College football picks: Could 7 undefeated teams lose this week? – cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fifteen undefeated teams remain from the Power Five conferences entering play this weekend, and 14 play Saturday, with only Texas A&M getting the week off.
Two of those undefeateds play each other, as No. 5 Utah and No. 23 Cal face off Saturday night as the last two perfect teams from the Pac-12.
Another seven face legitimate tests: Iowa at home against 4-1 Illinois; Clemson at home against 2-3 Georgia Tech; Oklahoma State on the road as an underdog at 3-1 West Virginia; TCU at 3-1 Kansas State; Florida at 4-1 Missouri; Florida State at home against 3-1 Miami; and Northwestern as a big underdog at 4-1 Michigan.
The landscape of unbeatens could look very different a week from now. So could the landscape of our terrible picks.
Last week, everyone – that’s Bill Landis, Ari Wasserman, me and our three guest readers – picked Wisconsin over Iowa, Nebraska over Illinois and UCLA over Arizona State, so we all were wrong together on those. Props to Bill for standing alone in picking Florida over Ole Miss, while I was the only who missed on Kansas State’s loss to Oklahoma State and Alabama’s win over Georgia. Thanks again Mark Richt.
Overall, here are the standings from last week’s picks:
• Reader TA 15-5
• Bill 15-5
• Ari 14-6
• Reader Matt Borngen 13-7
• Doug 13-7
• Reader Russell Windsor 12-8
Now, the overall standings:
Teams
My guy TA dragged Team Doug to the top spot with his 15-5 record last week, as our Team went 28-12. That allowed us to gain a game on Team Bill, which, like Team Ari, went 27-13.
• Team Bill 147-53
• Team Doug 145-55
• Team Ari 142-58
Readers vs. Us
Finally, we managed to gain some ground on the readers, as Bill, Ari and I went 42-18 and the readers were 40-20. But we’re still eight behind for the season.
• Readers 221-79
• Cleveland.com 213-87
Now introducing this week’s pickers …
Jason Eberly is a loyal reader and Twitter follower from Cleveland who joins Team Doug this week and can be found on Twitter @j_ebs.
Team Ari has drafted Daniel Mitchell from Berea. He can be found on Twitter @yeah_mitch.
And Team Bill added Varun Chandrasekhar from Tempe, Ariz., who hangs out on Twitter @thundershaker.
The picks in 19 games this week:
Maryland at Ohio State
Ohio State: Everyone
Indiana at Penn State
Indiana: Doug, Bill, Jason, Varun
Penn State: Ari, Daniel
Illinois at Iowa
Iowa: Everyone
Northwestern at Michigan
Northwestern: Doug, Ari
Michigan: Bill, Jason, Daniel, Varun
Wisconsin at Nebraska
Nebraska: Doug, Varun
Wisconsin: Bill, Jason, Ari, Daniel
Minnesota at Purdue
Purdue: Doug, Bill
Minnesota: Jason, Ari, Daniel, Varun
Michigan State at Rutgers
Michigan State: Everyone
Oklahoma at Texas
Oklahoma: Everyone
Navy at Notre Dame
Notre Dame: Doug, Bill, Jason, Ari, Daniel
Navy: Varun
South Carolina at LSU
LSU: Everyone
Georgia at Tennessee
Georgia: Everyone
Georgia Tech at Clemson
Clemson: Doug, Bill, Daniel, Varun
Georgia Tech: Jason, Ari
Arkansas at Alabama
Alabama: Everyone
Oklahoma State at West Virginia
West Virginia: Doug, Jason, Ari, Varun
Oklahoma State: Bill, Daniel
TCU at Kansas State
TCU: Doug, Bill, Ari, Daniel, Varun
Kansas State: Jason
Washington State at Oregon
Oregon: Everyone
Florida at Missouri
Missouri: Doug, Varun
Florida: Bill, Jason, Ari, Daniel
Miami at Florida State
Miami: Doug
Florida State: Bill, Jason, Ari, Daniel, Varun
Cal at Utah
Utah: Doug, Bill, Jason, Ari, Varun
Cal: Daniel
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