Commanding Lead - Looking Beyond Lsu - Matt Hayes Picks - Alabama

Each week, Sporting News Matt Hayes automatically chooses twelve in the weeks time utes best games.

LSU 22, Alabama 19: Great defense, strong running game, game-turning special teams, controlling the position connected with attack, strategy plays. All even. This occurs as a result of who helps make this worst slip-up with the almost all inopportune time.

Iowa 24, Michigan 23: How often possess we noticed Iowa rebound backside through a great terrible deficits having a good unthinkable win? Ask Michigan State regarding final months (a 31-point deprivation throughout Iowa City).

Texas A&M 38, Oklahoma 34: The Aggies harmony about the offense can cause many challenges to get OU vertisements defense. Another trouble for OU: Texas A&M can hurry the passer from the advantage in addition to power quick judgements simply by Sooners QB Landry Jones.

Stanford 30, Oregon State 27: A dangerous area for the actual Cardinal 7 days right after your draining triple-overtime win at USC, and also 7 days before a massive showdown vs. Oregon. Yep, Oregon State just misplaced this morning to help Utah. Doesn big t matter; this would often be close up until eventually a final series.

Cincinnati 31, Pittsburgh 21: Bearcats can take a telling head from the Big East, and Pitt offers a great number of accidents from significant positions. A year or so soon after a substantial take a step back to the program, coach Butch Jones includes the particular Bearcats primed with regard to their particular finally BCS dish inside four years.

Arkansas 35, South Carolina 16: Gamecocks have got won the final two many days having good defense nevertheless protection in opposition to offenses (Mississippi State, Tennessee) that could big t score. Arkansas will be many and gifts considerable matchup challenges along with South Carolina even now has no resolution on criminal offense devoid of hurt TB Marcus Lattimore.

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Arizona State 31, UCLA 28: If the Sun Devils win in this article plus it utes absolutely no granted thinking about just how that they ve played out on the highway ladies although summary your Pac-12 South Division by using adventures left over at Wazzu, in addition to versus Arizona in addition to Cal.

Oklahoma State 36, Kansas State 33: At some point, dozens of turnovers your Cowboys tend to be creating (29 in eight games) will dried up up. And whenever it s here, OSU can be in problem since it can capital t stop K-State utes run adventure by using QB Collin Klein.

Oregon 37, Washington 34: Another prospective upset from a way-underrated rivalry. Husky Stadium is usually a brutal place that will participate in specifically while this vertisements cool along with moist and windy and the joint can be shaking. Sort connected with such as what exactly it's going to be this kind of Saturday.

Wisconsin 40, Purdue 20: Can Wisky rebound again right after two direct gut-punch losses? The massive difference: this Purdue defense doesn t remotely resemble your Michigan State and Ohio State defenses.