 3 – 0 on the verge of 5 – 7. Missississippi is nothing to boast of, but they are at home.
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Wisconsin 27, Meatchicken 15
It is really hard to judge either of these teams based upon what I have seen so far. Wisky has smoked two pretty bad teams – they appear to be going back to the eat three cupcakes OOC mode that they had recently shaken off – but Meatchicken has looked lethargic offensively in its two wins. Wisky at home, and I think Jonathan Taylor Thomas will show some home improvement, pounding the ball on Meatchicken’s rebuilt defense.
THE 52, Miami of Ohio 7
The only reason for the 7 is my impression that THE’s defense takes its foot off the peddle now and then. I see nothing about Miami to think this will be close after, oh, the ten minute mark. I think OSU looks like they could be a playoff team, especially given the questions I have about PSU and Methchicken – I made a typo (Meathchicken), and am now officially changing my disparaging term for them.
Georgia 35, Our Lady of the Perpetual Tie 17
Those of you – cap, his alter ego – wanting to see the Big Whatever not make the playoffs should root for OLofPT. I think the only way a one loss Big Whatever champion loses out on the playoffs is last year’s way – an unbeaten OLofPT. I just don’t see it for them. Georgia’s running game is too Swift for OLotPT, and Georgia’s defense will keep them in check. Book it. Georgia and Alabama should both be unbeaten come December.
ClemSIN 105, Charlotte 0
Seriously? Why? I really think we need a mercy rule. Which in this case should be called maybe two minutes after kick off.
Florida 32, Tennessee 21
Florida at 9 strikes me as a result that can only come from not watching them play. The first of their three losses won’t come until they play Auburn in October, though. Tennessee’s season reminds me of the Generalissimo Franco death watch. Just a matter of time.
Auburn 24, Texas A&M 21
Three of Auburn’s last five games are LSU, Georgia and Alabama, which is a tough stretch even with Sister Clara’s Little Sisters of the Poor on God’s Conference’s annual late season cupcake weekend. I look for Derrick Brown to be buried in the Mond all day. I’ll side with Auburn’s defense.
Oklahoma State 45, Texas 41
Because Oklahoma State has a running back named Chuba, and no other reason.
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