Auburn vs. Tennessee
Scenario 1: Auburn starts fast, angry, and takes out weeks of frustration on a decent but not good Tennessee defense and the Vols offense struggles to answer.
Auburn 34, Tennessee 10
Scenario 2: Tennessee hasn't scored a 1st Quarter TD all year and Auburn starts slow too. They both continue this trend, the crowd is dead, Auburn turns the ball over and this thing remains too close for too long. The defense gets worn out and Tennessee finds just enough to get by, scoring a major upset.
Tennessee 16, Auburn 13.
Penn State 34, Michigan State 16
Sparty has played like ass all year and that ain't gonna change this week. Penn State's defense is improving and their offense is a problem for the concrete-footed bunch in East Lansing.
Georgia 31, LSU 14
LSU's offense got exposed last week and Georgia (fudge Georgia) has the offense to exploit their defense. I expect the Dawgs to show up ready to do damage on a wounded bunch of cajun cats.
Michigan 17, Wisconsin 14
Khaki pants has a team that doesn't get out of its own way much and they haven't found a groove to scoring points yet. Good thing is they have a defense and are facing a one-dimensional mess of Badgers.
Notre Dame 23, Pitt 20
The more mediocre Pitt is, the more likely they are to cause hell for some ranked team. (I'm not going to link it but SB Nation posted about this earlier today.) Domers are pretenders but I don't think the Panthers can do enough to complete the challenge.
UPSET SPECIAL
Iowa State 27, West Virginia 24
Grier turns the ball over late that seals WVU's fate in some way. He's got huge numbers but he turns the ball over a lot, too. It catches up to the couch burners this weekend in the middle of damn nowhere.