College Game Day – Three Picks Week Three.  We had an alright week last week.  If you ignore the upset pick then we had a really good week.  I mean come on.  What were we thinking picking Boston College over Clemson?  It is kind of like when a coach makes some kind of strange play call.  Peoples heads explode unless it works.  Then everyone says what an amazing call it was.  In this case it was not an amazing call.   Clemson completely dominated Boston College and looked more like the team they were last season.  Got the Ohio State over Wisconsin call right.  I had this game a little closer than it turned out.  Wisconsin was in this game to start the second half.  Getting it down to a 10 – 7 game at the start of the third quarter.  Then Ohio State took over the game and Wisconsin faded.  In the Impact game of the week LSU was able to handle Auburn.  After last week I am not 8 – 4 in the College Game day picks.

 

Impact Game

Georgia Vs Florida

This game is pretty much going to decide who is going to represent the SEC East in the SEC Championship game.  Florida has been having a really nice year so far.  Their only loss coming to LSU in a pretty respectable showing.  If Florida can get by Georgia here then they should go into the SEC Championship game as a one loss team.  On the other side Georgia is a shaky looking team.  A team that was expected to compete to be in the playoff.  At this point they have a loss to a South Carolina team that no one had Georgia losing too.  After Michigan took apart Notre Dame last week.  The Georgia close win over them does not look so good anymore.  If Georgia loses this game to Florida they could end up being a three loss football team.  They have a pretty strong Auburn team coming up in two weeks.  This is really a tale of two teams headed in different directions.  Florida was supposed to be to three to four loss team and Georgia was supposed to be the team that was going to represent the SEC East in the SEC Championship game.  It really looks like those rolls have changed.

Florida 35 – Georgia 31

 

Interesting Game

SMU At Memphis

SMU has been an unexpected undefeated team.  At the start of the season no one though that the American conference would have three ranked teams.  Pretty sure that at least no one thought that SMU would be one of those ranked teams from the American.  No one had them being undefeated at this point in the season either.  SMU is such an interesting story.  On the other side Memphis was expected to be a good team.  Memphis was expected to be of of the top two teams in the American.  This is the highest that SMU has been ranked since the 80’s.  SMU is on an amazing run.   Both teams come into this game with some close games that could have went the other way.  That is the hallmark of a great season though.  Skill and luck is what it takes.  Sometimes the luck goes your way sometimes it does not.

The lone loss for Memphis game against Temple.  It was a two point game where the luck just ran out for Memphis.  SMU had their close calls against Houston and TCU.  Winning both of those games by three points.  On paper these two teams are pretty evenly matched.  Memphis has a slightly better defense.  Not sure that there will be much defense played in this game though.  Memphis was the pick to win the American West to play in the American Athletic Conference championship game.  I see them getting a step closer to that today.

Memphis 42 SMU 35

 

Upset Game

Utah At Washington

This is a game that could help push the PAC 12 to a playoff birth or could help to keep them where they are now.  On the outside looking in.  Washington’s season has been somewhat of a disappointment.  Losing a close game to Cal early in the season then losing to Stanford and Oregon but beating USC.   Utah only has one loss.  An extremely disappointing loss to USC in week four.  With only one teams left defeated in PAC 12 play no teams undefeated in over all play.  The PAC 12 needs to have a strong team on the other side to get any kind of impact with the PAC 12 championship game.  The PAC 12 is a mess and has been for the last few years.  This weekend is going to add to that mess.  Washington is going to come up big and take Utah out.

Washington 28 Utah 24