College Football Picks 9/17- Part 2

There are a whole host of games I like this afternoon. I will also comment on some of the "big" games eventhough I am not making an official pick on all of them.

Top Picks

Tennessee +10 vs Florida
Mich St +6 vs ND
Northwestern -5.5 vs Army
S. Carolina/Navy over 58

Leans:

Illinois -2 vs Arizona St
Arizona +10 vs Stanford
Northwestern/Army over 54

For Fun:

Oklahoma -3.5 vs Florida St
UCLA +3.5

Writeups:

Tennessee- The Vols have been getting better and although still young are showing promise. This pick though is more a go against vs. Florida. I have not been impressed with Florida since last year and with their new coaching staff they seemed to have gotten a lot of attention that is not necessarily deserved. I think the Vols will give them all they can handle and expose some of Florida's weaknesses on offense and defense.

Michigan St- Notre Dame needs a win, an ugly win, a lucky win, anyway they can get it. Usually that leads to tight play and less risk taking. I am not sold on the Spartans as a great team but they will come into this game confident that they can win. I think ND will play well but will take few chances and the final difference for either team will be a field goal.

Northwestern- Their has been a huge line move on Army this week which is a little suspect to me. Army played a real hard game last week against SDSU and came away pretty banged up. NU had an easy game last week and comes into this game pretty healthy. NU has not played a lot of option teams over the years so that is a concern but the NU head coach has taken it as a personal challenge to get his team ready. I think NU will be able to score and will get enough stops to get the cover.

South Carolina/Army- South Carolina can easily outgun the Navy team however we all know that Navy will not quit and will continue to come at the Gamecocks no matter what the score is. I think that this combo gets the game over pretty handily.

Illinois- Time for Illinois to show something after 2 cupcake games. Arizona St had a good game against Mizzoo but was not able to close. I think that spells trouble on the road and the Illini will continue to build off  last year's success and get a close win and start to build some national respect.

Arizona- If ever there was a must win, all out effort needed in a game this is it. If Arizona does not leave it all on the field then this coaching staff is doomed. I think Stanford will win but it will be a dogfight and Zona covers the points.

Oklahoma- Not too confident in this pick but I agree with those who say Florida St is still a year away. Oklahoma is the better team and will handle the pressure in my opinion.

UCLA- Texas is still struggling enough that they will struggle on the road in this one.