Week 5 College Football First Glance Picks and Odds

I took my usual "first glance" at the week 5 college football betting schedule and highlighted some games that immediately caught my attention for the upcoming weekend. Lets watch the line movement as the football betting week goes on and see if our comments end up being on the money:

- USF -6.5 at Syracuse: South Florida was looking for some respect last week in Tallahassee and they found it by taking out Florida State. Freshman QB B.J. Daniels played very well in his first start after Matt Grothe went down with an ACL tear the previous week. USF has undefeated Cincinnati looming in 2 weeks, which looks to be a battle for 1st place in the Big East. A let down here against Syracuse is not out of the question for USF.

- Washington at Notre Dame -13.5: In last weeks College Football Odds First Glance, I said that Washington would most likely have a let down against Stanford after they upset then #3 USC…..they barely got off the bus for the game as Stanford rolled. Notre Dame has some injury issues and 13.5 points seems like an awful lot of points to give a team you have embarrassed the last 4 times you played them. The Huskies have big revenge on their minds this weekend. Washington covers and takes the outright upset in South Bend.

-Oklahoma -7 at Miami, FL: Well I guess people are jumping off the Miami bandwagon. I told you last week Va Tech would handle the Hurricanes in Blacksburg. Now, with that being said, the Sooners better look out Saturday afternoon in Miami. All I hear is that Oklahoma is still alive and ready to begin a big run towards the BCS championship. Listen folks, even before Sam Bradford went out in week 1 against BYU, the Sooners did not look great. Miami needs to play well for their program and for the ACC. I am not saying Miami wins this game out right, but this matchup will come down to the wire.

- USC -6 at CAL: Keeping this short and simple. CAL got caught in a major look ahead situation last week against Oregon. USC is just not that good this season. The Trojans should have run all over Washing State Saturday night. CAL has the betting public thinking they are done in the PAC 10 race….not after Saturday! CAL covers and wins outright!

- UCLA at Stanford -6: UCLA coming into Stanford after 2 weeks off. Stanford is one botched play away from being 4-0 this season. UCLA has covered 3 straight games against Stanford. This should be your typical hard fought PAC 10 game that is decided in the final minutes. I lean towards UCLA.

- Michigan at Michigan State (Pick’em): Michigan survived a big scare from Indiana over the weekend. Michigan State was taken to the woodshed by the Badgers in Madison. The Wolverines have revenge in their corner after last season’s loss to MSU. Michigan should get the victory here and push MSU to 1-4 in what looks to be a re-building season for the Spartans

- Alabama -17 at Kentucky: Look out Tide!!! Alabama has Ole Miss up next week after Kentucky. Kentucky just go rolled up at home by the Gators and I do not see them laying down 2 weeks in a row in front of their home crowd. Alabama wins this game, but get ready for a scare Crimson Tide.

- LSU at Georgia -2.5: Triple revenge is in on the side of LSU coming into this matchup as Georgia has owned the Tigers in recent years. I do not view Florida looming on the schedule for LSU as a possible look ahead situation due to LSU being viewed as the underdog in that game. Georgia has played 3 very close games in a row and are primed for a beat-down here. Ignore what happened last week with LSU vs. Miss. State. LSU circled this matchup with Georgia the second the schedule was released. LSU gets the cover and the hard fought SEC road victory.