Week 3 Upsets
Posted by deaconcat08 on September 16, 2009
After absolutely tearing things up during the first week, none of the ten upsets that I wrote about last week were accomplished. To all those who saw the Michigan and Houston stunners coming, then congratulations. Anyway, time to regroup and try again this week. Here are upsets that I could see happening this weekend. These are ordered from smallest underdog to largest, and the value in each parentheses represents the number of points by which each team is currently an underdog according to the World Sports Exchange.
Georgia (+1.5) vs. Arkansas- One of those lines that I see, and think that maybe Vegas knows something I don’t here. Arkansas is not supposed to be a very good football team this year, and even though playing on the road in the SEC is always difficult, the Dawgs looked good last week versus South Carolina. I’ve got to trust my gut here and say that the Bulldogs win a close one.
Buffalo (+4.0) vs. Central Florida- UCF showed some signs of life last week in a close road loss, but Buffalo has already proven they can win on the road this year with a big opening win against UTEP. If you can win in a god forsaken place like El Paso, there is no reason you can’t win in Orlando.
Utah (+4.5) vs. Oregon- I called the Ducks to majorly disappoint this season, so I’ve got to put my money where my mouth is and call for them to get beat by an admittedly overrated Utah team.
Indiana (+5.0) vs. Akron- Can someone please tell me why this line keeps going up? I knowIndiana is a bad Big 10 team, but please realize that Akron is a bad MAC team. And I’ll take a Big 10 bottom dweller over their MAC counterpart any day of the week, even on the road.
Navy (+7.0) vs. Pitt- In the words of a dear friend, “you can always count on the Wannstache to produce a good letdown game”.
Longshot of the Week: Northern Illinois (+13.0) vs. Purdue- After the MAC’s impressive performance against the Big Ten last week, I think we could have another close call/potentail upset in this game. Unlike the IU/Akron game where I’m calling for a Hoosiers victory, this game pits a bad Big 10 team versus a good MAC team. Also, consider that NIU only lost by 8 at Wisconsin, who I believe is a much stronger squad than this year’s Boilermakers.