Week 2

Week 1 started with a number of Division I-A teams going down to Division I-AA teams and as a college football fan, you should love that and root for the Division I-AA team to win every time.  We want better games on Saturdays, not a BCS conference team going up against a lesser directional school.  Losing to a good team is far better than beating Lehigh or Robert Morris.  And is far, far better than losing to them.  There's more of these match-ups this week and hopefully we'll get a few more big boys knocked off again.

Love him or hate him, the most entertaining player in college football right now is Johnny Manziel.  The first half of the Rice vs Texas A&M game was close and the Aggies went to the half up 28-21, with Manziel serving a joke of a supsension.  But the 2nd half...A&M took on the persona of their quarterback.  They were cocky, brash, arrogant, up-tempo and very good.  And Johnny was more than willing to mix it up with the Owls, showing the money, signing "air autographs" and capping it off with an unsportsmanlike penalty after his third touchdown pass of the game.  He's going to be the focus every week and he's must watch tv to see what he does next (or to see if one of those SEC defenses is going to lay him out).

Picks for week two:

at Baylor -27 Buffalo - Buffalo hung around against Ohio State last week in the Horseshoe and lost by 20.  Baylor blasted Wofford and the Bears high-powered offense shows no signs of letting up this week.  Baylor rolls early and the Bulls wear out in the second half as Lache Seastrunk keeps working towards his Heisman candidacy.

Cincinnati -8 at Illinois - The Bearcats looked impressive last Saturday against Purdue on both offense and defense.  Illinois' offense put up 42, but their defense gave up 24 to Southern Illinois and that's a concern.  Cincinnati's offense is better than the Salukis and so is their defense.  Tommy Tuberville gets Cincy 2-0.

Oregon -23.5 at Virginia - Virginia got a nice win last week against a good BYU defense.  Unfortunately for BYU, the Cougars had very little offense and made a few mistakes that could have made that game a blowout.  The Ducks are a far better offense than what the Cavaliers faced last week.  They don't make those mistakes, don't take their foot off the gas pedal and they destroy Virginia.

Bowling Green -7 at Kent State - With my soft spot for the MAC, have to make one pick on a MAC conference game.  The Falcons looked great in holding Tulsa to only 7 points last week while the Golden Flashes looked terrible against Liberty.  Bowling Green gets this one done by at least two touchdowns.