[yvonne]

The spread is pretty wide this week, so let's pick against the spread. Is an upset in the making? Will we roll? Will we eke by a newly confident UCLA team?

[yvonne]

The spread is pretty wide this week, so let's pick against the spread. Is an upset in the making? Will we roll? Will we eke by a newly confident UCLA team?

[Farm93]

Sagarin's Predictor ratings, in Sagarin terminology the best single predictor of future games, would park the spread at 26 points on a neutral venue.  But since the team moved to the shady side, and dragged the students there too, Stanford Stadium has been far from a neutral venue.

So I will predict that Stanford extends the current 27 or more margin of victory run and wins by at least 28.  38-10

For the BCS beauty pageant this week's margin of victory actually is quite important.  If Stanford "only" beats UCLA by 10 or so, then I would predict that a one loss Oklahoma team could join one loss SEC teams in the group that could pass undefeated Stanford in the final BCS rankings.

Since the Pac-12 is weak it is very important to look good when beating any Pac-12 team that lost to top AQ schools from other conferences.  It is a sad system, but it is the system and style points matter.

[Farm93]

Sagarin's Predictor ratings, in Sagarin terminology the best single predictor of future games, would park the spread at 26 points on a neutral venue.  But since the team moved to the shady side, and dragged the students there too, Stanford Stadium has been far from a neutral venue.

So I will predict that Stanford extends the current 27 or more margin of victory run and wins by at least 28.  38-10

For the BCS beauty pageant this week's margin of victory actually is quite important.  If Stanford "only" beats UCLA by 10 or so, then I would predict that a one loss Oklahoma team could join one loss SEC teams in the group that could pass undefeated Stanford in the final BCS rankings.

Since the Pac-12 is weak it is very important to look good when beating any Pac-12 team that lost to top AQ schools from other conferences.  It is a sad system, but it is the system and style points matter.

[Renaissance Man]

45-0

[Renaissance Man]

45-0