9/15 College Football Picks

Let me start with the most important game for most of you.

Florida State over Wake Forest

This Demon Deacon team has been a pain in the neck to us Seminole fans. This team has really given us problems recently. Including their upset win last year, most of us want no part of Wake Forest. However, this year we should have too much talent for them to compete. I think their upset last year will have us focused as well. Jim Grobe does have great counters to our schemes though and as you know by now I have a tremendous for Jim Grobe. Today I think we win no problem, Jimbo has these boys focused.

Virginia Tech over Pittsburgh

Northern Illinois over Army

Miami over Bethune Cookman

 

Maryland over UCONN

Big game for Maryland with Randy Edsall facing off against his old school. Fresh off an upset win over Temple, the Terps should move to a surprising 3-0 record.

 

Auburn over LA Monroe

This game has a lot more attention after the latter team knocked off Arkansas last week. It seems unlikely that Monroe will knock off a second SEC team in a row and move Auburn to to 0-3 though.

 

Vandy over Presbyterian

Clemson over Furman

 

Alabama over Arkansas

Alabama will absolutely curbstomp Arkansas. I am calling for a huge margin of victory. We are talking 50 points maybe. Alabama is looking to make a statement and Arkansas is looking like a pile of garbage this year. John L.Smith was such a terrible coaching decision as I said on this blog at the time. That was the worst coaching hire made in an extremely long time and Arkansas will have a rough year because of it.

 

Georgia Tech over UVA

Georgia Tech has looked better this year from what I have seen. Love Mike London as a coach, but they looked pretty horrible last week.

 

Upset Special #1

Boston College over Northwestern

So not much of an upset, but Northwestern is 2-0 and coming off a huge win over Vandy. BC looks ready to go. They did lose to Miami though, so I am not super confident in this pick.

 

Louisville over UNC

Louisville looks tough. UNC doesn't. This one might not be close.

 

Penn State over Navy

Penn State looked good last week and Navy has not looked to great this year. Penn State gets their first win since 1998 in this one.

 

Upset Special #2

SMU over A&M

Coming off a hard fought loss to the Gators, SMU welcomes the Aggies. These guys want to prove they can play with the big boys and that they are back.

 

NC State over South Alabama

 

Tennessee over Florida

The Vols want to prove they are a threat again in the SEC East and this is a statement game for them.

Missouri over Arizona State

Arizona State is one of the few teams that I have not seen this season. I have seen Missouri and they looked good for most of the game against a great Georgia team. Think Missouri wins a close game today.

 

South Carolina over UAB

Miss State over Troy

Georgia over Florida Atlantic

LSU over Idaho

 

Texas over Ole Miss

The Longhorns look to prove they are legit and make a statement today against the SEC.

 

Bonus Pick: Upset Special #3

Notre Dame over Michigan State

The Fighting Irish against Sparty looks like a toss up game to me. This game definitely could go either way. It will be interesting to see how the Irish do as the competition heats up. This is the game of the day for me.

 

-Noland



Hiring John L. Smith Terrible Decision

So there once was this college in Arkansas that hired a man to coach that had signed 19 years of contracts in a year. That man ended up cheating on his wife, hiring his mistress and disgracing the Arkansas school. So what does that school do for an encore? They hire John L. Smith to replace that coach.

The same John L.Smith that has not coached a single game at Weber State. He HAS NOT coached one game. Instead Smith who was just hired left his program for Arkansas. Did you not just do this with Petrino? What are you thinking? Once again Arkansas will deserve what comes to them.

Before the apologists come, because I know they will, I realize that Arkansas is a better coaching job than Weber State. However, Weber State is John L. Smith's alma-mater. His alma mater hired him and he wouldn't even coach one game and you trust this guy after what the last guy did to you. Smith just was hired in December and when he was hired he said "I've always had a special place in my heart for Weber State." Well I guess that special place wasn't that special, huh Johnnie?

Who cares though right? The guy left a non football school for an SEC job. In my view he left his alma mater for a new job. Before you think this was a one time thing, why don't you ask Louisville how they feel about Smith and how they found out he accepted another job while he was coaching on the sideline. Way to go Arkansas, you hired a guy with no class to replace a guy with no class, he should fit right in.

-Noland