It's Football Time!!!!

College Football kicked off last night in a not so dramatic form. I'll tell you what though, the one thing that makes college sports what it is, is the the atmosphere. The only type of atmosphere that even comes close to a college game is an NFL playoff game...or if your watching Golden State in the playoffs. Even then I don't think they can match it. There are going to be tons of great games this year. September alone is a monster month filled with exciting matchups. And with that comes a little bit of Gambling. I'm in an pool with a bunch of the guys around the town, probably around 60-70 in all. It's very fun. I thought I'd take it a step further and pick 10 College Football and 10 Pro Games here on the blog and pick some winners. With that I'll keep track of Wins and Losses all season long. Considering there are no Pro Games until Thursday, a couple of college games will have to do.

Here's the format I'm going to use..

Philadelphia @ New York Giants + 3.5

Ok, so Philadelphia is at NY, the Giants are the home team. The home team is always going to dictate the spread. So here the Giants are getting 3.5 points. If it was -3.5, they would be giving those points. I think I'm also going to do 1 "Lock Game" for each college and NFL. These will be 2 games that are sure winners. On to this weeks picks..


1) Georgia Tech @ Notre Dame -2.5

I'm gonna go with Georgia Tech here. There are just too many questions regarding the ND offense. I'm not even sure of Charlie Weiss knows who he wants to start at QB.

Pick: Georgia Tech

2) Washington St @ Wisconsin -14.5

P.J. Hill is just too good for Washington St to handle. Coming off a 1500 yard 15 TD season as a Freshman, all signs point to another big year for this spectacular running back.

Pick: Wisconsin

3) Wake Forest @ Boston College -6.5

I think BC is going to have a great year. They are returning their star QB, Matt Ryan, who led one of the best passing offenses in the Nation last year. With the loss of Brian Toal, the defense is going to need some fresh faces to step up and be leaders. I see BC getting the nod here.

Pick: Boston College

4) East Carolina @ Virginia Tech -24.5

There is just too much to overcome here for Carolina. The emotion is going to be unreal as the Hokes storm onto the field in Blacksburg. The hokies just need to worry about covering the spread here for me.

Pick: Virginia Tech

5) Oklahoma St @ Georgia -6.5

Georgia has underachieved the last few years, putting up sub par records. Matt Stafford returns with a bunch of weapons on offense with Kregg Lumpkin and Mohammed Massoqui to name a few. They have some questions on Defense, but I think they will be alright.

Pick: Georgia

6) Missouri @ Illinois +5.5

All I'm going to say is Ron Zook.

Pick: Missouri

7) Kansas St @ Auburn -13.5

The Wildcats aren't going to know what hits them when they walk into Jordan-Hare stadium on Saturday. Even though he didn't start last year, Auburn returns Brad Lester who had a team high 9 rushing td's and 4.9 yards per carry. Auburn in a blowout.

Pick: Auburn

8) Houston @ Oregon -14.5

Derek Dixon and James Stewart come out in the Pistol formation, Dixon steps back and they run the option. Dixon cuts, pitches back to Stewart and hes at the 30...20...10...5...TD

Pick: Oregon

9) Florida State @ Clemson +3

It's another edition of the Bowden Bowl! It was bad enough that my Seminoles had to open with Miami, and since they didn't renew the contract, they are scheduling different opponents. Now, you would think Bobby Bowden would learn and open with a cupcake team, but that's certainly not the case here. However, he did finally shake up his coaching staff with the boldest moving firing his offensive coordinator(his son). FSU and Clemson both return pretty much everybody, so why is anything going to be different this year? I'm going to give my Noles' some credit since they are coming into the season after a Bowl victory last year, and the Tigers dropping 4 of their last 5 including a bowl loss to...Kentucky? OOOOOOOOOO oooo OOOOOO oooooo OOOOO dun dun dun dun dun dun

Pick: Florida State

10) Tennessee @ California -5.5

The most anticipated game of the first week of the season is no doubt the Vols vs the Bears. After getting absolutely destroyed last year at Tennessee, Cal has been licking their chops all summer long to get another crack at Phil Fulmer's squad. Speaking of Fulmer, he is 14-1 in season openers. How is Tennessee going to get plays into the game when Cal is planning to distribute 50,000 megaphones before the game to its fans. Are we kidding? I think this game is really a tossup with the spread. It could end up playing out like last year with Cal getting the quick start on Tennessee since they're are at home. I'm going to go with a 28-20 win for Cal when Nate Longshore throws a fade to DeSean Jackson to put the Bears up for good.

Pick: Cal


*Pick of the Week*

Idaho @ USC -49

Oh that's right my friends. The only thing that would have saved Idaho is Pete Carroll was buddies with Idaho's D-Coordinator. They might have eased off the pedal...if he was still there. He is now with Carroll's staff so there is no holding back. The only thing funnier about a 7 TD spread is that they are actually going to cover...easily

Pick: USC


So that does it for this week. I tried to pick some games that were going to be competitive for my regular picks. Being the first week of the season it's kind of hard to find some. Check back next week where I have my NFL Season Preview, complete with your Superbowl winner.