{"id":876556,"date":"2026-10-09T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876556\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:44:09","slug":"ksl-sports-pickem-staff-picks-for-week-6-of-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876556\/","title":{"rendered":"KSL Sports Pick&#8217;em: Staff picks for Week 6 of college football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 All three local teams are back in action this week. Can all three local FBS schools get a win on the same weekend for the first time this season? <\/p>\n<p>Both BYU and Utah State kick off the weekend with Friday night games (don&#8217;t forget to set your picks!) against Iowa State and Washington State, respectively. BYU will be without starting running back LJ Martin and linebacker Isaiah Glasker, but will it make a difference against Iowa State?<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, we have two national games with North Carolina looking for a win on the road against a hot Pittsburgh, and then USC traveling to a Penn State squad looking for answers after back-to-back losses.<\/p>\n<p>The night concludes when Utah returns to action at home to welcome home Kansas in a &#8220;white out&#8221; setting at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The Utes have started hot, but will the bye week slow them down?<\/p>\n<p>Each week, we&#8217;ll release the KSL Sports staff picks for all to see. Can you do a better job than us?<\/p>\n<p>Head on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/sports\/pickem\/schedule\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSL Sports&#8217; Pick&#8217;em<\/a> and fill out your weekly ballot before the games start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 All three local teams are back in action this week. Can all three local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1302,3811,399,3812,134,3729,398,396,397,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-876556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-football","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}