Weekly Picks of the Week - Week 5

Picks in Bold

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

#10 UCLA Bruins @ #12 Arizona State Sun Devils (+4.5)

Thursday 10:00
Fox Sports 1

Tennessee Volunteers @ #13 Georgia Bulldogs (-16.5)

12:00
ESPN

Arkansas Razorbacks @ #7 Texas A&M Aggies (-9)

3:30
CBS

#14 Stanford Cardinal @ Washington Huskies (+8)

4:15
???

Missouri Tigers (+5.5) @ #15 South Carolina Jerkwads

7:00
ESPN

North Carolina Tarheels @ Clemson Tigers (-14)

7:00
ESPNU

-I honestly don't know why football is so popular.  It's not exactly a game you can just pick up play with a couple of buddies unless you just pass the ball around.  Is it the violence?  That's the only answer I can come up with, and if that's the case, something is really wrong with us.  We should look into that.

-Now, I know from time to time my dear readers will go to other websites.  I'm totally cool with that.
Maybe one of those site is even Fox Sports.  And maybe one the articles you like to read is Stewart Mandel's College Football Mailbag.  If you happened to read said article this week, then you might have noticed that I got a mailbag question answered.  I'm pretty stoked about it, check it out:

Stewart, Can you please set America straight on the definition of "Clemsoning" and how Clemson's extremely painful loss to Florida State didn't actually fit into that definition?

-- Sam from Greenville, S.C.

I’m not one of the people most qualified to answer that, so I called on Dan Rubenstein, co-host of the tremendous Solid Verbal podcast, which literally wrote the dictionary definition of “Clemsoning.” He said:

“As it related to losing at No. 1 Florida State when big Clemson expectations were already tempered after the second half of the Georgia game, the Tigers very clearly weren’t involved in a traditional Clemsoning. BUT, if we’re to believe that Clemsoning is a real, higher-college-football-forces-at-work phenomenon (which, obviously it is), Clemson’s late stumble did kind of feel like some sort of weird correction of the college football universe, which I called a ‘Clemsoning Express.’

"Ruling: Not a Clemsoning, but much in the way post-halftime fireworks smoke always seems to hang over the Holiday Bowl field, a Clemsoning haze was present for the late minutes of Saturday night’s game.”

In case you are wondering, my definition of "Clemsoning" is "anytime a team with high expectations inexplicably loses to a team that they never should lose to, usually in an embarrassing fashion".  In Clemson's case this past weekend, they were nearly two touchdown underdogs on the road against the #1 team in college football, and while they lost in an embarrassing fashion, they weren't supposed to win, so their loss shouldn't count as "Clemsoning" and Stewart's answer confirms that.  Meeting adjourned.

-A solid 5-1 week last week.....and yet I would trade all of those correct picks in for Clemson's kicker to have made more than 1 of his 3 field goal attempts.  So painful to have a crappy kicker.  Oh well, I guarantee a winning week or your money back!

-Last Week's Funniest College GameDay Sign:

(this is why Jameis Winston was suspended last weekend, except he said "her" instead of "Clemson")

-Alright, enjoy the fifth week of college football.

Last Week's Results: 5-1
Season Results: 13-8