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      2010 College Football Week 11 Odds

      November 10, 2010 /
      University of South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier (C) talks with his team during a time out against the University of Kentucky in the first half of play in their NCAA football game at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, October 16, 2010. REUTERS/John Sommers II (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT FOOTBALL)

      No. 19 Mississippi State @ No. 12 Alabama, 7:15PM ET
      This is an interesting matchup. On one side, Alabama feels as though their season is practically over after suffering their second lost of the year last Saturday. On the other side, Mississippi State, which has the same record as the Crimson Tide, is enjoying its best run in more than a decade. The Tide own a 72-18-3 record in this series and have won the last two meetings by a combined score of 63-10. The Bulldogs are double-digit underdogs in this one and if they want to show the world that they deserve to move up in the rankings, then pulling off an upset in Tuscaloosa this Saturday would suffice.
      CURRENT ODDS: ALABAMA –13.5

      No. 23 South Carolina @ No. 22 Florida, 7:15PM ET
      Is there a game on the Week 11 scoreboard that carries more weight than this one? The winner will play in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta for a shot at an automatic BCS bowl berth. The Gamecocks are coming off an embarrassing 41-20 loss to Arkansas and have won just once in their last 19 tries against Florida (2005). They’ve also turned the ball over 11 times in their three losses and they have a penchant for folding down the stretch under Steve Spurrier. The Gators, on the other hand, have built a little momentum. After suffering three straight losses in the month of October, they’ve beaten Georgia and Vanderbilt the past two weeks and get the Gamecocks on their home turf. South Carolina could be walking into a buzz saw.
      CURRENT ODDS: FLORIDA –6.5

      No. 24 Kansas State @ No. 17 Missouri, 12:30PM ET
      You had the feeling that Missouri would eventually start to make its way back down the polls, but their loss last week was a punch to the gut. They led 17-3 at halftime against Texas Tech and then never scored another point as the Red Raiders came back to win, 24-17. With a win over the Wildcats on Saturday, the Tigers have a chance to claim sole possession of second place in the Big 12 North division. Kansas State only racked up nine passing yards in their 39-14 rout over Texas, as Daniel Thomas rushed for over 100 yards and two scores. This isn’t a very explosive team but K-State has a ton of weapons on the offensive side of the ball to pull off the upset this weekend in Columbia.
      CURRENT ODDS: MISSOURI –13

      Penn State @ No. 9 Ohio State, 3:30PM ET
      This game has taken on less meaning due to the Nittany Lions’ rebuilding year, but it’s still a solid Big Ten matchup. Ohio State has kind of been the forgotten team in the conference following its loss to Wisconsin two weeks ago. But the Buckeyes remain in the hunt for a Big Ten title along with Michigan State, Wisconsin and Iowa. That said, another loss and it’ll be all she wrote for OSU. They shouldn’t have much trouble disposing of a very average Penn State program but you never know. A win would make the Lions’ season.
      CURRENT ODDS: OHIO STATE -18

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      Report: Newton had three instances of academic cheating at Florida

      November 9, 2010 /
      AUBURN, AL - NOVEMBER 6: Quarterback Cam Newton of the Auburn Tigers watches a replay of a touchdown run against the Chattanooga Mocs November 6, 2010 at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)

      FOXSports.com is reporting that Auburn quarterback Cam Newton had three separate instances of academic cheating while enrolled at Florida in 2007 and 2008.

      Newton was arrested for the theft of a laptop from a Florida student’s dorm room in November 2008. He again violated the university’s honor code by putting his name on another student’s paper and turning it in, according to the source. Newton was caught after the instructor asked the real author of the paper why he had not turned in his work, the source said.

      According to the source, after the student said he had turned in a paper, he and the instructor went through all the submissions and discovered that Newton had put his name on the paper in question.

      Newton subsequently turned in a second paper to the instructor, but it was later found to have been purchased off the Internet, according to the source. The source said Newton was to appear for a hearing in front of Florida’s Student Conduct Committee during the spring semester of 2009 but instead transferred to Blinn College.

      This report comes less than a week after ESPN.com report that a man named Kenny Rogers claimed to represent Newton and allegedly sought $180,000 for to attend Mississippi State. Newton and Auburn maintain that the 2010 Heisman candidate has done nothing wrong, but this latest report makes you wonder what else is yet to come out.

      Meanwhile, the Tigers currently rank No. 2 in the BCS standings and have a date with Georgia this Saturday. They control their own destiny in the SEC West, although they have to travel to Tuscaloosa in two weeks to take on Alabama so they have a tough road to hoe.

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      Colorado had little choice but to fire Dan Hawkins

      November 9, 2010 /
      DENVER - AUGUST 31: Head coach Dan Hawkins of the University of Colorado Buffaloes protests a call to the officials against the Colorado State University Rams at Invesco Field at Mile High on August 31, 2008 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

      In five seasons at Boise State, Dan Hawkins led the Broncos to four bowl games and compiled a 53-11 record (.828).

      In five seasons at Colorado, Hawkins took the Buffaloes to just one bowl game while racking up a 19-39 record (.328) and was subsequently fired after five straight losing seasons and one horrific loss to Kansas.

      At one point, Colorado held a 28-point fourth quarter lead over the Jayhawks on Saturday but found a way to lose, 52-45. It was the biggest collapse in the Buffaloes’ 121-year history. It was perhaps the worst coaching job of the season, as Hawkins continued to let his team throw the ball instead of milking the clock and wrapping up a sure win. There’s been speculation that he continued to throw the ball so that his son, Cody Hawkins, could break Colorado’s all-time passing record.

      Thanks, Dad.

      He’ll probably resurface somewhere in college football but I wonder if this debacle in Colorado will cost Hawkins an opportunity to coach one of the big ones anytime soon. Logic says……………….no.

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      Boise State drops another spot in the polls as TCU moves up; Alabama plummets

      November 7, 2010 /

      No real big surprises in today’s USA Today/ESPN coaches poll, as the top two remained the same — Oregon and Auburn — and TCU moved up to No. 3 after a dismantling of Utah.

      Boise State, of course, was the victim of TCU’s rise, even after a dominating win over a pretty good Hawaii team. But that shouldn’t surprise you. Last week, Auburn jumped Boise State after a win over a bad Ole Miss team, so the fact that TCU jumped the Broncos after perhaps the most impressive performance of the season shouldn’t come as a shock. In fact, I really don’t have a problem with this jump. TCU has played a better schedule thus far than Boise State, and absolutely dominated it much in the same way Boise has dominated its schedule. This was an exclamation point win for the Horned Frogs, and if voters believed TCU was the better team, there was no better time than now to make that move.

      The top two in the BCS standings should remain the same, but I’d expect the gap between Auburn and TCU at 2 and 3 to close. First off, the Horned Frogs moved up in the coaches poll, and I’ll guess they’ll do the same in the Harris Poll. Plus the computers will likely close the gap as Auburn played Chattanooga and TCU played what was the No. 5 team in the BCS standings.

      The best news for TCU and Boise State, however, had to be Alabama’s loss. There’s a good chance that the Tide were the only one-loss team capable of jumping over them into the national title game. I don’t know all the tie-breaker rules off-hand, but I believe LSU needs Auburn to lose each of its next two games in order to get into the SEC championship game. So if Alabama beats Auburn in the Iron Bowl, that will open up a spot for either TCU or Boise State.

      I doubt a win over a three-loss SEC East champion would be enough for voters to vault Auburn back into the game. And even though it’s happened before, I can’t imagine an 11-1 LSU team that didn’t even play in its conference title game would jump the unbeatens. It wouldn’t be unprecedented — see Nebraska in 2001 — but it would be borderline criminal. Then again, that pretty much fits right in line with the BCS.

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