College Football 2013 - Week 5 Jabesblog Picks

Season Record:  51-36-1 (ATS)  72-16 (Straight-Up)
Last Week:  22-22 (ATS)  40-4 (Straight-Up)

Here are the picks for Week 5.  Better games and now FCS games this week.  I might even add editorial this week on some games to spice this up.

Georgia Tech 24, Virginia Tech (+7) 20 (W)
Georgia Tech has covered similar spreads the past two weeks, but the Hokies always give the Yellow Jackets fits.
Tulsa (-3) 31, Iowa State 19 (L)
Utah State (-9.5) 38, San Jose State 24 (W)
BYU 27, Middle Tennessee (+23.5) 14 (L)
Continue to bet against BYU until Vegas figures out the Texas game was an outlier for the Cougar offense.
Miami FL (-17) 42, South Florida 10 (W)
Didn't South Florida lose to McNeese State by 32 at home?
Oklahoma State (-18) 38, West Virginia 17 (L)
Tough to pick a West Virginia team on quarterback #3.
Illinois (-25) 41, Miami OH 10 (W)
UCF (+6.5) 24, South Carolina 23 (W)
Upset Special #1 of the week.  
Northern Illinois (-3.5) 38, Purdue 28 (W)
The Huskies already dispatched Iowa on the road, who coincidentally is better than Purdue.
TCU 31, SMU (+19.5) 20 (L)
Tennessee 33, South Alabama (+18.5) 21 (W)
North Carolina 37, East Carolina (+12) 31 (W)
C'mon Justin Hardy!!
Pittsburgh (-5.5) 34, Virginia 19 (W)
Navy (-3) 38, Western Kentucky 28 (L)
The Midshipmen are sneaky good this year.
Bowling Green (-14) 38, Akron 16 (W)
Duke (-13) 48, Troy 31 (L)
Oregon State 33, Colorado (+11) 28 (L)
Ball State (-2) 37, Toledo 31 (W)
Colorado State 27, UTEP (+14) 20 (L)
LSU (+3) 30, Georgia 27 (T)
Upset Special #2...I am tired of Alabama and LSU, so I assume they will both keep winning.
Oklahoma (-3.5) 27, Notre Dame 14 (W)
Florida State (-23) 48, Boston College 10 (L)
Minnesota (+2) 31, Iowa 27 (L)
NC State 30, Central Michigan (+23.5) 14 (L)
College Football betting 101, pick against Central Michigan.  I must have overslept for that class.  NC State's offense does not impress.
Clemson 37, Wake Forest (+28) 13 (L)
Clemson has protection problems and missing OL, not as easy a game as it appears.
Connecticut (pick'em) 28, Buffalo 21 (L)
Louisiana Tech (+2) 23, Army 17 (L)
Houston (-2.5) 38, UTSA 24 (W)
Temple 27, Idaho (+7) 24 (W)
Texas A&M (-14) 45, Arkansas 21 (L)
Bret Beilema, meet Johnny Football.
Alabama 34, Ole Miss (+14) 27 (L)
I hope Ole Miss shows the country how good they are and keeps it close.
Rice 30, Florida Atlantic (+14) 24 (W)
Florida (-12) 27, Kentucky 10 (W)
Florida's offense is bad, but the defense is oh-so-good.
Wyoming (-12) 34, Texas State 20 (L)
Washington 34, Arizona (+10) 31 (L)
I think the Huskies are getting over-hyped already.
Kent State (+2.5) 27, Western Michigan 23 (W)
ULM 29, Tulane (+12.5) 24 (W)
Vanderbilt 37, UAB (+19.5) 24 (L)
Too many distractions and Vandy simply isn't as good this year.
Missouri (-21.5) 49, Arkansas State 19 (W)
The Tigers have it rolling and Arkansas State was just pummeled by Memphis.
UNLV (-2.5) 28, New Mexico 23 (W)
The only time I will ever take UNLV as a road favorite.
San Diego State (-17.5) 42, New Mexico State 14 (L)
Nevada (-10) 41, Air Force 17 (L)
Air Force is missing their quarterback and were bad with him.
Boise State 38, Southern Mississippi (+27.5) 13 (L)
Stanford (-9.5) 28, Washington State 16 (W)
Oregon (-37) 70, California 20 (W)
There will be over 200 plays in this game, most of them Oregon touchdowns.
Arizona State (-3.5) 27, USC 17 (W)
Wisconsin (+6.5) 33, Ohio State 32 (L)
Upset Special #3...This time the Badgers get to kick the FG.

Weekly Record:  23-23-1
Season Record:   74-59-2