College Football Picks, Week 7
Everybody Hates Shadookie
Last week’s results and YTD standings at the bottom.
Consensus Picks
Kansas State -5.5 [5] at Colorado—Lucky Day will be thrilled to know his anti-Shadeur Sanders propaganda has found an audience as none of the CFAJ Crew picked the Buffs, and five pickers (the largest consensus group of the week) picked K-State.
Missouri -27.5 [5] at UMass: I had to look this one up to make sure, why the heck is Mizzou playing at UMass?
UNLV -19.5 [3] at Utah State: This is Lockpick Jr.’s “Deadbolt Pick of the Week” and he’s in 1st place so you might want to listen.
Clemson -20.5 [4] at Wake Forest
Memphis -6.5 [2] at USF
BYU -3.5 [2] vs. Arizona
Syracuse -4.5 [4] at NC State
Minnesota -5.5 [2] at UCLA
80% Club
Tennessee -15.5 [6] vs. Florida [1]: Harold Richard is the only picker to go against the Vols this week, and IIRC, the only pick against the Vols this season from the CFAJ Crew. He’s also in last place. Is this a desperate move from a desperate man? (Or did he just read the preview post in which I also took UF to beat the spread, despite taking Tennessee in the group pool.)
Penn State -4.5 [4] at USC [1]: Most pickers took the Nittany Lions, but B. Vern Ghiz likes the Trojans here: “Penn State always starts off hot until they play a decent team and choke mid season. They’re the Kentucky of the Big 10. I think USC upsets them.”
Vanderbilt +13.5 [4] vs. Kentucky [1]: Lucky Day thinks “with the high Vandy was on after their biggest upset ever and with the fact that it is at UK means Kentucky rolls.”
Utah -4.5 [4] at Arizona State [1]
Alabama -21.5 [4] vs. South Carolina [1]
Pitt -3.5 [3] vs. Cal [1]
Split Decisions
Oklahoma +14.5 [5] vs. Texas [3]: Lockpick Jr. says “Texas is a top-5 team. Oklahoma is over-ranked. I don’t know where they are on the good scale, but they cover with ease here and lock it down.” Rod Johnson agrees, and says Texas has “the mental edge.”
Ole Miss -3.5 [4] at LSU [2]: Rod Johnson believes “this being a bigger game, Kiffin will have Ole Miss ready to perform.”
Rutgers -2.5 [2] vs. Wisconsin [1]
Oregon +4.5 [2] vs. Ohio State [2]
One-Offs
Georgia Tech -6.5 at North Carolina
Army -23.5 vs UAB
Washington +2.5 at Iowa
Notre Dame -23.5 vs. Stanford
Northern Illinois +2.5 at Bowling Green
Western Michigan -9.5 vs. Akron
Illinois -19.5 vs. Purdue
Georgia -33.5 vs. Mississippi State
Texas State -13.5 vs. Arkansas State
North Texas -6.5 at Florida Atlantic
Boise State -21.5 at Hawai’i
Week 6 Results & YTD
Bleak. That’s what week six was for the CFAJ Crew when it came to picking games. Lucky Day lived up to his name, going 7-3 to lead the week, followed by Cox Bigly at 6-4, while no one else broke .500 for the week.
The Crew is still above .500 on the season, but that grip seems tenuous at best after a couple of sub-par weeks in a row. Let’s see if this week’s slate can reverse the trend.
