PiRate Ratings College Football–September 22-24, 2022

This Week’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Visitor	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Virginia Tech	West Virginia	-2.5	-1.5	-3.1
Georgia St.	Coastal Carolina	6.4	4.1	6.5
Syracuse	Virginia	10.4	9.4	11.3
Air Force	Nevada	19.1	17.1	20.3
UTEP	Boise St.	-18.4	-17.8	-19.3
Iowa St.	Baylor	-2.6	-1.3	-1.5
Kentucky	Northern Illinois	20.1	20.6	21.6
South Carolina	Charlotte	30.0	28.1	29.9
Temple	Massachusetts	9.2	11.2	9.4
Georgia	Kent St.	50.2	46.4	51.5
North Carolina	Notre Dame	-1.3	0.8	-1.4
Miami (Fla.)	Middle Tennessee	34.3	31.9	32.6
Michigan	Maryland	18.0	16.6	18.3
North Carolina St.	Connecticut	42.6	40.7	45.5
Penn St.	Central Michigan	29.7	27.6	26.7
Central Florida	Georgia Tech	17.1	18.1	19.9
Louisville	South Florida	16.9	16.9	16.6
Michigan St.	Minnesota	2.7	2.2	0.5
Wake Forest	Clemson	-11.2	-11.5	-12.2
Ohio St.	Wisconsin	15.2	13.8	16.7
Liberty	Akron	24.0	25.3	27.3
Florida St.	Boston College	17.1	14.9	17.7
Tennessee	Florida	15.6	14.4	16.1
Cincinnati	Indiana	13.2	13.3	17.7
East Carolina	Navy	16.2	16.9	19.2
Georgia Southern	Ball St.	9.9	8.4	10.4
Eastern Michigan	Buffalo	9.5	7.6	7.7
Appalachian St.	James Madison	8.6	8.4	6.1
Rutgers	Iowa	-9.2	-8.5	-10.3
Kansas	Duke	17.5	13.2	17.8
Northwestern	Miami (O)	8.6	7.1	3.9
Old Dominion	Arkansas St.	9.8	8.4	9.0
Colorado	UCLA	-12.0	-13.9	-14.7
BYU	Wyoming	28.7	24.5	27.2
New Mexico St.	Hawaii	5.1	5.7	3.8
Arizona St.	Utah	-11.5	-10.7	-12.5
Oregon St.	USC	1.6	0.5	1.5
San Diego St.	Toledo	4.5	3.2	3.2
Washington St.	Oregon	-7.7	-6.3	-6.1
California	Arizona	4.8	5.0	6.2
Washington	Stanford	8.0	11.7	11.3
Troy	Marshall	-1.5	-2.2	-0.4
South Alabama	Louisiana Tech	11.0	10.0	14.0
Mississippi St.	Bowling Green	30.3	29.7	29.4
Oklahoma	Kansas St.	13.4	14.1	14.6
Ole Miss	Tulsa	23.9	22.7	22.5
Alabama	Vanderbilt	37.1	35.0	39.9
SMU	TCU	-5.7	-4.9	-3.9
Texas Tech	Texas	-2.7	-3.3	-1.3
UL-Monroe	Louisiana	-9.6	-9.9	-12.7
Texas A&M (n)	Arkansas	-4.6	-1.7	-3.6
Houston	Rice	20.5	20.1	21.8
Memphis	North Texas	16.7	18.1	15.7
Tulane	Southern Miss.	17.4	15.9	16.2
Auburn	Missouri	8.5	6.7	8.3
Western Kentucky	Florida Int’l.	35.0	32.1	39.3
Utah St.	UNLV	1.0	3.4	1.7
Purdue	Florida Atlantic	31.5	28.9	29.4
LSU	New Mexico	33.8	32.5	33.9
San Jose St.	Western Michigan	-1.7	-2.4	-1.5

FBS vs. FCS Games

FBS	FCS	PiRate
Illinois	Chattanooga	23.8
Ohio	Fordham	16.7
Texas St.	Houston Baptist	26.4
Pittsburgh	Rhode Island	32.0
Colorado St.	Sacramento St.	-3.0
UTSA	Texas Southern	37.2

Teams With Byes

Army

Fresno St.

Nebraska

Oklahoma St.

UAB

This Week’s PiRate Ratings

Rank	Team	Rating
1	Georgia	135.3
2	Alabama	129.5
3	Ohio St.	128.8
4	Michigan	124.6
5	Oklahoma	120.7
6	Clemson	119.7
7	Tennessee	118.2
8	Penn St.	118.2
9	NC State	117.1
10	Wisconsin	116.6
11	Oklahoma St.	116.5
12	Minnesota	116.4
13	Utah	116.3
14	Ole Miss	115.8
15	Purdue	115.2
16	Michigan St.	115.2
17	Arkansas	115.1
18	L S U	114.9
19	Miami (Fla.)	114.8
20	Baylor	114.6
21	Pittsburgh	114.3
22	Mississippi St.	113.5
23	Kentucky	113.4
24	Oregon	113.0
25	Florida St.	112.5
26	Texas	112.5
27	Iowa	112.4
28	Cincinnati	112.2
29	Texas A&M	111.8
30	U S C	111.6
31	Notre Dame	111.3
32	BYU	111.0
33	T C U	110.7
34	Maryland	110.0
35	Oregon St.	109.8
36	Iowa St.	109.7
37	Kansas St.	109.6
38	Washington	108.7
39	Syracuse	108.3
40	Louisville	108.1
41	U C L A	107.7
42	North Carolina	107.7
43	Texas Tech	107.5
44	South Carolina	107.0
45	UCF	106.6
46	Auburn	106.2
47	Florida	105.9
48	Wake Forest	105.6
49	Illinois	105.5
50	West Virginia	104.5
51	SMU	104.4
52	Boise St.	104.2
53	Washington St.	103.3
54	Kansas	102.8
55	Tulane	102.7
56	Houston	102.4
57	Air Force	102.3
58	Arizona St.	101.8
59	Fresno St.	101.7
60	East Carolina	101.7
61	Stanford	101.4
62	Missouri	101.4
63	Virginia	100.9
64	Nebraska	100.3
65	Rutgers	100.1
66	Indiana	99.9
67	Appalachian St.	99.7
68	Virginia Tech	99.6
69	U A B	98.9
70	Boston College	98.9
71	California	98.7
72	W. Kentucky	98.5
73	Army	98.4
74	Memphis	98.3
75	Liberty	98.2
76	U T S A	97.1
77	Georgia St.	96.8
78	Northwestern	96.6
79	Arizona	96.3
80	Marshall	95.8
81	Tulsa	95.8
82	N. Illinois	95.6
83	San Diego St.	95.2
84	Vanderbilt	95.2
85	James Madison	95.0
86	Louisiana	94.8
87	Toledo	94.5
88	USF	94.3
89	Coastal Carolina	93.6
90	Western Mich.	93.2
91	Central Mich.	93.2
92	Miami (Ohio)	92.5
93	Troy	92.0
94	South Alabama	91.4
95	Georgia Tech	91.2
96	Colorado	91.2
97	U N L V	91.2
98	Old Dominion	90.8
99	Ga. Southern	90.3
100	Utah St.	90.2
101	Duke	89.6
102	Kent St.	89.0
103	Eastern Mich.	88.8
104	San Jose St.	88.3
105	Florida Atlantic	88.3
106	Southern Miss.	88.1
107	Navy	87.2
108	Wyoming	87.2
109	Bowling Green	86.7
110	Nevada	86.5
111	Ohio	85.4
112	Middle Tennessee	84.8
113	Arkansas St.	84.8
114	New Mexico	84.6
115	Colorado St.	84.1
116	North Texas	83.9
117	Ball St.	83.7
118	Buffalo	83.5
119	U T E P	83.2
120	Rice	82.6
121	Louisiana Tech	82.2
122	UL-Monroe	82.0
123	Texas St.	80.9
124	Charlotte	80.2
125	Temple	79.6
126	Connecticut	77.2
127	Akron	75.1
128	New Mexico St.	73.9
129	Hawaii	72.5
130	Massachusetts	72.2
131	Florida Int’l.	65.5

PiRate Ratings By Conference

American Athletic Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Cincinnati	111.8	111.2	113.5	112.2
UCF	106.1	106.8	106.8	106.6
SMU	104.5	103.8	104.9	104.4
Tulane	103.1	102.4	102.5	102.7
Houston	102.5	101.7	103.1	102.4
East Carolina	101.4	101.1	102.5	101.7
Memphis	98.2	98.6	98.0	98.3
Tulsa	96.0	95.4	96.0	95.8
USF	95.0	93.8	94.1	94.3
Navy	88.2	87.2	86.3	87.2
Temple	79.6	81.9	77.3	79.6
AAC	98.8	98.5	98.6	98.6
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Clemson	119.6	119.5	120.1	119.7
NC State	117.4	116.4	117.5	117.1
Florida St.	112.8	112.2	112.4	112.5
Syracuse	109.1	108.0	107.9	108.3
Louisville	108.9	107.7	107.7	108.1
Wake Forest	105.9	105.5	105.4	105.6
Boston College	98.7	100.3	97.7	98.9
Coastal Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Miami (Fla.)	115.3	114.1	114.9	114.8
Pittsburgh	115.2	114.1	113.7	114.3
North Carolina	107.6	107.9	107.6	107.7
Virginia	101.6	101.6	99.6	100.9
Virginia Tech	100.1	100.6	98.0	99.6
Georgia Tech	92.1	91.7	89.9	91.2
Duke	89.6	92.2	87.0	89.6
ACC	106.7	106.5	105.7	106.3
Big 12 Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oklahoma	120.9	120.1	121.1	120.7
Oklahoma St.	117.1	115.6	116.9	116.5
Baylor	115.2	114.0	114.5	114.6
Texas	113.1	112.2	112.1	112.5
T C U	111.7	110.2	110.4	110.7
Iowa St.	109.5	109.7	110.0	109.7
Kansas St.	110.5	109.0	109.4	109.6
Texas Tech	107.9	106.4	108.3	107.5
West Virginia	105.1	104.7	103.6	104.5
Kansas	104.2	102.4	101.8	102.8
Big 12	111.5	110.4	110.8	110.9
Big Ten Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Ohio St.	129.2	127.5	129.9	128.8
Michigan	125.0	123.8	125.0	124.6
Penn St.	118.3	118.2	118.1	118.2
Michigan St.	116.2	115.1	114.4	115.2
Maryland	110.1	110.1	109.8	110.0
Rutgers	101.3	100.7	98.3	100.1
Indiana	101.1	100.4	98.3	99.9
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Wisconsin	117.0	116.6	116.2	116.6
Minnesota	116.5	115.9	116.9	116.4
Purdue	116.3	115.1	114.2	115.2
Iowa	113.5	112.2	111.6	112.4
Illinois	105.9	106.5	104.2	105.5
Nebraska	100.9	100.6	99.5	100.3
Northwestern	96.9	98.0	94.8	96.6
Big Ten	112.0	111.5	110.8	111.4
Conference USA
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
U A B	98.3	98.5	99.9	98.9
W. Kentucky	97.7	97.6	100.2	98.5
U T S A	97.6	96.2	97.5	97.1
Florida Atlantic	87.8	89.2	87.8	88.3
Middle Tennessee	84.0	85.2	85.3	84.8
North Texas	84.0	83.0	84.8	83.9
U T E P	83.4	83.0	83.1	83.2
Rice	83.0	82.6	82.3	82.6
Louisiana Tech	82.1	83.6	80.9	82.2
Charlotte	79.9	80.9	79.7	80.2
Florida Int’l.	65.2	68.0	63.4	65.5
CUSA	85.7	86.2	85.9	85.9
FBS Independents
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Notre Dame	111.9	110.1	112.0	111.3
BYU	111.6	109.8	111.5	111.0
Army	98.2	98.6	98.5	98.4
Liberty	96.8	98.6	99.1	98.2
Connecticut	77.8	78.7	75.1	77.2
New Mexico St.	73.5	75.3	72.8	73.9
Massachusetts	72.9	73.3	70.4	72.2
Independents	91.8	92.1	91.3	91.7
Mid-American Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Miami (Ohio)	90.8	93.4	93.4	92.5
Kent St.	88.1	90.4	88.4	89.0
Bowling Green	87.2	86.2	86.6	86.7
Ohio	84.2	86.3	85.6	85.4
Buffalo	82.1	84.6	84.0	83.5
Akron	75.3	75.8	74.3	75.1
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
N. Illinois	95.5	95.8	95.5	95.6
Toledo	93.7	94.7	95.2	94.5
Western Mich.	92.6	93.6	93.5	93.2
Central Mich.	91.6	93.5	94.4	93.2
Eastern Mich.	88.6	89.1	88.6	88.8
Ball St.	83.4	84.5	83.4	83.7
MAC	87.8	89.0	88.6	88.4
Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Boise St.	104.3	103.3	104.9	104.2
Air Force	101.9	101.9	103.2	102.3
Utah St.	89.9	90.1	90.6	90.2
Wyoming	85.9	88.3	87.3	87.2
New Mexico	84.7	85.2	83.8	84.6
Colorado St.	83.9	84.7	83.9	84.1
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Fresno St.	101.6	100.9	102.6	101.7
San Diego St.	95.2	94.9	95.4	95.2
U N L V	91.8	89.7	91.9	91.2
San Jose St.	87.8	88.2	89.0	88.3
Nevada	85.9	87.8	85.9	86.5
Hawaii	71.9	73.2	72.6	72.5
MWC	90.4	90.7	90.9	90.7
Pac-12 Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Utah	116.2	115.1	117.8	116.3
Oregon	113.4	112.8	112.8	113.0
U S C	111.1	111.7	112.1	111.6
Oregon St.	109.7	109.2	110.6	109.8
Washington	107.9	108.9	109.2	108.7
U C L A	107.3	107.2	108.7	107.7
Washington St.	102.7	103.4	103.7	103.3
Arizona St.	101.6	101.4	102.3	101.8
Stanford	102.9	100.3	100.9	101.4
California	98.2	98.3	99.5	98.7
Arizona	96.4	96.3	96.3	96.3
Colorado	92.2	90.3	91.0	91.2
Pac-12	105.0	104.6	105.4	105.0
Southeastern Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Georgia	135.3	133.8	136.9	135.3
Tennessee	118.0	118.1	118.6	118.2
Kentucky	112.6	113.4	114.1	113.4
South Carolina	107.5	106.5	107.1	107.0
Florida	105.3	106.8	105.5	105.9
Missouri	101.6	102.0	100.4	101.4
Vanderbilt	95.3	96.3	93.8	95.2
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Alabama	129.4	128.4	130.7	129.5
Ole Miss	116.9	115.1	115.5	115.8
Arkansas	115.6	113.8	116.0	115.1
L S U	115.5	114.6	114.7	114.9
Mississippi St.	114.5	112.9	113.1	113.5
Texas A&M	111.0	112.1	112.4	111.8
Auburn	107.2	105.7	105.7	106.2
SEC	113.3	112.8	113.2	113.1
Sunbelt Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Appalachian St.	98.3	100.0	100.7	99.7
Georgia St.	96.3	95.5	98.5	96.8
Marshall	95.3	96.4	95.7	95.8
James Madison	92.7	94.6	97.6	95.0
Coastal Carolina	92.4	94.0	94.5	93.6
Old Dominion	90.8	90.9	90.8	90.8
Ga. Southern	90.3	89.8	90.8	90.3
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Louisiana	93.9	94.2	96.1	94.8
Troy	91.3	91.7	92.9	92.0
South Alabama	90.6	91.1	92.4	91.4
Southern Miss.	87.7	88.4	88.3	88.1
Arkansas St.	84.0	85.5	84.8	84.8
UL-Monroe	82.3	82.4	81.4	82.0
Texas St.	80.3	81.4	81.0	80.9
Sun Belt	90.5	91.1	91.8	91.1

Conference Ratings

Rank	Conference	Rating
1	Southeastern	113.1
2	Big Ten	111.4
3	Big 12	110.9
4	Atlantic Coast	106.3
5	Pac-12	105.0
6	American Athletic	98.6
7	Independents	91.7
8	Sun Belt	91.1
9	Mountain West	90.7
10	Mid-American	88.4
11	Conference USA	85.9

Playoff Projections

1.) Georgia

2.) Ohio St.

3.) Alabama

4.) Oklahoma

Most Likely Top Group of 5 Team

For Automatic New Year’s 6 Bowl Game

1.) Coastal Carolina

2.) Cincinnati

3.) Appalachian St.

4.) Tulane

PiRate Picks For September 9-10, 2022

Last week, the most important part of our PiRate Picks publication was telling you that a broken clock is still correct twice a day. Please remember this, because we have experienced our broken clock accuracy up front this year. For the second week in a row, our selections went 3-0 to give us a 6-0 record to start the season. We know there are about 150-200 new visitors to this site since the 2021-22 College Football National Championship. Get this and get it good–we are not svengali’s. We are not Billy Walters. We aren’t even Brent Musberger and his incredible cast of handicappers. What are we? Really lucky and not much more than that.

Every week, we preface our selections by urging (begging) you not to wager real currency on the selections you read on this site. We know that there are a considerable number of professional speculators in the Nevada gold mines. We don’t have to tell you what to do with your occupation. It’s Joe Tackletrap in Wichita Falls, Texas, who makes $40,000 a year working himself silly that can ill afford to lose $500 that we have concerns about losing $500 because he wagered $100 each on five selections and lost them all, as he saw his mortgage payment money taken away.

Last week, we casually mentioned that there were some people in Nevada that we had information that they were following this site. Wow! We heard from six different people, two of whom represent a consortium of others, telling us they follow this site. And, they were not all from Las Vegas. We have to give some love to the biggest little city in America–Reno. There’s somebody there that sent us a little note.

For one paragraph, let’s pretend that we really did speculate these first two weeks of the football season, wagering $100 ($110) on margins and totals and $100 on the money line parlay. With the 6-0 record, including a parlay that paid back $241.77, our pretend starting bank account of $1,000 would now be worth $1,641.77. Making a 64% profit in two weeks in real life would quickly lead us to cash out and play no more games. That would be our Holiday Fund for this year.

What are the chances that our picks will be perfect again this week? The prior best first three week start we have ever had was a 9-3-1 start to the 2008 season. In most years, September is our worst month, with a big turnaround in October. Thus, we still do not have much confidence in our September picks. It’s merely the law of averages giving us a positive outlier.

Now that we have adequately warned you, we present our picks for this week. We are going with five selections.

Selection #1: Missouri and Kansas State UNDER 56 1/2

Our belief here is that the Wildcats will play a bit conservatively in the first half trying to keep the ball away from the Tiger offense, as Coach Chris Kleiman is a defense first leader. Missouri scored 52 points against a weak Louisiana Tech defense, and our belief is that the totals line might be a tad too high due to this. KSU’s defense pitched a shutout over FCS South Dakota. The Coyotes are not the top team in the Mount Rushmore state, but their offense is consistent. We see this game as a 28-20 win for the Wildcats. That gives us an extra touchdown to be wrong and still be right.

Selection #2: Iowa and Iowa State OVER 39 1/2

Iowa failed to reach the end zone against South Dakota State, winning 7-3 on a field goal and two safeties. The public looked at a Big Ten team’s offense failing to score on an FCS opponent and didn’t realize two important factors. First, South Dakota State is probably better than 60-75 FBS teams. Second, a college football team improves the most during a season in the practices between game one and game two. You can bet that this week in Iowa City, the offensive units in Hawkeye Land have had just about enough of hearing how lame they were in the opener. Over in Ames, Iowa State’s offense is far superior to its defense. Giving up 10 points to SEMO is nothing like Iowa’s holding SDSU to 3. SEMO is a mediocre Ohio Valley Conference team. Iowa will unleash its offense this week and top 20 points. Our hope is that Iowa State will respond in kind and make this a 24-21 game, topping 39 1/2 points.

Selection #3: Florida and Kentucky OVER 52 1/2

Florida came through for us last week, winning as an underdog when we believed the wrong team was favored. Kentucky overcame a slow start and eventually slaughtered a decent but not spectacular Miami of Ohio team. We believe that the Florida team that almost beat Alabama in 2021 before the team quit on former coach Dan Mullen has returned. If they could score 29 on Alabama last year and 29 on a tough Utah defense in week one, the Gators should put the chomp on Kentucky’s defense for more than 35 points. Can Kentucky’s offense produce 17 points or more? We think they Wildcats will top 20 points, and thus we believe the total in this game will top 56.

Selection #4: Arizona +11 1/2 vs. Mississippi State

This game is a tad different from how we normally play home underdogs. We tend to like our home dogs to get 1 to 7 points. We are making an exception here because it is our belief that few too people saw how the Wildcats went to San Diego State on the Christening of their new stadium and spoiled the party for the home team. We have been keeping our eyes on Coach Jedd Fisch since his arrival in Tucson. It is our beliefe that ‘Zona may have found their football equivalent of Lute Olson. His pedigree is about as incredible as a long-time assistant coach can own. Going up against a Mike Leach-coached team, this late night desert dogfight is going to give us reason to brew an evening pot of coffee. This could be the most entertaining game of Week Two, and we expect the home team to be in it for the entire 60 minutes. What’s great about this selection is that the superior SEC is having to play at the Pac-12 opponent’s home field rather than watch the Pac-12 team make the 2,000+ mile trip to the Southeast. Mississippi State could win this game 31-21, 34-24, 38-28, 35-24, 38-27 and still not cover. We tend to believe that this game will be a 3 to 7 point game in either direction.

Selection #5: Money Line Parlay at +172.97

Central Florida over Louisville

Arkansas over South Carolina

Florida over Kentucky

Louisville looked terrible in a blowout loss at Syracuse and did not look ready to play. Coach Scott Satterfield is sitting on a scorching hot seat, as he has had UL detractors since his hiring. At the same time, Gus Malzahn has quickly become a favored coach in Orlando, and Central Florida looks like a real contender for the American Athletic Conference Championship. In addition, UCF has had this game circled on their schedule and calendar. UL won this game on a pick six last year. The Cardinals are headed to an ambush in Orlando.

The Arkansas-South Carolina game should be quite interesting as two very good SEC teams face off in Fayetteville. We were a bit concerned with Spencer Rattler’s performance against Georgia State, as it was a little too similar to the performances he turned in at Oklahoma, which cost him his starting spot. Arkansas has a much better pass rush and secondary than Georgia State, and their offense at times pushed Cincinnati’s defense around. We see Pig Sooey winning by 10-14 points if not more.

Kentucky has defeated Florida twice in four years, after going mutiple decades without a win over the Gators. Billy Napier has quickly become a favorite in the Swamp almost on par with Steve Spurrier. He probably is the most like former Gator coaches Ray Graves and Doug Dickey than Spurrier or any coaches since. The Gators will be prepared and ready to play every week. Napier is part of both the Nick Saben and Dabo Swinney coaching trees. He knows how to run a program, and his year at Louisiana proved it. Kentucky and coach Mark Stoops are not exactly chopped liver. The Wildcats have a potent team with an NFL prospect under center. Will Levis could be a top three pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. Kentucky could be the second best team in the SEC East, but they could be the third or fourth best too. We believe that the Gators will come into this game not resting on their laurels after pulling off the biggest win of Week One. Napier won’t let them get swollen heads. We’re going with Florida in a thriller, and we see the Gators winning 38-28.

PiRate Picks–September 1-5, 2022

You know what they say about a broken clock being accurate twice a day? The PiRate Ratings happened to hit the right time on our broken clock in week one. We began the season with three totals’ plays in Week 0, and by luck, all three won. So, we start the season 3-0 against the spread, but are our picks a broken clock that happened to get lucky and be broken on the right time, or did we legitimately begin the season on a winning note?

In most years, our picks begin seasons on a somewhat mediocre beginning and then hit a hot spot in October and early November. What are we to make of a 3-0 start, where if we had begun with an imaginary bank account of $1,000 and wagered $100 on each of the three picks, we would have $1,300 in our account today? Maybe, if we were smart enough, we’d cash in our winning 30% profit and go away for the season. Not many people can make a 30% profit on an investment in one year.

Ah, but here’s the rub. In actuality a 30% profit on $0 is still $0. We could lose every pick we make the rest of the season, and we will have the same amount of real money we would have if we won every wager the rest of the year, because out real investment in this is $0. We never wager real money on these picks, and please don’t do so either.

Some of you do wager for real. We hope this site is merely an addendum to your process.

We have chosen three more selections in Week 1 of the College Football Season, and the three selections involve three different types of wagers. We are going with one side, one total, and one Money Line Parlay with a potential payoff of 141.77%.

Selection #1: Florida + 2 1/2 vs. Utah

Utah probably has three key games this year, where if the Utes go 3-0, they might be 13-0 when the College Football Playoff Committee chooses the four big teams. This is one of those three. I’d really like to see this game move to 3 1/2 points, because about 1 of every 11 college football games end with a 3-point spread. However, this one is a game where we believe the wrong team might be favored. Florida was much better than their record last year. The Gators basically mailed it in the second half of the year, and Dan Mullen was shown the door. New coach Billy Napier has restored the faith at the Swamp. While this Gator team has some vulnerable areas, maybe on the offensive side of the ball, the thought here is that the defense will be fired up and play above their heads in Napier’s first game. While the average of the three PiRate Ratings show Utah to be more than a 6-point favorite in this game, the thought here is that the Gators will be a touchdown better than their real worth, and that makes Florida a slight favorite. Getting 2 1/2 points when the underdog looks like a 55% outright winner is enough to work and make this a pick.

Selection #2: Michigan and Colorado St. UNDER 61 1/2

The question here to us is, “Can Michigan score over 50 points in this game?” The reason we ask this is that Colorado State is likely to score 10 points or less trying to break in a new offense with a new coach and without the necessary players to make it work? Michigan figures to win this game by more than 4 touchdowns, more likely 5 touchdowns. A score of 45-10 looks about right here, and that’s 6 1/2 points less than the total for this game.

Selection #3: Money Line Parlay–3 games at +141.77

Pittsburgh over West Virginia

TCU over Colorado

Houston over UTSA

The Backyard Brawl to start the season is an incredible first game rivalry. Pittsburgh lost a lot of talent off last year’s team, but the Panthers had a good bit of depth. Meanwhile, West Virginia is slowly building up their talent level, but the Mountaineers have a long way to go. In fact, this could be the year where the game with Kansas determines which team finishes last in the Big 12. Pittsburgh looks 10-13 points better to start the season.

TCU starts a new era in Fort Worth for the first time since 2000. Sonny Dykes tries to give the Horned Frogs a little more offense and brings more of a passing game, air-raid style. After surprising some people in the 2020 Covid year and guiding the Buffs to four consecutive wins to start his tenure in Boulder, Colorado has since gone 4-10. This game looks like a 10-14 point win for TCU.

Houston figures to contend along with Central Florida as Cincinnati’s top competitors in the American Athletic Conference. While UTSA is a top of the food chain team in CUSA, they are not ready to stake a claim to second best team in the Lonestar State after Texas A&M. Even playing in San Antonio, the Cougars are at least a touchdown better than the Roadrunners.

Season to Date

Beginning Bankroll (not real): $1,000

Imaginary Investment Last Week: $300

Outcome 3-0

Imaginary return $600

New Bank Account: $1,300

SEC Preview

Current Penn State head football coach James Franklin once said when he was the head coach at Vanderbilt that there were three major football leagues in America: The NFC, The AFC, and The SEC. This conference has dominated the National Championship Playoffs placing two teams in the four-team field multiple times. Prior to the Playoff era, it produced multiple BCS Championship Game teams, including an Alabama-LSU game. Prior to the BCS era, it produced multiple mythical national champions. It wasn’t just Alabama. Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, and Tennessee claimed titles. Former member Georgia Tech did as well.

The SEC was the pioneer of divisional play with a conference championship game, when Arkansas and South Carolina joined the league in 1991. It was the first conference to expand to 12 teams. Adding Texas A&M and Missouri, it became the first major conference to expand to 14 teams, and by announcing the addition of Texas and Oklahoma in the near future, it became the first major conference to expand to 16. It isn’t the first attempt at a 16-team league, as the Western Athletic Conference expanded to 16 teams in 1996. That overgrowth lasted three seasons, before the league realized that travel expenses were too high and revenue too low to continue. The Mountain West Conference was formed when the league split in half.

The opposite will be true when a 16-team SEC begins in 2024 or 2025. The media rights package will pay each member school about $100 million apiece. Travel from Gainesvile, Florida to Austin, Texas, or Columbia, South Carolina to Norman, Oklahoma will not be a cost probitive as travel from Houston, Texas to Honolulu, Hawaii, as the old WAC had to do. Of course, the TV ratings will be many times greater.

Will the SEC be content to stop at 16 teams in the near future? Commissioner Greg Sankey has admitted multiple times, almost stressing it a bit too far, that multiple school presidents and athletic directors had contacted him about admittance to the league. Sankey wouldn’t continually announce this news if he wasn’t trying to keep it in the news. It looks like a quasi-threat to the other big league that will soon stretch from coast to coast that he can expand to 20 or even 24 teams quite easily.

What about 2022? A year after Alabama and Georgia met in a spectacular National Championship Game, it looks quite possible that the two teams could produce an encore performance. Georgia lost enough talent to form a new team and gain bowl eligibility. Losing that many NFL Draftees, it should lead to a major rebuilding effort. However, Kirby Smart has so much talent on board in Athens. Last year’s Bulldogs’ second team was still the second best team in the SEC East. Those players are a year more experienced, and there is still first team talent remaining. The talent is so abundant with depth that Smart didn’t seek out any added players in the Transfer Portal. Georgia could easily go 12-0 in the regular season again this year, because the rest of the division teams have too many weaknesses.

The second, third, fourth, and fifth best teams all have enough talent to win nine games this year. Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, and South Carolina return exceptional players on both sides of the ball and add players that should contribute this year. But, none of the quartet can go 7-1 in SEC play. Even if Georgia is upset by one of these four, the Bulldogs will go 7-1.

Florida could surprise a lot of people this year. This team has a lot more talent than their 2021 record showed. The team quit on former coach Dan Mullen. They will give their all for new coach Billy Napier, who comes to Gainesville after making the University of Louisiana a top 20 team.

South Carolina could be the other surprise. At this time last year, former Oklahoma quarterback Spencer Rattler was the early Heisman Trophy candidate. He’s now a Gamecock, and if he can regain his old form, USC has a chance to increase their points per game by 10 points.

Missouri faces a rebuilding effort under second year coach Eliah Drinkwitz. The Tigers have a tough non-conference game at Kansas State, and it may require a win in that game for MU to gain bowl eligibility this year. It isn’t likely to happen.

As for Vanderbilt, second year coach Clarke Lea might have a better team this year than last, but this team is so far behind the rest of the league, that it would be a minor miracle for the Commodores to win a conference game. Vandy has lost its last 18 SEC games, and that number will likely rise to 26 at the end of the year. This isn’t foreign to this school; they once lost 33 consecutive SEC games from 1976 to 1981.

As for the West, here is something scary. Last year, when Alabama went 11-1 in the regular season, slaughtered eventual national champion Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, easily dismissed Cincinnati in the College Football Playoffs as the #1 seed and then sort of blew the National Championship Game against Georgia, it was, according to Coach Nick Saban, a rebuilding season in Tuscaloosa. Saban doesn’t make statements like this often. He’s warning the rest of the nation that he has a team for the ages for 2022. By team for the ages, I refer to legendary college teams like Nebraska in 1971 and 1995, Miami of Florida in 1988 and 2001, and USC in 1972 and 2004. Basically, he is calling this team the equal of the 2020 team that went 13-0 with an average game score of 49-19. If Alabama loses a regular season game, it will make news in 2022.

SEC Preseason PiRate Ratings

East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Georgia	130.5	128.6	132.1	130.4
Tennessee	115.1	114.8	115.2	115.0
Kentucky	112.0	112.7	113.2	112.6
South Carolina	109.4	108.7	108.8	109.0
Florida	105.8	107.9	106.2	106.6
Missouri	103.9	104.0	102.9	103.6
Vanderbilt	91.0	92.2	89.2	90.8
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Alabama	128.9	127.6	130.5	129.0
Arkansas	115.8	113.8	116.0	115.2
Texas A&M	113.3	114.7	114.7	114.2
Mississippi St.	115.1	113.0	113.4	113.8
L S U	112.9	112.1	112.1	112.4
Ole Miss	113.3	111.3	111.7	112.1
Auburn	112.0	110.5	110.8	111.1
SEC	112.8	112.3	112.6	112.6

Preseason Official SEC Media Poll (I voted in this poll)

		Votes
#	East	1st Place	Overall
1	Georgia	172	1254
2	Kentucky	4	932
3	Tennessee	1	929
4	Florida	0	712
5	South Carolina	3	662
6	Missouri	0	383
7	Vanderbilt	1	196
#	West	1st Place	Overall
1	Alabama	177	1262
2	Texas A&M	3	968
3	Arkansas	1	844
4	Ole Miss	0	675
5	LSU	0	591
6	Mississippi St.	0	390
7	Auburn	0	338
	Championship	Overall
	Alabama	158
	Georgia	18
	South Carolina	3
	Vanderbilt	1
	Texas A&M	1

The PiRate Ratings are not designed to look forward past the next week of games like other computer ratings. My ratings factor experience and depth into the power rating number. Teams with exceptional depth might gain points during the season regardless of the outcome of their previous game. Teams lacking experience but possessing exceptional talent might gain points during the year. Teams lacking depth might lose points during the year. Nevertheless, here are the predictions.

Predicted Won-Loss Records

East	Conf.	Overall
Georgia	8-0	12-1
Kentucky	4-4	8-4
Tennessee	4-4	7-5
Florida	4-4	6-6
South Carolina	3-5	6-6
Missouri	1-7	4-8
Vanderbilt	0-8	2-10
West	Conf.	Overall
Alabama	8-0	13-0
Arkansas	5-3	9-3
Texas A&M	5-3	9-3
LSU	4-4	8-4
Mississippi State	4-4	8-4
Ole Miss	4-4	8-4
Auburn	2-6	6-6

Coming Monday: The first regular season PiRate Ratings with spreads of Week 0 games. College football kicks off Saturday, August 27.

SEC PiRate Football Game

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Do you want to coach one of these teams?

1973 Alabama: The Tide offense rolled on the ground with their wishbone clicking on all cylinders, but the incredible passing game that led the nation in yards per completion and per attempt with Richard Todd and Gary Rutledge directing the attack, made this offense close to unstoppable.

1970 Auburn: Pat Sullivan really earned his Heisman Trophy in his junior year with much better overall passing stats than the following season when he actually got the award. Sullivan to Terry Beasley put a lot of touchdowns on the board.

1966 Florida: Steve Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy, while powerful running back Larry Smith kept defenses honest. Spurrier also punted and occasionally booted some field goals, including one important one that probably cemented his winning trip to the Downtown Athletic Club.

1971 Georgia: Local high school star Andy Johnson chose to stay home for college, and he ran the veer offense about as competently as any QB in the history of college football. Georgia didn’t pass a lot, but they moved the ball on the ground and ate the clock. The Junkyard Dog defense was tough against the run, especially plays run wide.

1977 Kentucky: The last Division 1 college team to run a full-house T-formation offense as their principal alignment, this Wildcats’ team played power football with strong-running QB Derrick Ramsey rolling out and usually keeping the ball. The defense was the real star of the show, as Art Still made life miserable for the other team’s QB.

1961 LSU: Coach Paul Dietzel believed this team was actually more talented than his 1958 national champions, but unfortunately, LSU didn’t play Alabama this year, and the two rivals split the SEC Championship.

1962 Ole Miss: Johnny Vaught was a legend in the quarter century following WWII. His teams were noted for wide open offense and a defense that limited the other team from having big plays. This was his lone undefeated and untied squad, and this Rebels’ team picked up a couple of national championship awards.

1963 Mississippi State: The Bulldogs’ defense was near the top in the nation in points and yards allowed, even though their schedule was also among the toughest in the nation. The Maroon Bullies upset a top-5 Auburn team and tied SEC Champion Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl, before winning the last Liberty Bowl game played in Philadelphia.

1970 Tennessee: The Vols went 11-1 including a shutout win over Alabama and a blowout win i the Sugar Bowl over Air Force. This team intercepted an incredible 36 passes to lead the nation by far.

1974 Vanderbilt: Former Alabama QB Steve Sloan came to Vandy and immediately turned the program around, going 7-3-2 in his second year in Nashville and fielding the number one offense in the SEC. Vandy’s big win in 1974 was a thrashing of undefeated and #5 Florida.

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/28/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Arizona	Gonzaga	Baylor	Kansas
2	Auburn	Duke	Kentucky	Purdue
3	Texas Tech	Villanova	Wisconsin	Tennessee
4	Providence	Illinois	Connecticut	UCLA
5	Texas	Arkansas	Ohio St.	Alabama
6	Houston	Saint Mary’s	USC	Michigan St.
7	LSU	Marquette	Iowa	Iowa St.
8	Colorado St.	Boise St.	Seton Hall	Murray St.
9	Wyoming	TCU	Notre Dame	Xavier
10	Creighton	San Francisco	Wake Forest	Davidson
11	North Texas	North Carolina	San Diego St.	Miami (Fla.)
12	Iona	South Dakota St.	Indiana	Memphis	Michigan	SMU
13	Chattanooga	New Mexico St.	Toledo	Vermont
14	Towson	Texas St.	Princeton	Northern Iowa
15	Jacksonville St.	Montana St.	Long Beach St.	Longwood
16	Colgate	Purdue Ft. Wayne	Bryant	Nicholls St.	Norfolk St.	Texas Southern

Best of the Rest

69	Loyola (Chi.)
70	BYU
71	Rutgers
72	Florida
73	VCU
74	Virginia Tech
75	Oregon
76	St. Bonaventure
77	Dayton
78	Oklahoma
79	Mississippi St.
80	Belmont

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
North Dakota	St. Thomas	-0.9
Dartmouth	Yale	-2.2
Missouri	Tennessee	-12.5
Florida	Arkansas	-0.6
Iowa	Michigan St.	5.6
Northeastern	Charleston	-1.1
Monmouth	Siena	9.2
St. Bonaventure	Rhode Island	7.1
George Washington	Richmond	-6.4
Eastern Michigan	Northern Illinois	2.6
Kent St.	Ball St.	9.6
Akron	Bowling Green	8.1
Miami (O)	Buffalo	-6.5
Western Michigan	Toledo	-15.3
Ohio	Central Michigan	17.6
Texas A&M	Georgia	12.2
Connecticut	Villanova	0.4
Texas Tech	Oklahoma	9.3
Pittsburgh	Miami (Fla.)	-4.4
Saint Louis	Saint Joseph’s	11.8
Northwestern	Nebraska	11.2
Kansas	Kansas St.	13.0
Vanderbilt	Alabama	-3.8
Air Force	Fresno St.	-8.7
Boise St.	San Diego St.	2.0
Cal Poly	Cal St. Bakersfield	-1.5
Utah St.	New Mexico	12.1
Nevada	UNLV	0.3

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/21/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Arizona	Kansas	Auburn
2	Kentucky	Baylor	Purdue	Duke
3	Texas Tech	Illinois	Villanova	Tennessee
4	Wisconsin	UCLA	Providence	Texas
5	Alabama	Houston	Ohio St.	Connecticut
6	LSU	Arkansas	Michigan St.	USC
7	Marquette	Saint Mary’s	Xavier	Colorado St.
8	Boise St.	Iowa St.	Seton Hall	Murray St.
9	Wyoming	Iowa	San Francisco	TCU
10	Wake Forest	Davidson	San Diego St.	Creighton
11	Notre Dame	Miami (Fla.)	Indiana	Memphis	Michigan
12	North Texas	Iona	Chattanooga	Loyola (Chi.)	North Carolina
13	South Dakota St.	New Mexico St.	Northern Iowa	Vermont
14	Toledo	Wagner	Towson	Montana St.
15	Jacksonville St.	Princeton	Texas St.	UC-Irvine
16	Cleveland St.	Colgate	Longwood	New Orleans	Norfolk St.	Texas Southern

Best of the Rest

69	BYU
70	SMU
71	Florida
72	Rutgers
73	VCU
74	Belmont
75	Oklahoma
76	Oregon

PiRate Ratings Bracketology

Date	2/18/2022
Seed	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team	Team
1	Gonzaga	Auburn	Arizona	Kansas
2	Baylor	Kentucky	Purdue	Villanova
3	Duke	Texas Tech	Wisconsin	Tennessee
4	Providence	UCLA	Illinois	Texas
5	Houston	Ohio St.	Alabama	LSU
6	Connecticut	Michigan St.	Arkansas	Marquette
7	USC	Xavier	Colorado St.	Saint Mary’s
8	Iowa	Murray St.	Seton Hall	Boise St.
9	Wake Forest	Iowa St.	Loyola (Chi.)	Wyoming
10	TCU	Miami (Fla.)	Indiana	San Francisco
11	Davidson	Notre Dame	Memphis	Michigan
12	North Texas	Iona	San Diego St.	Creighton	North Carolina	Oklahoma
13	Chattanooga	South Dakota St.	Ohio	Vermont
14	New Mexico St.	Wagner	Montana St.	Texas St.
15	Cleveland St.	Liberty	Yale	Colgate
16	Long Beach St.	Longwood	UNC Wilmington	Norfolk St.	New Orleans	Southern

Best of the Rest

69	Belmont
70	Oregon
71	Florida
72	BYU
73	Rutgers
74	UAB
75	SMU
76	Virginia Tech

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Saturday, February 12, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Auburn	Texas A&M	14.0
Baylor	Texas	6.5
Lehigh	Lafayette	3.7
Georgetown	Creighton	-5.0
Massachusetts	Saint Joseph’s	1.7
Alabama	Arkansas	4.4
Kansas	Oklahoma	10.3
Villanova	Seton Hall	8.3
Boston U	American	12.7
Wagner	Merrimack	15.2
Fairleigh Dickinson	Sacred Heart	-2.5
Central Connecticut	St. Francis (NY)	-0.3
Indiana St.	Illinois St.	1.0
Fairfield	Niagara	2.0
Army	Navy	-5.1
Wisconsin	Rutgers	7.9
Bucknell	Holy Cross	4.0
Morgan St.	North Carolina Central	-1.2
Tulane	Temple	4.3
Montana St.	Northern Arizona	13.9
Long Island	Bryant	-0.8
Gardner-Webb	Charleston Southern	17.5
North Carolina	Florida St.	7.3
Columbia	Yale	-12.8
Pennsylvania	Harvard	2.9
Cornell	Brown	2.3
Binghamton	New Hampshire	0.3
Oklahoma St.	West Virginia	3.1
Coastal Carolina	Georgia Southern	5.6
Dayton	George Washington	15.9
Rhode Island	Davidson	-2.1
Furman	Chattanooga	3.0
Drexel	Northeastern	7.5
Towson	Elon	12.0
Buffalo	Ball St.	11.7
Georgia	South Carolina	-2.7
Rice	North Texas	-5.7
Chicago St.	Sam Houston	-11.7
Wake Forest	Miami	6.8
Pittsburgh	NC St.	-0.4
Cleveland St.	IUPUI	22.0
UL Monroe	Texas St.	-3.6
Louisiana	UT Arlington	4.1
Western Illinois	North Dakota	12.7
Houston	Memphis	10.9
Michigan St.	Indiana	3.7
VMI	The Citadel	8.5
Miami (O)	Bowling Green	1.2
Eastern Michigan	Ohio	-10.2
Kentucky	Florida	12.4
Texas Tech	TCU	10.4
Morehead St.	Murray St.	-5.2
Oregon	California	11.5
Coppin St.	South Carolina St.	6.5
UC San Diego	UC Riverside	-4.2
Alcorn St.	Bethune-Cookman	8.9
Howard	Delaware St.	19.9
UTSA	Western Kentucky	-12.0
Sacramento St.	Southern Utah	-7.5
Northwestern St.	McNeese St.	-0.9
Nicholls	Texas A&M-CC	5.9
Utah Valley	New Mexico St.	-0.4
Seattle	Lamar	17.2
St. Francis (PA)	Mount St. Mary’s	-1.7
USC Upstate	UNC Asheville	-0.1
North Carolina A&T	Longwood	-5.1
Virginia	Georgia Tech	8.6
Princeton	Dartmouth	7.2
Florida Gulf Coast	Stetson	7.9
Iowa St.	Kansas St.	4.2
Appalachian St.	Georgia St.	3.5
Missouri St.	Valparaiso	13.1
George Mason	VCU	-0.1
Denver	South Dakota	-3.5
East Tennessee St.	Samford	5.2
James Madison	William & Mary	12.6
Butler	Marquette	-6.2
SIU Edwardsville	Tennessee Tech	-0.8
Eastern Illinois	UT Martin	-5.7
Texas Southern	Grambling	11.6
Winthrop	Presbyterian	8.2
North Alabama	Bellarmine	-4.1
Northern Illinois	Toledo	-14.2
Boston College	Duke	-14.1
Alabama A&M	Mississippi Valley St.	11.5
Loyola (MD)	Colgate	-6.5
Southeast Missouri St.	Belmont	-13.9
Austin Peay	Tennessee St.	4.3
Idaho	Weber St.	-9.9
Eastern Washington	Idaho St.	12.5
SE Louisiana	Houston Baptist	8.6
New Orleans	Incarnate Word	11.1
UMass Lowell	Maryland Baltimore Co.	2.0
Lipscomb	Eastern Kentucky	-0.9
Jacksonville St.	Central Arkansas	16.0
Troy	Little Rock	12.9
South Dakota St.	Omaha	24.5
Alabama St.	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	9.9
Hampton	Radford	-1.4
Kennesaw St.	North Florida	5.1
Duquesne	Fordham	0.4
Washington	Arizona	-15.7
Michigan	Ohio St.	2.4
Tennessee	Vanderbilt	13.4
East Carolina	SMU	-7.8
Norfolk St.	Maryland-Eastern Shore	11.3
Santa Clara	San Francisco	-0.3
High Point	Campbell	0.4
Virginia Tech	Syracuse	6.0
Jacksonville	Liberty	-4.4
Richmond	La Salle	13.3
Providence	DePaul	7.8
Prairie View A&M	Southern	-3.4
Jackson St.	Florida A&M	4.4
Delaware	Hofstra	0.1
Clemson	Notre Dame	2.5
Albany	Vermont	-10.7
NJIT	Hartford	1.5
Purdue Fort Wayne	Illinois Chicago	4.1
South Alabama	Arkansas St.	5.7
Wofford	Western Carolina	14.0
UNC Wilmington	Charleston	0.8
Marist	Canisius	8.1
Western Michigan	Central Michigan	0.4
Wichita State	South Florida	14.4
Tulsa	Cincinnati	-4.2
Colorado	Utah	4.9
Tarleton	Abilene Christian	0.3
San Diego	Pacific	7.4
Southern Illinois	Evansville	12.4
Bradley	Drake	2.3
Oral Roberts	Kansas City	7.8
St. Thomas	North Dakota St.	-5.5
LSU	Mississippi St.	8.0
San Diego St.	Air Force	18.3
Missouri	Mississippi	-0.5
Minnesota	Penn St.	0.7
Montana	Portland St.	5.7
Dixie St.	Grand Canyon	-10.0
San Jose St.	Wyoming	-13.8
Gonzaga	Saint Mary’s	16.2
USC	UCLA	-2.4
Washington St.	Arizona St.	11.4
Cal St. Bakersfield	Cal St. Northridge	7.3
Cal Poly	UC Santa Barbara	-9.5
California Baptist	UT Rio Grande Valley	6.9
Pepperdine	BYU	-13.7
Portland	Loyola Marymount	0.8
Oregon St.	Stanford	-4.5
Hawaii	Cal St. Fullerton	3.0

Great TV Watching Today–Our Best Bets

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
12:00 PM	ESPN2	Baylor	Texas
12:00 PM	SECN	Alabama	Arkansas
1:00 PM	CBS	Kansas	Oklahoma
1:00 PM	FOX	Villanova	Seton Hall
2:00 PM	FS1	Wisconsin	Rutgers
2:00 PM	ESPN+	Furman	Chattanooga
3:00 PM	ACCN	Wake Forest	Miami (Fla.)
3:30 PM	ABC	Houston	Memphis
3:30 PM	FOX	Michigan St.	Indiana
4:00 PM	ESPN	Kentucky	Florida
4:00 PM	ESPN+	Texas Tech	TCU
4:00 PM	ESPN+	Morehead St.	Murray St.
4:00 PM	ESPNU	Iowa St.	Kansas St.
6:00 PM	PAC12	Washington	Arizona
6:00 PM	ESPN	Michigan	Ohio St.
8:00 PM	ESPN2	LSU	Mississippi St.
10:00 PM	ESPN2	Gonzaga	Saint Mary’s
10:00 PM	ESPN	USC	UCLA
12:00 AM	ESPN2	Hawaii	Cal St. Fullerton