Pigskin Pickin Machine

The machine starts poppin with the Ohio State Buckeyes (6-1, 2-1) trying to accomplish three things today against Purdue (4-2. 2-0)-Keep their Big Ten title hopes (They will already need some help,a loss ends the show),bounce back from their defeat to Wisconsin last week and avenge their loss last season to the Boilermakers.
The Boilers are 2-0 in conference,so they are one of the teams that OSU will have to hurdle in the conference race,but they have a loss to Toledo and that hurts the Boilers overall.
Danny Hope has turned the Purdue offensive philosophy around from a pass first team to a run first team and we saw how Wisconsin ran the ball last week.
However,Purdue doesn't have near the offensive line that the Badgers do and I just don't think they will push the Buckeyes off the ball....

Texas Tech (3-3, 1-3) travels to Boulder and the Buffalos of Colorado (3-3,0-2) in what looms to be a huge game for the post season hopes for the Red Raiders.
Looking at the Tech schedule,they have two likely home wins to end the season with Weber State and Houston,which would have a been a tossup until the Cougars lost Case Keenum for the season.
That puts the Raiders at five wins with two likely losses in November to ranked teams in Missouri and Oklahoma and makes the next two weeks the make or break games for post season eligibility.It starts this week at Colorado and continues next week against Texas A & M.
A split likely gives the Raiders a 6-6 record and a maybe for a lower bowl berth,but a sweep would make 7-5 likely,put them somewhere for sure and move up a bit on the bowl scale.
Two losses make a bowl bid unlikely,unless they can make it up against the better teams with an upset or two.
The big problem has been that Tech has never won at Folsom Field,even since the Buffs have been a less than strong team and the Tech defense is bitten to hell with injuries.
Colorado has trouble against the pass and that should be what Tech does best...

Our game of the week stays out the SEC for a change as Wisconsin visits Iowa in a game that means a lot in the Big Ten race.The Badgers have a loss in conference,so a loss here ends their hopes,while the Hawkeyes haven't lost yet and host all of the three biggest threats to the title at Kinnick Stadium in Wisconsin,Michigan State and Ohio State.
Iowa can throw and run,although they prefer to run,Wisconsin just runs for the most part.This could be the rare fast moving college football game.
Can Wisconsin avoid the Ohio State letdown? Can Iowa run the ball on Wisconsin?
This one could come down to home field.

Our Picks
Ohio State over Purdue 24-14
Texas Tech over Colorado 31-27
Iowa over Wisconsin 21-18

The pro games start with the Browns going to the Big Easy in a game that will be anything but against the Saints.
Simply put-This looks pretty bad and even worse than last week looked going into Pittsburgh with the injuries at receiver......

Seattle grabbed a huge road win last over Chicago and goes back to Qwest Field against the Cardinals and rookie Max Hall.
This game is for first place in the division with both teams at 3-2 and a win goes a long way for either team.
Seattle is a different team at home and I think that makes the difference.

The game of the week in the NFL is kinda slim this week,but lets go with another Brett Favre return to Green Bay with the Packers and Vikings slugging it out.
Green Bay has had the worst injury luck this season and they cannot run the ball and struggle with protecting Aaron Rodgers.
Not a great recipe for a win against the Vikes,.

Our Picks
Saints over Browns 35-10
Seahawks over Cardinals 23-20
Vikings over Packers 27-21