College Football Week 5: 5 bold predictions

4. North Carolina upsets Florida State

When your quarterback and top wide receiver are both in the top 10 for passing and receiving yards, you are doing something right. That happens to be the case for North Carolina. North Carolina QB Mitch Trubisky has thrown for 1306 yards, 10 touchdowns and zero interceptions. Not even Lamar Jackson can say he has thrown zero picks through four weeks. Meanwhile UNC WR Ryan Switzer has 429 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Florida State may be in for a tougher game then they know. Their defense hasn’t exactly been top class. Even to USF they gave up 35 points. North Carolina could capitalize on that.

Mitch Trubisky is silently putting together an amazing season. He is completing 75 percent of his passes thrown well over 1,000 yards and the zero interceptions are truly amazing. With that type of offensive firepower on your side of the field going up against a defense that has been in question all year, I’d feel pretty good about myself going into this match up. For Florida State, it only took four games, but Dalvin Cook finally had his coming out party. He ran for 267 yards and two touchdowns.

This game will be an offensive show case. Yet I believe that a key defensive play will be what wins it for one the teams. With Florida State’s defense not really being where they want it to be, North Carolina will have a chance to make a defensive play to win the game.

North Carolina’s offensive, much like their QB, is sneaky good. Not much attention has been brought to them. Maybe that’s because it isn’t basketball season yet. This team has the ability to win a big game like this. It will hard to win on the road, but their offense is prime and ready to show what they can do behind Trubisky.