Week 12 Picks: Pac-12 powerhouses duke it out, can TCU stay perfect & Big Ten West bouts
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Andy, Ari, and Nicole share their expert opinions on week 12 college football games all while doing a 2016 duck face/peace sign fad:
- Sling 'What to Watch for': USC vs UCLA (10:45)
- Is Ari still wrong about a 12-team playoff? (14:45)
- Can TCU stay perfect vs. Baylor (23:30)
- Utah-Oregon (29:00)
- Big Ten West race excitement (33:30)
- An ACC matchup whose narrative we would have never expected coming into this year (41:00)
- Georgia-Kentucky, Oklahoma-OK St. & more! (43:30)
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| 0:45.5 | I'm here. |
| 0:46.3 | Ari's here. |
| 0:47.6 | Nicole is here. |
| 0:51.7 | It is time to pick the games against the spread guys. And we got some interesting numbers this week. |
| 0:55.3 | I was going down this list, and it was pretty fascinating. |
| 1:01.5 | The lines here, Vegas does not have a ton of faith in TCU or USC this week. |
| 1:09.6 | What a thought. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah. or USC this week. What would have thought? |
| 1:26.0 | Look, I thought that's the TCU performance against Texas might have given the folks in Vegas some faith, but apparently not. |
| 1:29.4 | Listen, someone's got to be a TCU hater. |
| 1:31.8 | The selection committee is all in with the frogs now. |
| 1:32.9 | They're in the top four. |
| 1:36.8 | Someone's got to be providing that chip on the shoulder. |
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