DFC IX Week One Games

Make sure you watch CBS Sportsline on CBS 42, or something like that. (my promised plug to Gina)

The Moment is here... the games are here... its time for the 9th season of the Deuce Football Championship to begin! And to start this season right, we're going to do four days worth of games!

All times Eastern, all ranking from the AP Poll

THURSDAY NIGHT GAME
NC State Wolfpack at South Carolina Gamecocks, 7p, ESPN
Aren't both teams expected to be better every year than they actually end up being?

SATURDAY GAMES
Oklahoma State Cowboys at Washington State Huskies, 230pm
Not a clue. Pick 'em.

#24 Alabama Crimson Tide vs #9 Clemson Tigers, 7pm, ABC, in The Georgia Dome
I mean, Clemson should win this game... but Clemson usually blows games they should win, and thats against really bad teams. The Tide is actually a decent team (the whole recruiting class, blah blah blah). If this were the end of the year, I'd go Clemson all the way, because that's what happens... but unless you've heard "Tommy Bowdoin is now on the hot seat", Clemson is not a dangerous team.

Michigan State Spartans at California Bears, 7pm, ABC
How about some ambiguity in your games?

SUNDAY GAMES
Kentucky Wildcats at Louisville Cardinals, 230pm, ESPN
Kentucky has nothing to lose. Everyone expects them to be average or subpart... unlike Louisville, who is supposed to be good.

Colorado State Rams at Colorado Buffaloes, 630pm, ESPN
In the 8 years of the DFC, we've picked this game six times, as it always falls at the beginning of the year. Colorado has won four of the six, and all but one has been decided by a touchdown or less. Good luck.

MONDAY GAMES
Fresno State Bulldogs at Rutgers Scarlet Knights, 3pm, ESPN
I love Pat Hill's slogan for Fresno State... "Anyone, anytime, anywhere". And they've landed Rutgers, who I think is a very beatable team.

#18 Tennessee Volunteers at UCLA Bruins, 7pm, ESPN
Because Phil Fulmer has been on the "hot seat" for the last, I dunno, five seasons, I think they'll play enough to beat the Bruins. I think.

TIEBREAK GAME
Fresno State vs Rutgers... total combined points scored by both teams