PREMIUM
Rogers' 10* Monday Night SPECIAL FEATURE - 67% Start in CFB! Had Texas Sunday!
(NCAAF) Ole Miss vs. Florida State,
09/05/2016 4:00 PM, Score: 34 - 45
Point Spread: -5.00 | -121.00 Florida State (Home)
Result: Win
Point Spread: -5.00 | -121.00 Florida State (Home)
Result: Win
Ole Miss: The Rebels are coming of a 10-3 season in 2015 (Ole Miss was the lone team to beat Alabama last season), including an impressive 48-20 victory over Oklahoma State in the Sugar Bowl. Hugh Freeze enters his fifth year at Oxford with a modest 10 starters returning. However, one of those starters is senior QB Chad Kelly (a top-ranked prospect according to NFLDraftScout.com), and Ole Miss opens the season ranked No. 11 in the AP's preseason poll.
Florida State: The Seminoles played "second fiddle" to Clemson in the ACC last season, then got thumped 38-24 in the Peach Bowl by Group of Five school, Houston. However, with all 11 starters returning on offense in 2016, FSU is ranked No. 4 in the AP preseason poll. Heisman-candidate Dalvin Cook, who ran for a school-record 1,691 yards and 19 TDs last year for the Seminoles, is the focus of the offense but FSU is also replacing starting QB Maguire with freshman Deondre Francois.
The pick: Heading into Sunday and Monday's last two games of CFB's opening weekend, five ranked teams have already lost. With Ole Miss and FSU both ranked, a sixth will have to lose Monday night plus if Texas upsets Notre Dame on Sunday, SEVEN top-25 teams could lose on opening weekend (a record). Two top-5 teams have already lost (No. 3 Oklahoma and No, 5 LSU) and if Ole Miss beats FSU (No. 4), that would make it three. Both head coaches are unbeaten in season openers, with Jimbo Fisher going 6-0 at FSU and Hugh Freeze 4-0 at Ole Miss. However, this Orlando site greatly favors FSU (Oxford is 627 miles away by plane and 150 miles longer when it comes to driving distance, while Orlando is just over 260 miles from Tallahassee). It sure doesn't temper my enthusiasm for FSU that the 'Noles have gone 8-0-2 when they have played in Orlando dating back to 1952. FSU is a 10* play.
Florida State: The Seminoles played "second fiddle" to Clemson in the ACC last season, then got thumped 38-24 in the Peach Bowl by Group of Five school, Houston. However, with all 11 starters returning on offense in 2016, FSU is ranked No. 4 in the AP preseason poll. Heisman-candidate Dalvin Cook, who ran for a school-record 1,691 yards and 19 TDs last year for the Seminoles, is the focus of the offense but FSU is also replacing starting QB Maguire with freshman Deondre Francois.
The pick: Heading into Sunday and Monday's last two games of CFB's opening weekend, five ranked teams have already lost. With Ole Miss and FSU both ranked, a sixth will have to lose Monday night plus if Texas upsets Notre Dame on Sunday, SEVEN top-25 teams could lose on opening weekend (a record). Two top-5 teams have already lost (No. 3 Oklahoma and No, 5 LSU) and if Ole Miss beats FSU (No. 4), that would make it three. Both head coaches are unbeaten in season openers, with Jimbo Fisher going 6-0 at FSU and Hugh Freeze 4-0 at Ole Miss. However, this Orlando site greatly favors FSU (Oxford is 627 miles away by plane and 150 miles longer when it comes to driving distance, while Orlando is just over 260 miles from Tallahassee). It sure doesn't temper my enthusiasm for FSU that the 'Noles have gone 8-0-2 when they have played in Orlando dating back to 1952. FSU is a 10* play.
