Best five games of Week 4

Clemson. More than any other team in 10 years of Poolsville, Clemson has confounded participants with the most unpredictable games year after year. It even inspired one pool participant after yet another loss to send me a T-shirt in the mail with the initials DYC and a tiger paw covered with the no symbol. This week, Clemson appears as one of two extremely rare five-point underdogs. For Clemson to pull an upset this time on national-championship contender Florida State would be like a "Kill Bill" coup de grace on everyone who picks against them. Will Clemson and the ACC do it to us again?

Note the Thursday night game this week. For $800 and the Ramon Escobar Trophy, the embodiment of the values of the AAU (no, the Against Aubrey Union), select your winners and email them back to me by 5 p.m. Thursday.


BYU - Boise State
8 p.m., Thursday, ESPN
Line: Boise State by 7
* Underdog worth three points

Battle of the Columbias
Missouri - South Carolina
2:30 p.m., Saturday, CBS
Line: South Carolina by 10
* Underdog worth four points

Michigan - Notre Dame
6:30 p.m., Saturday, NBC
Line: Notre Dame by 6
* Underdog worth three points

Kansas State - Oklahoma
6:30 p.m., Saturday, Fox
Line: Oklahoma by 14
* Underdog worth five points

Clemson - Florida State
7 p.m., Saturday, ABC
Line: Florida State by 14
* Underdog worth five points


Good luck.
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