Yes, Tennessee is #1--in the official College Football Playoff seeding. My goodness, congratulations to "Vols" Nation. UGA is however a 9.5-point favorite to win the game.
No. 1 vs No. 3. This is only a game that could be played in the SEC. It is an amazing conference. What must tickets be going for in Athens on the "secondary market"?
That game is at 3:30 and at 7 #10 LSU hosts 'Bama (6) on the Irish bayou. I'm going to try to guess the line...Alabama -6. -13.5?!?! I tentatively resolved to invest no more in college football futures after cleaning up a couple of weeks ago, but this line strikes me as almost as wrong as that line was (Ok. State-K-State?). I know Brian Kelly in the way you can know a football coach who you have followed for decades but have never met. I know that Brian Kelly feasts on these games. I know that the "Bayous Chinese Bandit Tigers" got skinned by then-8th Tennessee in this same venue three weeks ago. And that 40-13 skinning has me concerned. But last week they beat Ole' Miss, 7th at the time, 45-20. ...So they got creamed by #8 here and creamed #7 here. Now they have #6 here. And it's BAMA. I don't care, I can't resist that line. How much do I risk? ...Nickel or dime. Nickel or dime, dime or nickel, um, um, um. I'm putting a dime on it. A dime on LSU getting 13.5.
Coupla nice little games in the Almost Competitive Conference. Nothing to compare to this SEC heavyweight tilts but nice undercards.
Clemson (4) at Notre Dame. Clem is -4. I have no quarrel with that line.
My beloved Pitt "PANTHERS" are at the stadium formerly known as Heinz against the 20th-ranked Syracuse "Orangemen" losers of two straight after being ranked as high as 14th. The Beloveds are 4-point faves. I don't have a mark on either of these two teams and wouldn't bet on a Pitt game anyway.
How 'bout this one in the ACC: NC State (22)-Wake Forest (21). Nice! Forest is -3 at Wolves.
In short pants City are 1-1 at HT agin' Fulman. Cancelo got a red card (!) in the 26', Fulman converted and the Angels have to play the rest of the match down a man!
