Week 9 GOTW
For game of the week, I’ve picked out a fascinating battle in the BIG12
#9 Oklahoma VS #8 Kansas State @ Manhattan,KS
WOW! Who would have thought coming into this meeting that K State would be the undefeated side!
With Oklahoma loosing last week at home to Texas Tech, this is a must win game for both sides!
KSU to stay undefeated and for the Sooners to keep alive any hope at being a 1 loss national champion.
Party Spoiler Collin Klein?
I’m picking the Sooners to bounce back, but here is the reason to be a bit hesitant:
K State QB Collin Klein. This man is the reason the Wildcats are sitting pretty at 7-0. This is his first year as a starter and the junior is making the most of it!
While averaging 133 yards passing & 95 yards on the ground, he is a poor man’s version of Sholelace Robinson of Michigan. Or is he???
Collin Klein’s impressive play should get him a job modelling for Calvin Klein, the names aren’t far off. Plus he has been the model QB for the dual threats coming into college.
The proof is he has the 3rd best rushing totals of any QB in D1 with 670 total yards. While still having a good enough arm to keep the opposing D on their toes
Where K State will fall down is there Defence. While only giving up 19.7 ppg. The D doesn’t have that one star that you can point to.
Yes they aren’t giving up much but have they played a team with an offense as good as Oklahoma? Baylor? Yes Baylor is good, but they are NOT Oklahoma.
From what I’ve seen their best player is CB David Garret, but he’s just their best CB, he will have his hands full with OU star wide out Ryan Broyles.
Now OU WILL Bounce back after that head scratcher of a loss last weekend! At the end of the day the Sooners still have QB Landry Jones & WR Ryan Broyles.
Broyles currently is 4th in the nation with 899 yards receiving, he will most likely top 1000 yards for the season by the end of this game.
OU also have found a surprise at RB with junior Dominque Whaley. Whaley has come from nowhere to give OU a solid running game. This being his first year of game action.
OU still have a solid D that will need to prove that last week was a one off. They still have studs all over the field.
Especially Linebacker Travis Lewis. This MAN broke his foot prior to the start of the season & all ready has returned to lead the OU D.
He’s leading the team with 53 tackles but hasn’t registered a sack or pick yet. But watch out, he is due for another game changing play.
OU statistically is easily the better team, but the records say otherwise.
If the Sooners D plays good & stops Klein from running as often as he does, I like OU’s chances
Oklahoma bounces back 41 – 38
K State plays good enough to make it look close.
- El Jugador
| Agency | Oklahoma |
| Sports Bet | $1.19 |
| TAB WA | $1.17 |
| TAB Vic NSW | Not Released |
| Bet Fair | 1.16 |
| 10:30am EST |
DR CFB Comment: “ What a surprise his game of the week is a cup cake stay tuned for next week El Jugador game of the week which features Boise State v UNLV”
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
With Clemson (6) very close to reaching the dreaded BLACK BOOK I had no other option but to ride their luck out until they fail me.
Georgia Tech have lost their last two games but do not let that fool you this team is quite good just not as good as Clemson.
Clemson will kill Georgia Tech and here’s why.
Sammy Watkins, Tagh Boyd and DeAndre Hopkins with their 482 yards and 40 points a game average season that is why.
All day Sammy Watkins
Sure their defence sucks and because of that they will not win a National Championship but they will win this game.
Boyd leads the ACC in total offense and passing yards but that is really no surprise as I always think of the ACC as a running quarterback conference.
With Hopkins and Watkins responding I just do not see a weak Georgia Tech secondary with 0 returning starters covering them.
The only way Clemson could lose is if they get too excited about their ranking and choke. To put it into perspective Clemson are the ugly dude who just got the hottest date to the Prom. The only thing their thinking like the ugly dude is “please God don’t let me screw this up.”
If Clemson keep the PIC principle (play it cool) like the ugly dude and stick to their assignments and plan they will win this game.
The danger is GT comes off consecutive losses against Miami and Virginia nobody wants 3 losses in a row and especially at home that is an El Jugador stat.
So GT will come with nothing to lose and a really good triple option game plan.
Though this game is not about defence it is about offense and I just see Clemson outscoring GT.
Did I also mention that the reason Clemson has been so good is because they keep their below average defence off the field with the team leading in snaps with 626 for the season.
I think it will be close offensively but I just do not see GT getting it done.
Clemson 47 GT 35
| Agency | Clemson |
| Sports Bet | $1.64 |
| TAB WA | $1.58 |
| TAB Vic NSW | Not Released |
| Bet Fair | 1.04 |
| 12:30am EST |
