{"id":2260,"date":"2009-10-03T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T05:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2009-09-29T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T23:28:01","slug":"college-football-storylines-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-storylines-week-5-2260\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Storylines, Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the storylines that stand out for me this week in college football action:
\n
\nMichigan (+2) at Michigan State<\/strong> – The Spartans have been terrible so far this year. The Wolverines have yet to play on the road, and have gotten worse defensively as the season has progressed. This is a big rivalry game, and one team is going to wind up very disappointed.
\n
\nSouth Florida (-6.5) at Syracuse<\/strong> – Was last week’s stunning upset a fluke, or is B.J. Daniels ready to do big things at South Florida. And will GregPaulus continue to take strides forward?
\n
\nAlabama (-16.5) at Kentucky<\/strong> – We saw what the Gators did against Kentucky last week, so this is a way to get a very rough estimate of how the top two teams in the SEC measure up.
\n
\nPenn State (-7) at Illinois<\/strong> – Both teams need to bounce back from embarrassing performances last week. Illinois really needs to find a way to pull off a win this week in an attempt to get a once promising season back on track.
\n
\nUCLA(+6) at Stanford<\/strong> – One of these teams has a good chance of being a factor in the Pac-10 race. This game will give us a good sense of which one.
\n
\nLSU (+3) at Georgia<\/strong> – I really don’t believe in either of these teams. A decisive win by one of them would be a sign that they achieve their rankings. For now, I think both are badly overrated.
\n
\nWashington (+13.5) at Notre Dame <\/strong>– The Irish need a convincing win over someone to prove themselves. Washington needs to bounce back from last week and prove that their USC performance was no fluke.
\n
\nOklahoma (-7.5) at Miami<\/strong> – Will Sam Bradford play? How well? Can Miami bounce back from last week’s humiliation, or are they exhausted from their ridiculously tough opening string of games?
\n
\nUSC (-5) at Cal<\/strong> – Two weeks ago you could have argued convincingly that this game was for a spot in the BCS championship. Now it’s next to impossible to know what we have from either team. This could be a great game, or it could be a train wreck, but it will be interesting either way.
\n
\nHouston (-16) at UTEP<\/strong> – I will be watching Houston closely all the way through this season. They have a couple of impressive wins already, so if they could remain undefeated they could create a real headache for the BCS. Besides that, they are just so much fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are the storylines that stand out for me this week in college football action: Michigan (+2) at Michigan State – The Spartans have been terrible so far this year. The Wolverines have yet to play on the road, and have gotten worse defensively as the season has progressed. This is a big rivalry game, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[9531,372],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-football","tag-college-football","tag-ncaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}