Fall is here! The ‘Smell of Football’ is in the air.

NCAA College Football picks for Saturday, September 26^th

 

Stanford -8 over Washington

Washington coming off a huge win, must now travel on the road to face a very underrated Stanford Cardinal.  Look for Stanford to take it to the Huskies using a potent ground game for their 8th straight cover at home.  Did you know that teams who beat USC are 2-14 against the spread in their next game?  Coach Jim Harbaugh, like his brother Baltimore Raven head coach John, are proving to be outstanding head coaches and leaders.  Both of their teams are solid and don’t really beat themselves too frequently with stupid penalties.  While U-Dub has competed well all year and is a huge improvement from recent seasons, they are due for a let down.

 

TCU +3 over Clemson

TCU, giving up just 1.5 yards per rush, will completely shut down Clemson’s ground attack while the Horned Frogs offense should have their way on the ground against the Clemson defense.  TCU has covered the spread in 18 of their last 23 games. 

 

Kansas -13 ½ over Southern Miss

Although Southern Miss has won 8 in a row, Kansas’ passing attack led by Todd Reesing should dominate this game.  Kansas is a money making machine right now as they come under valued every week.  Forget about the on-campus in-fighting about who is more popular with the ladies. The Jayhawk Football and Basketball squads had multiple altercations this past week that apparently have been brewing for years.  The hoopers will continue to pull the ladies because as they say ‘a team is a direct reflection of its’ head coach’ and while these Football Jayhawks and Head Coach ‘Slim’ Mangino have looked good on the field, ‘Slim’ actually looks like he swallowed basketball coach Bill Self whole during one of the altercations.  Yes they may have been distracted all week, but look for KU to crush Southern Miss.

 

Alabama -17 ½ over Arkansas

Alabama beat this same Arkansas team last year 49-14.  Look for more of the same today as the Alabama defense should dominate and rattle the Arkansas QB, Ryan Mallett, making his first road start.

 

Georgia -12 over Arizona State

Georgia dominated this matchup last year with the only change being that the ASU QB will be making his first road start “between the hedges”.  Not an easy task for anyone.

 

Florida State -14 ½ over South Florida

Coming off last weeks big win over BYU, Florida State looks to keep it rolling against a South Florida team who will have a new QB at the helm this week.

 

North Carolina +2 over Georgia Tech

It seems that teams are starting to catch up with Paul Johnson’s running schemes and this week they face a very fast North Carolina defense.  Butch Davis is 7-2 as a road underdog.

 

Purdue +7over Notre Dame

Purdue is all offense and no defense but Notre Dame will be missing their star wide receiver, Michael Floyd and might be without Jimmy Clausen who is hobbling with turf toe.  We expect Clausen to be ineffective which will keep this game close to the wire.

 

Oregon State -3 over Arizona

There are not too many places that are tougher to play than Corvallis especially if you are making your first road start which Nick Foles the AZ QB will be doing.  Arizona was less than stellar last week against a solid Iowa team that clearly was looking ahead to this week’s match-up at Penn State.  The Beavers has covered 9 of 10 in Corvallis under Coach Mike Riley.

 

With one eye on 6 television screens and the other eye focussed on the future, your team here at P4P will continue to solidify our research and information all day Saturday for tonight’s Penn State-Iowa game as well as preparing for a full day of NFL action tomorrow. 

Check back around 7 pm EST for our selection on tonight’s 8 pm EST kick-off between the Penn State Nitany-Lions and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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That’s all for now.  Good luck players.