The NFL starts up tonight with the league’s annual Thursday night kick-off game. We don’t need to wait much longer for the start of College Football Week 2, though.
Friday night only has one game, but it features a ranked team.
No. 16 TCU has a big road tune-up game ahead of next weekend’s highly anticipated match-up against Ohio State in Arlington.
The Horned Frogs travel to Dallas to face SMU, now coached by former Cal head coach Sonny Dykes. The Mustangs fell to a tough North Texas team last weekend.
From there, we have a full Saturday slate.Mississippi State-Kansas State, UCLA-Oklahoma, Colorado-Nebraska, and Michigan State-Arizona State.
There are also rivalry games between Iowa and Iowa State, Georgia and South Carolina, and a big Pac-12 battle between ranked Stanford and USC teams, among others.
After Week 1, here are The Spun’s staff pick standings.
| T-1. | Dan Lyons | 47-7 |
| T-1. | Andrew McCarty | 47-7 |
| T-3. | Matt Lombardi | 45-9 |
| T-3. | Steve Driscoll | 45-9 |
| 5. | Andrew Holleran | 44-10 |
| T-6. | Matt Hladik | 43-11 |
| T-6. | Chris Rosvoglou | 43-11 |
Here are our picks for the upcoming week. We choose every game involving a Power Five/Top 25 team.
(*On mobile, our College Football Week 2 picks are best viewed in landscape mode.)
| Game | Lombardi | Holleran | Lyons | Hladik | Driscoll | McCarty | Rosvoglou |
| 16 TCU at SMU |  |
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| New Mexico at 5 Wisconsin |  |
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| 18 Mississippi State at Kansas State |  |
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| Western Michigan at 21 Michigan |  |
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| Towson at Wake Forest |  |
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| Eastern Michigan at Purdue |  |
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| Nevada at Vanderbilt |  |
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| Arizona at Houston |  |
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| Duke at Northwestern |  |
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| Georgia Tech at South Florida |  |
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| Georgia State at NC State |  |
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| UCLA at 6 Oklahoma |  |
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| Holy Cross at Boston College |  |
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| William & Mary at 12 Virginia Tech |  |
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| Portland State at 23 Oregon |  |
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| Kansas at Central Michigan |  |
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| Arkansas State at 1 Alabama |  |
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| 3 Georgia at 24 South Carolina |  |
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| Rutgers at 4 Ohio State |  |
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| Ball State at 8 Notre Dame |  |
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| Colorado at Nebraska |  |
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| North Carolina at ECU |  |
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| Wagner at Syracuse |  |
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| Lamar at Texas Tech |  |
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| Southern Illinois at Ole Miss |  |
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| East Tennessee State at Tennessee |  |
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| North Dakota at 9 Washington |  |
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| Iowa State at Iowa |  |
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| Youngstown State at 14 West Virginia |  |
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| South Carolina State at 19 UCF |  |
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| Savannah State at 22 Miami |  |
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| Maryland at Bowling Green |  |
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| 2 Clemson at Texas A&M |  |
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| Southeastern Louisiana at 11 LSU |  |
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| Baylor at UTSA |  |
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| Indiana State at Louisville |  |
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| Wyoming at Missouri |  |
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| Samford at Florida State |  |
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| Alabama State at 7 Auburn |  |
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| Kentucky at 25 Florida |  |
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| Western Illinois at Illinois |  |
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| Virginia at Indiana |  |
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| Arkansas at Colorado State |  |
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| Utah at Northern Illinois |  |
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| Fresno State at Minnesota |  |
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| 13 Penn State at Pittsburgh |  |
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| South Alabama at Oklahoma State |  |
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| Tulsa at Texas |  |
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| Southern Utah at Oregon State |  |
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| 17 USC at 10 Stanford |  |
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| UConn at 20 Boise State |  |
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| Cal at BYU |  |
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| 15 Michigan State at Arizona State |  |
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| San Jose State at Washington State |  |
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| Season Record | 45-9 | 44-10 | 47-7 | 43-11 | 45-9 | 47-7 | 43-11 |
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