Bigiron Picks, Week 9

• Mississippi -3.5 @ Auburn  - Seems like Gus Malzahn's new Auburn offense has hit the wall.  That happens after your opponents get a few games of tape to watch. Ole Miss aren't exactly world-beaters, but they are Auburn-beaters, I think.
• Georgia +15 vs. Florida - Missed this one when it opened at 16.  All you need to know is that it's a double-digit SEC dog. My Georgia write-up will come later, but I also believe the Dawgs can win straight up.
• Mississippi State @ Kentucky -3 - Like Ole Miss/Auburn, these are two pretty evenly-matched teams. MSU invested a lot of emotional energy into that Florida loss, and UK rolled easily over a Sun Belt opponent, so I give the Cats the advantage as the more rested (and home) squad.
• E. Michigan @ Arkansas -37.5 - Holy crazy-line, Batman. I know Ryan Mallet and Co. have a quick-strike-capable offense, but laying 6 scores?  Then again, Eastern Michigan did lose by 13 to Army at home, 48 to Central Michigan, 22 to Kent State, and also just lost to Ball State.  Ok, take the Hogs.
• Georgia Tech -11.5 @ Vanderbilt - The nation's best example of the Triple-Option offense travels to face the nation's 85th-ranked rushing defense.  This will not end well for the Commies.
• South Carolina +5.5 @ Tennessee - What is this, the weekend of the evenly-matched SEC conference games?  This game is really tough to call, but I think SCAR stays close.  The Vols might win, but not by much.
• Tulane @ LSU -35 - The biggest challenge for LSU in this game will be actually scoring 35 points.

• Georgia +15 vs Florida - write-up coming
• Georgia Tech -12 @ Vandy - see write-up above
• E. Michigan @ Arkansas -37.5 - see write-up above
• Texas -10 @ Oklahoma State - I have seen the 'Pokes play in person, and I can tell you with a great degree of certainty that they are not nearly as good as Texas. The 'Horns' annual loss won't come here.
  
• Nebraska -13 @ Baylor - The Huskers laid an inexplicable egg last week, but the Bears are the cure to most offenses' problems.
• Kansas St. @ Oklahoma -28 - I had to do a double-take when I saw this line, but it still looks right to me.  KSU pulled off a couple of big wins at home, but now they have to go on the road.
• UNLV @ TCU -35 - Stand back, kids... this one's going to get ugly.
• New Mexico @ San Diego State -15.5 - This season's not going into the Lobo's record books... except for all the wrong reasons.
• Wyoming @ Utah -17 - The last time Wyoming won in SLC was 1999... long before Alex Smith and the Urban Meyer-led resurgence.  They've beaten some bad teams and gotten a good ATS record, but they'll get smashed here.

nice to see you on UGA and Ark big dawglike Neb and Utah as well, looks like we'll have similar results this week one way or another

opposite on Auburn for no apparent reason we'll be interesting to see if they bounce back or pack it in

BOL this week

I think I agree with all SEC sides but not sure how many I decide to play.  The Gators offense has not looked nearly as explosive since Tebow's concussion , but I think I would be nervous backing the Bulldogs here as they have struggled scoring against some of the better SEC defenses they faced (LSU and Tenn).  I think I like the under 48.5 here better