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By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog<\/strong> Well what do you know, a bit of a fall back to Earth after going 1-2 for the 2nd straight week.\u00a0 Perhaps I can blame it on my travel or I hurt my leg or my dog ate my homework.\u00a0 I am going to just ask y’all to lower your expectations.\u00a0 But seriously though,\u00a0 handicapping Washington St. is tough and so I was wrong about them vs. Stanford.\u00a0 The Cardinal can’t handle the brain that is Mike Leach.\u00a0 I bet Stanford would have sent him a denial letter when he was coming out of high school.\u00a0 Penn St. and Iowa was the only game I got right as the Hawkeye hype got bigger than the Penn St. hype for one week and I took advantage.\u00a0 I told y’all I wasn’t buying that Texas crap but I did enough to take them vs. struggling Oklahoma St. and they vomited all over me.\u00a0 That’s what I get.\u00a0 I am pressed for time this week so you will get the Twitter version of write ups on this week’s picks.<\/p>\n #14 Penn St. @ #5 Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n Why is Penn St. ranked at #14 again? I am not a buyer of Penn St. but apparently neither is Las Vegas.\u00a0 In my mind,\u00a0 I have Michigan as 10 points better than the Nittany Lions at home.\u00a0 Vegas put it at 12.5 and that’s a little too rich for me.\u00a0 I think the Wolverines have the horses to slow down the Penn St. offensive attack but I don’t know that they have enough horses to stay two touchdowns ahead.\u00a0 I think we see a good game with a late score from Michigan giving them a comfortable margin but not by 12.\u00a0 Take Michigan to win the game but Penn St. to stay closer than Vegas thinks.\u00a0 Michigan 27\u00a0 Penn St. 17<\/p>\n #6 Georgia @ #9 Kentucky\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The schedule makers could have done Kentucky a favor by making this a night game in Lexington but who would have ever thought that Kentucky would be involved in a marquee game in the SEC this late in the season.\u00a0 This is another game where I like the favorite to win but not by the prescribed point spread.\u00a0 Kentucky struggles to throw.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 they are good up front and can bang in the trenches with Georgia for an entire 60 minutes.\u00a0 Georgia’s M.O. is to punch you in the face while you also punch them in the face and at some point their punch will knock you down.\u00a0 \u00a0That’s going to be tough with Kentucky in Lexington.\u00a0 Georgia also has to be a tad bit emotionally drained after last week’s win over Florida.\u00a0 Did y’all see Kirby jumping up and down in that locker room afterwards.\u00a0 He’s still catching his breath.\u00a0 Close UGA win here.\u00a0 Georgia 21\u00a0 Kentucky 17.<\/p>\n #1 Alabama @ #3 LSU<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s absurd to have Alabama favored by two touchdowns on the road at Baton Rouge in any year.\u00a0 Well except this one.\u00a0 LSU is tough and have probably earned their current #3 ranking but I have said all season long that LSU is tailor-made for Alabama.\u00a0 LSU is a run between the tackles and run first football team.\u00a0 They don’t have a dynamic quarterback that can frustrate Alabama’s defense.\u00a0 The Crimson Tide eat pro style offenses for breakfast.\u00a0 LSU has a pro-style offense.\u00a0 LSU’s weakness on defense is their secondary.\u00a0 Ooops,\u00a0 the passing game is a strength for Alabama this year.\u00a0 Maybe LSU picks off Tua for the first time this season but I think the Tide march all over the Tigers.\u00a0 Take Alabama 34-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds Well what do you know, a bit of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[829,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-football","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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