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Hobbitcore's College Football Corner (Week 10)

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Had my worst week of the year last year. The games are getting harder and harder to predict, as they almost always do at this time of the year. Last Week Overall: 2-3 Upsets: 0-1 Season Overall: 42-11 Upsets: 9-5 3:30pm -- #21 Michigan @ #22 Michigan State -- ABC This is one of those fascinating matchups where one team (Michigan) has a solid offense but no defense and the other team (MSU) has a great defense but no offense. I love these matchups because not only will it be interesting to see Michigan's offense take on Sparty's D but I love watching the other side of the ball to see who can screw up least. What makes this even more difficult to pick is that while I feel confident that Sparty's D is better than Michigan's offense, I also feel confident that the Spartan offense is significantly worse than the Wolverines' defense. At the end of the day, I think MSU's defense makes enough plays on a mistake-prone Michigan offense to put their own offen...

Hobbitcore's College Football Corner (Week 3)

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HEADLINES The University of Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks celebrate a HUGE road upset of #8 Arkansas -So, as is often the case, a week in college football that seemed unbearably boring on paper was incredibly interesting to watch on the field.  If you were to ascribe a headline to Week 2 it would probably be something along the lines of "UPSETS AND CLOSE CALLS!"  Let's go down the list: No. 8 Arkansas fell to Louisiana-Monroe 34-31 in OT No. 13 Wisconsin lost to Oregon State 10-7 in a game I figured to be no more than "Montee Ball padding stats." (note: Ball had 15 carries for 61 yards and zero TDs) No. 14 Ohio State got all they could handle from UCF in a game that was tied until 15 seconds to go in the second half.  OSU began to open it up in the 3rd quarter but still came up with only a 31-16 victory. No. 16 Nebraska couldn't stop UCLA's dynamic new offense which proved that Week 1 was in no way a fluke by posting 36 on the tough...