College football action heated up for Week Seven contests in which we saw three teams drop from the top 10 rankings. There were some big time inner-conference games between Texas & Oklahoma, LSU & Florida and Oregon & Washington.
When the day was done previously undefeated Stanford had gone down to Utah and dropped out of the AP top ten altogether. Texas A&M, even with Johnny Football at his best, just barely got by SEC rival Ole Miss in a real thriller and the ‘Horns’ beat the Sooners.
There were some genuine upsets on Saturday as when Mac Brown’s Texas Longhorns took on arch-rival Oklahoma in a game played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The Sooners went into the game as 13.5 point favorites with the Over & Under set at 57. A total of 56 points were scored but it was the underdog Longhorns that walked away with the upset victory by a final score of 36-20.
Unbeaten Michigan went East to take on Penn State as only 2.5 point favorites but an underrated Penn State team persevered throughout the day and came away with a 43-40 upset victory that went way over the predicted 50.5 given by handicappers.
The biggest upset of the day had to be the SEC matchup of unbeaten Missouri and the #7 ranked Georgia Bulldogs playing at home in Athens. The ‘Dawgs’ started the game as 9.5 point favorites but faced stiff competition from the very start by a determined Missouri Tiger team. In yet another game that went way over, Missouri defeated Georgia by a final score of 41-26.
The #8 ranked Louisville Cardinals hosted Rutgers as 17.5 point favorites with an Over & Under at 50.5 but the Scarlet Knights turned out to be a little more that Louisville had bargained for and the Cardinals failed to cover the points… but still managed to win the contest, 24-10.
Stanford, Georgia and Michigan have all fallen out of the top ten rankings in the AP Poll. Alabama, Oregon and Ohio State are still up there as the top three teams with Clemson, Florida State, Louisville and Texas A&M also drawing attention.
Notable teams that failed to cover their given point spreads were Clemson, which was favored to beat Boston College by 24.5 points but only won by 10 and Texas A&M which went to Oxford to play Ole Miss as 6 point favorites but almost lost the game entirely in the closing moments.
