The Spun staff makes its picks for College Football Week 3 games.
Last weekend didn’t have a ton of hype heading into Saturday, but we still had some very fun games.
Central Michigan pulled off an amazing Hail Mary lateral-spawned upset of Oklahoma State that, as it turns out, shouldn’t have happened. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t crazy to watch though.
Arkansas shook the September monkey off of its back with an overtime win at Big 12 power TCU.
Georgia came ridiculously close to losing to Nicholls. Nicholls!
It wasn’t quite Week 1, but things pick up in a big way this weekend. Houston kicks things off on Thursday night, traveling to Cincinnati where it will attempt to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive. College GameDay heads to Louisville for a huge ACC Atlantic battle between the Cardinals and Florida State Seminoles. Oklahoma will look to land a big non-conference win to offset its Houston loss, with Ohio State heading to Norman.
Make sure to get your errands done early on Saturday. There are great games all day long.
Here are our staff picks for every Power Five and Top 25 game for College Football Week 3.
(*On mobile, our College Football Week 3 picks are best viewed in landscape mode.)
| Game | Lombardi | Holleran | Lyons | Hladik | Driscoll | McCabe | McCarty |
| 6 Houston at Cincinnati |  |
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| 21 Baylor at Rice |  |
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| Arizona State at UTSA |  |
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| Ohio at 15 Tennessee |  |
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| Iowa State at TCU |  |
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| New Mexico at Rutgers |  |
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| South Carolina State at 5 Clemson |  |
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| 2 Florida State at 10 Louisville |  |
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| Temple at Penn State |  |
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| Kansas at Memphis |  |
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| North Dakota State at 13 Iowa |  |
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| Georgia State at 9 Wisconsin |  |
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| 25 Miami at Appalachian State |  |
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| Vanderbilt at Georgia Tech |  |
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| Virginia at UConn |  |
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| Idaho at Washington State |  |
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| FAU at Kansas State |  |
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| USF at Syracuse |  |
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| Colorado at 4 Michigan |  |
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| 22 Oregon at Nebraska |  |
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| 1 Alabama at 19 Ole Miss |  |
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| James Madison at UNC |  |
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| Pitt at Oklahoma State |  |
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| Boston College at Virginia Tech |  |
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| Western Michigan at Illinois |  |
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| New Mexico State at Kentucky |  |
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| ECU at South Carolina |  |
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| Idaho State at Oregon State |  |
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| Old Dominion at NC State |  |
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| Delaware at Wake Forest |  |
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| Maryland at UCF |  |
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| Louisiana Tech at Texas Tech |  |
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| Mississippi State at 20 LSU |  |
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| 17 Texas A&M at Auburn |  |
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| Texas State at 24 Arkansas |  |
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| North Texas at 23 Florida |  |
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| 12 Michigan State at 18 Notre Dame |  |
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| 16 Georgia at Missouri |  |
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| 3 Ohio State at 14 Oklahoma |  |
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| Duke at Northwestern |  |
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| USC at 7 Stanford |  |
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| Portland State at 8 Washington |  |
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| UCLA at BYU |  |
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| Utah at San Jose State |  |
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| 11 Texas at Cal |  |
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| Hawaii at Arizona |  |
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| Season Record | 85-17 | 82-20 | 82-20 | 82-20 | 81-21 | 81-21 | 79-23 |
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