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Was last week a speed bump?

Posted by Mark Blaudschun, Globe Staff October 1, 2009 08:35 AM

Was last week a speed bump or a pot hole which will damage the frame? We will find out on Saturday when Miami finally completes its marathon month of football against Oklahoma.
The Canes stumbled at Virginia Tech in the rain last week. The Miami bus is moving much faster these days since so many "followers'' jumped off.

We will stick around for another week at least.

The Picks...

Miami 27, Oklahoma 21---OU QB Sam Bradford will probably be back this week, which is bad news for the Hurricanes. Miami QB Jacory Harris will still be around for the Canes, which is bad news for the Sooners. Should be fun to watch.
The pick: Miami 28, Oklahoma 24

LSU at Georgia---The internal war amog top SEC schools beating each other has started.
Georgia will beat up LSU this week. LSU will beat up Florida next week and so it goes.
Georgia is very close to being unbeaten. LSU is very close to having at least one loss.
The pick: Georgia 33, LSU 25

UCLA at Stanford---Funny thing happened on the way to the San Francicsco Bay area for the two Los Angeles Pac-10 teams. USC and Stanford went from the main attraction to the JV game. Which leaves unbeaten UCLA against once beaten Stanford for first place in the Pac-10.
Stanford is playing at home, but UCLA is just a little bit better. Could this be the year of the Bruin?
The Pick: UCLA 17, Stanford 10

USC at California---At the start of the year, this had Game of the Year in the Pac-10 written all over it. USC was exposed at Washington. Cal was exposed at Oregon--badly.
The hunch here is that Cal is still a better team with RB Jahvid Best back in form. But it is a shaky hunch call
The pick: Cal 21, USC 17

Michigan at Michigan State---Michigan is surprisingly unbeaten, Michigan State has looked mediocre at best the past few weeks. The game is at Michigan State which should give the Spartans an edge. But we think that Michigan is a legitimately good team. Not great. Not yet.
The pick: Michigan 17, Michigan State 13

Last week's record 4-1
Season to date: 15-5

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