College Football Week 1

Sorry for the long hiatus. The full blog still won't be back up until Pratt and I get back on the radio, which will happen hopefully by mid-September. Stay tuned for that. Also, John Manthos will be writing on this blog starting tonight, so we'll have some New York perspective in the mix. Very excited for that.

Week 1 every year in college football means the beginning of the elimination pool. For week one, I have selected Wisconsin over Akron (at Wisconsin, 12pm, Big Ten Network) as my mortal lock. I have the whole season right now, for those interested, I will adjust it if I get knocked out, or things change (injuries, surprise teams, etc) but just to give you guys something to work with. Something to keep in mind, in my elimination pool, there are only 20 teams available to choose from, and USC, Arizona State, South Florida and West Virginia are the only ones playing in week 15, the final week of the elimination pool. And South Florida and West Virginia are playing each other, so you know you're really choosing between USC (at UCLA) and Arizona State (at Arizona).
(The picks are in bold)
Week 1: Akron at Wisconsin
Week 2: Texas at UTEP
Week 3: Lousiana-Lafayette at Illinois
Week 4: Troy at Ohio State
Week 5: TCU at Oklahoma
Week 6: BYU at Utah State
Week 7: Syracuse at West Virginia
Week 8: Syracuse at South Florida
Week 9: Colorado at Missouri
Week 10: Tulane at LSU
Week 11: Wyoming at Tennessee
Week 12: Duke at Clemson
Week 13: Citadel at Florida
Week 14: Notre Dame at USC
Week 15: Arizona State at Arizona

I'll also make four picks a week on the line...
TCU (-6.5) at New Mexico
Boston College (-10) at Kent State
Virginia Tech (-9.5) East Carolina
Virginia (+19.5) hosting USC