Week 6 College Football Predictions: THE FOOTBALLPOCALYPSE

Week 6 College Football Predictions: THE FOOTBALLPOCALYPSE

Early favorites for champion

Week 5 record 5-2, Season record: 23-11

Its finally upon us. The real start of the 2014 season. Just look at this schedule. There are 6 games with top 25 teams matched up against each other, Florida vs Tennessee, NC State vs Clemson, Vandy at Georgia.....and a Texas game that we'll get to later on. Spoiler alert: this will not be a fun game for us UT fans. Anyway, FOOTBALL!



To start off here, I want to look at the SEC West:

#3 Alabama at #11 Ole Miss
#6 Texas A&M at #12 Mississippi State
#15 LSU at #5 Auburn

Jesus.

Alabama 42 - Ole Miss 24

This is the easiest game for me to call in this grouping. Alabama is somehow slightly underrated, and my #1 team in America right now. Ole Miss is ready to compete on a national level, and I think they do very well this year. But I think the Fightin' Lane Kiffins are just too much for them. Roll Tide.

Texas A&M 38 - Mississippi State 35

This is a significantly harder game for me to call. The Bulldogs snuck up on LSU in Baton Rouge last week and punched them squarely in the face. The cat is probably out of the bag on how good they are now. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Mississippi State won here. But I'm probably going to keep picking A&M to win until somebody beats them or they play Alabama, whichever comes first.

Auburn 40 - LSU 34

Wildcard game here. Auburn has looked shaky this season, but they got a tuneup against Louisiana Tech last week. Meanwhile LSU has been schizophrenic. They were down big against a good Wisconsin team, came back to win that game, stomped the other three terrible teams on their schedule, and were absolutely owned for 3 and a half quarters against Mississippi State at home before almost pulling off the comeback on a hail mary. They're starting a new qb here who's had success recently, but this game could really go either way. My prediction? Tigers win.  

Notre Dame 30 - Stanford 24

I can't believe I'm doing this, but Notre Dame has looked pretty solid and Stanford is seriously underperforming this season. This is in no way an endorsement of anything that Notre Dame stands for in the football world. Or any other kind of world, really. But yeah, Notre Dame over a lousy Stanford team. MOVING ON!

Michigan State 27 - Nebraska 17

Sigh. Here's your Big 10 game for the week. Blah blah blah, strong defense. Yada yada, power running game. This conference has all the complaints people leveled against the SEC 10 years ago and none of the national championships, warm weather, or barbecue. Still holding out hope this conference gets renamed to the Meh 14. 

East Carolina 65 - SMU 0

I think this game might have the biggest point spread all year. The line on this game is somehow only 40 points. East Carolina might have that by halftime. SMU is really just amazingly bad. This a great game to watch if you want to see how NOT to play football. If you are somehow connected to SMU, let me know if there's anything I can do to make you feel better. I know this is a tough time for you.

Texas Football

You did this. You.

Oh God, please let this game get rained out. Or have the entire Baylor team get convicted of cocaine trafficking on Friday afternoon. I don't want to have to try and explain to everyone why it's really ok that we lost by 30 to the Bears on Monday. I just don't have the inner strength to carry that weight. 

Well, here goes some actual analysis. The Bears do a lot of football things really well, and we do most of those things not quite as well as them. Running the ball, passing the ball, zone reads, blocking, special teams, all of that goes to Baylor in this matchup. Our defense is going to get a few stops early, maybe even keep it within 10 points at halftime. But our 3 and outs are going to put the defense in a pretty tough spot. Sometime around 8 minutes left in the 3rd quarter we'll probably all stop watching and either drink heavily, or if it's really bad, take up heroin. Who knows....In any event, don't dwell on this game too much. Just keep whispering "Next year" to yourselves in between sobbing and whimpering while curled up in the fetal position on your couch.

Baylor 48 - Texas 10