College football odds, lines, schedule for Week 8: Texas opens as favorite vs. Ole Miss — SkimNews
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- AP poll history was made last Saturday when, for the first time since the poll began in 1936, five of the top seven AP-ranked teams lost on the same afternoon, leaving only six unbeatens at midseason: BYU, James Madison, Miami, Texas Tech, UCLA, and Utah.
- No. 7 Ole Miss at No. 19 Texas opens as a 3.5-point Longhorns home favorite, with Texas defensive end Colin Simmons (nation-leading 10.5 sacks) questionable after being carted off against Florida; Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss has already beaten LSU and Missouri.
- No. 6 Indiana at Michigan has the Hoosiers laying 7.5 points despite not winning at Michigan Stadium since 1967, while backup QB Tommy Carr sparked Michigan's second-half comeback against Penn State after replacing Bryce Underwood.
- No. 11 Tennessee (-2.5) at South Carolina puts the Vols in Columbia against a Gamecocks team that just got five total touchdowns from LaNorris Sellers at Florida and whose coach Shane Beamer is 3-4 against top-15 SEC opponents.
- No. 14 Houston at No. 10 Utah has the Utes favored by 5.5 in a game Utah needs for its first quality win before BYU visits Nov. 7; Houston's Conner Weigman threw five TD passes in a 35-32 win over Oklahoma State.
- No. 18 LSU (-6.5) at Auburn sends the Tigers to the Plains coming off a 31-point demolition of Mississippi State, with the article noting LSU's margin for error in SEC play is 'near zero' the rest of the way.
Why it matters: With the first College Football Playoff rankings coming in two weeks and only six unbeaten teams left after an AP top-7 shakeup not seen in the poll's 90-year history, Week 8 is the last big-slate chance for contenders to bank a quality win before the committee starts sorting 12-team contenders from pretenders.
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