Every Big Game This Weekend: Who Wins?
FRI NOV 13 + SAT NOV 14 · BOLDEST CALL FIRSTTwenty big games with a bold call and a bet on every one. Two of them are straight-up upsets. UCLA and Houston get it started Friday night. Times are Eastern.
Why I'm right
Texas is 4-0 against ranked teams this year, including a 24-23 win over then-No. 1 Ohio State. LSU ran 33 times for 77 yards in its home loss to Alabama.
Full breakdown →Texas Tech runs for 214.7 yards a game, and Oklahoma State gives up 151.3 on the ground. Tommy Castellanos has started and won the last two, and he threw for 362 yards and five touchdowns against West Virginia.
Missouri went to Ole Miss and lost 31-3. Georgia went to the same stadium last week, ran for 295 yards and won 42-7.
Full breakdown →Nobody has scored more than 23 on Indiana all season. USC ran for minus-18 yards in its last road game, a 24-7 loss at Wisconsin.
Full breakdown →DeSean Bishop has 1,066 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns, and Tennessee allows 15.1 points a game. Texas A&M is 1-5 in the SEC and scored nine at South Carolina last week.
Conner Weigman has 22 touchdown passes and two interceptions. Colorado has lost four of its last five and scores 19.8 points a game.
Full breakdown →LaNorris Sellers leads South Carolina in passing and rushing, and Arkansas gives up 156.2 rushing yards a game. The Hogs have lost four of their last five.
Full breakdown →Oklahoma scores 22.1 points a game and runs for 110.9. Ole Miss scores 33.8, and Trinidad Chambliss has 2,359 passing yards. Our numbers have the Rebels by about three on the road.
Wake has won its last five by a combined 264-31 and gives up 85 rushing yards a game. Gio Lopez has 18 touchdown passes and one interception.
Boston College lost 47-2 at Duke two weeks ago and gives up 156.6 rushing yards a game. CJ Carr has 21 touchdown passes and one interception, and Notre Dame allows 14.6 points a game.
Alabama just won 31-13 at LSU, and Keelon Russell threw three touchdowns. Vanderbilt is 1-5 in the SEC and gives up 29.4 points a game.
UCLA allows 14.1 points and 87.7 rushing yards a game, and Wayne Knight has 13 rushing touchdowns. Ty Dieffenbach has won every start since taking over, and the Bruins are 9-0.
Iowa allows 12.2 points a game. Purdue has lost three straight and gives up 32.3 points and 170.8 rushing yards a game.
DJ Lagway has six touchdown passes and no interceptions in his last two games. Bear Bachmeier threw four interceptions in BYU's loss at Utah last week.
Braden Atkinson has 3,169 passing yards with 25 touchdowns and three picks. Boise State gives up 25.2 points and 265.8 passing yards a game.
Michigan allows 16.2 points a game. Oregon scored 17 or fewer in three of its last five games.
Florida has lost four of its last five and scored 15 points in its last two games combined. Kenny Minchey has 14 touchdown passes and two interceptions.
Utah runs for 215.4 yards a game and allows 16.3 points. Arizona gives up 125.2 rushing yards a game, and Wayshawn Parker already has nine rushing touchdowns.
Jeremiah Smith has 1,200 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns, and Northwestern gives up 149.3 rushing yards a game. Luke Fahey has started the last two for Ohio State, both losses, so we dropped our edge number here and we're siding with the board.
Duke allows 13.0 points a game and won its last two 47-2 and 41-3. Nate Sheppard has 1,189 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns. Our number lands right on 13.5, so this one is close.
Which one of these am I dead wrong about?
Who you got? Tell me I'm wrong.


