College football 2018 Week 7 thread

Here are the most-interesting games and lines for Week 7. All times Eastern and all point spreads from Vegas Insider:

Tuesday

Appalachian State (-9) at Arkansas State, 8 p.m., ESPN2

Thursday

Texas Tech (+8.5) at TCU, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

Friday

Air Force (+10) at San Diego State, 9 p.m., CBS Sports Network

Arizona (+13.5) at Utah, 10 p.m., ESPN

Saturday

Nebraska (+6) at Northwestern, noon, ABC

Florida (-7) at Vanderbilt, noon, ESPN

Iowa (-5) at Indiana, noon, ESPN2

Oklahoma State (-7) at Kansas State, noon, ESPNU

Tennessee (+16.5) at Auburn, noon, SEC Network

Duke (+1.5) at Georgia Tech, 12:20 p.m., ACC Network

Georgia (-7) at LSU, 3:30 p.m., CBS

Pittsburgh (+21) at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m., NBC

Washington (-3.5) at Oregon, 3:30 p.m., ABC or ESPN2

Central Florida (-5) at Memphis, 3:30 p.m., ABC or ESPN2

Michigan State (+13.5) at Penn State, 3:30 p.m., Big Ten Network

Missouri (+27.5) at Alabama, 7 p.m., ESPN

Miami (-6.5) at Virginia, 7 p.m., ESPN2

Virginia Tech (-5.5) at North Carolina, 7 p.m., ESPNU

West Virginia (-6.5) at Iowa State, 7 p.m., Fox Sports 1

UCLA (+7.5) at California, 7 p.m., Pac-12 Network

Wisconsin (+7.5) at Michigan, 7:30 p.m., ABC

Ole Miss (-5.5) at Arkansas, 7:30 p.m., SEC Network

Hawaii (+8) at BYU, 10:15 p.m., ESPN2

Colorado (+7) at USC, 10:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1

 

Tech @ TCU will be fun Thursday night.
Pitt getting 21 @ Domies seems like a bunch.
Take West By God and the points. Iowa State is not very good.
Against my better judgement, I'm going to take Kansas State (+7). Okie Lite is a wreck.
Missouri (+27.5) @ Alabama
How in the blue hell is Colorado getting 7 at USC?

 

From yesterday:

Mike Stoops is finally, at last, out as Oklahoma DC

I bet that was a fun conversation.

 

This Pitt team is not very good and Notre Dame has run over its last two opponents. That line should be closer to 28.

 

Ole Miss @ Arkansas will be a race to 50.

 

If someone had been in a coma or stranded on a desert island since 1989, the Nebraska-Northwestern line would probably come as a bigger shock than Trump being President.

 

After the Gundy mess this week and then the loss to Iowa State, I'm wondering at what point Gundy is on the hot seat at OSU. On the one hand, they've got a 12-year bowl streak (and are 8-4 in those bowls), which is completely unprecedented in program history. On the other hand, the ceiling of the program under Gundy seems to be lose to OU, lose to at least one underdog in conference, play in a decent-but-not-great bowl game and finish in the top 20. At some point, the fanbase turns on him a la Richt at UGA, right?

 

Nope.
He will stay in Shitwater as long as he wants. He will never have the pressure on him like big brother does 45 minutes southwest of him. Gundy could have left a long time ago if he wanted to. Pickens appreciates that kind of loyalty.

 

OK State missed its chance last year. They had a 3-year starter at QB, two NFL receivers and a much easier schedule, with OU, TCU & K-State in Stillwater and Texas not yet “back.”

They still lost three games. Ten wins and a Florida bowl game appears to be the ceiling.

 

But Gundy’s kind of like Gary Patterson at TCU or Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech. They were so mediocre for so long before he got there, you have to wonder if they can do better.

 

Northwestern, Alabama, Ole Miss and Colorado are my first impression picks. That usually ends up changing by the end of the week.

 

FTFY