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College Favorite Pick of the Week

Week two in college football kicks off this weekend with plenty of great games to choose from. For the recreational college football betting fan it’s tough to go through the big schedule and choose which games could bring back a profit so each week we have a few cappers from our capping site BTBCappers.com share some of their picks!

Here are the free picks for week two in college football.

No Illinois vs. Kansas (NCAAF) - Sep 10, 2011 2:00 PM EDT - We rode Northern Illinois to a win last week and we will jump on them again this week as the Huskies have pretty much the same advantages as they had against Army. When looking at Northern Illinois, you think of one thing and that is its rushing game. The Huskies finished last season seventh in the country in rushing offense with 260.4 ypg and 6.3 ypc and there will be no letting up. Against the Black Knights they rushed for 289 yards on 47 carries (6.1 ypc) which is right on pace again. Kansas was able to get by McNeese St. by 18 points but it was far from a solid effort against a FCS team. The Jayhawks outgained McNeese St. by just 27 total yards and that was due to allowing 325 yards through the air on 21-31 completions (67.7 percent). That is very alarming as the Jayhawks strength was supposed to be in the secondary. Last season Kansas was 103rd in the nation in scoring defense and 98th in total defense. That included a dreadful 205.2 ypg allowed on the ground, 107th in the country. The Jayhawks will be challenged to stopping the run just the way Army was. The most important fact is that the Huskies bring back all five offensive linemen and that is huge. Speaking of huge, that is what the Huskies are as they come in averaging 310 lbs across the line and they will push around a very undersized Kansas defensive line that checks in at an average of only 262 lbs. That is going to provide a massive push all game long and Kansas will not have an answer. The Kansas offense is not much better as it finished 111th in scoring and 113th overall last season. The Jayhawks managed 447 total yards last week with 310 yards of that coming on the ground but that was on 55 carries (5.5 ypc) which is not that impressive. Army racked up 303 yards rushing against Northern Illinois last Saturday but it trailed 49-6 and a lot of those yards came in garbage time when the game was already decided and the Huskies had their backups in. Kansas will have trouble early on as well. Coming into the season, the Huskies defense was a concern as they have just two starters back from last year. However this is not an inexperienced defense as the players coming back have plenty of snaps under their belts so while the top line shows a green defense, digging deeper shows it is not as bad as it looks. Even better is that because the offense has a huge advantage over the Kansas defense, the Jayhawks are not capable of coming from behind in a catch up situation. 3* (321) Northern Illinois Huskies

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