College Football Game Day Predictions Week 5 2012

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College Football
Game Day Predictions!

Week 5 2012

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Some big games this week...let's see what some fans have to say about their team...






Okay, let's start with Bill from BILL'S BIG 10 CORNER and his game day predictions....

Big 10 was 7-3 last week with Iowa, Michigan and Illinois losing. Conference play starts this week with the following match ups (pointspreads in parenthesis):

Minnesota at Iowa (-7) Minnesota has looked better than Iowa so far so I will take Minnesota and the points.

Penn St at Illinois (-1.5) Again, I’ll take the road team and the points.

Indiana at NW (-10.5) Indiana was off last week, but not enough NW to cover.

Wisconsin at Nebraska (-11.5) Wisconsin has not covered yet this year and Neby could be the best team in the Big 10 (take the Huskers).

Game of the week:
Ohio State at Michigan St (-2.5) Wow, I don’t know what to make of this game. I’ll say Michigan St pulls it together and wins by more than 2.5 at home.

Looking Forward (next week):Nebraska at Ohio State

Now see what Wisconsin Steve has to say about the WISCONSIN Badgers this weekend...

Injuries hit Badgers defensive ends hard going into biggest challenge yet.  University of Wisconsin football players are supposed to have a "next Man in" mentality when it comes to injuries.  But what happens when it becomes the next man in, for the next man in, for the next man in?  The Badgers came out of the UTEP game with injury issues involving four of their top five defensive ends, although they hope to get a couple back for Saturday  night's game at Nebraska.  The timing couldn't be worse against an explosive Cornhusker's offense averaging a Big Ten Conference best 48.5 points per game.  The edges of UW's defenses will be tested in two significant ways, in the option game and by the elusiveness of speedy junior quarterback Taylor Martinez.  It's going to be a hard pressed win for the Badgers this weekend but Wisconsin Steve still has high hopes.

BEVO jr with his *BIG 12* TEXAS team has his thoughts on the game with Oklahoma State.....

Bevo jr– Big 12 conference play starts for real this weekend; Texas at Okie State in Stillwater. Now we find out if we’ve improved or not – time to “man up” Longhorns & play some real “D”! Texas’ running game is a 2-headed beast with Bergeron & Malcolm Brown and should make the difference in winning this conference opener.Texas wins 31 – 24.

HOOK ‘EM HORNS!

Now moving back to the
*Big 10*....
Turnkey Tim with IOWA, whatch ya got on this week's game...

The upcoming game between the Minnesota Goophers and the Iowa Chokeyes in my mind is a very interesting matchup. Today, Iowa's 2-2 record has shown some glaring weaknesses of the team as a whole. Iowa has yet to play some real stout competition but then I ask what does Minnesota bring to the table. They bring a 4-0 record and confidence but if you consider last week's game against Syrasnooze, I mean Syracuse, a challenge, think again. UNI could have put up 60 points on Syracuse's defense. I say this because I think I saw Syracuse's defense sleeping on the sidelines last week making it an easy game for Minnesota. Make no mistake about it, a 4-0 record along with team confidence and the fact that they want to beat us bad because they could possibly be ranked after this if they win, make no mistake Minnesota wants to win this game bad. Coach Jerry kill has made a point to the team of the rivalry games and how they are important to win.

What does Iowa bring to the table? Iowa brings a good offensive line and the addition of a bulldozer that rushes for over 200 yards a game (Mark Wiesman). If Iowa can slow the game down and rush the ball and take advantage of the shots it will have in the passing game, then this will be a close game. Minnesota likes to bring the pressure and blitz a lot, especially against a team like Iowa that struggles in the passing game. Vandenberg has a tendency to stare down receivers and not find the open receiver. I look for both teams to be very fired up tomorrow and it should be a great game atmosphere, good weather, great game day. The only thing I don't understand is what does Vegas know that we don't.
They have Iowa by 7.

When I analyze the game, what I come up with is Minnesota 20 - Iowa 16. I hope I'm wrong.  GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Black and Gold Girl with IOWA just sent in her short but sweet prediction. She says...
It kills me to say this, but…Minnesota by ten.

I was hoping we would hear from Ace of the MINNESOTA Gophers and we did.
Waz up Ace, I know you're on some boat somewhere in the Pacific Northwest but something more important than fun and sun and fish and beverages is your prediction of the Minnestoa-Iowa game....Ace writes in....

Seattle is a great town. Sorry Hawkeyes, the Gophs will continue to expose the weakly talented Hawks and remain undefeated an go 5-0 for the first time in a long time. Maybe since Nagurski!

Okay, this is Angie's aside....Nagurski of which Ace talks about, was a rather formidable player in his day. Here's the link to Wikipedia on this rather interesting player....click here for Nagurski

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More predictions will be posted as they come in!

If you would like to submit a prediction for your team's game,

just email your analysis or prediction to me (Angie) at salesturnkeyauto@aol.com.