Josh Pate Best Bets: Week 14 College Football Picks, Predictions

On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, college football analyst Josh Pate provides his picks aboard the Ramen Noodle Express for the coming weekend, offering a preview for Week 14. He dished out his first pick, an SEC game, on Sunday night.

Pate made his picks at the end of Sunday’s episode of the Josh Pate’s College Football Show. First, he recapped how last weekend went.

“We had a 5-8 day yesterday, very disappointing,” Pate said. “Guys, if you thought this was going to be easy, you got on board the wrong Express. We don’t just go undefeated every week, although we try to. This is a battle. This is a fight that we’re in together, and we went 5-8 yesterday, which means we’ve got to get ready.

“We are Georgia Tech. We are bloodied but we’ve got to gird our loins, figuratively or literally, I don’t really care. It’s your personal life. You do what you want to do. We’ve got to get ready for rivalry week.”

With that, here are the picks for Josh Pate in Week 14. As he makes more picks throughout the week they will be added here.

Missouri (-2.5) at Arkansas

Missouri is coming off a tough 17-6 loss to Oklahoma, though quarterback Beau Pribula was back in action. That’s the good news. The bad news is the team has lost three of the last four. Would you show confidence in the bunch at this point? Pate would.

Josh Pate: “I am doing that by taking Eli Drinkwitz and Missouri -2.5 vs. Arkansas. I think Drink and company are going to get a win this week, and I think they’re going to win by at least three, which is why I’m laying two and a half points.”