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What is up yall your K-Boogie is back for another wek of predicting these games I love so much, College Football. Last week I was 3-2 with big vitories from the Florida Gators and Tigers of Missouri. The week got kicked off last night with the thrilling come from behind victory for the Eagles of Boston College 14-10. Matt Ryan threw two touchdown passes in the last 2:11 of the game. Let’s get to it shall we……………

#9 Florida vs #20 Georgia

The World’s Largest Cocktail Party resumes on the banks of the St. John’s river. Two sophomore quarterbacks take center stage as Tim Tebow (Florida) and Matthew Stafford (Georgia) headline this game. The burning question is can the Gator defense slow down the Bulldog attack?

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN FLORIDA HAS THE BALL
Tim Tebow’s passer rating of 177.5 is the highest in the nation. He has completed 66.1 percent of his passes, which is the 16th-highest mark in the country and is the best in the SEC. This season, Percy Harvin is first on the team with 795 all-purpose yards and is averaging 113.6 yards per game. He has rushed for 232 yards on 33 carries and has a team-leading 34 catches for 563 yards.

Dannell Ellerbe, who leads the team with 53 tackles, had a career high 12 in the loss to Tennessee. He has been the leading tackler for the Bulldogs in four games this year. In only his second career start, sophomore Geno Atkins tallied a career-high and team-leading eight tackles in the road win over Vanderbilt. Atkins made his first career start a week earlier against Tennessee.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN GEORGIA HAS THE BALL
This season, Brandon Spikes and Dustin Doe rank as Florida’s leading tacklers with 66 and 50, respectively. Defensive end Derrick Harvey recorded one and a half sacks at Kentucky to bring his career total to 18.5. With the effort, Harvey improved to ninth on Florida’s all-time career list. Harvey has had a tackle for a loss in six of the last seven games and a sack in three of the last four outings. Over the last eight games, Derrick Harvey has totaled nine and a half sacks.

Knowshon Moreno makes his second straight start after a career-high 157 rushing yards against Vandy and seniors Brown and Lumpkin out injured. Matthew Stafford is 11-4 as the starting quarterback. Georgia has had 15 different players catch a pass this year. Senior Sean Bailey leads the group with 19 for 290 yards with two touchdowns. Moreno is second on the team with 15 catches for 195 yards.(fromsecsports.com)

Florida 31 Georgia 27

#16 South Carolina vs Tennessee

Now after being ranked as high as #6 the Gamecocks felt the thud of falling from the top ten with their 17-6 loss to Vanderbilt last week. That loss prompted Steve Spurrier to say that this was not to be his best team that will come in a year or two. Well, that has to be a first for that man to be humbled like that. Will his quarterbacks play any better against the Vols in Neyland Stadium?

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN SOUTH CAROLINA HAS THE BALL
Kenny McKinley caught four passes for 79 yards against Vanderbilt, extending to 29 the number of consecutive games that McKinley has caught at least one pass. For the season McKinley has caught 41 passes for 525 yards. His career total is 117 receptions for 1,696 yards. McKinley moved into seventh place on South Carolina’s career list with 117 catches, passing Stanley Pritchett (1992-95) by one. Chris Smelly was 12-of-20 for 145 yards and two interceptions, while Blake Mitchell was 3-of-8 for 19 yards.

Jerod Mayo and Ryan Karl led the team with 11 stops each at Alabama. Ryan Karl posted five tackles and broke up three passes at Miss. St. Rico McCoy and Mayo led the team with 11 tackles apiece vs. Georgia. Mayo leads the team with 51 tackles this season. Jonathan Hefney as started 43 consecutive games after not starting the first game of his career in 2004 against UNLV. Hefney is fourth on the team with 36 tackles.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN TENNESSEE HAS THE BALL
The fourth-quarter recovery of a Vanderbilt fumble by Eric Norwood last week was the third of the season for Norwood. He returned the first two for touchdowns against Kentucky. Seventeen points by Vanderbilt in the first quarter were the most allowed by South Carolina in the opening period this season. The previous high was seven points (three times).

Erik Ainge is 21-9 as a starter in his career. He has an efficiency rating of 138.6, which is the third-best mark in the SEC this season. Ainge has thrown for 369 yards and five touchdowns in three career games vs. South Carolina. Arian Foster has 328 yards rushing and five touchdowns in his last three games, including a 91-yard effort at Alabama. Lucas Taylor leads the team with 43 catches for 633 yards.

#5 Oregon vs #12 USC 

This is the chance for another team other than the Trojans of Southern Cal to win the Pac-10. First up will be the Oregon Ducks. Dennis Dixon gets the men of Troy at home in Eugene.

The ninth-ranked Trojans will be underdogs when they visit No. 5 Oregon on Saturday in the first matchup between top-10 teams in the 41-year history of Autzen Stadium.USC hasn’t been an underdog against a Pac-10 opponent since Nov. 17, 2001, when it upset UCLA 27-0 in the regular-season finale. The Trojans (6-1, 3-1), though, have been uncharacteristically shaky in conference games lately, and the Ducks (6-1, 3-1) enter this game as the higher-ranked team.They will likely need a better effort against Oregon, which has used one of the nation’s best offenses to earn its highest ranking since it finished the 2001 season as the No. 2 team in the country.The Ducks are averaging 46.6 points per game, second in the Football Bowl Subdivision behind Hawaii. They’re also second in total offense with 550.9 yards per game, trailing only Texas Tech.Oregon’s prolific offense was on display last Saturday, when the Ducks racked up a school-record 465 rushing yards in a 55-34 win over Washington. The Ducks also had a program-record 39 first downs, and their 661 total yards were six shy of yet another record.On Saturday, the Ducks can expect another challenge from a USC defense which ranks third in the FBS with just 252.1 total yards allowed per game. The Trojans, though, haven’t faced an offense as good as Oregon’s.”I love this challenge,” USC coach Pete Carroll said. “This may be the best offense we’ve ever seen. Nobody’s been able to slow them down. We’ve got to find a way. I think we’re ready to turn the corner. You can just feel it. We’re getting better, we’re getting stronger.”Carroll’s team is coming off a 38-0 rout of Notre Dame last Saturday. Backup quarterback Mark Sanchez threw four touchdown passes while playing in place of injured starter John David Booty as the Trojans took advantage of the now 1-7 Irish.(fromespn.com)

Oregon 27 USC 23

#4 Arizona State vs #21 Cal

This is game two of the Pac-10 round robin tournament. Cal has let it all slip away in the past two weeks losing to UCLA, and Oregon State. The Sun Devils get their first real test of the season. Can they pass it?

The Sun Devils, who have played five of their first seven games at home, have not yet faced a ranked opponent and the combined conference record of the four Pac-10 opponents they’ve played is just 4-13.Now the competition becomes a lot stiffer.After hosting Cal, Arizona State visits No. 5 Oregon and Pac-10 co-leader UCLA, which is just outside the Top 25. It then returns home to host No. 9 USC and concludes the regular season against archrival Arizona.The Bears (5-2, 2-2), who were ranked 12th in the AP preseason poll, appeared to be a more menacing foe two weeks ago when they were the nation’s second-ranked team, but back-to-back losses have resulted in a free-fall down the rankings.After suffering its first loss to Oregon State on Oct. 13, Cal fell 30-21 to UCLA last Saturday, likely costing the Bears any shot at repeating as conference champs.

Although the Bears have been sliding, the Sun Devils have had no success against them lately, dropping four straight meetings — none have been decided by fewer than 17 points — since a 30-10 home win on Oct. 7, 2000.In Arizona State’s 49-21 loss to Cal last Sept. 23, Sun Devils quarterback Rudy Carpenter had one of the worst games of his career, completing 16 of 36 passes for 177 yards and a career-high four interceptions.This season, Carpenter has been leading a high-powered Arizona State unit that is second in the Pac-10 in scoring (37.7 points per game) and offense (437.3 yards per game).Justin Forsett is second in the Pac-10 in rushing with 811 yards and leads the conference with 10 rushing touchdowns, but was held to 76 yards on 25 carries last Saturday, his first game of the season without a TD.Cal had Nate Longshore back at quarterback against UCLA after his missed the loss to the Beavers with a sprained ankle, but he threw three interceptions. With the Bears down by two points late in the fourth quarter, his second interception was returned 76 yards for the final score with 1:33 remaining.Longshore had one of his best career games against the Sun Devils last season as he threw for 270 yards, four TDs and one interception.The Bears have not lost three straight games since losing the first 10 games of their 1-10 season in 2001.(fromespn.com)

Cal 35 Ariz State 21

#1 Ohio State vs #25 Penn State

The number 1 team in the land gets its toughest test of the season traveling to Happy Valley to take on Joe Pa and his Nittany Lions. We saw what it took for the number 2 team to survive can the Buckeyes keep their regular season win streak in tact?

The top-ranked Buckeyes have not lost a regular-season game in more than two years, but will revisit the site of that defeat Saturday night when they visit 24th-ranked Penn State at Beaver Stadium.Ohio State (8-0, 4-0 Big Ten) maintained its position at the top of both the AP rankings and BCS standings after defeating Michigan State 24-17 last Saturday. The Buckeyes have been No. 1 in the BCS for 10 straight weeks after holding the top spot in all eight BCS polls last season and each of the first two of 2007.Ohio State has won a school-record 26 straight regular-season games since a 17-10 loss at Penn State on Oct. 8, 2005.The Buckeyes avenged that defeat with a 28-6 win over the Nittany Lions last Sept. 23 in Ohio Stadium, but this will be their first trip to Happy Valley since losing there.The Nittany Lions have won all five of their home games this season, and 18 of 19 at Beaver Stadium since 2005.The Buckeyes come to Happy Valley boasting the nation’s stingiest defense, which is yielding 7.9 points and 208.5 yards per game and has given up just four touchdowns all season.Penn State (6-2, 3-2) is second in the conference against the run, allowing an average of 79.8 yards on the ground. In last Saturday’s 36-31 win at Indiana, the Nittany Lions held the Hoosiers to 17 yards rushing in the first 57 minutes.Penn State has won three straight games to once again crack the Top 25. Joe Paterno’s club peaked at No. 10 a month ago before falling out of the rankings after back-to-back road losses to Michigan and Illinois.(fromespn.com)

Ohio State 31 Penn State 10