Kentucky vs Auburn Live Streams: A win instantly would help Wells win over the fan base after last year’s 4-8 season. But a loss, especially a lopsided loss, could start an ugly slide. And this one just smells like a lopsided loss, well beyond the point spread of 18. Texas wins by at least four touchdowns as star quarterback Sam Ehlinger lifts the Longhorns to an easy 2-0 start, increasing the buzz in Austin about playoff potential and other postseason trophies.South Carolina will provide an early indication of where things stand for UT.
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College football’s Week 4 slate for the 2020 season features 31 games, and our NCAA experts are ready with their predictions and picks. The Week 4 action begins on Thursday, Sept. 24 with UAB visiting South Alabama. One game dots the schedule for Friday night, as UTSA hosts Middle Tennessee in a clash of Conference USA foes. Saturday’s slate begins with nine games in the Noon ET window. Kansas State visits Oklahoma, Florida opens SEC play at Ole Miss, Auburn hosts Kentucky, and Louisville travels to Pitt for a key matchup in the ACC.
The afternoon slate features Mississippi State-LSU, Army-Cincinnati, West Virginia-Oklahoma State, Georgia-Arkansas and Texas-Texas Tech. At night, Florida State at Miami tops the list of matchups, with Alabama-Missouri, NC State-Virginia Tech and Tennessee-South Carolina also on tap. The Week 4 slate also features one late-night matchup, as Troy visits BYU in Provo.Welcome to the 2020 college football season, SEC. The third power conference to get in the mix takes the field this weekend with defending national champion LSU getting a home game against Mike Leach, and Alabama is on the road to get warmed up for what could be a big season.The Southeastern Conference returns in Week 4 of the college football season.
All 14 SEC schools will debut with their conference-only schedule, and eight of those teams are ranked in the AP Top 25. No. 23 Kentucky travels to No. 8 Auburn in the only matchup between ranked teams, and No. 2 Alabama, No. 4 Georgia and No. 6 LSU — the defending national champion — will debut their new quarterbacks. Four first-year coaches also are on the sidelines in Mississippi State’s Mike Leach, Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin, Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz and Arkansas’ Sam Pittman. That is all part of what should feel like the first full weekend of college football in 2020. COVID-19 remains a factor in the season and has led to several postponements, but the games are still going.
Every week, Sporting News will survey the landscape looking for Heisman contenders, coaches on the spot, upset alerts and other trends. With that in mind, get ready for Week 4. Florida’s Kyle Trask was voted the SEC Preseason first-team quarterback by the coaches, and it was kind of a default position. He is the top returning passer with 2,941 yards and 25 TDs. Trask took over the starting job when Feleipe Franks suffered a season-ending ankle injury. Franks transferred to Arkansas, and Trask is tasked with pushing No. 5 Florida back to the top of the SEC East.
Alabama replaces Tua Tagovailoa with Mac Jones, LSU replaces Joe Burrow with Myles Brennan and Georgia replaces Jake Fromm with either D’Wan Mathis or JT Daniels. For Trask, that season starts with a trip to Ole Miss, where Kiffin can be creative with John Rhys Plumlee, a quarterback who rushed for 1,023 yards and 12 TDs last season. South Carolina’s Will Muschamp and Tennessee’s Jeremy Pruitt both lost their openers in 2019, and it created a burst of hot-seat talk that both coaches dealt with in different fashions.
Oklahoma and Kansas State are set for a clash in the conference opener for each team Saturday, and it will actually be a revenge game for the Sooners. The Wildcats were the only team to beat Oklahoma in the regular season last year, winning 48-41. This year, the song is the same: Oklahoma enters as the favorite to not only win the Big 12, but make the College Football Playoff. Kansas State will try to play spoiler.
Muschamp is still feeling that coming off a 4-8 season. He is 26-25 and banking on Colorado State transfer Collin Hill at quarterback to jump-start the offense. Pruitt, meanwhile, led the Vols to a bowl victory and put together another solid recruiting class. Those storylines converge in Columbia, S.C. Tennessee has lost five of its past six trips to Wiliams-Brice Stadium, but the Vols won last year’s meeting in convincing fashion with a 41-21 blowout.
This should be a hot SEC East opener, with temperatures in the high 80s and thunderstorms in the forecast. The conference gets its long-anticipated season underway Saturday with seven games. The biggest matchup sees No. 8 Auburn and Kentucky meet for just the second time since 2010. The Tigers and Wildcats are dark horse contenders in their respective divisions, and this game provides an important opportunity to get started on the right foot.
Also worth watching are the challenging debuts for Mississippi State coach Mike Leach and Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin. The Bulldogs travel to No. 5 LSU, which starts its title defense, while the Rebels host No. 6 Florida.Elsewhere, No. 3 Oklahoma hosts Kansas State after falling to the Wildcats for its lone Big 12 loss last season. It could be a coming-out party for heralded freshman Spencer Rattler, who gets his first real test as the Sooners’ quarterback.
Also in the conference, No. 9 Texas faces a potentially tricky trip to Texas Tech.In the ACC, the spotlight game sees No. 14 Miami (Fla.) host Florida State. While the in-state rivalry has lost some luster, the Seminoles will be looking to rebound from their opening loss to Georgia Tech and the Hurricanes are hoping to build on the momentum of their strong start.Elsewhere in the Week 4 schedule, we see a rare top 256 clash between two former Conference USA foes. Things are starting to heat up with the college football season, but are we getting any better at reading the lines? That’s the big question going into Week 4 after a few ups and downs over the last three weeks.
And with some pretty big spreads to soak in this week, there could be some good risks floating out there. But in the end, the best teams probably give you the most reasons to feel confident in the picks. Let’s ride with some big favorites and a few underdogs this week.LSU will certainly have some new faces stepping into big shoes his season after winning it all, but Ed Orgeron’s Tigers are still going to be incredibly difficult to beat at home. This could be a rude welcome to the SEC for new Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach, as the reigning national champs. Myles Brennan won’t be Joe Burrow, but he won’t need to be to put up big numbers in his first start in Baton Rouge.
The two former Conference USA foes will meet for the first time since 2004, and this will mark the first time either team is ranked in the top 25 for the game (they are actually both ranked for an even more rare event in this series). Army should be able to manage to work enough clock to keep this game from getting out of hand, making a two-touchdown spread something they should be able to cover, but Cincinnati gets the notable win at the end. Tennessee has had a rocky start to the season for a few years now, and this one should be no different. Will Muschamp may not have a roster ready to make too much noise in the SEC, but the Vols should be in for a good scrap with the Gamecocks.
If Jarrett Guarantano can avoid making some mistakes and keep the offense moving, Tennessee should get out of Columbia with a win. But South Carolina won’t allow for the Vols to feel too comfortable in this sloppy opener.We finally have a strong slate of college football games this weekend thanks to the SEC opening up their schedule. We’re going to take a look at three games this Saturday, including two in the Big 12 and one in the SEC. West Virginia travels to No. 15 Oklahoma State, No. 23 Kentucky takes on No. 9 Auburn and No. 8 Texas takes on Texas Tech on the road.Texas smoked the Red Raiders last season 49-24 at home giving 9.5. They looked impressive in their Sept. 12 matchup against UTEP, winning 59-3. Sam Ehlinger threw for 426 yards and five touchdowns to five different receivers.
Texas Tech struggled in their 35-33 win over Houston Baptist on the same date. They were a 40-point favorite and their defense struggled. QB Alan Bowman was impressive with 430 yards and two TD passes, but that secondary allowed 572 passingShocking disappointments and better-than-expected performances are anticipated each weekend in the wild world of college football. It’s especially true in the first month of the season as teams have yet to get into the swing of the schedules and are more prone to mistakes.
The USA TODAY Sports college football staff — Jace Evans, Paul Myerberg, Brent Schrotenboer, Erick Smith, Eddie Timanus and Dan Wolken — weigh in with some bold predictions for Week 4 of the college football season.College football memes collide this week as we’re “Talkin’ bout the Noles” while examining if “The U” is back. The Seminoles were not impressive in their season opener two weeks ago, meekly falling 16-13 to rebuilding Georgia Tech in the debut of coach Mike Norvell – who won’t even be on the sidelines this week at Hard Rock Stadium after he tested positive for COVID-19. Though it hasn’t been the smoothest start on or off the field, it’s far too early to make any judgments about the Norvell era, especially given the instability the once-mighty program has gone through the past few years. Florida State has some talent, but this is still a bit of a rebuilding project, which makes it unfortunate that Norvell won’t be able to directly help his team for this prime time game early in his tenure.
As for the Hurricanes, no, they’re not “back” either – but they do look much improved in Manny Diaz’s second season. They have two solid games under their belt in 2020, and the bet is for them to keep that momentum as they dispatch Florida State for the fourth consecutive year. Surely, Florida State fans will remain calm if the team gets off to an 0-2 start.Several SEC games are closer than expected as the league joins the rest of the Bowl Subdivision in stumbling out of the gate after an uneven offseason and fall camp. That’s not to say that Missouri’s going to beat Alabama, or that Arkansas has a shot against Georgia. But even with an extra few weeks compared to the ACC and Big 12, the SEC will not be immune from the sloppiness and lack of timing that has plagued even some of the best teams from those Power Five leagues. It could make for an interesting Saturday.
On a Saturday full of potentially lopsided games, Texas Tech hits a potential fork in the road of second-year coach Matt Wells’ tenure. The Texas Longhorns come to Lubbock after Wells’ Red Raiders barely hung on to beat Houston Baptist, a lower subdivision team whose quarterback threw for 567 yards in a 35-33 loss.
The Gamecocks have won three of four in the series and four of the last five against Tennessee at home. There are two constants to Will Muschamp’s team: Playing with intensity and a stingy defense. Those two factors should keep the game close. The deciding factor will be if Colorado State transfer quarterback Collin Hill can squeeze enough points out of the offense to pull an upset. The bet is that he will.We don’t know a whole lot about Army yet. The Black Knights were quite impressive in their two victories against Middle Tennessee and Louisiana-Monroe, but it’s safe to say neither of those teams will be competing for any championships this year.
We’d know more had Army been able to square off with BYU, which had just thumped Navy a couple of weeks earlier, but alas that game didn’t occur.We know even less about Cincinnati. Sure, the Bearcats are coming off a solid season and have been pegged to contend in the American. They did what they were supposed to do against Austin Peay in their 2020 debut last week, but again, that didn’t really tell us much.After nailing the bold prediction two weeks in a row with Louisiana-Lafayette over Iowa State and Liberty over Western Kentucky, we’re feeling pretty good about ourselves.
So let’s try to make it 3-for-3 with North Carolina State going into Blacksburg and beating Virginia Tech, which is not based so much in confidence about the Wolfpack but trepidation about the state of the Hokies. Maybe this isn’t such a huge reach, but Virginia Tech is still the favorite in this game according to oddsmakers. That seems a little bit generous to the Hokies given their less-than-ideal preparation for the season.Football returns in the Southeastern Conference this weekend with several national title contenders among the league’s litany of nationally-ranked teams making their 2020 debuts this season.
That means an opportunity to see second-ranked Alabama and No. 3 Georgia try and pass the eye test in respective road contests while the Lane Kiffin era kicks off at Ole Miss against the Florida Gators.For college football viewers in the South, Week 4 offers this fall’s most appetizing slate to date. And with that being said, hopefully Chris and I can turn the page on a disappointing start and open a new slate with a bunch of winners.