Week 11 college football picks: Utah at Arizona, Oklahoma at Baylor, more
Last week brought clarity to the College Football Playoff picture. Consider how many important matchups took place: TCU fell at Oklahoma State, Michigan State was upset by Nebraska, Alabama rolled LSU and Memphis stumbled against Navy. With several intriguing games on tap this week, we’ll soon have an even more clearly defined pool of candidates for the final field of four.
Can the Crimson Tide survive a trip to Mississippi State? Will Oregon spoil Stanford’s playoff hopes? Can Baylor count on freshman quarterback Jarrett Stidham in an important matchup with Oklahoma? A group of SI.com college football writers—Andy Staples, Pete Thamel, Thayer Evans, Zac Ellis, Colin Becht, Lindsay Schnell, Brian Hamilton and Ben Glicksman—offers its predictions for those games and more.
• PODCAST: Previewing the most important games of Week 11
• ROUNDTABLE: Which team outside of top four has best playoff résumé?
• ELLIS: Projections for the playoff and every other bowl game
| Staples | Thamel | Evans | Ellis | Becht | Schnell | Hamilton | Glicksman |
USC at Colorado | ||||||||
Pittsburgh at Duke | ||||||||
Georgia at Auburn | ||||||||
Florida at S. Carolina | ||||||||
NC State at FSU | ||||||||
Miami at UNC | ||||||||
Alabama at Miss. St. | ||||||||
Okla. St. at Iowa St. | ||||||||
Michigan at Indiana | ||||||||
Memphis at Houston | ||||||||
Arkansas at LSU | ||||||||
Oregon at Stanford | ||||||||
BYU at Missouri | ||||||||
Oklahoma at Baylor | ||||||||
Minnesota at Iowa | ||||||||
Utah at Arizona | ||||||||
Washington St. at UCLA | ||||||||
LAST WEEK | 11-6 | 10-7 | 10-7 | 12-5 | 9-8 | 11-6 | 13-4 | 12-5 |
SEASON | 110-55 | 105-60 | 110-55 | 112-53 | 110-55 | 106-59 | 100-65 | 113-52 |
