As we embark on an active Week 7 college football schedule across the country, let’s lock in our final picks against the spread for the most important games on

A number of the standouts listed below helped strengthen their team’s playoff position with their stellar passing, running or defense, and maybe even helped by contributing impressive portions of all those things in a single game.

Beat writers Simeon Pincus and Andy Mendlowitz make their predictions for Week 8 in the Big Central Football Conference