Fresh off its scintillating, edge-of-your-seat 39-33 win over then-No. 1 Texas, Tech Tech gets another huge Big 12 showdown when the No. 8-ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys come to Lubbock.
Now sitting at No. 2, Texas Tech is in position to reach the national championship game. Of course, the Red Raiders will have to circumnavigate (great word, eh?) a remaining schedule that also includes games against Oklahoma (in Norman) and a potential spot in the Big 12 title game.
That is just one of a handful of big games to look forward to this college football weekend. So, let's go ahead and pick some of those games ...
No. 2 Texas Tech over No. 8 Oklahoma State
No. 3 Penn State over Iowa
No. 5 Wisconsin-Whitewater over Wisconsin-Stout
No. 7 USC over No. 21 Cal
No. 22 Georgia Tech over No. 19 North Carolina
Upset pick of the week: No. 15 LSU over No. 1 Alabama. The Tigers would love to stick it to their old coach, Nick Saban, and ruin the Crimson Tide's national title hopes. Nobody gets through the SEC season undefeated, so Greatest Pro Bowls of all time, and other stuff thinks this is an easy pick to make.
And our totally random college football pick of the week: No. 1 Mount Union faces No. 12 Otterbein in a huge D-III showdown with first place in the Ohio Athletic Conference on the line. Otterbein hasn't beaten Mount Union since 1977, and Greatest Pro Bowls of all time, and other stuff doesn't anticipate that run coming to an end this year.
(For the record, last week Greatest Pro Bowls of all time, and other stuff correctly predicted that Millsaps would get some amount of vengeance for last year's "Lateralpalooza" play against Trinity. And, they did! Millsaps pasted Trinity 56-27.)
Last week's record: 1-6 (only hit on the "Totally random" pick)
Overall record: 43-28
