College Football Week 5: 5 bold predictions
By Jordan Luth
Jordan Luth breaks down five bold predictions for this week’s college football games.
Week 5 of the college football season is already here, and it looks to be a great week of action. In the past week, Michigan State fell, Lamar Jackson racked up more touchdowns and Les Miles was fired. Week 5 is sure to be another great week of college football
There are three games this week that feature match ups of top 10 teams. Those match ups are:
No. 7 Stanford vs No. 10 Washington
No. 8 Wisconsin vs No. 4 Michigan
No. 3 Louisville vs No. 5 Clemson
All three of these match ups could be down to the wire games and will all have major impacts on the final rankings for the college football playoff. With that being said, here are five bold predictions for Week 5 of the season.
5. Alabama covers the spread and then some
Alabama goes into Week 5 with a matchup against Kentucky. To put this bluntly, Alabama could play their backups and probably still cover the spread of 35 points. Kentucky has one of the worst defenses in college football. They are allowing 463 yards per game. Alabama is only allowing 280 yards per game. Kentucky allows more points than they score. Alabama scores over triple what they allow. Hard to argue with the facts isn’t it?
Alabama holds a 36-2-1 record against Kentucky all time. Kentucky has never won at Alabama either and that’s where this game will be played. With this game, it’s very simple. Alabama is going to score and they are going to score a lot. Just how much they score in all honesty will be up to Nick Saban. Kentucky won’t be able to dictate that.
Alabama will win by 35 points and should win by more. The only thing bold about this bold prediction is that I’m bold enough to actually put Alabama destroying Kentucky as one of my bold predictions.