College Football Predictions 2017 2018
Channel: مناور _ mnawer
Date: 2017-11-04

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Welcome to November. Now here's a Band-Aid or a crutch or a knee brace.
The final full month of college football has the best of everything -- rivalry games, Heisman Trophy pushes, the College Football Playoff race, division championships won ... limbs crunched. Yup, November football also includes the worst of everything.
This is the month where, if you don't embrace the grind, it might grind you up. This is the month where bodies wears down, injuries occur, games pile up, inexplicable upsets go down. You shouldn't have to be told that 64 percent of all catastrophic injuries in college sports occur in football. "Overuse" is the cause of 30 percent of all collegiate injuries.
Suffer an injury this time of year and that might be it for the season -- or worse. Baylor's Seth Russell retired in September after this gruesome November 2016 injury.
"There have been some times at Alabama ... it was like, 'I wish we can just make it to the game,'" Georgia's Kirby Smart said of his days with the Crimson Tide. "If we lose one more guy, we don't have anybody else."
"Sometimes you'll have a player who always has energy, always gives everything he has at practice," Miami coach Mark Richt said. "When that guy looks tired, that guy looks whipped, it's time to back off a little bit."
November dawns with five FBS unbeatens (same as last year). Two of them are from the SEC. The Heisman race is up in the air. So is the coaching future of a load of coaches.
There's a lot to be resolved. Let's hope most of it happens on the field -- not in the training room.
Let's move on to Week 10 ...
1. Bedlam elimination: Could Bedlam get any better than a head-to-head showdown featuring two of the nation's best quarterbacks? No. The Oklahoma-Oklahoma State winner has the inside track to the Big 12 title -- at least. The loser is out of playoff contention -- at most. In a game featuring two of the top three offenses in the country, the feeling here is that Oklahoma has just a bit better defense.
We might talking 45-42 better but ... better. It's hard to slide a piece of paper between these two teams, although the early advantage goes to Mike Gundy in the document department. It was discovered this week that The Mullet is actually owed $500,000 if he is fired for insubordination. That's job security.
2. Coastal elimination? We would love to get to Notre Dame-Miami on Nov. 11 without any additional losses by either team. I shouldn't have to tell you the historic, religious and CFP implications of that one. Meanwhile, Virginia Tech this week at Miami will have a lot to say about whether that matchup arrives intact.
The ACC Coastal Division is basically on the line late in the season when the Hokies travel to Hard Rock Stadium. There is skepticism regarding both sides. Against its toughest opponent at home in Clemson, Virginia Tech was barely competitive. Other than that game, the Hokies have beaten West Virginia, Boston College, North Carolina and Duke -- a combined record of 15-20.
The Canes refuse to be blown out to sea. They've won their past four games by 4, 1, 8 and 5 points. Keeping in the spirit of the moment, Richt summed up his team's chances in 10 words or less.  "At the end, if you win, that's the bottom line," he said
3. Khalil does L.A.: I would have given a bagful of Rubio's Fish Tacos at the beginning of the season if someone told me the glitziest quarterback in Arizona-USC would be Khalil Tate.  Hell, none of us knew who Tate was until last month. "At the beginning of the year, I was pretty much a nobody," Tate told the Sporting News.
The sophomore has the realistic chance of outplaying Sam Darnold and thrusting the Wildcats into the Pac-12 South lead. Now RichRod has to explain once again why the kid wasn't starting since the beginning.
4. Hangover Bowl: Ohio State at Iowa didn't even register on my radar until I began to consider: A) The Buckeyes are coming off their biggest win of the season; B) That victory basically consisted of one, marvelous, huge, season-changing quarter against Penn State; C) At 5-3 and out of it in the Big Ten, Iowa has nothing to lose;