Nick’s Picks: Who’s Covering This Weekend?

0:00I could have you along on a football Friday ladies and gentlemen. We got college football. We got NFL. It all is here in week number two in the NFL week three in college football. It is just what a time to be alive. We'll start with the college football picks. Then we'll go to the NFL picks. We'll do the local games. Plus maybe one of the biggest games of the college football season lane. Kiff and going back to Ole Miss. So let's start with college. Oh, love this music. You know, CBS anytime I hear this, I think the CBS, you know, the SEC on CBS. This is one of those weeks where they definitely missed the SEC. The matchup this weekend was Rutgers at USC. Oh, God. All right. Here we go. College football Miami minus 20 and a half. They go to Wake Forest. That game is tonight. Miami still hasn't played a damn game on Saturday. What do you got in this one, Tim?

1:01I've got I actually got Wake Forest to cover. I think Miami is a good team, but Wake Forest also got a prolific offense themselves. You know, the have low pez ranked ninth in the country in terms of total offense. So give me Wake Forest to cover. I'm on the other side of that one. I'm going to take Miami. Mences completion percentage right now. And I know they played like a high school team last week. It's 91.9%, which is absolutely insane. Until they don't cover, I'm just going to continue to take them to cover. So give me Miami. LSU minus two and a half. Adel Miss. Link Kiffin returns. Where are you going in this one? I mean, Sam Levit down full, but you know, given him a 25% chance to play and then 24 hours later, it's questionable 50% chance. You didn't buy into that. Did you? Of course not, but I'm wondering if Kiffin is doing that because he knows the SEC would dare to go against LSU again in the legal battle. Otherwise, Ole Miss averages four to 54 yards per game. LSU averages 586.

2:07I actually have almost a win outright. Yeah, I think all the pressure is despite what Link Kiffin said, I still think the pressures on him. He's the one that left this team. They have a very expensive roster at LSU. I don't care if it's your number one. You got that kind of money. You got to win right away. But I think the Ole Miss players are going to want this one more. I got Ole Miss covering as well. Delaware State going to be at Raymond James Stadium taking on USF. USF is minus 36 and a half. What do you got? I actually have USF to cover the spread. I think that this is a perfect time to fix the issues that USF is dealing with both offensive and defensively. That wild ending to the Army game last week was utterly insane and flirting with stupid. I like USF to cover the spread this week. I love how after they hit it, you still think it's stupid. They won the game. It was a brilliant call by Coach Harlan to get the job done. I actually think this is a get right game for USF to get the run block going, get the passing game, get a little more confidence there. I like USF to cover at home this weekend. Probably a game I'd stay away from though. Florida State at Alabama, Alabama minus 19 and a half.

3:23I find it very hard to take FSU especially at Bryant Denny Stadium and nothing I've seen out of Florida State this season to remotely think that they compete in this game. Can Tucky played well for a half and then Alabama just did Alabama things in the second half. So I'm taking Bama on the points. I'm not going to take Bama on the points. I'm actually on the opposite side. Now I'd stay away from this, but Ashton Daniels, I just don't trust although he did have some success against Bama at Auburn. I think Bama is going to stack the box for SFSU to throw. I don't trust him. I'll take Alabama to cover at home. I do want to remind you, Nick's picks brought to you by hard rock bet Florida minus two and a half. They're taking on Auburn. I think Auburn's game plan. I'm not going to come to you on this. I already know you're taking Florida. Auburn's game plan is to stop Jaden Baw, Vernel Brown, going to be the tiger killer this week. I you want to throw one interesting point out that though you are going to Florida, right? Of course I am. But Alex Goldsched team since he took over as a head coach of USF have never reached 20 or more points against power for teams, including this time at Auburn. That's an incredible stat. Interesting. I'll give him a pass for not doing it at USF, but no reason to not do it at Auburn already. When you had Baylor, who Baylor's not there.

4:45I think that's great. All right, on to the NFL. Here we go. Let's go. Let's stick with the NFC South Saints in the Ravens. The Ravens are minus eight. Maybe Tim, you were right. Maybe Detroit's defense just sucks and the Saints aren't that good. But I'm still going to take the points here. I think the Saints lose, but I think they cover eights a lot in the NFL. It is a lot in the NFL, but this I look at as a legit test for the Saints of Tallah shock to prove their legitimacy on offense. And ultimately, I'm still taking the Ravens even with the points. Panthers minus two and a half against the Atlanta Falcons. Who do you like here? I like the Panthers. I do not trust Atlanta's offense. I don't care if it's Michael Penex to talk about law or a rush. I don't care if it's either any of those three. I don't like Atlanta's offense with them at the helm. So give me Carolina. At least they can put up points. I hate lane points on the road. I hate it. But I do trust Carolina's offense a little bit more. So I'm with

5:45the I'll take Carolina. The Giants travel out to LA. The Rams are back in the country. The Rams are minus seven. You got one here. I'm going to take the Giants with the points on this one because yes, the Rams on paper are extremely talented. But Jackson Dart has that way of just doing crazy things with the football. So I think the Rams will win, but not by seven. I think these are two teams. Everybody overreacted to and weak, weak one just on different ends of the spectrum. The world is following in LA and everything is great in New York again. They're singing Sinatra. I think the Rams come back and I think they actually blow out the Giants this weekend and put them in their place. I think Matthew Stafford has a big night. The Rams are going to be pissed. I think they cover the seven. Jags at Broncos Broncos are minus two and a half really weird spread here. I'm never going to forget 1996. So it's a big LWG. They broke my heart. The Jags went into Denver to win.

6:45This line just to me makes no sense. Jags look great. Denver looked terrible in week one yet. They're favored and I know it's at home. But still When a line looks weird, I typically go with the weird. So I'm going to go Denver minus two and a half. Well, I mean Trevor Lawrence had a great game against Denver and the regular season last year. So I agree with you. I think this line is weird, but it's mile high. You can never bet against mile high. So like the one stadium you just can't bet against really. Didn't didn't your Patriots go in there and beat him at mile high last year and they played a great game. It was a fun snowball type of game. They won because it was a stupid ass snowball game. That was unenjoyable to watch in the better team. Didn't we also there was like a third string quarterback. Really? I was going to say the better team that you do is a report that Sean Peyton tried to get drew breeze out of retirement to play that game instead of Jared said him. So probably better. The better team. I mean, Denver was the better team last year. No, they weren't.

7:48You know, it was the last time Denver won a game or that was the last time that New England won a game. It's been like 278 days, bud. And two games big deal and two games big deal. All right. Coming up next. We will give you our picks for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They are minus eight and a half. We'll tell you who we if we think they cover not we'll let you know if we think they win the game or not. We'll tell you how we think the game is going to go. Those were next picks presented by hard rock bat the only legal app to bat any sport anywhere in Florida.