This week's college football picks: Another big game for the Longhorns

"The label of No. 1 is hard to get and it's really harder to keep." -- Texas coach Mack Brown, ahead of his team's huge colossus of a clash with Texas Tech.

For the fourth consecutive week, the Longhorns are taking on a top-10 ranked team. First, Texas beat then-No. 1 Oklahoma. The next week, Texas worked No. 11 Missouri. Last week, the Longhorns edged No. 7 Oklahoma State. This week, the 'Horns face No. 6 Texas Tech in the land of Friday Night Lights in West Texas. Texas Tech folks are calling this showdown "the biggest game in school history." That seems to be a phrase thrown around quite a bit these days.

Last year, Texas beat Texas Tech 59-43 in a shootout. Expect much the same this time around, too, which should be great fun for TV viewers who just happen to be dialed into ABC at 5 p.m. Santa Monica standard time (SMST).

Let's pick some games that will be taking place on the collegiate gridirons this Saturday ...

No. 1 Texas over No. 6 Texas Tech
No. 8 Georgia over No. 5 Florida
No. 16 Florida State over Georgia Tech (really wanted to pick an upset here, FYI, FWIW)
No. 20 Minnesota over Northwestern (yes, the Golden Gophers are ranked)
Wisconsin over No. 22 Michigan State

Upset pick of the week: UNLV over No. 12 TCU ... Greatest Pro Bowls of all time, and other stuff would hate to see a potential BCS buster fall in an upset, but the very good possibility exists that TCU could be looking past the Runnin' Rebs to a showdown with No. 10-ranked Utah next week that will likely determine the Mountain West winner and send said winner to a BCS bowl game to be decided (but, most likely not the national title game).

And our totally random college football pick of the week: 7-0 Millsaps and 7-0 Trinity, No. 5 and No. 14 respectively, in D3football.com top 25, meet in a rematch of last year's miracle finish on a 15-lateral play that has been dubbed "the Lateralpalooza" and the "Mississippi Miracle". Millsaps will put its nine-game, conference road winning streak on the line against Trinity, and we reckon the Majors will be prepared for anything this time around and get some small amount of revenge for last year's debacle.

Last week's record: 2-5 (ouchy!)
Overall record: 42-22