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"Beyond Ringside Live" October 7, 2026
College Football Picks of the Week
Join Fast Eddie Layne and Shane Noles as they take a look, and make their picks, on some of the College Football Games slated for this week.
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00:00Let's make the move to the gridiron in the collegiate manner.
00:05Advanced notification, we are going to hold on to our pro picks until tomorrow.
00:11Ted out today, doctor's appointment, having some tests run.
00:14My best, all of our best to him.
00:17We will be back at full strength tomorrow for a special Thursday edition.
00:21Traditional start time, 3 p.m. Eastern noon on the West Coast.
00:25And we'll handle the majority of the NFL picks or the NFL picks tomorrow.
00:30As well as any other late-breaking news after we go off the air today.
00:34So, coming over, let's start it up.
00:38Just for fun.
00:39This is for entertainment purposes only.
00:42God help us all.
00:44Florida State Seminoles on the road to the Louisville Cardinals.
00:48That's going to be this weekend from Louisville.
00:51Currently, Louisville giving away three and a half to Florida State.
00:54Shane?
00:56Yeah, Burt Colts, the quarterback for Louisville, was questionable.
01:00Play last week.
01:00He did play.
01:01He played well.
01:02Unfortunately, they were upset by the Wolfpack of NC State.
01:06Florida State looked tremendous.
01:08That looked like vintage Florida State with an absolute beatdown of the Virginia Cavaliers.
01:14This game is in Louisville?
01:17Yes, it is.
01:19Give me the Cardinals.
01:22Yeah, that game is actually Friday night, 6 p.m. on ESPN.
01:28Moving, actually staying on Friday night, the number 20, Iowa Hawkeyes.
01:33Go on the road to the Washington Huskies.
01:358 p.m.
01:36This game, I do not have notes on how you can watch it.
01:40It'll be from Husky Stadium in Seattle right now.
01:42Washington, three and a half.
01:44Oh, and by the way, give me the Louisville Cardinals for the win.
01:47I was just about to ask that.
01:49No problem.
01:50Got distracted for a second.
01:52I'm floating between three screens.
01:54And on this one, Washington's been a question mark to me, and Iowa is looking to bounce back.
02:04Will this be the game in which they can do it?
02:06I think it is.
02:08Give me Iowa on the road to the West Coast in Seattle for the win.
02:13Shane?
02:14I took Washington last week to beat USC outright.
02:18They led for over three quarters and lost that game 25-21.
02:22I think quarterback DeMond Williams gets it right at home.
02:25I think they beat the Hawkeyes.
02:27Give me Washington.
02:28In a battle of two quietly undefeated teams on Saturday, 11 a.m. Central start,
02:36the Indiana Hoosiers versus the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
02:40And this game, of course, will be in Lincoln, Nebraska.
02:44Looking at the overall various plays that have come into it, Nebraska's had a squeaker?
02:53Not really.
02:54I mean, but they've beaten Maryland, Michigan State, North Dakota, Bowling Green, and Ohio.
03:00Indiana, in their undefeated run, has been North Texas, Howard, Western Kentucky, Northwestern, and Rutgers,
03:07which the closest being the win against Northwestern, 29-23.
03:12Right now, as it stands, Indiana is a seven-point favorite.
03:20Give me Nebraska at home for the upset, Shane.
03:25Oh, I, uh, if they had already had their test against Northwestern, I would say this would scare me a
03:33little bit for Indiana.
03:34But that two-headed monster, Turbo Richard, Lee Beebe at running back, along with Josh Hoover under center,
03:41I think they do just enough to get it done in Lincoln.
03:43Give me Kurt Sinetti's boys.
03:46Texas A&M on the road to Missouri, currently ranked in the fantasy setup that nobody really pays that much
03:53attention to
03:53because the AP can't vote for crap either.
03:55That's been proven.
03:5611 a.m. on ABC, Missouri, currently a three-and-a-half-point favorite over A&M at home, or
04:04Missouri at home.
04:09Texas A&M has been a question mark, another one of those in my book right now.
04:13And with Missouri being on the roller coaster that it is, give me Mizzou at home to cover.
04:19Give me Missouri by a touchdown.
04:22Yeah, I agree.
04:23Texas A&M has not been right.
04:24I'm not prepared to say they're back just because they destroyed Arkansas last weekend.
04:30Mizzou lost very close down in Starkville to Mississippi State.
04:33Came back and throttled the Florida Gators.
04:36Give me Mizzou at home as well.
04:38South Carolina Gamecocks on the road in Gainesville against the Florida Gators.
04:43Number 16 team.
04:45I'd just throw that out there for the pure hell of it.
04:48Gamecocks coming off of a three-game losing streak.
04:52Mississippi State, Alabama, and Kentucky.
04:53Right now, Florida coming off that loss to Missouri.
04:57Would you call it more of a bounce-back game for Florida?
05:00I'd say yes.
05:01And being in Gainesville, I have to wonder how this overall situation is going to be with the inclement weather
05:10rolling in.
05:10Is that going to affect Gainesville?
05:11Or is that going to be off the beaten path for what this storm is technically going to try to
05:16do?
05:16If it takes place, Florida right now, a 12-and-a-half point favorite.
05:20I'll agree to the win, but not to the 12-and-a-half.
05:25Go ahead and give me Florida by nine, Shane.
05:30John Summerall, he, the coach of Florida, has had very few losses in his career at Tulane, at Troy, and
05:38at Florida.
05:38Now, one thing he does coming off a loss is a pissed-off John Summerall.
05:43His team comes out and proves it.
05:45I thought Shane Beamer would be fired last week when I predicted that Kentucky would beat them.
05:49They did beat them in overtime.
05:51Beamer stays on for one more week.
05:53I think this is the game.
05:55I think Florida rolls them 48-20.
05:57And I'm not rooting for someone to be fired, but I think Beamer has handed his pink slip Sunday afternoon.
06:04A game that will have my undivided attention as the top-ranked Texas Longhorns head to the Cotton Bowl in
06:15Dallas, Texas to face off against the Oklahoma Sooners.
06:19I have said this forever.
06:22This is one game I would never put a dollar on.
06:27Why?
06:27Because the team you think should win gets upset almost every time.
06:34Texas has done it to Oklahoma.
06:37Oklahoma has done it to Texas.
06:38Oklahoma State's done it to both of them.
06:41That's that triad that scares the hell out of me sometimes.
06:45However, in this circumstance, now I do have to say, coming off that lopsided loss to Georgia, 41-13,
06:53Oklahoma may be looking to try to get something going.
06:57But they've got to remember, this is Texas, not UTEP.
07:01This is Texas, not New Mexico.
07:05Give me the Longhorns for the win all the way across the board.
07:09And this is the time where I'm going to sit back and say, seven and a half?
07:13You're a half point off there, kids.
07:16Texas does not cover.
07:18Shane?
07:20You were so loquacious, and you said it beautifully, about Texas and Oklahoma.
07:25The Red River rivalry, to me, as you just illustrated, seems like the Iron Bowl with Auburn and Alabama
07:30that takes place earlier in the season, where records do not matter.
07:34As you said, we've seen a winless Texas team throttle an undefeated Oklahoma team.
07:38We've seen an Oklahoma team, like this year, that couldn't score 13 points a game, annihilate an undefeated Texas team.
07:46Both teams coming off a bye.
07:49Neither team has lived up to expectations thus far.
07:52And I say that with Texas being undefeated, but they didn't look good for three quarters against Ohio State.
07:56They came back to win the game.
07:57They didn't really look all that good at Tennessee, either, winning 20-17.
08:02And John Mateer, quarterback from Oklahoma, through the first four weeks last year, was the frontrunner for the Heisman Trophy.
08:08He broke some bones in his hand.
08:09He tried to come back early in the Red River rivalry.
08:12They lost last year, I believe, 23-6.
08:15He has not looked right since.
08:19But give me the Oklahoma Sooners by a field goal Saturday.
08:25I won't be upset if that's true.
08:28Because, like I said, I'll make the prediction, but I'm not going to put a damn dollar on this.
08:33I wouldn't make this a burger bet, even if it was Crystal Burgers or White Castle.
08:38Hell no.
08:41Much less the Zydeco Burger down at Chubb Fathers down in Alabaster.
08:45God, love that burger.
08:47Or the Mushroom Swiss at Depot Deli and Grill in Helena.
08:50Hell yes.
08:52Oh, Lord.
08:54The Ole Miss Rebels on the road to Vanderbilt, 2.30 p.m. on ESPN.
08:59Right now, Mississippi is a 10-point favorite.
09:03I'll take that.
09:04Give me Ole Miss for the win outright.
09:06Shane?
09:08I'm with you on that.
09:09I don't understand Ole Miss coming off a bye after they're beating down from Florida.
09:13They get their start running back, Kyron Lacey back.
09:16Look, the old adage, Vandy's not as bad as people think.
09:19I think 9.5 or 10 points is awful low.
09:23I think Ole Miss goes into Nashville and hands it to them.
09:28And I apologize.
09:29I did have UCLA and Oregon on the slate for this afternoon.
09:34I just forgot to put that Oregon was the No. 13 ranked team in that ranking thing.
09:39That's why I didn't have the numbers beside both of them.
09:42So I will say the No. 21 ranked UCLA Bruins go on the road to Oregon to Eugene
09:47to face off against the Ducks.
09:49Right now, Oregon 11.5 points.
09:55I like Oregon.
09:57I really do.
09:58I mean, I'm going to sit back and go point blank.
10:01UCLA is another one of those quiet teams that has been undefeated,
10:05but it's been Cal, San Diego State, Purdue, and Maryland that they've beaten.
10:09Oregon and Oregon right now sitting at 3-1 with that loss to Oklahoma State just glaring at everybody.
10:18Granted, they dispatched USC last week 41-27.
10:27Even though UCLA is ranked 21 right now, I think it should be more of a 25.
10:35Give me Oregon at home in one of the hardest places to play.
10:38Give me Oregon for the win.
10:40Shane?
10:41Yeah, if this game we're out in Los Angeles, my eyebrows might be raised a little bit.
10:45It is in Oregon.
10:46However, we don't know about the health of quarterback Dante Moore, but you know what?
10:50Former Nebraska starter Dylan Rayola came in and looked just fine handling the USC Trojans.
10:56I have to think that Oregon, after a week off, is going to win here, but UCLA showed me something
11:01in their last game.
11:02I didn't think they'd win this one, but they went cross-country up to Maryland on an early start time
11:06and handed the Terrapins a 54-3 beatdown in their own house.
11:12I think Oregon wins.
11:14I think they don't cover.
11:15I think it's 10 points, 30-20.
11:18The number 22-ranked Houston Cougars on the road to Kansas State in Manhattan.
11:23Right now, KSU, a two-and-a-half-point favorite.
11:28Shane, who you got?
11:30I hear the shock in your voice, and I'm shocked at that, too, because Houston, while they struggled with Central
11:35Florida,
11:36they still won the ball game.
11:37Kansas State was favored against Cincinnati in walls.
11:40I don't understand why we're still trying to make the Kansas State Wildcats a thing.
11:45Give me Houston to win on the road outright.
11:47Give me Kansas State for the upset.
11:49Well, not really upset.
11:51They're favored by two-and-a-half.
11:52But the thing about it is, and this is something that I have said, and it's been proven for years,
11:57Kansas State, Snyder Stadium, is a very difficult place to play,
12:02but for all the different reasons than what you would normally think.
12:06It's like the football gods just look on that stadium and go,
12:10yeah, Kansas State is going to win today.
12:13Why?
12:14Because we want them to.
12:15And it doesn't matter who it's against.
12:17I've seen them take down top five teams when K-State has not been ranked.
12:23And it's one of those scenarios.
12:25So give me Kansas State to hold on for the win.
12:30Tennessee on the road to Arkansas, 3.15 p.m. Central on the SEC Network from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
12:37Tennessee a 13-and-a-half point favorite.
12:39Shane?
12:43I hear that.
12:44Tennessee with the win, but I don't think they cover.
12:49Arkansas is not good, but I don't know what Tennessee is going to do with quarterback.
12:55They benched Statham, their freshman.
12:57The other guy came in and got it done against Auburn.
13:00I'm going to take Tennessee, but I think it's about eight to ten points here.
13:04But LSU on the road.
13:07Give me Tennessee.
13:10Figured I'd just sneak that one in.
13:11Yeah, Fayetteville is a hard place to play as well, much less a hard place to freaking get to.
13:17But because the nearest airport to Fayetteville is still an hour out, right?
13:22I believe so.
13:24Unless they've changed that in the last five minutes.
13:27LSU on the road to Kentucky.
13:29Oh, boy.
13:30Hey, 6 p.m. primetime, central time start on ESPN.
13:35LSU, eight-and-a-half point favorite.
13:38Shane?
13:40You know, LSU coming off a bye.
13:43Kentucky with another big win in overtime at South Carolina.
13:46I did notice this line opened up at about 11-and-a-half.
13:49Smart bettors took it at that with Kentucky.
13:52You know what?
13:53I'm going to go wild here.
13:55And I mean wild cats.
13:56Give me Kentucky with the outright upset, 27-24 over LSU.
14:05Stole my thunder on that one.
14:09Because Kentucky has been playing inspired football.
14:14I mean, remember, and I'm not going to keep harping back to this,
14:18but remember the first half of the Alabama game.
14:22Now, some say they caught lightning in a bottle for one half,
14:25and then Alabama just decided to go ahead and pop the cork and let it go.
14:30And granted, LSU is not Youngstown State.
14:35But when you hang 31-21 on Texas A&M and 35-34 on South Carolina,
14:42okay, I have to hold up on that South Carolina number.
14:46Because that's a defensive struggle at its finest.
14:50I do think Kentucky has what it takes to beat an LSU team that right now has questions.
14:59And I think Kentucky may give LSU the answers that they don't want.
15:07And UAB on the road to Memphis facing off at the Blazers taking on the Tigers.
15:126 p.m. on ESPN2 out of Memphis.
15:16Right now, Memphis a 14-point favorite.
15:20I'm a blazer at heart.
15:22I do bleed green and gold.
15:24I will say Memphis for the win, but UAB will not let them cover, Shane.
15:30Ooh, I think it's getting a little chilly at night.
15:33I think Memphis is going to reach for a blanket, and they cover on UAB by 17.
15:37Ooh.
15:40I'm still hearing a wing bet in the future,
15:42but that ain't it.
15:44You know, Memphis had an early kick last Saturday.
15:47Game day was on.
15:48Memphis kicked off at 11 o'clock Eastern.
15:50I looked down and saw they were already up 34-8, one going away 56-8.
15:55That was interesting, an 11 Eastern kickoff before game day is even finalized.
15:59Yeah, I know.
16:01Hopefully they got that pick in beforehand.
16:06And then, of course,
16:09nope, there's three.
16:11Boise State at Fresno State, 9.30 p.m. on the CW from Fresno, California.
16:18Boise, excuse me, hiccups.
16:20Boise, eight-and-a-half point favorite, Shane.
16:23It was at six-and-a-half.
16:25I was going to say that was awful low.
16:27I think eight-and-a-half is too low.
16:28I think Boise wins by 17 here.
16:31A couple of weeks ago, they went to Western Michigan,
16:33who wanted to get into this G6 conversation after their near loss to Michigan in the big house.
16:40Boise went in and held them scoreless for three-and-a-half quarters, beat down.
16:43Did it be Utah State last week?
16:45I know Fresno sometimes can be pesky, but I point to a 59-0 loss to USC earlier in the
16:52season.
16:53Give me Boise going away here.
16:56I will join you in that one.
16:58Boise State for the win.
17:00USC at Penn State, Beaver Stadium in Pennsylvania.
17:04Right now, Penn State, one-and-a-half point favorite of the West Coast visitors, Shane.
17:11Two of the most disappointing teams in the country through the first month.
17:15Penn State coming off back-to-back losses to Wisconsin and an absolute beat down.
17:19Kids, this must be mentioned.
17:21Northwestern opened up their new stadium last Friday night, hosting Penn State.
17:26This is not a typo.
17:27This is not an error.
17:28This is not something 80 is going to have to splice in post-production.
17:31Penn State went on the road and had 45 rushing yards at Northwestern.
17:35Northwestern had 426.
17:39My God.
17:42But, you know, I do not like USC.
17:44I don't like any time that they travel cross-country for Big Ten games.
17:49Happy Valley is going to be rocking.
17:51Give me Penn State to get off the snide here with a dub.
17:54Same here.
17:55I think Penn State needs this win.
17:58And normally when I feel a team needs a win, it doesn't happen.
18:01But even right now, Vegas basically has this game at a pick-em where it's not even a safety for
18:08the margin of error.
18:10I think Penn State manages to rally and put it together.
18:13Give me Penn State for the win.
18:14And then, of course, you heard us mention it in the first segment.
18:17Let's go ahead and look at it.
18:19Top ten matchup for the Georgia Bulldogs at this moment at the University of Alabama.
18:27Two versus six in the imaginary.
18:29Still not quite sure why they're doing this fantasy rankings.
18:336.30 p.m.
18:34Kick on ABC from Bryant-Denny Stadium unless it's moved.
18:42Currently, Alabama, point and a half.
18:45Pick them.
18:47Shane, your thoughts.
18:51This will be the best defense that Alabama has played all season.
18:56This will be the best offense that Georgia has played all season.
19:02Let's get that out of the way.
19:03Keon Russell is special under center in Alabama.
19:06Big things happen when he's got the ball in his hands.
19:09Gunner Stockton, old, reliable, and they started to implement Lucky, the tight end for Georgia.
19:16He's no Brock Bowers, but he's sneakily scored, I believe, in three of the last four ballgames.
19:22Folks, just know that, no pun intended here, the tie can go any way in this game.
19:25We saw two years ago Georgia annihilating Alabama.
19:29Alabama comes back and takes the lead.
19:30Georgia takes the lead.
19:31Alabama wins.
19:32I love to use the Eddie Lane-ism, whoever has the ball last, and I think it's Alabama here, 33
19:41-30.
19:43This is going to be one of those games where I'm not going to be heartbroken at either team that
19:48loses,
19:49nor will I be overly ecstatic at either team that wins.
19:53I think this is a beautiful matchup.
19:56This is going to be chess.
19:59I mean, there's some games on the docket this weekend that I will openly endorse for entertainment value.
20:05This is going to be a heavyweight title fight.
20:10Can Georgia weather the storm that is traditional Alabama second-half football now?
20:17Bama's got a track record of starting a little bit shaky up until the last couple of weeks
20:22and then coming back in the second half, capitalizing on mistakes.
20:27Georgia and Alabama, neither can afford to make a serious mistake.
20:33The defense cannot afford a stupid hit.
20:36They can't handle the idea.
20:38There can be no room for error.
20:41I'm sorry.
20:43In that all being said, my heart wants to say roll tide.
20:51My head is going, dude, this is too close for me to call.
20:56My gut is saying too close for me to call.
20:59So with two out of three criteria saying, yeah, let's make this a tie and walk away.
21:05I'm going with my heart.
21:07Yeah, I just went southern on that one.
21:10Thanks for playing.
21:11Well, was it three weeks in a row?
21:13I've had one of those major flippant pronunciation gimmicks.
21:18I'm going with my heart on this one and saying Alabama for the win.
21:22I think one and a half is right on it.
21:25And it may end up being a safety in the third quarter that flips the momentum to Alabama's favor.
21:33So give me Bama for the win.
21:36But I'm not going to be heartbroken if Georgia wins.
21:38I think they're a very talented squad.
21:40No, I'm not hedging my bets in any capacity whatsoever.
21:44Folks, tell you what, hang tight.
21:45Shane and I are going to take one more quick one.
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