College Football Week 12 Picks
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Texas lawmakers will hold first hearing Thursday to review college campus speech after Charlie Kirk killing
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Kirk’s death. They come amid a push to tighten rules around campus expression.
It’s fun scheduling that Oklahoma and Texas, both in Year 2 in the SEC, take on the two teams that have dominated the conference in recent years on the same week. Georgia beat Texas in the SEC title game last year and has made it to Atlanta seven of the last eight years. Alabama has won eight of the last 13 SEC titles.
It's not a playoff elimination game for the Longhorns since there's another titanic matchup this month with unbeaten and third-ranked Texas A&M on the horizon, but a victory over the Bulldogs would break the program's big-game curse under Steve Sarkisian and provide Texas with its third top-15 win of the season.
South Carolina has lost four straight games and all signs point to the Gamecocks losing again at Kyle Field this weekend. South Carolina will visit No. 3 Texas
Duke basketball star Cam Boozer has looked dominant during his first two games with the Blue Devils. The exciting freshman is a top-three prospect in the upcoming NBA Draft, and he is only scratching the surface of his potential.
The Week 12 docket features a plethora of nationally ranked matchups that fuel the College Football Playoff discussion coming down the stretch, including an elimination game of sorts for Notre Dame on the road against Pittsburgh and several mammoth SEC games at the top of the conference.