Saturday -- Part 1 (9/8/07)

Here we go for week 2 of NCAA FB...last Sat - Mon we were 4-1 and this Sat will hopefully be even better. I will offer up a few and I believe Murdoch will post Part II soon.

My favorite game of the day (maybe month although it's early) is Virginia -17 at home against Duke. The past 4 years these two teams have played have gone like this: 2003 VA 27 - Duke 0; 2004 VA 37 - Duke 16; 2005 VA 38 - Duke 7; 2006 VA 37 - Duke 0. Last year's 37 point asskicking was at Duke and Virginia has 18 starters back from that team. VA is coming off a bad loss at Wyoming (against a very underrated WYO team) and should be looking to take it out on someone...Duke got beat by 31 at home against UConn. VA is the far superior team and will be looking to go 1-0 in ACC play. THis one is well over by half.

Virginia -17 (****)

Two other games I like are: Cal -14 at Col St and TCU +9 at Texas. Cal showed how fast and good they are in their game against Tenn last week and by all indications Tedford has made it his mission not to look past this game (b/c of the AZ game last year). Look for Cal to win this by 30.

As for TCU...they are 9-1 in their last 10 against Big 12 teams (kind of red-headed stepchild syndrome from being left out of the Big 12 when the other TX schools left) and I believe that they might just have the better team. Texas under Mack Brown has been a good/not great team (other than when Vince Young was there) and I look for them to move back into this category. TCU's defense is one of the country's best and will keep this one well within the number (if not win outright).

California -14 (**)
TCU +9 (**)

Sixth Man Selections
The sixth man loves two games this week: Missouri -6 and Baylor -6 1/2. He is the self-proclaimed "master of the Big 12" so I feel confident that these two picks will both cover with ease.

MU -6
Baylor -6 1/2