This week's games

Roosevelt Noise is a big fan of picking Florida State games and requested that the Seminoles make the list of games this week, so I am happy to comply with his request and threw in another one of those easy ACC games as a bonus as the elimination games for that conference's championship continue. Similar showdowns are happening this Saturday in the Big 12 and Mountain West where teams are playing for millions of dollars in BCS money. My question about the Texas Tech-Oklahoma game is, can Cory Isom or any of the other OU fans in the pool even attempt to out-trash talk John Sullivan? The BYU-Utah game is being broadcast on something called "the mtn." so unless you are one of the handful in the pool living in Denver or have DirectTV, unfortunately you won't be able to watch this huge match-up. Then there is the intriguing Ole Miss-LSU game where both sides hate each other as much as any rivarly in the country. Can Houston Nutt do it again to Baton Rouge?

Here are the games for your unlucky Week 13. For $800 and the Ramon Escobar Trophy, which totally crushes the competition in NFL Vibrating Football, select your winners and e-mail them back to me by 5 p.m. Thursday. Note that all picks must be turned in at one time, so don't send me Thursday's game and say the rest are on the way later.

Miami-Georgia Tech
6:45 p.m., Thu., ESPN
Line: Georgia Tech by 3

The Magnolia Bowl
Ole Miss-LSU
2:30 p.m., Sat., CBS
Line: LSU by 4

The Holy War
BYU-Utah
5 p.m., Sat., the mtn.
Line: Utah by 6
* Underdog worth three points in this game

Florida State-Maryland
6:45 p.m., Sat., ESPN
Line: Maryland by 1

Texas Tech-Oklahoma
7 p.m., Sat., ABC
Line: Oklahoma by 7
* Underdog worth three points in this game

Good luck.
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