Saturday's Best From Las Vegas - write up

It's a great card tomorrow and here's the best of what I see;

#156 NOTRE DAME +3.5 versus #155 Oklahoma

3:30 EST GAME TIME WEATHER in South Bend – 80* mostly sunny

Oklahoma’s JR QB Blake Bell will quickly realize that he’s not playing at home versus Tulsa tomorrow! For those of you who haven’t been following the Sooner’s quarterback situation through summer camp, Freshman Trevor Knight won the starting job over Blake Bell. After posting less than impressive sub-par numbers in his first 1-3/4 game (43% completion with 4TDs & 3INTs) the freshman went down with a knee injury in the West Virginia game. Blake Bell came into that game in the 4^th QTR and then started the following week at home having success against a very weak Tulsa squad. Prior to this year, Blake has seen miniscule action throughout his career in basically 4th QTR cleanup duty with a total of 20 pass attempts with 10 completions. Oklahoma coming off a bye and traveling to ND in the Sooner's first road game of the year with an unproven, untested quarterback is the Irish recipe for disaster. To me, the key for Oklahoma will be if they can get any kind of a ground game going…I don’t see it happening in South Bend’s high energy hostile environment and the Irish will continue their ridiculous unlikely record and dominance against the Sooner’s

ND 28  Oklahoma 24

#138 MINNESOTA +2 versus #137 Iowa

3:30 EST GAME TIME WEATHER at TCF Bank Stadium – mid 60s with showers

The Golden Rodents team and home town crowd are gonna be fired up for this game tomorrow! Last year Minnesota took the exact same 4-0 record into Iowa and got man handled 31-13. Iowa’s last 2 visits into Minnesota saw them as 14.5 point chalks only to lose both of those games outright in 2010 & 2011! Iowa lost to Northern Illinois this year while turning the ball over 3 times in that game. Northern Illinois, a squad who allowed Idaho to score 35 points while winning by 10 and allowed Eastern Illinois to score 39 points while beating them by only 4 points is possibly the worst 3-0 team in the country if there even is such a thing when being unbeaten! The 12^th man and the gold plated rodents handle business and go to 5-0 tomorrow

MINNESOTA 38   Iowa 23

#142 GEORGIA #141 Lsu OVER 62

3:30 EST GAME TIME WEATHER at Sanford Stadium 78* sunny

Both offenses have explosive play makers. Power rushing opens the big plays through the air for both teams tomorrow. In their last 6 meetings the over is 5-1 here and don't expect it to be any different tomorrow.

GEORGIA 45  Lsu 43

#145 Ole Miss +14.5 versus #146 ALABAMA

6:30 EST GAME TIME WEATHER at Bryant-Denny Stadium – 75* sunny

This game very much reminds me of last year’s A&M team coming into Alabama believing that they were the better team and had zero fear while keeping Bama on their heals the entire game. The road team is 5-0 ATS (last 5) in this matchup and Ole Miss is a perfect 4-0 ATS when playing in Alabama. These kids truly believe they can and will win this game tomorrow. I expect it to be close the entire way

ALABAMA 38  Ole Miss 33

#191 Wisconsin #192 OHIO STATE OVER 56

8:00 EST GAME TIME WEATHER at Ohio Stadium 74* clear skies

This game will be full of huge scoring plays on both sides! Ohio State averages 53PPG and Wisconsin is averaging 41PPG. I don’t see either of these defenses slowing down either of these offenses….Braxton Miller has got something to prove with his game you can believe that he will be playing with incredible focus! No love loss here as I believe Urban Meyer will try and hang 60 on the Badgers and I think WI can hold serve for the most part.

OHIO STATE 48 Wisconsin 42

#150 ARIZONA STATE -4.5 versus # 149 USC   

10:00PM EST GAME TIME WEATHER at Sun Devil Stadium - 80* clear skies  

USC is 0-8 ATS in their last 8 road games. AZ St coming off a loss at Stanford is fired up and ready for this one. USC’s first game on the road won’t be pretty in Kiffen’s final year coaching the condoms. The Trojan’s anemic offense won’t be able to keep up in this one.

ARIZONA STATE 34  Usc 13