| Daily Blog • September 13th |
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In the past several years, I have given you my category picks for every game involving an FBS team. This year I am going to give you my category picks that include just the Top 5 teams as you need to become a Inside the Pressbox subscriber to get all of my picks for not only the games involving the Top 25 teams but also any FBS vs FBS game.
In these picks, I list the projected scores from my computer’s forecast. Another column shows you the computers yardage forecast for each game. I think it will be interesting to see who the computer picks to win the yardage battle and see if they win the game. In my College Football magazine I have the plus and minus ratings. I update them weekly and then factor in the home edge and I will show you who the Plus Minus ratings forecast. I will also list who Vegas has favored to win each week and we can see how they do picking the actual winners of games. There is also a WEEKLY POLL, which you can enter for free each week. What I will do is on Friday morning I will tabulate the vote on each game and list who the fans are picking to win the games.
Listed below are each of these category picks for this week.
| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH |
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| 12:00 PM |
No. 5 Stanford at Army |
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38-14 |
39-4 |
507-225 |
99% |
28.0 |
31.22 |
by 28.5 |
| 12:00 PM |
No. 7 Louisville at Kentucky |
Louisville |
Louisville |
Louisville |
Louisville |
Louisville |
Louisville |
Louisville |
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37-20 |
37-18 |
446-389 |
97% |
14.5 |
3.25 |
by 14.5 |
| 12:00 PM |
Akron at No. 11 Michigan |
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Tulsa at No. 14 Oklahoma |
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| 12:00 PM |
No. 16 UCLA at No. 23 Nebraska |
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| 12:00 PM |
Bowling Green at Indiana |
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| 12:00 PM |
Virginia Tech at East Carolina |
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| 12:00 PM |
Georgia State at West Virginia |
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| 12:21 PM |
Southern Miss at Arkansas |
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| 12:30 PM |
Louisiana-Monroe at Wake Forest |
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| 12:30 PM |
New Mexico at Pittsburgh |
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| 1:00 PM |
Eastern Michigan at Rutgers |
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| 2:00 PM |
Fresno State at Colorado |
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| 3:00 PM |
Boston College at USC |
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| 3:30 PM |
No. 1 Bama at No. 6 Texas A&M |
Bama |
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A&M |
Bama |
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34-20 |
36-35 |
446-444 |
81% |
0.75 |
6.19 |
by 7.5 |
| 3:30 PM |
Tennessee at No. 2 Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
Oregon |
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52-21 |
47-23 |
623-314 |
97% |
35.75 |
31.24 |
by 28.5 |
| 3:30 PM |
Nevada at No. 10 Florida State |
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| 3:30 PM |
Georgia Tech at Duke |
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| 4:00 PM |
Ball State at North Texas |
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| 5:00 PM |
Northern Illinois at Idaho |
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| 6:00 PM |
No. 19 Washington at Illinois |
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Iowa at Iowa State |
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UCF at Penn State |
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| 7:00 PM |
No. 4 Ohio State at California |
OSU |
OSU |
OSU |
OSU |
OSU |
OSU |
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41-20 |
41-17 |
503-332 |
95% |
26.25 |
12.86 |
by 16.5 |
| 7:00 PM |
Kent State at No. 8 LSU |
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| 7:00 PM |
Vanderbilt at No. 13 South Carolina |
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| 7:00 PM |
Mississippi State at Auburn |
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Florida Atlantic at South Florida |
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| 7:00 PM |
Massachusetts at Kansas State |
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Memphis at Middle Tennessee |
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| 7:30 PM |
WKU at South Alabama |
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| 7:30 PM |
Maryland at Connecticut |
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| 7:30 PM |
Kansas at Rice |
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| 8:00 PM |
No. 21 Notre Dame at Purdue |
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| 8:00 PM |
No. 25 Ole Miss at Texas |
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| 8:00 PM |
UTEP at New Mexico State |
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| 8:00 PM |
Marshall at Ohio |
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| 9:00 PM |
W Michigan at No. 17 N'western |
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| 10:00 PM |
Oregon State at Utah |
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| 10:00 PM |
Central Michigan at UNLV |
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| 10:30 PM |
No. 20 Wisconsin at Arizona St |
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| 10:30 PM |
UTSA at Arizona |
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