Five for Friday: Kirk's Awesome Edition

Five for Friday!


LSU ends Bama’s National Title dreams. Let me say this before people start calling me pessimistic. There’s no doubt that I am a glass is half empty Bama fan, but I really think this is our week to fall. Alabama is a better team than LSU, but all good teams have their waterloo. Oklahoma had Texas, Texas had Texas Tech, Florida had Ole Miss, and USC had Oregon State. This year for Bama it will be LSU for us. LSU will win a tough game, and leave Bama fans hoping we can break two and six year losing streaks with Mississippi State and Auburn to finish out the year in Atlanta.

Penn State blows out Iowa in supposed “Trap Game.” It’s coming right, the letdown for the Penn State Nittany Lions, maybe even this week when they travel to Iowa. Nope, don’t think so. Penn State will beat Iowa in convincing fashion and enjoy watching Alabama blow it against LSU and as you’ll read later watch Texas Tech fall against the Cowboys. Whether Darryl Clark plays or not, Penn State has plenty of talent to blow the Hawkeyes away.

Florida commits a second homicide in the state of Tennessee. Florida traveled to Knoxville, TN and slaughtered the Volunteers. Now they will go to Nashville and repeat the crime, this time with the Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt lost a heart-wrenching game to Duke (it would have made them bowl eligible), and they won’t rebound by even keeping this game interesting. Look for Florida’s Tebow, Harvin, and others to dominate every aspect of the game and win by at least 4 TDs.

North Carolina finds a way around the Georgia Tech defense. Georgia Tech has really impressed me this year. They have a stifling defense and one of the best rushing attacks in the country. The problem for the Yellow Jackets is the fact that they rank 116th in passing offense. They will not be able to run the ball down the throats of North Carolina who is fairly good and stopping the run. Josh Nesbitt is going to have to go to the air against the Tar Heels, and that will be their downfall. North Carolina wins a close one.

Oklahoma State outguns the Red Raiders. Two phenomenal quarterbacks face two extremely bad secondarys. Oklahoma State and Texas Tech rank 93rd and 101st respectively in passing yards allowed this season. Last week we predicted an upset over Texas and we were right, I guess I’ll pick one over Texas Tech now. I think the Cowboys win this one by a TD. I think Zac Robinson and Kendall Hunter will be able to move the ball well on the Red Raider defense, and Graham Harrell can’t quite put enough scoring drives together. Each big matchup from Texas/Oklahoma, to Texas/Oklahoma State, and finally to Texas/Texas Tech have gotten better each week, if the trend continues we might be seeing the best game of the year.