Football Picks Sept 4

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Week 1 is always pretty boring for the most part. Everybody is playing their cake-walk games. There are a few Top 25 games, though. (Winners in green):

Purdue at Notre Dame

Connecticut at Michigan

#24 Oregon State vs. #6 TCU

#21 LSU vs. #18 North Carolina

• I'm picking the home team in every game... always a bad idea, but I"m doing it anyway.
• You have no idea how bad I wanna pick UConn. They're a little better than they get credit for. 
• I don't think Oregon State belongs in the Top 25.
• UNC/LSU is the second biggest game of the week after the Va Tech/Boise game. If you turn on ESPN it sounds like UNC's entire season is over before they've even played a single down. That's ridiculous. Carolina still has the most important part of their team: T.J. Yates.
• While the Va Tech/Boise game Monday Night may be the most exciting of the week (and probably the month of September) I'm predicting the UNC/LSU game will be a lot closer.