College football for October 11th 2014

Upon request, I will be posting a special college football look ahead for games tomorrow. I just finished watching the Royals beat the Orioles 8-6 in 10 innings. What a great game! This post will mainly be focused around College Football.

This weekend is looking to be another exciting weekend with games across the country. The main center of attention, however, will be in the SEC west. Let's start in College Station, Texas where 14Texas A&M will host 3Ole Miss at 9 PM ET. Ole Miss is coming off of their biggest win of the year beating Alabama at home. The Rebels' defense is allowing 10 points per game, on average. This is their highest ranking since 1962.

Earlier, 3Mississippi State hosts 2Auburn after the Tigers easily tamed LSU last week. This University will be hosting the College Gameday show on ESPN before the Bulldogs' date with the Tigers at 3:30 PM ET. Dak Prescott looks to be the favorite to win the Heisman now that Todd Gurley from Georgia has been suspended indefinitely for selling his autographs. Speaking of 13Georgia, they travel to Columbia, Missouri (near my mission) to take on the #23 ranked Mizzou Tigers. After losing to Indiana a few weeks ago, the Tigers seek revenge against an in-conference opponent. In order to find out if any of these games will be televised nationally, you'll have to find out yourself. All of the big games will be.

Outside of the SEC, let's turn our attention to the BIG 12 where 5TCU heads to Waco, Texas to face 9Baylor in a highly anticipated game. Since TCU beat Oklahoma last week in Fort Worth, they have risen to their highest ranking in 5+ years. Defense has become the key for this team; and with a Baylor offense as deadly as the Basilisk off of Harry Potter, this will be an interesting game at 3:30 ET.

Later in the evening, downtrodden USC heads to Tuscon to take on Rich Rodriguez and his 10Arizona Wildcats. After beating Oregon in Eugene last week, the expectations are high in Tuscon while the Trojans look to bounce back after a devastating loss to Arizona State on a hail Mary pass to end the game.
Meanwhile, the #12 ranked Ducks travel down to Pasadena to take on 18UCLA. Both teams suffered defeat last week in a dramatic week of college football. UCLA fell to Utah in Salt Lake while the aforementioned Arizona Wildcats took care of Oregon.

Well there ya have it! Looks like it will be a pretty fun and entertaining week of action. BYU lost to UCF last night in OT. So hopefully that trends well to a dramatic change of rankings and favorites as we get closer and closer to witnessing College Football's first 4-team playoff in history.