Month kicks off with Husker win, No. 9 and 10 going down?

er but tougher to pick as all those cupcake appetizer matchups are melting into beefy conference contests entering October.

Gazette scribbler R.B. (Rejects Bananas) Headley slipped below 80 percent for the season (270-74, .796) with his 40-15 record last weekend.

Yet the Vikings are still unbeaten!!

Tonight

TEXAS STATE at Troy; SAM HOUSTON keeps Utep winless.

Friday

JACKSONVILLE ST. at Kennesaw St. (no nothing about either team except they’re 1-7 combined); TCU over Houston, No. 6 OREGON over Michigan State, SYRACUSE shocks No. 25 host Unlv.

Saturday

No. 7 PENN STATE over Ucla; No. 25 TEXAS A&M upends No. 9 Missouri; No.22 LOUISVILLE rebounds from Notre Dame loss to beat Smu; WISCONSIN over Purdue; NORTHERN ILLINOIS over Umass; VIRGINIA over Boston College; PITTSBURGH at North Carolina; NC STATE over Wake Forest.

Unbeaten NAVY never wins at rival Air Force until this year; ARMY also 5-0 with win at Tulsa; TULANE at Uab, BALL STATE over Western Michigan; No. 3 OHIO STATE over Iowa; No. 5 GEORGIA over Auburn; No. 12 OLE MISS shakes off Kentucky loss and edges South Carolina; No. 23 INDIANA wins again at Northwestern.

UCONN over Temple; VIRGINIA TECH at Stanford; MARSHALL over App State; TOLEDO over Miami of Ohio; BOWLING GREEN at Akron; CHARLOTTE over East Carolina and yes the big one..

Nebraska has never lost to Rutgers; HUSKERS still have not after Saturday (though close).

OKLAHOMA STATE struggles past West Virginia; No. 1 ALABAMA still rolling at Vanderbilt (not enough letdown from Georgia win); OREGON STATE over Colorado State; No. 15 CLEMSON at feeble Florida State and No. 21 BOISE STATE thinking playoffs over Utah State.

COASTAL CAROLINA over Old Dominion; ARKANSAS STATE over South Alabama; JAMES MADISON stays unbeaten at Louisiana-Monroe; LOUISIANA at Southern Miss; No. 4 TENNESSEE avoids trip at Arkansas but WASHINGTON gets a little payback over No. 10 Michigan in last year’s national title game rematch (no JJ McCarthy or Blake Corum though for Big Blue).

No. 11 USC could fall asleep but prevails at Minnesota; No. 16 IOWA STATE over Baylor, SAN JOSE STATE over Nevada; FLORIDA finally wins in Swamp over Ucf; GEORGIA TECH drops Duke from unbeatens; KANSAS finds a way to win at Arizona State.

SAN DIEGO STATE over Hawaii; No. 8 MIAMI wins at California (though watch out for possible upset); and ARIZONA outscores 4-1 always dangerous Patrick Mahomes’ favorite Texas Tech Red Raiders.