Here’s our picks as of Thursday afternoon. Everyone wants to get their official LSU/Alabama pick on the record so I expect to hear from damn near everyone I’ve ever tracked this week. I also wouldn’t be surprised if we had a few experts change their minds as Saturday night nears (Lou Holtz, I’m looking in your direction). Also, Pat Forde has officially left ESPN for Yahoo sports, but I’ll keep up with him from time to time since I enjoy his work. I’ll be back tomorrow with more updates, and as always, I post live picks as I see them on my Twitter @gamedaycole
Jesse Palmer: LSU over Bama Ok St over KState Stanford over Oreg St Wisc over Purdue David Pollack: Bama over LSU Georgia over NMSt Cinci over Pitt Ok St over KState Boise St over UNLV Robert Smith: Bama over LSU Tom Luginbill: Mich St over Minn Georgia over NMSt Stanford over Oregon St Arkansas over S.Carolina Nebraska over NW Ok St over KState OU over TAMU Bama over LSU Danny Kanell: Arkansas over S.Carolina Oregon over Washington Ok St over KState OU over TAMU Bama over LSU Jason Sehorn: Arkansas over S.Carolina Brock Huard: Ok St over KState Pat Forde: Bama over LSU Woody Paige: Bama over LSU JA Adande: Bama over LSU Kirk Herbstreit: FSU over BC Desmond Howard: FSU over BC Trevor Matich: Bama over LSU Mark Schlabach: Arkansas over S.Carolina Bama over LSU Charlie Arbuckle: LSU over Bama Dan Hawkins: LSU over Bama Matt Millen: Bama over LSU