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By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog<\/strong> Well I just have not been able to shake the 1-2 bug of late.\u00a0 Three straight weeks of this disease has dropped me to 15-12 overall.\u00a0 The only team to handle their business for me last week were the embattled Buckeyes who awkwardly dominated Penn St.\u00a0 I took losses point spread wise thinking that Auburn could hang long enough vs. Georgia and that Boston College could do the same vs. Clemson.\u00a0 Both Georgia and Clemson asserted themselves as college football playoff teams.\u00a0 Let’s see if I can take some Nyquil and put this 1-2 bug to sleep this week.\u00a0 This might be the ugliest slate of games we’ve had thus far this season.\u00a0 I just wanted to point that out.<\/p>\n Cincinnati @ UCF<\/p>\n UCF has this long winning streak going and we all know it.\u00a0 We all know it because it’s impressive and because UCF keeps speaking loudly about it.\u00a0 We’ve seen this before however.\u00a0 Ever so often,\u00a0 a mid-major will put together a nice run and through the media,\u00a0 start putting pressure on the voters to include them in with the big boys.\u00a0 At first they draw energy from it but at a certain point,\u00a0 it becomes a distraction and provides pressure.\u00a0 Pressure is what Cincinnati will bring in this game vs. a UCF offensive front that is not all that good.\u00a0 The lack of vigor and talent up front has been masked by the hurry up offense that the Knights run to perfection.\u00a0 That hurry up offense won’t be something new for Cincinnati to face so I think they will be able to stand in the paint.\u00a0 I think the 7 point spread is a bit too large for UCF.\u00a0 Yes they have been winning but in games like this,\u00a0 they have needed every minute on the clock to complete the mission.\u00a0 I am not really seeing why that would be any different in this game.\u00a0 I would not be surprised to the see the streak end here but I am not expecting it.\u00a0 This is a home game for UCF and Cincinnati’s offense does have that ability to come up short in a key moment.\u00a0 I think it’s a fight to the death that UCF wins very very late .\u00a0 UCF win 37 to 35.<\/p>\n Syracuse vs. Notre Dame<\/p>\n Notre Dame is having one heck of a season as we all can see.\u00a0 Somehow though,\u00a0 it seems to be losing a bit of steam. The media members and oddsmakers are seemingly expecting more and more with each passing week.\u00a0 Last week the Irish staggered through their game vs. a miserable Florida St. squad.\u00a0 As we push further through the season,\u00a0 the less impressive the Notre Dame wins seem to look as their previous opponents don’t look so hot.\u00a0 If I am a Notre Dame fan,\u00a0 I am concerned about the lack of quality comp over the last few weeks.\u00a0 Syracuse is battle tested.\u00a0 They played Clemson tough on the road, played at Pittsburgh and got a solid W vs. NC State.\u00a0 Don’t tell me that Trevor Lawrence got hurt in that Clemson game because they were giving the Tigers the business while he was in there and they were the ones who put him on the shelf.\u00a0 Dino Babers has the boys playing hard.\u00a0 This kind of game can be a program changer for the Orangemen and I can see them coming with a lot of fire.\u00a0 I think the Orangemen have been overlooked a bit this season and here’s a chance for a coming out party.\u00a0 With that said,\u00a0 I think they come up just a bit short in this contest.\u00a0 The Irish are solid with Ian Book at the controls and they are better in the trenches than Syracuse.\u00a0 I like Notre Dame for the win but I don’t like them giving all the points.\u00a0 Notre Dame wins 33-30.<\/p>\n Iowa St. @ Texas<\/p>\n If you’ve been following this column all season,\u00a0 you know that I have not been long on the Longhorns.\u00a0 The one time that I decided to back them,\u00a0 they reminded me that I am not long and went real short vs. Oklahoma St.\u00a0 Truth is that Texas has not played well the last three weeks.\u00a0 It’s almost as if their head coach has been distracted or something. Hmmm.\u00a0 Nevertheless,\u00a0 each feeble performance each week brings further angst.\u00a0 Enter the scrappy Iowa St. Cyclones looking to put a bull head on the mantle.\u00a0 These pack of Cyclones play hard and they play for 60 minutes.\u00a0 They won’t run from and they won’t back down from Texas especially in light of how Texas has been playing.\u00a0 Oddsmakers have thrown out some bait by making Texas a slim 2.5 point favorite.\u00a0 That number is screaming for the public to jump on Texas.\u00a0 I am going to go the opposite way.\u00a0 Today,\u00a0 I think scrappy gets a victory,\u00a0 a full victory.\u00a0 Take Iowa St. 30-27 over Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Chad Wilson – Editor – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds Well I just have not been able to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[829],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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