Today’s Picks

These are my ESPN.com College Pick ‘Em Picks. As always, they are arranged from 10 confidence points down to 1.

Illinois over Iowa

Texas Tech over Texas A&M

Cal over Oregon State

LSU over Kentucky

Oklahoma over Missouri

Penn State over Wisconsin

Colorado over Kansas State

Purdue over Michigan

USF over UCF

Arkansas over Auburn

RE-SSOS

The only thing left in my Statistical Strength of Schedule series for this week is by making the SOS rankings again using the power poll I posted earlier. I call it the Reverse Engineered-SSOS, which is not entirely an accurate use of the phrase “reverse engineered” but sounds snappy. This is what it would look like:

1 Notre Dame

2 Stanford

3 Washington

3 Auburn

5 Arizona

6 Brigham Young

7 UCLA

8 Colorado St.

9 Florida Int’l

10 Tennessee

10 Oregon St.

12 Florida

13 Kansas St.

14 Syracuse

15 Washington St.

16 Texas

17 Georgia

18 Colorado

19 New Mexico

20 Maryland

21 California

22 Alabama

23 Oregon

24 East Caro.

25 New Mexico St.

26 San Diego St.

27 Florida St.

28 Utah St.

29 Akron

30 Minnesota

31 Mississippi

32 Duke

33 Marshall

34 North Carolina St.

35 La.-Monroe

36 Georgia Tech

37 Nebraska

37 Tulsa

39 Oklahoma

40 Illinois

41 Miami (Ohio)

42 Fla. Atlantic

43 Houston

44 Western Mich.

45 South Carolina

46 UTEP

47 Wisconsin

48 Wake Forest

49 South Fla.

50 Mississippi St.

51 TCU

52 Arkansas

53 Air Force

54 LSU

55 Oklahoma St.

56 North Texas

57 Michigan

58 Utah

59 Rutgers

60 Buffalo

61 Penn St.

62 Troy

63 Arizona St.

64 Navy

65 UAB

66 Northwestern

67 Southern California

68 North Carolina

69 Southern Methodist

70 Vanderbilt

71 Boise St.

72 Wyoming

73 Kentucky

74 Toledo

75 Iowa

76 Arkansas St.

77 Virginia

78 Bowling Green

79 UNLV

80 Iowa St.

81 Missouri

82 Rice

83 Ohio St.

84 Pittsburgh

85 Tulane

85 Michigan St.

87 Louisiana Tech

88 Cincinnati

89 Indiana

90 Clemson

91 Central Mich.

92 San Jose St.

93 Southern Miss.

94 Miami (Fla.)

95 Fresno St.

96 Virginia Tech

97 Baylor

98 Nevada

99 Purdue

100 West Virginia

101 Middle Tenn. St.

102 La.-Lafayette

103 Ball St.

104 Idaho

104 Temple

106 Boston College

107 Ohio

108 UCF

109 Eastern Mich.

110 Texas A&M

111 Army

112 Kansas

113 Kent St.

114 Louisville

115 Texas Tech

116 Memphis

117 Connecticut

118 Northern Ill.

119 Hawaii