The Big 5 College Football Games of the Weekend

5. Eastern Carolina Pirates at Virginia Tech Hokies
This game is less about the competitiveness and more about the return of College Football and some distractions to the VaTech campus after the horrible events of earlier this year. If anything can bring that community together it's their passion for the football team. In addition College Gameday will be there. The Pick: VaTech by mucho

4. Louisiana State Tigers at Mississippi State Bulldogs
The opener on National Television tomorrow night. The game shouldn't really be that competitive. MSU is very bad and and LSU is amongst the National Title hopefuls. But it signals the start of football in 2007 and for that reason its big. So enjoy the first half before the game is out of hand. The Pick: LSU in a landslide

3. Florida State Seminoles at Clemson Tigers
Bowden bowl in the opening week of the season? Interesting. Personally I'm not a fan of big in conference matchups to open the season, I really think there should be a game or two to open up against out of conference teams. At the end of the season the conference title could be determined by the first game, that just doesn't seem right. The Pick: FSU going for the Senior

2. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
This could be a fun year for the average Notre Dame hater. They left all of their cake walk games for the end of the schedule and could get off to a brutal start. I just don't think GaTech is going to be that terrific this year either and maybe I'm the lone one here but I think ND will pull this one out. The Pick: ND

1. Tennessee Volunteers at California Golden Bears
This home and home series is pretty sweet. They both have high expectations they both are ranked, though not as high as last season, and with the first 3 hours of the season one will see their national title dreams pretty much smashed. Oh the glory of scheduling a good opponent Week 1 instead of Appalachian St. or Buffalo. The Pick: Cal Bears for revenge