Six Pick Week 8

Welcome to Week 8, I dub thee, insufferable objects (FSU fans) vs unstoppable mouf (Dabo Swinney). Every other game, mostly due to Stanford choking are appetizers to the main course at 8 pm Saturday night. Winner in this game will almost certainly be the ACC Atlantic representative in the ACCCG and will take a huge step towards the BCSCG. The loser of the game will still have a great shot at an at-large BCS bid (Sugar.) The atmosphere is going to be electric and a huge ACC showcase game. I hope for a great game, just don't ask me to pick a side, I can't openly root for either team.

The most exciting 25 seconds in college football, running down The Hill

This Week's Games:

Friday, October 18th
UCF at (8) Louisville -12.5 ~~ 8:00 pm ESPN

• So Louisville wants this game to be mulligan to last week's Rutgers game. My question how does one get a mulligan playing a par 3 course?
• UCF is having another successful season, joined a better conference (we think), will be bowl bound and George OLeary hasnt killed a player this year, yet

Pick: Louisville laying the points. While I think UCF is better than Rutgers, I am dumb enough to go all in on the Cards in a national showcase game playing well again
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Saturday, October 19th
(22) Florida -2.5 at (14) Missouri ~~ 12:21 pm SEC TV / ESPN3

• Mizzou bros, you're in the SEC now, you even have your first signature win, don't rep it like the guy above ... you use pom-poms, it's the SEC way
• Losing to the Tiger of the Bayou kind, acceptable, but losing to the carpet bagging variety, will cause Will Muschamp to kill a man, just to watch him die

Pick: Florida getting the points. With James Franklin out for Mizzou, it makes picking the Gators pretty easy, that and this is the first real defense the Tigers have seen.
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(10) UCLA at (13) Stanford -5.5 ~~ 3:30 pm ABC/ ESPN2

• MANBALL had an erectile dysfunction vs Utah last week, I'm going to overlook it this one time, but they might want to take a pill that gives them a 4 hour erection this week because UCLA can score
• Jim Mora Jr has a chance to separate UCLA from the Pac12 South and bring balance to the divisions, is the 3rd time a charm because so far it's MANBALL 2 METROSEXUALBALL 0

Pick: Stanford by a touchdown. I am going with the Cardinal caught in the classic look ahead trap game vs Utah last week, but they need some more perimeter threats, badly.
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Auburn at (7) Texas A&M -12.5 ~~ 3:30 pm CBS

• I'm going to miss Johnny Football after this season. Cherish everything about him, there isn't anyone else in all of football that entertains like this guy
• Signature win alert ... Gus Malzahn needs one ... hello aTm defense ... he can work with that

Pick: Auburn getting points. Name one thing about this aTm defense that gives you confidence they can stop even an average offense? I'll wait.
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(20) Washington at Arizona State -2.5 ~~ 6:00 pm PAC-12 Network

• Nut up time for the Huskies. No shame in losing to Stanford and Oregon, but they can't let those 2 losses, give them a 3rd. Season, maybe even a coach Sark era defining moment for UDub
• Speaking of nut up, will ASU wear their seminal fluid helmets again?

Pick: UDub getting the points, rebounding and winning out right. Better O and D.
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(5) Florida State -2.5 at (3) Clemson ~~ 8:00 pm ABC

Consider the Scenarios:

• Clemson Win / FSU Loss: Dabo Swinney cuts a cheesy 1992 mid level WCW babyface promo about Clemson / FSU fans are dealt a huge slice of humble pie with a lot of BACK jokes
• FSU Win / Clemson Loss: God, FSU fans will form the worlds largest circle jerk about how good they are / Dabo is likely to go off on the first media bro that asks about Clemsoning (even though the term will have been used it inaccurately)

There are no winners here.

Pick: FSU by more than a touchdown. Clemson will play very up, but like last year as the game goes on, FSU is better on offense and defense with better depth.
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Beer of the Week:
Westbrook Citrus Ninja Exchange DIPA

My boy, Will is visiting from Upstate and he damn well, better bring me this grapefruit bomb ipa if he wants to watch the game at my house.

Overall:
UCF at Louisville -12.5
Florida -2.5 at Mizzou
UCLA at Stanford -5.5
Auburn at Texas A&M -12.5
Washington at Arizona State -2.5
Florida State -2.5 at Clemson

Happy picking and drinking on your off week.