{"id":2617,"date":"2025-09-06T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/the-daily-predicts-week-2-football-games\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:49:07","slug":"the-daily-predicts-week-2-football-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/the-daily-predicts-week-2-football-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily predicts Week 2 football games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For all the brouhaha and hullabaloo, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/football\/the-daily-predicts-week-1-football-games-2\/\">first<\/a> week of college football only had a few great games. To honor that, we only made a few great predictions. Look at Jonathan Wuchter predicting Florida State to cover (I\u2019m told the Seminoles did a lot more than cover), or Zach Edwards going against the grain and trusting the Western Michigan Broncos to only lose by 17 points. Zigging where others zag could be the move, when all of us aligned on a prediction \u2014 see Clemson and Notre Dame \u2014 things went horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>None of us did better than .500, but you know what they say \u2014\u00a0the house loses eventually! Anyways, it\u2019s a close race, and we picked 10 more games below to make it even closer.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our, hopefully, improved picks on the biggest games of Week 2 (against the spread):\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last week:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Cumulative records:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>September 6, Noon, No. 11 Illinois (-2.5) at Duke<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, Noon, Iowa at No. 16 Iowa State (-3.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, Noon, Baylor at No. 17 SMU (-2.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, 3:30 p.m., No. 20 Ole Miss (-8.5) at Kentucky<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-2{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-2{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, 3:30 p.m., Oklahoma State at No. 6 Oregon (-28.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, 3:30 p.m., Kansas at Missouri (-5.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>September 6, 7:30 p.m., No. 15 Michigan at No. 18 Oklahoma (-5.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, 7:30 p.m., Boston College at Michigan State (-3.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, 8 p.m., UCLA (-1.5) at UNLV<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-3{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-3{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><strong>September 6, 10:15 p.m., San Diego State at Washington State (-1.5)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"newspack-popup-container newspack-popup hidden  newspack-inline-popup      \" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#000\" id=\"id_162162\" data-segments=\"\" data-frequency=\"0,0,0,month\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Please consider donating to The Michigan Daily<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the brouhaha and hullabaloo, the first week of college football only had a few great games. To honor that, we only made a few great predictions. Look at Jonathan Wuchter predicting Florida State to cover (I\u2019m told the Seminoles did a lot more than cover), or Zach Edwards going against the grain and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[573,223,308,1551,840],"class_list":{"0":"post-2617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-daily","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-games","11":"tag-predicts","12":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}