College Football Week 8 (YTD 25-22)

College YTD (25-22 / 53.19% / 8.11 units)
NFL YTD (20-10 / 66.67% / 12.80 units)

I decided to include my NFL record on here as well in case anyone is interested.  Those plays have also all been posted over on the NFL forum.

Overall, it was a pretty good weekend.  I didn't bump up my percentages at all on the college front, but I did make some diet cokes given that my one 3-unit play hit and the majority of my 2-unit plays hit.  Plus, I am 5-0 thus far in the NFL for this past weekend with Monday night pending.  So, like I said, I was pleased.

No picks yet, but having watched all of the Baylor-A&M game, I came away very impressed with Robert Griffin III.  Even more so than I already was.  The guy hit 70% of his passes despite having basically no OL help for much of the game.  He single-handedly kept the Bears in the game until eventually they just ran out of gas.  I will go so far as to say that RGIII = Cam Newton on a much worse team.

Anyways, I will be back later with my picks.  Good luck to everyone this week.

He good not that good

taltapro

Teaser = really tough to say because Newton played behind such a strong offensive line compared to what RGIII has to work with.

First locked in play:

Texas A&M -20 -120 (2 units)
One thing Sherman can do is beat up on the lesser teams.  The times where he gets into trouble is when he goes up against teams that can match him from a talent perspective and he actually needs to coach and make in-game adjustments (see Arkansas for an example).  Anyways, Iowa State (especially with out Shontrell Johnson) is one of those lesser teams.  I don't care that this is a road game, I expect the Aggies to control the game on the offensive side scoring at will and also finally having a decent defensive game now that they aren't playing one of the top offenses.  I see a score around 51-21.

Im with Aggiea on this one.  RG3 would've won it all last year on Auburns team.  I would agree that they're equals.  An NFL is gonna be lucky as hell to land him

Train

tiasman

Boom  Thanks man.  I was happy with the win of course, but I have a feeling we are heading directly for the Cotton Bowl for a second straight year.  Obviously a great bowl, but still a little bit below what I was hoping for this season.  Congrats on the nice win over Maryland.

Jose

Hotrod  This is probably wishful thinking on my part, but I kind of hope he slips to wherever the Texans end up picking in the first round this year.  I just don't think Schaub is the answer for us.

Adding:

Georgia Tech +3 -120 (2 units)
In my opinion, the only reason the Yellow Jackets aren't favored is because of their game against UVA.  But, when you look at a comparision of the two teams, it is apparent that the only real advantage the Canes have is homefield, and that isn't a huge advantage for them.  The thing that really sticks out to me is that Miami is 94th against the run.  That is not a statistic that you want to see when you are going up against perhaps the best running team in the nation.  Further, the only real area where Tech has been mediocre this year is against the run themselves ranking 81st.  But, Miami is an average running team, so it is tough to say whether or not they would be able to take advantage of that.  In my opinion, the wrong team is favored.  I see this one being GT 31 - Mia 27.

ILL GIVE YOU THAT BUT CAM HAD A MUCH STRONGER ARM ... AND HE SO MUCH BIGGER AND STRONG ... CAM JUST HAS A LITTLE MORE OF THAT IT FACTOR ...BUT RG3 IS CLOSE  ... IMO

play2win

Absolut

clemezl  Looking forward to it as well

K4

Teaser  Fair enough. 

Adding:

Kansas State -11 -110 (1 unit)
I have been riding the KSU bandwagon for a few weeks now and I figure I won't get off until they finally miss covering the spread.  In the case of this one, I really believe KSU will cover this number relatively easily.  This is a rivalry game and make no mistake that if given the opportunity, Synder will try to run up the score on the Jayhawks.  The reason why I think he will be able to do it is because this Jayhawk defense might be one of the worst I have ever seen in college football.  While the KSU offense is nothing special, they should still move the ball relatively easily against the Jayhawks.  Meanwhile, they are a fairly strong unit defensively, and should have no problem slowin down KU.  At the end of the day, you have perhaps the best coached team in the Big XII going up against the worst coached team.  I like my chances in that situation.