Weekly Picks of the Week - Week 1

Picks in Bold

Rankings based on Coaches Poll
All lines provided by Sportsbook.ag

North Carolina Tar Heels @ #7 South Carolina Gamecocks (-12.5)

Thursday 6:00
ESPN

Mississippi Rebels @ Vanderbilt Commodores (+4)

Thursday 9:15
ESPN

Mississippi State Bulldogs @ #14 Oklahoma State Cowboys (-13)

Reliant Stadium, Houston
3:30
ABC/ESPN2

Virginia Tech Hokies (+21.5) v. #1 Alabama Crimson Tide

Georgia Dome, Atlanta
5:30
ESPN

#5 Georgia Bulldogs @ #8 Clemson Tigers (+2)

8:00
ABC

#13 LSU Tigers (-5) v. #20 TCU Horned Frogs

Cowboy Stadium, Dallas
9:00
ESPN

-Welcome back to another season of me blindly picking college football games against the spread.  Last season, I had a winning record, so maybe I do know what I'm doing.  Then again, I could have just gotten lucky.  Having said that, I will warn you that the hardest week to pick games (other than picking bowl games) is Week 1 because no one really knows how good a team is and picking these games truly is blind luck.  However, I will do the best I can or your money back.

-Now is where I want to talk about a game from last season.  Clemson lost to South Carolina at home in their last regular season game and I have a very solid reasoning as to why (and it's not because the Gamecocks were the better team, they can suck it).  It was because the home crowd was thrown off of their game by the time kickoff started.  For the past two or three season, all Clemson home games were either scheduled at noon or 3:30.  However, the South Carolina game was played at 8:00 and Clemson fans treated the game like it was a 3:30 start and didn't pace their tailgating accordingly.  In other words, I feel like the crowd was actually too intoxicated by the time the game started and the usual electricity I feel in the air before games just wasn't there.  It's hard to explain but when I asked friends and family, they actually agreed with me that something was missing and that something was the home crowd not being there for the team when they were needed most.  The scariest part about this theory is that this year's opening game against 5th ranked Georgia starts at 8:00 also and I'm slightly worried the crowd will fuck it up again.  I'm crossing my fingers that that doesn't happen.

-Alright, enjoy the first week of college football.

Last Week's Results: 0-0
Season Results: 0-0

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