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<blockquote data-quote="Nomo" data-source="post: 889220" data-attributes="member: 39027"><p>blah....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/10/mailbag/1.html" target="_blank">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/10/mailbag/1.html</a></p><p></p><p><strong>What I love most about college football (other than Notre Dame losing) is an upset victory by an unranked team over a ranked team. Now that we have our first "official" preseason poll, if you had to choose the most likely Top 25 team to be upset by a non-ranked team in its first game of the season, who would it be? Of course, I've got South Florida upsetting Notre Dame.</strong></p><p><strong></strong><em>-- Michael Kurtz, Roseburg, Ore.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Put this one in pencil for now, because I don't like making game picks until the week of the game, but the best bet might be Baylor over TCU.</p><p></p><p>It requires a bit of a leap of faith, since Robert Griffin and the Bears were rendered mortal last season seemingly whenever they faced an above-average defense (and TCU tends to field way-above-average defenses). But the Horned Frogs will be breaking in a whole lot of new faces that Friday night in Waco, including a quarterback (sophomore Casey Pachall) making his first career start on the road. If you remember, last year, an Oregon State team that ended up going 5-7 was able to find some seams and make some big plays against the Horned Frogs' vaunted defense, mistakes they quickly wiped out within a few weeks. If this game were in October, I'd give Baylor almost no shot, but on the first Friday of the season, at home ... why not?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomo, post: 889220, member: 39027"] blah.... [url="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/10/mailbag/1.html"]http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/10/mailbag/1.html[/url] [b]What I love most about college football (other than Notre Dame losing) is an upset victory by an unranked team over a ranked team. Now that we have our first "official" preseason poll, if you had to choose the most likely Top 25 team to be upset by a non-ranked team in its first game of the season, who would it be? Of course, I've got South Florida upsetting Notre Dame. [/b][i]-- Michael Kurtz, Roseburg, Ore.[/i] Put this one in pencil for now, because I don't like making game picks until the week of the game, but the best bet might be Baylor over TCU. It requires a bit of a leap of faith, since Robert Griffin and the Bears were rendered mortal last season seemingly whenever they faced an above-average defense (and TCU tends to field way-above-average defenses). But the Horned Frogs will be breaking in a whole lot of new faces that Friday night in Waco, including a quarterback (sophomore Casey Pachall) making his first career start on the road. If you remember, last year, an Oregon State team that ended up going 5-7 was able to find some seams and make some big plays against the Horned Frogs' vaunted defense, mistakes they quickly wiped out within a few weeks. If this game were in October, I'd give Baylor almost no shot, but on the first Friday of the season, at home ... why not? [/QUOTE]
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