Phil Steele Week 4 Picks (Updated)

[irishfan]

He releases his top 25 ones now and will have the rest of his picks up Friday.

Here's some of the top 25 picks of note (computer picks in parenthesis):

Penn State 24 (22)
Iowa 10 (14)

California 31 (37)
Oregon 17 (27)

USC 55 (47)
Washington State 3 (2)

Miami 23 (26)
Virginia Tech 27 (25)

Clemson 20 (24)
TCU 13 (18)

Texas Tech 41 (36)
Houston 38 (37)

Washington 20 (22)
Stanford 30 (25)

Michigan 41 (37)
Indiana 10 (15)


Phil Steele

 

[irishfan]

I'll post the other picks he has on Friday.

The two games I'm looking forward to the most this week apart from ND-Purdue are definitely Miami-Virginia Tech and Washington-Stanford. I'm really not as sold on Miami as others. Their win over FSU was impressive but I still can't tell if these were great offenses or crappy defenses. And the win over Ga Tech is somewhat tainted in my opiinion as Miami had a week and a half to prepare for the option. It's extrememly impressive when a team can shut it down in one week, but having that extra time really helps. If they beat VA tech this weekend I'll be convinced though. And I really want Washington to win this week. I'm not sold on them and with the fact that ND moved down in the rankings last week, a win over a ranked Washington team would be huge. Oh, and TCU-Clemson will be good too.

 

[nlroma1o]

I really want to see Houston and Florida St. lose. There is no way they are going to keep this run of luck going so you might as well get it over with and help ND get back in the rankings. Also I would love to see OSU lose to Illinois and I have a feeling Georgia Tech is gonna beat North Carolina. If this all happens than that's 4 top 25 teams that are out and potentially ND in. GO IRISH!!!

Oh yeah I forgot. Miami plays VATech, so thats another top 25 team that will lose.

 

[IrishAlum1997]

We are not getting in the top 25 this week even if we beat Purdue by 30. I would say there is a 50/50 chance we get into the 20's if we beat U-Dub. It feels like last year. We beat Michigan by 18 and many of us wondered why we weren't in the polls. Gotta beat somebody. We beat a 3rd place WAC team and a crappy Sparty. Lost to a vastly overrated Michigan. Beating the Condoms gets us in the mid-teens. Then it's on.

 

[irishfan]

New Picks for non-Top 25 games (Computer Picks in Parenthesis

Notre Dame over Purdue by 24 (35-25)
UCONN by 38 over Rhode Island (37-8)
Wisconsin by 4 over Michigan State (27-27)
NC State over Pitt by 1 (25-25)
Navy by 35 over W. Kentucky (37-10)
Boston College by 7 over Wake Forest (24-17)

Seems as if Steele is pretty confident in us. Also has us out-gaining Purdue 473 to 378.

 

[irishfan]

Steele went 47-12 last week with his picks. Not bad considering the upsets