College Football: Week 12

The twelfth week of the season brings us only a few interesting matchups to look at among ranked teams. Here they are:

#9 Ohio State @ #20 Iowa
Ohio State has been one of the best teams all year long, with the #6 ranked scoring offense and the #5 ranked scoring defense. If it wasn't for a woodshed beating at the hands of Wisconsin, they would be right there in the BCS Title game discussion.

Iowa has had a strong defense, ranked 7th in points allowed, but a less than stellar offense that only averages 30.8 points/game. They have dreadful losses against Arizona and Northwestern on their schedule thus far which helps to paint a bad picture of this team. Iowa may have climbed as high as it could the last few years.

OSU should take this game on the road with a 34-17 win.

#16 Virginia Tech @ #24 Miami
Virginia Tech started out poorly with two losses against Boise St and James Madison. Since then they haven't lost a game and are getting better each week. Miami comes in to this game without Jacory Harris due to injury and will start a freshman in his place. Not much more needs to be said, VaTech should take this one 38-13.

#8 Nebraska @ #19 Texas A&M
I'm not sure why this isn't the featured game of the week on ESPN. Nebraska comes in with an impressive resume, although it does have its one loss against Texas. Ha! A&M is riding a wave of recent success since benching Jerrod Johnson in favor of Ryan Tanehill. The Aggies are playing much better football now. That said, Nebraska should out man A&M, but Coach chewing gum may regret calling out the Aggie fans during his press conference earlier in the week. The Aggies want this game really bad. A win over the Huskers would give them a ton of momentum going in to the Texas game just 5 days later. I think the Aggies will pull off the upset and win 30-17 @ Kyle Field.

Florida Atlanic @ Texas
Somehow the line on this game shows Texas as 21 point favorites. Texas has struggled to score than many points in a game. Florida Atlantic knows a little about losing streaks having lost 5 in a row earlier this season. They are riding a current 3-game win streak, albeit against horrendous competition.

Texas needs this game to have a shot at a bowl game. They desperately want to turn things around. Injuries are starting to pile up with 3 freshman starting on the O-Line, Tre Newton's "retirement" earlier this week, and the absence on Defense of Jackson Jeffcoat and Chykie Brown. Texas should be able to overcome those losses and beat the FAU team by 27-10. Cody Johnson should have a big day since he is the only healthy Texas running  back, well, except for DJ Monroe. I hope to see Garret Gilbert and his receivers get in a good rhythm and start to put some things together. Ideally Darius White, Mike Davis, and DeSean Hales will get plenty of snaps at receiver. Maybe Case could get in for a series or two at the end of the game...maybe??

Lets get it done Horns!

Hook'em!