The No. 5 Kansas State Wildcats head to Jack Trice Stadium to take on the Iowa State Cyclones this weekend, and while both have found success in the first half of 2012, only one is considered a title contender.
The No. 25 Michigan Wolverines may be matched up with the Illinois Fighting Illini this weekend, but you have to wonder if the team from Ann Arbor isn’t looking ahead at their game next week with the Michigan State Spartans.
Mississippi State (5-0) is off to a great start and they are ranked, but they have yet to beat a very good team and that will change this Saturday when they host Tennessee (3-2).
South Carolina (6-0) won a big game last week beating a top 10 team in Georgia and now face LSU (5-1) at home. The Tigers are still in the top 10, but they lost last week to Florida where their offense was shut down only scoring 6 points.
This match up was supposed to take place in the first game of the season, but it was postponed and now Texas A&M (4-1) and Louisiana Tech (5-0) are ranked. The Aggies have won 10 straight in this series and they are solid on both sides of the ball.
Florida (5-0) is coming off a HUGE win over LSU and after facing Vanderbilt (2-3) they face the ranked teams of Georgia and South Carolina. The Gators cannot overlook Vanderbilt, as they are at home and are coming off a solid SEC win over Missouri.
The Florida State Seminoles are coming off a shocking loss last week to the North Carolina State Wolfpack, and with their loss came the realization that the BCS National Championship might not be in their immediate future.
The California Golden Bears and the Washington State Cougars are having underwhelming seasons, but the team from Berkeley, Calif. is the one coming off a big victory. The Golden Bears took down the No. 25 UCLA Bruins 43-17, while the Cougars failed to keep up with the Beavers in Corvallis, Ore.
The USC Trojans and Washington Huskies both struggled early in their week six matchup, but the difference is, only one of them made a storming comeback. The Trojans are coming off a victory that saw them recover after being down 21-10, while the Huskies trailed 21-0 in the first quarter and lost by 31 points.
Stop the presses, Fresno State is 6-0 ATS this season. Clearly they are doing much better than expected, including playing Oregon closer than anybody else (sort of…they backed into a cover after being down 35-6).
The final score made it look closer than it really was for West Virginia at Texas last week. It was their first road contest as a member of the BIg 12 and they passed, continuing their ascent up the national rankings.
Navy and Central Michigan aren’t accustomed to playing in front of a national television audience, but they’ll get that rare chance this Friday night. ESPN2 has national coverage of this game this Friday night. Both teams come into this game at 2-3.
The UCLA Bruins and the Utah Utes are both coming off week seven losses where second-half struggles made it just too much to come back.
The No. 17 Stanford Cardinal and the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish face off in week seven in one of the most highly anticipated games all week.
The 10th ranked Oregon State Beavers have shocked the nation through six weeks of college football, and they plan to resume their success against the BYU Cougars this Saturday.
When Syracuse was 0-2 with a close loss to Northwestern and a relatively impressive performance against USC some were thinking the program is finally getting back to some solid footing before it bolts to the ACC.
