{"id":14813,"date":"2016-11-12T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T10:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14813"},"modified":"2016-11-12T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T10:04:52","slug":"bold-predictions-for-week-11-in-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/bold-predictions-for-week-11-in-college-football.html","title":{"rendered":"Bold predictions for Week 11 in college football"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bold predictions for Week 11 in college football<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The USA TODAY Sports college football staff \u2014 Nicole Auerbach, Paul Myerberg, George Schroeder and Dan Wolken \u2014 weighs in with some bold predictions for Week 11 of the college football season:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Nicole Auerbach<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We\u2019ll still have four unbeaten Power Five teams come Sunday morning. I know history says we most definitely won\u2019t have four at the end of the season, but there are just so few opportunities for these elite teams to lose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sure, Pitt will put up a good fight against Clemson. Iowa will be a tougher test than Michigan\u2019s been used to lately. USC is, in my opinion, the best three-loss team in the country, and the Trojans come play at Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Yet despite all of those challenges, we\u2019ll see the same four unblemished teams atop the CFP rankings next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Paul Myerberg<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Two of the current top four in the College Football Playoff standings will be put to the test on Saturday, though both will survive to remain unbeaten. I think Pittsburgh will score points on Clemson, though the Panthers\u2019 defense has been surprisingly ineffective. Eventually, the Tigers will pull away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Washington is going to have its hands full with rejuvenated USC, which has talent and firepower to head into Seattle and upend the Playoff race. I still think the Huskies will find a way to take the Trojans\u2019 best shot and pull out the victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">George Schroeder<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It has been a long, hard season for the programs we expect to see battling for Pac-12 supremacy. It\u2019s just plain weird to see Stanford and Oregon in a game that matters for pride \u2014 and in Oregon\u2019s case, at least, another in a series of weekly referendums on the future of coach Mark Helfrich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s in Eugene. But Stanford has righted itself a little, winning two in a row. The Cardinal will beat Oregon, ending the Ducks\u2019 faint hopes of reaching a bowl and turning up the heat on Helfrich even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dan Wolken<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In a world where there\u2019s an impulse to look for alternatives to established narratives, you\u2019ll see a consensus building after this weekend that Washington quarterback Jake Browning is the primary Heisman Trophy challenger to Louisville\u2019s Lamar Jackson. It seems like the deal with Washington is the more people actually get a look at this team, the more they like what they see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Of course, being on the West Coast and without a lot of elite depth in the Pac-12 this year, it just doesn\u2019t seem like there are people have seen Washington that much. That should change this weekend on a Saturday where there aren\u2019t a lot of other big games and Washington will sort of have the stage to itself against USC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">How many Heisman voters are even aware at this point that Browning is completing 68% of his passes with an insane 34-to-3 touchdown\/interception ratio? If he has a big showing against the Trojans, the buzz will grow considerably as the feeling of inevitably around Jackson begins to work against him down the stretch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2016\/11\/12\/bold-predictions-week-11-college-football-washington-usc-stanford-oregon\/93602404\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/bold-predictions-for-week-11-in-college-football.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold predictions for Week 11 in college football The USA TODAY Sports college football staff \u2014 Nicole Auerbach, Paul Myerberg, George Schroeder and Dan Wolken \u2014 weighs in with some bold predictions for Week 11 of the college football season: Nicole Auerbach We\u2019ll still have four unbeaten Power Five teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8954,8953,8952,8955],"class_list":["post-14813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2016-cfn-week-11-expert-picks","tag-5-bold-college-football-predictions","tag-bold-predictions-for-week-11-in-college-football","tag-college-football-week-bold-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}