WEEK 1 SPREADS

1) Select the winning side against the spread in five of the contests listed below.
2) Weight the five picks by confidence (5,4,3,2,1), with 5 being the outcome with the highest confidence and 1 being the lowest.
3) Post picks in forum thread marked "WEEK X PICKS".
4) Pick sets must be made by the listed kickoff time of the earliest game selected.

All times PM and Eastern. Favorite listed first. Home team in CAPS.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28TH
7:00 BUFFALO -3 UTEP
7:30 Troy -6.5 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
7:30 MIAMI (OHIO) -4 Vanderbilt
8:00 Wake Forest -12 Baylor
8:00 SOUTH CAROLINA -13 North Carolina St.
9:00 Oregon St. -3 STANFORD
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29TH
7:00 Temple -7 ARMY
8:00 RICE -3.5 SMU
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30TH
12:00 NORTHWESTERN -11.5 Syracuse
12:00 INDIANA -20 W. Kentucky
12:00 Virginia Tech -9.5 E.Carolina (@ Charlotte, NC)
12:00 PITTSBURGH -12.5 Bowling Green
12:00 WISCONSIN -26.5 Akron
12:30 FLORIDA -35 Hawaii
2:00 WYOMING -11 Ohio
3:30 USC -19.5 VIRGINIA
3:30 Oklahoma St. -7 Washington St. (@ Seattle, WA)
3:30 MICHIGAN -3.5 Utah
4:00 Tulsa -14 UAB
6:00 TCU -6.5 NEW MEXICO
6:45 Mississippi St. -7.5 LOUISIANA TECH
7:00 S.MISSISSIPPI -10.5 UL-Lafayette
7:00 MINNESOTA -8 N.Illinois
7:00 TEXAS A&M -20 Arkansas St.
7:00 KANSAS -35.5 Fla. Int'l
7:00 TEXAS -23.5 Fla. Atlantic
7:00 NEBRASKA -14 W.Michigan
7:00 MISSISSIPPI -7.5 Memphis
7:00 AUBURN -26.5 UL-Monroe
7:05 KANSAS ST. -24.5 N.Texas
7:30 Boston Coll. -10 Kent St. (@ Cleveland, OH)
8:00 CALIFORNIA -4 Michigan St.
8:00 Clemson -5 Alabama (@ Atlanta, GA)
8:30 Missouri -8.5 Illinois (@ St. Louis, MO)
10:00 UNLV -12.5 Utah St.
10:00 ARIZONA -27 Idaho
10:00 OREGON -13.5 Washington
SUNDAY, AUGUST 31ST
3:30 LOUSIVILLE -3.5 Kentucky
7:30 Colorado -11 Colorado St. (@ Denver, CO)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST
4:30 RUTGERS -5.5 Fresno St.
8:00 Tennessee -7.5 UCLA

OK, posted these. Let me know if there are any questions. I'll start up a WEEK 1 PICKS thread soon, but feel free to comment on whatever, and especially if I'm missing something.

Assuming Buffalo is the home team, correct?

Right, teams like UTEP, USC, UCLA SMU, etc. are always going to be capitalized I guess, because I can be anal about crap like that sometimes. If their opponent is in CAPS, obviously they are the home team.