Here’s my card for Saturday. BOL to everyone!
3* 12:00 #25 North Carolina @ #24 Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets -6½ (-110) Battle of the unbeatens here. Georgia Tech will be in front of a hometown crowd and a win may shoot them into the Top 25. They will be looking for another route and they have the offensive fire power to do it too! They gained almost 775 yards against Kansas with the majority of it on the ground. NC on the other hand did win, but they were actually outgained in total yardage in that contest. NC’s defense will probably be the toughest the Yellow Jackets have seen so far but I still can see the Jackets winning between 10 and 14 points fairly easy.
2* 12:00 San Diego State @ #21 Michigan Michigan Wolverines -9½ (-120) Michigan will have a leg up in this one as their new HC, Brady Hoke was the HC for San Diego last year and really built them up to a winning season. He will know exactly what to expect from them. On offense, both teams are somewhat similar but the Wolverines do have an advantage on the defensive side of the ball. Michigan will be keyed in big time on San Diego’s stud Ronnie Hillman so we won’t see the big numbers from him in this game. I like Michigan in the "Big House" here.
2* 12:20 Georgia @ Mississippi Georgia Bulldogs -9½ (-120) Vanderbilt beat up on Mississippi pretty good winning by 23 points. Georgia is hungry for another blowout type win to try and save some face from their first two losses. In the past, Richt has got a lead and just tried to hold onto it as he used to not believe in blowing out teams. With everybody in the world looking at him under a microscope, he will be trying to put up as many points as possible. Look for Mississippi to continue their turnover ways and for the Georgia Dawgs to capitalize on them by putting up points.
1* 12:30 Temple @ Maryland Temple Owls +8½ (-110) Maryland still has two of their Wide Receivers in Quintin McCree and Ronnie Tyler suspended for this game. Although I feel Maryland may outscore the Owls at home in this one, I do not feel they are more than a TD better than them. I understand Temple let a tight one get away from them last week but I sorta liked the way they played ball and I think they will learn from that defeat. They will practice ball control here with their running game to eat up some clock and I look for them to get their fare share of points as the Ducks defense isn’t the stoutest in the world.
2* 03:30 Western Michigan @ Illinois Western Michigan Broncos +14 (-120) Illinois still remains unbeaten but WM comes into this one with something to prove and flying high after knocking off the Chippewas last week. The Broncos put up way over 400 yards in that game and could have poured on much more but decided to ease up in the fourth quarter. Look for Carder and White to connect up often and make some big plays down field. And you can bet that they have addressed their fumbling problem from last week and will be a lot more sure handed here. Illinois only managed 240 yards last week on offense and fumbled the ball 4 times and were only 5 of 13 on their third down conversions. I’ll take the 2 TD’s here.
1* 10:15 #13 Oregon @ Arizona Arizona Wildcats +15½ (-110) Lot of distractions going on with the Ducks here, especially after being put on notice by the NC double A. No doubt Oregon has been a point scoring machine up till now and they will score here too. This is their opener of conference play though and Arizona will be wanting to make a good showing too at home. I know Arizona isn’t really in the same class as the Ducks, and I was all over Stanford last week in this similar type spot but despite what most people think, something just tells me that this one stays a little bit closer. I think over 2 TD’s is too much.
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