College Football Predictions for This Week: Ole Miss to take down Alabama; Cowboys and Sooners Will Cruise

This week the college football line-up has some very interesting and marque games.  Alabama hosts a Mississippi team that might have a better offense and defense than the Tide.  A home field advantage of three points will be put to the test and Ole Miss can beat Bama.  The Big 12 won’t have a great week and Texas Tech  won’t be able to stop the Arkansas offense that will run all over the Red Raiders.  Iowa State and Texas will also have their hands full.   Along with our local Big 12 schedule, this Saturday will again give the football fans plenty of excitement, in stadium, at home, or at your local watering hole.  To get to the grit of the significant national games, here are my picks.  If you want a gambling line, please go to a betting site.

Possible upsets:  Air Force over Michigan,  Mississippi over Alabama

Big Games:  LSU over Auburn, UCLA over BYU

Big 12:  Oklahoma over Tulsa, KSU over La. Tech, Cal over Texas, Arkansas over Texas Tech, Toledo over Iowa State, Okla. State over UTSA

Predicted scores of all the games below.

Thursday, Sept. 17

Clemson  31 at Louisville  14, ESPN, 7:30

Friday, Sept. 18

Florida State  27 at Boston College  19, ESPN, 8

Idaho State  7 at Boise State  62, CBSSN, 9

New Mexico  12 at Arizona State  53, Pac-12, 10

Saturday, Sept. 19

Air Force  17 at Michigan State   28, ABC, noon

Connecticut   14 at Missouri   31, ESPNU, noon

Illinois  14 at North Carolina  21, ESPN/ESPN2, noon

Nevada  14 at Texas A&M  31, SEC, noon

Tulsa  20 at Oklahoma  52, FS1, noon

Wake Forest  24 at Army  10, CBSSN, noon

Georgia State  13 at Oregon  41, Pac-12, 2

Louisiana Tech  16 at Kansas State  27, FSN, 3

Auburn  10 at LSU  17, CBS, 3:30

East Carolina  28 at Navy  24, CBSSN, 3:30

Georgia Tech  25at Notre Dame  27, NBC, 3:30

Nebraska  21 at Miami (Fla.)  24, ABC/ESPN2, 3:30

Northern Illinois  14 at Ohio State  31, ABC/ESPN2, 3:30

UTSA  13 at Oklahoma State  26, FS1, 3:30

Northwestern State  0 at Mississippi State  38, SEC, 4

Utah State  24 at Washington  21, Pac-12, 5

South Carolina  9 at Georgia  24, ESPN, 6

Colorado 17 vs. Colorado State  21, CBSSN, 7, in Denver

Texas Tech  14 at Arkansas  56, ESPN2, 7

Western Carolina  7 at Tennessee  45, ESPNU, 7

California  31 at Texas  21, FOX, 7:30

Florida  21 at Kentucky  38, SEC, 7:30

Iowa State  17 at Toledo  24, ESPNews, 8

Pittsburgh  14 at Iowa  20, BTN, 8

San Jose State  27 at Oregon State  17, Pac-12, 8

SMU  7 at TCU  62, FSN, 8

Stanford  10 at USC  30, ABC, 8

Wyoming  21 at Washington State  31, Pac-12, 8:30

Mississippi  24 at Alabama  21, ESPN, 9:15

BYU  17 at UCLA  24, FS1, 10:30

Utah  45 at Fresno State 13, CBSSN, 10:3

Northern Arizona 7 at Arizona  34, Pac-12, 11

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