Week 3: SEC and Top 25 Predictions and Scores

[Escambia94]

Here are my predictions for this week's games. I will update with the actual scores throughout the weekend. Note that I will be at the Dallas Cowboys game so I might be late updating these results.

Update:
What a great weekend for college football! This may have been the final third Saturday in September matchup between rivals Florida and Tennessee, a game that ended with coach Josh Heupel throwing a temper tantrum by calling timeout with 7 seconds on the clock after his players had already left the field, then a brawl at the end that will likely lead to the suspension of Mazzcua for the Charlotte game. The Colorado vs CSU game was even more heated and ended in double overtime. In other games, Boston College nearly upset FSU and Alabama pooped out a win over hapless USF with its second and third string QBs.

Matchup	Prediction	Result
#1 (1) Georgia vs (33) South Carolina	36-14	24-14
#2 (3) Michigan vs (134) Bowling Green	48-14	31-6
#3 (13) FSU vs (97) BC	42-14	31-29
#4 (6) Texas vs (87) Wyoming	42-10	31-10
#5 (4) USC	bye
#6 (5) Ohio State vs (75) Western Kentucky	36-3	63-10
#7 (7) Penn State vs (53) Illinois	27-10	30-13
#8 (15) Washington vs (41) Michigan State	27-21	41-7
#9 (9) Notre Dame vs (110) Central Michigan	42-10	41-17
#10 (2) Alabama vs (126) USF	32-14	17-3
#11 (12) Tennessee vs (39) Florida	32-36	16-29
#12 (17) Utah vs (100) Weber State	48-10	31-7
#13 (14) Oregon vs (137) Hawai'i	62-3	55-10
#14 (16) LSU vs (38) Mississippi State	32-21	41-14
#15 (11) Kansas State vs (73) Missouri	14-21	27-30
#16 (19) Oregon State vs (95) San Diego State	42-3	26-9
#17 (10) Ole Miss vs (88) Georgia Tech	36-14	48-23
#18 (62) Colorado vs (122) Colorado State	32-10	43-35 2OT
#19 (8) Oklahoma vs (118) Tulsa	42-10	66-17
#20 (26) North Carolina vs (34) Minnesota	32-27	31-13
#21 (51) Duke vs (71) Northwestern	21-10	38-14
#22 (23) Miami vs (250) Bethune-Cookman	52-10	48-7
#23 (28) Washington State vs (213) Northern Colorado	35-10	64-21
#24 (27) UCLA vs NC Central	62-14	59-7
#25 (21) Iowa vs (124) Western Michigan	35-10	41-10

 

[DRU2012]

Here are my predictions for this week's games. I will update with the actual scores throughout the weekend. Note that I will be at the Dallas Cowboys game so I might be late updating these results.

Matchup	Prediction	Result
#1 (1) Georgia vs (33) South Carolina	36-14
#2 (3) Michigan vs (134) Bowling Green	48-14
#3 (13) FSU vs (97) BC	42-14
#4 (6) Texas vs (87) Wyoming	42-10
#5 (4) USC	bye
#6 (5) Ohio State vs (75) Western Kentucky	36-3
#7 (7) Penn State vs (53) Illinois	27-10
#8 (15) Washington vs (41) Michigan State	27-21
#9 (9) Notre Dame vs (110) Central Michigan	42-10
#10 (2) Alabama vs (126) USF	32-14
#11 (12) Tennessee vs (39) Florida	32-36
#12 (17) Utah vs (100) Weber State	48-10
#13 (14) Oregon vs (137) Hawai'i	62-3
#14 (16) LSU vs (38) Mississippi State	32-21
#15 (11) Kansas State vs (73) Missouri	14-21
#16 (19) Oregon State vs (95) San Diego State	42-3
#17 (10) Ole Miss vs (88) Georgia Tech	36-14
#18 (62) Colorado vs (122) Colorado State	32-10
#19 (8) Oklahoma vs (118) Tulsa	42-10
#20 (26) North Carolina vs (34) Minnesota	32-27
#21 (51) Duke vs (71) Northwestern	21-10
#22 (23) Miami vs (250) Bethune-Cookman	52-10
#23 (28) Washington State vs (213) Northern Colorado	35-10
#24 (27) UCLA vs NC Central	62-14
#25 (21) Iowa vs (124) Western Michigan	35-10

Some BOLD picks here, to be sure...
I see you have UF nipping the Vols in the Swamp.
This brings me to an idea that has more and more grown inside me as the week goes on:
I have come to believe that no matter WHAT the actual final score turns out to be, it will take a certain "creative magic", in other words something of a SURPRISE on OFFENSE in order for the current Gator program to beat Tennessee at this point in these teams' relative progress.
We just aren't quite dependably talented and across-the-board deep yet to simply and consistently dominate rival SEC teams straight up on any kind of regular basis. Not even in OUR house...and not in the context of them gunning to break what's been a long and sometimes totally baffling streak of what have often been wild late losses to us here.
No, I know how Billy WANTS to do it--with a team that is BUILT to win, strong and clean, executing a flawless plan. But at THIS point, given everything we've seen so far, I believe he and his staff need to somehow shake things up at a couple of key moments, putting some of his young playmakers in situations designed to surprise Heuppel's Defense.
Managing a coupla such moments SOMEHOW may well be our best shot at winning an otherwise closely played contest.
We haven't gotten any turnovers out of our defense thus far, and our Special TEAMS sure haven't been any kind of "difference maker" yet either--so this could be how we could get it done.

 

[Escambia94]

So far I accurately predicted one upset: Missouri 30, Kansas State 27.

 

[Escambia94]

Boston College came rather close to beating FSU. The Noles got away with a few obvious penalties. BC outgained FSU in every stat except points in the board.

 

[Escambia94]

South Carolina was on top of Georgia at the half, but the Dawgs pulled ahead rather quickly by running their plays.

 

[DRU2012]

Boston College came rather close to beating FSU. The Noles got away with a few obvious penalties. BC outgained FSU in every stat except points in the board.

South Carolina was on top of Georgia at the half, but the Dawgs pulled ahead rather quickly by running their plays.

BC SHOULD have won...Basically beat "by a hair"--made all the small mistakes that get you beat as an underdog meeting an over-rated opponent having an off-day. Hopefully this at LEAST tempers the heretofore overblown, overHEATED rhetoric pouring from the CFB broadcast commentators and online "experts"...but probably not.
Wanted to see SC(east) do the same to Georgia; they managed it for a half, but after that, "Feh!"
Maybe I started gulping Heinie's and sipping cognac a little early; the day's gameplay so far has been mostly sloppy and disappointing in both play and outcomes...I probably should have seen that coming, but given my still-growing tension with respect to OUR rivalry-renewal in the Swamp, more than an hour before kickoff I in truth find myself on the FADE.
Maybe a different approach is warranted in any event. Give in to my superstitious tendencies?
Do the one thing I NEVER do: Go ahead and take a nap, wake up WHENEVER, see how we've managed WITHOUT my attention/participation/"quantum observer status"?
In other words, I'm gonna take a nap now, awaken whenever I awaken and see where we're at, how we're DOING come that moment later this aft/evening.
("HELL YEAH, I'm nervous!")

 

[Escambia94]

What a great weekend for college football! This may have been the final third Saturday in September matchup between rivals Florida and Tennessee, a game that ended with coach Josh Heupel throwing a temper tantrum by calling timeout with 7 seconds on the clock after his players had already left the field, then a brawl at the end that will likely lead to the suspension of Mazzcua for the Charlotte game. The Colorado vs CSU game was even more heated and ended in double overtime. In other games, Boston College nearly upset FSU and Alabama pooped out a win over hapless USF with its second and third string QBs.

I correctly predicted both upsets this weekend: Florida over #11 Tennessee and Missouri over #15 Kansas State. Most of the score predictions were within a TD/PAT of the actual result.

 

[DRU2012]

What a great weekend for college football! This may have been the final third Saturday in September matchup between rivals Florida and Tennessee, a game that ended with coach Josh Heupel throwing a temper tantrum by calling timeout with 7 seconds on the clock after his players had already left the field, then a brawl at the end that will likely lead to the suspension of Mazzcua for the Charlotte game. The Colorado vs CSU game was even more heated and ended in double overtime. In other games, Boston College nearly upset FSU and Alabama pooped out a win over hapless USF with its second and third string QBs.

I correctly predicted both upsets this weekend: Florida over #11 Tennessee and Missouri over #15 Kansas State. Most of the score predictions were within a TD/PAT of the actual result.

Nicely DONE, E-- . (Hope you put a "coupla bob" on those teams?)