So Nico over at Roll Bama Roll has set up a weekly colllege Pick 'Em game for everyone in the blogosphere. Here are the details posted on RBR:
- Nico (RBR) picks 12 games a week:
- Games involving the AP Top 10 (I think he is switching to the BlogPoll top 10)
- Alabama's game
- Game Nico chooses to get the total up to 12
I went ahead and signed up.
This is where you can go to
sign up. Rules seem fairly simple.
So here are the 12 games for this week. My picks are in bold:
- North Texas at Texas
- Northern Illinois at Ohio State
- California at Tennessee
- Marshall at West Virginia
- Hawaii at Alabama
- Southern Miss at Florida
- UAB at Oklahoma
- Washington State at Auburn
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Notre Dame at Georgia Tech (Played in Atlanta)
- Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU
- USC at Arkansas
- Florida State at Miami
Yeah, I know at least two head-scratchers in there. Here is why:
Cal at Tennessee: Cal is emerging as one of favorites of ESPN, who are anxious to shed their image of being a regional network. They are building up Cal as USC's rival the same way Michigan is rival with Ohio State. lol Lot of people around the country will be watching this game and use it as a short term (inaccurate) barometer whether Pac-10 is a legit conference. I think Cal will lose. They just announced
Longshore as the starter for this game. Longshore barely beat out Ayoub (arguably the worst QB in the Pac-10 last year). He played one insignificant game against some cupcake team last year before getting injured. Now he gets to take on a fired up Volunteer stadium at Neyland Stadium, one of the toughest venues in the game. Sure Cal will have Lynch and a solid OL, but I think Longshore may not be ready yet. While on the other side Eric Ainge will have the QB controversy behind him, and an
in experienced Cal secondary to exploit. Without Mixon (senior CB out with an ACL injury) in the Cal secondary I can see Ainge doing some of this: