For many years, week three of the college football season was known as "Upset Saturday." Teams played three non-conference games to start the season, with the last of the three usually against lightly considered opponents the week before starting conference play. As a result, teams tended to look past those opponents and upsets occurred. Things have changed somewhat in recent years, a twelfth game has been added and some leagues begin conference play in the first couple weeks. Still, there are enough mismatched non-conference games in week three that we see upsets.
The game I'm most looking forward to this weekend is Boise St @ Oklahoma St. Gone are the days of Boise sneaking up on P5 schools, and they have seldom been able to get home & home series. So Boise usually winds playing P5 schools on the road, or at a neutral site. OSU is often over looked as a national power, but they've won ten games in four of the past five years, and averaged just under ten wins/season over the last ten years. OSU is a slight favorite, which I understand playing at home, but I'm surprised the over/under on this game is only 64.5.
I'm also going to be watching Hawaii @ Army. Hawaii has started 3-0, and if they can win at West Point, they stand a great chance of becoming bowl eligible (6 wins) by the end of Sept. I don't think that has ever happened before. Despite Hawaii having a reputation historically of not having great success as a road team, they have the advantage here of having already played option team Navy just two weeks ago. Army is a slight home favorite, but I like Hawaii to win out right.