My College Football Picks, 2012 Week 3

This week, I the schedule of games involving AP ranked teams is not very good. Most top teams are still playing lower division or other weaker opponents. Only three games involve pairs of ranked teams: USC @ Stanford, Florida @ Tennessee and Notre Dame @ Michigan State. Here are my picks for this weekend in the top 25, except for the FBS v FCS games, that don't have spreads at most houses. My choice against the spread is shown in bold. Seven *bets I really like are marked by an asterisk. See if your picks can beat mine.

Saturday, Sept 15:
* California @ #12 Ohio St. -16½
Wake Forest @ #5 Florida St. -27½
* #13 Virginia Tech @ Pittsburgh +10½
#16 TCU @ Kansas +20½
Furman @ #11 Clemson
Tennessee Tech @ #4 Oregon
UMass @ #17 Michigan -45
* #1 Alabama @ Arkansas +20
UNC @ #19 Louisville -3
James Madison @ #9 West Virginia
#18 Florida @ #23 Tennessee -3
North Texas @ #15 Kansas St. -27½
UAB @ #8 South Carolina -33
* #2 USC @ #21 Stanford +7½
Florida Atlantic @ #7 Georgia -41½
* #20 Notre Dame @ #10 Michigan St. -6
* Idaho @ #3 LSU -42½
* #14 Texas @ Mississippi +10½
#25 BYU @ Utah +3
S.C. St. @ #24 Arizona
Houston @ #22 UCLA -17

In other Pac-12 play, I like:

Washington St. @ UNLV +8½
Portland St. @ Washington
Arizona St. @ Missouri -3
Colorado @ Fresno St. -15½

USC's unranked season opponents both have gimmes: Stony Brook @ Syracuse and Lamar @ Hawaii. No picks to make there.

This Saturday, the ten teams I am rooting for, in order, are: USC, Michigan State, Houston, Arkansas, Cal, Wake Forest, UAB, Florida Atlantic, Utah & Arizona State.

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