College Football Picks Week Three, Part Two: Mitch’s Picks

The more I look at this week's games, the more I see I'm facing the scary prospect of relying on a lot of road teams. While my analysis is always thorough, it usually just points to who the better team is and who should cover based on what we have to work with. And while it may not always point to who is going to actually win the game, that isn't really where we are concerned for our purposes; we want to cover the spread. To complicate this further, every year it has become more apparent that the officiating isn't going to get any better, and it's only going to get worse, so we'll just have to live with it. The moral of the story: Just Cover, Baby.   East Carolina -13 at Tulane (Saturday 9/13/08, 3 EST) 1 Unit I have been against East Carolina the past two weeks when they were prohibitive underdogs and I have paid for it in the form of four units total. This week I try and recoup a little of that as I'm on the Pirates. I am not fooled by the performance of Tulane last week against ... (link)