Auburn and LSU played the last weekend of September and both coaches were under pressure. The ugly game had a bizarre ending. The next day LSU fired coach Les Miles, while Auburn and Gus Malzahn were feeling fortunate to be 2-2.Now its November and both SEC West Tigers are in the race not only for a conference championship, but perhaps a spot in the College Football Playoff.No. 15 LSU hosts No. 1 Alabama on Saturday for what amounts to an elimination game for the Tigers. Even with a victory, the Tigers would need help to win the West, an amazing prospect given the first month of the season.Snapping a five-game losing streak to the Crimson Tide would do wonders for interim coach Ed Orgeron as he tries to convince LSU to make him coach-for-good.No. 11 Auburn faces a much easier task Saturday with Vanderbilt at home. The Tigers have won five straight and if they get to the Iron Bowl without another loss, beating Alabama could earn them a trip to the SEC title game.How things have changed.The picks:THURSDAY NIGHTERSNo. 12 Oklahoma (minus 21) at Iowa StateThe Sooners are down to one scholarship tailback with Joe Mixon suspended and Samaje Perine injured ... OKLAHOMA 42-14.UCLA (plus 12) at No. 21 ColoradoThe Bruins season is crumbling ... COLORADO 24-10.FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTSSan Jose State (plus 29) at No. 24 Boise StateThe Broncos bounce back from the first loss of the season ... BOISE STATE 45-14.MARQUEE MATCHUPSNo. 1 Alabama (minus 7) at No. 15 LSUThe Tide held Leonard Fournette to 31 yards on 19 carries last season ... ALABAMA 28-23.No. 9 Nebraska (minus 17) at No. 6 Ohio StateThe Cornhuskers have not beaten a top-10 team on the road (0-9) since coach Tom Osborne led the Cornhuskers to a victory at Washington in 1997 ... OHIO STATE 31-20.UPSET ALERTNo. 8 Wisconsin (minus 6+) at NorthwesternThe Wildcats have won two straight against the Badgers and could find themselves in first place in the Big Ten West with another victory ... WISCONSIN 21-20.No. 10 Florida (minus 5+) at ArkansasThe Razorbacks will have had two weeks to stew over getting blown out by Auburn ... ARKANSAS 28-24, UPSET SPECIAL.PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONSMaryland (plus 31) at No. 2 MichiganJim Harbaugh faces former assistant DJ Durkin, who has done a solid job in his first season as Terps coach ... MICHIGAN 41-15.Syracuse (plus 26+) at No. 3 ClemsonThe worst defense in the ACC comes to Death Valley for Deshaun Watson to feast upon ... CLEMSON 52-21.No. 4 Washington (minus 17) at CaliforniaIf the Huskies were getting overconfident, the College Football Playoff selection committee likely knocked that right out of them ... WASHINGTON 49-28.No. 5 Louisville (minus 25) at Boston CollegeThe Cardinals need some blowouts ... LOUISVILLE 56-14.No. 7 Texas A&M (minus 13+) at Mississippi StateThe Aggies lost their last game in Starkville, but Dak Prescott doesnt player there anymore ... TEXAS A&M 38-21.CONFERENCE CALLSVanderbilt (plus 26) at No. 11 AuburnThe downside of playing Vandy? If the Tigers were to get into a three-way tie in the SEC West, the record of their non-divisional opponents could come into play ... AUBURN 42-10, BEST BET.TCU (plus 8) at No. 13 BaylorThe last three meetings include two decided by three points each and one -- last season -- went to overtime ... BAYLOR 35-28.Kansas (plus 34+) at No. 14 West VirginiaThe Jayhawks Big 12 losing streak is at 17 games ... WEST VIRGINIA 45-7.Georgia Tech (plus 10) at No. 18 North CarolinaThe Tar Heels have won two straight high-scoring games against the Yellow Jackets; combined score 86-74 ... NORTH CAROLINA 43-27.No. 19 Florida State (minus 5) at N.C. StateSeminoles RB Dalvin Cook is back in the Heisman Trophy discussion ... FLORIDA STATE 35-24.Iowa (plus 7+) at No. 20 Penn StateIf the Nittany Lions are truly on the upswing, this is a game they need to win ... PENN STATE 26-20.No. 22 Oklahoma State (plus 3) at Kansas StateWildcats Bill Snyder looking for victory No. 199 ... KANSAS STATE 24-21.No. 23 Virginia Tech (plus 10+) at DukeAfter years of futility against the Hokies, the Blue Devils have won two of the last three meetings and lost the other game by one point ... VIRGINIA TECH 31-23.Arizona (plus 17) at No. 25 Washington StateAfter 0-2 start, the Cougars are the biggest threat to Washington in the Pac-12 North ... WASHINGTON STATE 42-24.TWITTER REQUESTSTexas (minus 3+) at Texas Tech -- (at)4WallerOUThe Charlie Strong Referendum Tour pulls into Lubbock; the Longhorns had a six-game winning streak against the Red Raiders snapped last year in Austin ... TEXAS 50-42.Georgia (minus 2) at Kentucky -- (at)realBJPThe Wildcats have not beaten Georgia since 2009, but now is the season to do it ... 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Negredo broke the deadlock from close range after a simple move in the 99th minute before Dzeko took the ball round goalkeeper Tim Krul to seal the victory in the 105th. Hisashi Iwakuma Jersey . Fellow centre Pavel Datsyuk remains out because of a concussion. Zetterberg has 11 goals and 19 assists for a team-high 30 points, and Datsyuk has a team-high 12 goals and 11 assists. NEW YORK -- The New York Mets have changed a lot in the eight days since they were swept by the Washington Nationals in Washington, D.C. But the Nationals hope the result remains the same during a four-game series this weekend in New York.The series pitting the top two teams in the National League East begins Thursday night, when the suddenly scorching Mets host the first-place Nationals at Citi Field.The Nationals remained four games ahead of the Mets by virtue of a 7-4 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, New York beat the Miami Marlins 4-2.The Nationals lead was six games on June 29, the day they capped the sweep of the Mets. At that time, it seemed as if the final series before the All-Star break might present an opportunity for Washington to bury the defending NL champions.But the Mets responded to the three straight losses by authoring a four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs and then taking two of three from the Miami Marlins. New York outscored the Cubs and Marlins 46-24 in the last seven games -- a stunning turnaround for a team that scored just 47 runs in 15 games from June 14 through June 29.I said it a lot in the Cubs series: Coming into that series without playing well, (it was) really, really important to have a good series against them, and we did, Mets manager Terry Collins said Wednesday afternoon. (The) Marlins, for all the years Ive been here, play us tougher than any team we play, I think.Now weve got to go against the Nationals, who are going to come in here looking to put some more distance between us.ddddddddddddSo weve got our work cut out for us this weekend.So do the Nationals, who went 3-3 between series against the Mets despite playing two NL Central non-contenders in the Brewers and Cincinnati Reds.I always want to go into the All-Star break hot and come out hot, Nationals manager Dusty Baker told reporters Wednesday.Nationals right fielder and reigning NL Most Valuable Player Bryce Harper put his inimitable succinct spin on the weekend.How many games are we up on them? Four? Harper told reporters Wednesday. We could either be tied or up eight. Its plain and simple.Mets right-hander Bartolo Colon is scheduled to start Thursdays opener against Nationals right-hander Lucas Giolito in perhaps the most distinct old vs. young battle of the season.Colon is the oldest player in baseball at 43 and has 483 starts under his belt, most among active players. He has been pitching so long that his first appearance against the Nationals franchise came in 2002, when the team was still the Montreal Expos. Colon is 4-6 with a 3.15 ERA in 11 career appearances (10 starts) against the Nationals/Expos.The 21-year-old Giolito. meanwhile, is the seventh-youngest player in the majors and has made just one career start. He threw four shutout innings against the Mets in an appearance cut short by a rain delay on June 28. 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