D1 College Games: Our Picks And The Best Games
D1 College Games: Our Picks And The Best Games
A look at the D1 college rugby games for October 7, plus our picks on who wins.
This week in D1 college rugby, the SIRC starts conference play, so we've got another conference to worry about.
And that conference usually has some bad weather to worry about ... which is possibly the case this weekend as we're still in hurricane season.
However, last week once again we got some upsets last week, but did fairly well. We ran the spreads on 35 games. Two we said we "pick 'ems" when they turned out not to be, so we were wrong there. In three we were dead wrong, the most obvious being Colorado State v Utah (Utah won). But we were right on the winner in 30 out of 35.
As for the score differential? We got one game exactly right (Brown v Princeton), and we were close in about half the games. Normally, we ended up being too conservative in possible blowouts.
Well, this week, let's see:
Military Might
The first of the series of games among the three military academies sees Air Force at Navy. The teams in this Commander-in-Chief Trophy don't really travel well, so we're going with Navy in this one, despite the chance that the midshipmen might be undercooked having not really played.
Big Two In Big 10
Ohio State is at Wisconsin, and this is a huge game in terms of deciding who could finish 2nd. And it's a big one for Wisconsin in that the Badgers will play Michigan State later this fall, and that game could have playoff implications.
Give Me More Liberty
One more team stands as the challenger to the might of Iona, and it's Delaware. The Blue Hens are a shade young and will really have to front up against a physical Iona team that scored 60-plus like clockwork.
No NDC? No AIC?
Those guys play October 12. That's going to be one to watch.
SIRC Early Clash
All of the SIRC South teams are pretty close, and Central Florida v Florida International will continue to be a clash of styles (think rhino v antelope). That game won't decide anything, but it could get us started making predictions.
On the Ohio-Kentucky Border
Cincinnati is 1-0 in division play in the MAC, and Louisville is 2-0. They play each other in a game that should decide who wins the MAC South.
Our Picks
| Stony Brook | at | Fordham | Fordham by 19 |
| Air Force | at | Navy | Navy by 6 |
| Illinois | at | Purdue | Illinois by 29 |
| Michigan State | at | Michigan | Michigan State by 7 |
| Ohio State | at | Wisconsin | Wisconsin by 12 |
| Minnesota | at | Iowa | Iowa by 20 |
| James Madison | at | Maryland | JMU by 3 |
| Towson | at | Mount St. Mary's | Mount St. Mary's by 13 |
| Mary Washington | at | Salisbury | Mary Washington by 33 |
| Virginia | at | Virginia Tech | Virginia Tech by 11 |
| Columbia | at | Brown | Brown by 16 |
| Yale | at | Dartmouth | Dartmouth by 48 |
| Princeton | at | Harvard | Harvard by 31 |
| West Virginia | at | IUP | IUP by 2 |
| Tufts | at | Rhode Island | Rhode Island by 8 |
| Fairfield | at | UConn | UConn by 15 |
| Rutgers | at | Albany | Rutgers by 22 |
| Brockport | at | Binghamton | Binghamton by 8 |
| Cortland | at | Syracuse | Syracuse by 3 |
| Iona | at | Delaware | Iona by 33 |
| Uni. Notre Dame | at | Indiana | Indiana by 45 |
| Missouri | at | Lindenwood-Belleville | L-B by 50 |
| Wyoming | at | Colorado State | CSU by 39 |
| Colorado | at | Utah State | USU by 7 |
| St. Bonaventure | at | Army | Army by 35 |
| Buffalo | at | Wheeling Jesuit | Pick 'em |
| Auburn | at | Alabama | Alabama by 44 |
| Tennessee | at | Ole Miss | Tennessee by 75 |
| UCF | at | FIU | FIU by 7 |
| FAU | at | FSU | FSU by 19 |
| KSU | at | Georgia Southern | KSU by 12 |
| Memphis | at | MTSU | MTSU by 11 |
| USF | at | UNF | Pick 'em |
| Topeka | at | Kansas State | K-State by 29 |
| Boston College | at | Northeastern | BC by 5 |
| Northern Illinois | at | Central Michigan | NIU by 1 |
| Louisville | at | Cincinnati | Pick 'em |
| Davenport | at | Western Michigan | Davenport by 25 |