Well, that didn’t take long, huh?
There are a few reasons these picks aren’t posted earlier than Thursday. The biggest is because I’m lazy and that’s the furthest I could reasonably push them, but the more practical reason is because point spreads are constantly fluctuating and so I want to get them as close to kickoff as possible. And then there’s this year, which introduced a third: I want to make sure there aren’t any games offered that end up getting postponed/cancelled. And I thought, surely, things will have completely settled by Thursday. But no, as we found out; on Friday the Baylor-Houston game — itself scheduled to previous cancellations — was pushed off, giving us our first scratch.