Oct 16th predictions

Before I get to the predictions, kudos to ESPN for posting this, but man what a weekend of *awesome* sports match-ups across the board. I honestly didn't know which one to vote for between three different sports:

Roy Halladay vs Tim Lincecum
Cam Newton vs Ryan Mallett
Brett Favre vs Tony Romo

Yes please.

On to the picks, it's time for some teams that are ranked too high to take a dive on the road this week. Like.. a lot of them. I have my #23 ranked NC State going down in East Carolina and unbeatens #18 Mizzou and #19 Oklahoma State both fall on the road in A&M and Texas Tech. Tough week for my non-BCS ranked teams as #24 Air Forces loses in a close one at San Diego State, and undefeated #25 Nevada falls on the road at Hawaii in a game that will get over after all the coaches already voted and kept them ranked. Morons. I also smell a hangover game from #13 South Carolina and see them hitting the skids in Kentucky.

For all of those road upsets, the one road team I would love to see go down is #4 Ohio State at #22 Wisconsin... but I just can't talk myself into it. I'll hope for Wisky to win, but I won't watch it for a minute. What a gross game. Ohio State wins like 17-16 on some ridiculous late "Terrelle for Heisman" drive. Ugh.

I do like a couple of road underdogs to come out on top. #12 Iowa travels to #14 Michigan and further exposes Denard Robinson, opening the Heisman race wiiiide open. And the game I'm most excited for today, #16 Arkansas travels to #6 Auburn and faces their old offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn. I think the defense is ready and I like the WOO PIGs to get the road upset, leaving LSU as the sole SEC unbeaten at day's end.

I'm also excited to watch the Texas @ #3 Nebraska game and see what happens with Taylor Martinez against a pissed off and rested Longhorns defense. I just don't see the Horns letting Nebraska leave the Big 12 without a nice big parting gift in the shape of a giant "L".

I have Denard, Martinez, and Newton all losing today and being exposed a little bit. Gross, does that make Terrelle Pryor the Heisman leader after today? Sick.