College football 2018 Week 5 thread

Here are the most interesting games and lines for Week 5. All times Eastern and all point spreads from Vegas Insider:

Friday

UCLA (+11) at Colorado, 9 p.m., Fox Sports 1

Saturday

Syracuse (+22.5) at Clemson, noon, ABC

Temple (+14) at Boston College, noon, ESPNU

West Virginia (-4.5) at Texas Tech, noon, ESPN2

Louisiana-Lafayette (+49) at Alabama, noon, SEC Network

Tennessee at Georgia, 3:30 p.m., CBS — no line yet due to Tennessee QB injury

Florida State (-6) at Louisville, 3:30 p.m., ESPN2

Texas (-7) at Kansas State, 3:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1

Purdue (-3) at Nebraska, 3:30 p.m., Big Ten Network

Southern Miss (+27) at Auburn, 4 p.m., SEC Network

Michigan (-13.5) at Northwestern, 4:30 p.m., Fox

Florida (+8) at Mississippi State, 6 p.m., ESPN

Utah (pick ’em) at Washington State, 6 p.m., Pac-12 Network

Iowa State (-10.5) at TCU, 7 p.m., ESPNU

Virginia Tech (+3.5) at Duke, 7 p.m., ESPN2

Ohio State (-4.5) at Penn State, 7:30 p.m., ABC

Stanford (+4.5) at Notre Dame, 7;30 p.m., NBC

South Carolina (+1) at Kentucky, 7:30 p.m., SEC Network

Ole Miss (+13.5) at LSU, 8:15 p.m., ESPN

BYU (+17) at Washington, 8:30 p.m., Fox

Oregon (-3.5) at California, 10:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1

Toledo (+7.5) at Fresno State, 10:30 p.m., ESPNU

Boise State (-16.5) at Wyoming, 10:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network

 

Cal-Oregon, Ohio State-Penn State and Stanford-Notre Dame look interesting.

 

Tech getting 4.5 at home looks rather tasty.
Take every thing you own and put it on Texas (-7). Kansas State couldn't score in a whorehouse with a fist full of hundreds.
That Nebraska line should be 33, not 3. They're really really bad.

 

Louisville-Florida State every year for the last 20 years: This sure is fun!

Louisville-Florida State 2018: LOOK AWAY, FERGAWDSAKES DON'T LOOK STRAIGHT INTO IT, LEST YE BE TURNED INTO A PILLAR OF SALT!

 

Hokies' QB is having surgery and is out for the year. Backup (a Kansas transfer) looked decent against ODU (meaning that at least it wasn't his fault they lost). @Cosmo may have more insightful input than me.

 

Notre Dame - Stanford would appear to be the first real playoff elimination game of the season. Barring a major run by Syracuse or a strong stretch by USC, the Irish might not face another ranked team this season.

Stanford still has Washington and we'll see if Cal can stay in the top 25 down the stretch, but they won't get any additional help from the Pac-12 South unless Colorado has a miracle run in them.

 

I guess that's the difference in Georgia -49 and Georgia -54?

 

I'm not in as deep as I used to be, but Hokie Twitter (not the official site, fuck that) seems to want to see Hendon Hooker play ahead of Willis. Tech has bigger issues, especially defensively with Trevon Hill mysteriously being booted from the team today.

 

Good news for the Hokies is everyone who has transferred out of Kansas the past few years has done pretty well under real coaches.

 

Shocked that Meacham left TCU to go to Lawrence.
He must figure on getting the head job when Beaty eventually gets axed.

 

Arkansas might lose 10 games this year. Maybe goes 1-11 if they can't split between Tulsa and Vanderbilt.

 

Seems like a Bowl Game played in Orlando - not THAT one, the earlier one in December that is even more useless.