This week's games are:

Friday, October 1
1. #14 Utah at New Mexico

Saturday, October 2
2. #7 West Virginia at Virginia Tech
3. Michigan State at Iowa
4. Texas Tech at #2 Oklahoma
5. #15 Purdue at Notre Dame
6. #13 LSU at #3 Georgia
7. #4 Miami at Georgia Tech
8. Colorado at Missouri
9. #10 California at Oregon State
10. Kansas State at Texas A&M
11. #25 Arizona State at Oregon
12. #9 Auburn at #8 Tennessee -- GAME OF THE WEEK -- predict by how many points the victor will win.

You know the rules:
1. Pick the winner in each game.

2. Predict how many points the team you pick to win the designated Game of the Week will win by. This will be used for tiebreak purposes. This week it is the Auburn @ Tennessee game.

3. The first pick is needed by the kickoff of the first game -- Friday evening.

4. Picks must be submitted either via the Private Message function or E-mail. My email address is dcbucky2000@hotmail.com -- please do not post your picks here. Include your Outsports nickname with your picks.

Reminder that the first game in the contest is tomorrow's Utah @ N.M.

Received picks from:
bobby78751
Azairforce
KeyWest Guy
ATL Jock
Go Monica!
Theodoresdaddy
meric
BikeJocks
MarinerDuckBoy
pat125
bballrob
MiamiDr
MBMslJock
Ed13
GatorJamie

More picks:

Aubie in Bham
chix20chix
DeepRivers

Mine for the week are:
1. New Mexico
2. Virginia Tech
3. Iowa
4. Oklahoma
5. Purdue
6. Georgia
7. Miami
8. Missouri
9. Oregon State
10. Texas A&M
11. Oregon
12. Tennessee by 3
(and with that, I'll probably go 0-10 this week!)

maybe not 0-10 but I see some definately mistakes in your picks

and no, I'm not necessarily talking about WVU

And you get a big Thank You from me for picking Oregon

Picks now in from:

The B Man
George_vf
Hwkpride

More picks in this a.m.:

jerseyguy
MichaelMaineFan
itsplaytym

and two newbies:
auNsoccer
wilderblue

Our collective predictions for the week:

13-12
VaTech over West Virginia
Tennessee over Auburn

14-11
LSU over uga
ASU over Oregon

15-10
Purdue over Notre Dame

17-8
Missouri over Colorado

20-5
Texas A&M over K-State

21-4
Cal over O-State

23-2
Utah over New Mexico
Iowa over The Michigan State University

24-1
Oklahoma over Texas Tech

25-0
Miami over GaTech

Good luck and enjoy the games!

Well DCBucky, I guess it's just you and I on the New Mexico Lobos Band Wagon this week! Look for me on ESPN! I look like a chix20chix if you can imagine that!

The Utah-New Mexico game tonight will likely go down as the weekend's most boring game.

New Mexico was completely inept out there without its #1 running back (the Mountain West leader in rushing). They simply had no offense at all... only 74 total yards rushing and 85 yards passing. Utah would've likely lost to a decent team tonight because they didn't look much better, with three fumbles and an INT. The Mountain West looks very weak again this year.

[ October 01, 2004, 10:44 PM: Message edited by: TheOtherFSU ]

I received picks from:

PCC
Palladio
Gamecock
gmginsfo
and Purdue Fan (good luck against Notre Dame!!)

Thank you! I am a bundle of nerves right now....

America thanks you, Virginia Tech

no more "West Virginia in the Orange Bowl?" talk

[ October 02, 2004, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: DeepRivers ]

Amen Deep Rivers...no offense 'eers fans

They can still go to the Orange Bowl. I'm sure there will tickets on ebay.

Now, now, no rubbing it in on Theodoresdaddy. I am sure he is in deep mourning. wink

Me, I am going to have a toast to my hokies on the way to a nice wine buzz. Finally, after 4 years, now if they had just hit that field goal against NCST they would be ranked.

I picked LSU, wow was that a mistake. Uga looked awesome. And even though I picked Notre Dame I am thrilled with Purdue.

Auburn-Vols on now, good game so far.

Gosh Daddy Rob, I was just having some fun.

Theodoresdaddy is the only one on here who even remotely rivals me in the obnoxiousness of his team support. (and I still never forgave him for swearing that Pitt was gonna destroy my beloved Canes last year--which they obviously didn't)

Fresno State really stunk up the place tonight at Louisiana Tech.

Fresno was up 13-0 early in the game and dominating with nearly 200 yards of total offense compared to 20 for Louisiana Tech. Then Fresno's starting running back (Bryson Sumlin) went down with an injury and left the game. From there, it's been all downhill... and La. Tech scored a late TD to win 28-21.

Sumlin was the replacement for Fresno State's #1 running back -- Dwayne Wright -- who ran for over 100 yards against both Washington and Kansas State before being lost for the season himself late in the K-State game.

Without its top 2 running backs, Fresno State's season is in deep trouble. :mad: The Bulldogs find it very easy to get up for the Washingtons, UCLAs, Kansas States and Wisconsins of the world but they always have difficulty against the weaker teams on the schedule. Ugh.

It's the first time I've ever seen a school tear down the goal posts after beating Fresno State in football. I guess that means the program has come a long way but still...

[ October 02, 2004, 07:28 PM: Message edited by: TheOtherFSU ]

It wasn't on the list, but Ohio St. just went down in Evanston 33-27, but the big news.....


Mike Nugent is human after all, he missed a FG on OSU's 1st possession in OT (moot since N'western scored at TD).


So with OSU, WVU, UT, and LSU all going D-O-W-N, there will be a shakeup in the polls.


and Oregon has the hi-liter jersey tops on ... where are my sunglasses? :cool:

and that wacky WAC was host to the biggest scorefest last night with San Jose St. winning 70-63 over Rice in an offensive show that woulda awed the old time WAC-ers ... wonder if they'll score as much when they face off in basketball?

[ October 03, 2004, 06:23 AM: Message edited by: DeepRivers ]

How must that feel? Score 63 points - and LOSE.

woohoo. AU should be 6 this week. it was a really big surprise how they dominated the game. I figured if won, it would be very close. they looked impressive-bring on the giant killers LA TECH!!!!

I guess all those accolades came one year early in the Plains. I think this was the team that the preseaspm pundits were expecting LAST year. But both Auburn and Georgia showed that they had the "it" factor that they were missing last year ... the ability to win those statement games they were losing last year.

yes deep, AU is doing this year, what the should have done last. But i will games like this any year. AU seems to do better without the hype. i guess most teams succumb to the pressure of their hype. AU can't let up now. La Tech beat Fresno St. (No. 25) yesterday, so they are not patsy. AU fans will savor this win until an hour before kickoff next saturday.

This week's winner Gamecock -- who picked all 12 games correctly!! Congrats!

Here are the results:

12-0
Gamecock

10-2
Bike Jocks
GatorJamie
Go Monica!
Key West Guy
MBMslJock
MiamiDr
Palladio
The B Man

9-3
ATLJock
Aubie in Bham
auNsoccer
Azairforce
Deep Rivers
George_vikingfan
itsplaytym
jerseyguy
MarinerDuckBoy
MichaelMaineFan
pat125
PCC

8-4
Bballrob
DCBucky
Ed13
gmginsfo
Hwkpride
meric

7-5
bobby78751
Purdue Fan
wilderblue

6-6
chix20chix
theodoresdaddy

[ October 04, 2004, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: DCBucky ]

DCBucky, please recheck your list, I got 7-5 not 6-6.
My winners were:
Utah
Iowa
Oklahoma
Georgia
Miami
Cali
Texas A&M

Key West Guy--what's the 2nd place ACC bowl?

have fun in Jacksonville

Wow!....alone at the top?....I guess this proves that even a blind squirrel will find a nut occasionally.

This weeks games appear to be the toughest to pick -- by far!....so I better not get too full of myself cause I may be back at the bottom of the heap again soon.

Maybe it's a sign of good things to come, though -- just like the 'Cocks awesome performance Saturday night in Tuscaloosa -- so I'll take any success I can get as reason to celebrate.

~Joe

Still waiting on which two teams you think will beat Miami in the ACC . . . Now, leave these nice people alone and take this weak smack over to the ACC thread where it belongs.