Red Raiders expected to be without QB Tyler Shough. 23 Wake Forest at Vanderbilt (plus 12 1/2)Ĭommodores (2-0) already have matched last season's win total. 16 Arkansasįirst SEC game for former Oklahoma QB Spencer Rattler, now with the Gamecocks. Wazzu QB Cameron Ward, a talented FCS transfer, gets stiff test against typically stingy Badgers. Return matchup after the Panthers won in Knoxville last year. (178 yard rushing in USM's opener) faces his dad's former school. Southern Mississippi (plus 24 1/2) at No. 11 Oklahoma State (minus 10 1/2)Ī future Big 12 game? Or Pac-12? Or ACC, maybe?. 7 Oklahoma (minus 32 1/2)Īnother tuneup before the Sooners head to Nebraska. McCarthy's first start at quarterback also signal Cade McNamara's last?. Mountaineers get at another shot at a P5 upset, but a much tougher task at College Station. NOTRE DAME 31-13.Īppalachian State at No. Irish finally get Marcus Freeman that first victory as head coach. 2 Ohio State (minus 43 1/2)īuckeyes expected to be without star WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a few games in which they won't miss him. The rest of the ranked teams facing FBS opponents:Īrkansas State at No. Two storied programs getting together on campus is always interesting, but let's be real: This is not so much about whether former Tide assistant Steve Sarkisian's Longhorns can beat 'Bama as it is getting a gauge on where the rebuild stands in Year 2. This nonconference matchup against an experienced SEC team seemed as if it would be too much of a lift for the Wildcats in the offseason. No team in the country looked better in Week 1 relative to its 2021 performance than Arizona, handily beating San Diego State after going 1-11 in coach Jedd Fisch's debut season. Stanford is not the measuring stick it once would have been for USC, but it is the first true test for Caleb Williams, Jordan Addison and team transfer portal. Stanford has slipped from its 2010s peak, but the Cardinal still beat the Trojans badly enough last year to get Clay Helton fired. Lincoln Riley's debut at USC was the expected feel-good affair against Rice.
For the second straight week, a big one in the Swamp. Kentucky has split the last four meetings, which doesn't sound like much, but the Gators had won 34 straight before that. Gators QB Anthony Richardson has a chance to be a season-changing player for Florida and the Southeastern Conference. Baylor offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes came from BYU to turn around the Bears' offense last season. The return trip is the first of five games against Power Five opponents for the Cougars. The Bears pulled away from the Cougars in their meeting last year in Texas, a big win in what turned out to be one of the best seasons in school history.
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