{"id":340341,"date":"2025-09-04T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/340341\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:39:12","slug":"picks-for-21-games-including-ou-michigan-smu-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/340341\/","title":{"rendered":"Picks for 21 games, including OU-Michigan, SMU-Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Another week of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\">college football<\/a> is upon us, which means it\u2019s time for more predictions from The Dallas Morning News\u2019 panel of college football experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This week, our crew of eight experts picks 21 Week 2 games, both straight and against the spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Highlighting this week\u2019s matchups is No. 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\">SMU<\/a>, a 2.5-point favorite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/2025\/09\/02\/baylors-season-opener-vs-auburn-exposed-weakness-smus-kevin-jennings-can-exploit\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/2025\/09\/02\/baylors-season-opener-vs-auburn-exposed-weakness-smus-kevin-jennings-can-exploit\/\">hosting unranked Baylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In another noteworthy matchup for the area, No. 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/oklahoma-sooners\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/oklahoma-sooners\/\">Oklahoma<\/a> is a 5.5-point favorite against No. 15 Michigan at home.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Roundup<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis and opinion delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, Kevin Sherrington&#8217;s A La Carte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Predictions for those games, as well as many others involving non-local schools, can be found below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Previous weeks\u2019 picks<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/2025\/08\/27\/college-football-predictions-texas-ohio-state-lsu-clemson-auburn-baylor-tcu-north-carolina\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/2025\/08\/27\/college-football-predictions-texas-ohio-state-lsu-clemson-auburn-baylor-tcu-north-carolina\/\">Week 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another week of college football is upon us, which means it\u2019s time for more predictions from The Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9436,1554,7,49,48,1787,4723,4710,4724,7212,1078,4721,24188],"class_list":{"0":"post-340341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-baylor-bears","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","14":"tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","15":"tag-smu-mustangs","16":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","17":"tag-texas-am-aggies","18":"tag-texas-longhorns","19":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","20":"tag-unt-mean-green"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115144659139274505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}