{"id":892274,"date":"2026-10-23T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892274\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:30:09","slug":"ksl-sports-pickem-staff-picks-for-week-8-of-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892274\/","title":{"rendered":"KSL Sports Pick&#8217;em: Staff picks for Week 8 of college football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 So &#8230; who saw the chaos of last weekend coming?<\/p>\n<p>While the upcoming slate of games isn&#8217;t expected to be as dramatic, there&#8217;s no telling how the games will actually play out. But you still have to try to predict them, and there&#8217;s some intriguing matchups for you to check out.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a statement win over Notre Dame, BYU has to travel across the country to face an unpredictable UCF team. The Knights haven&#8217;t been consistent this season, but is Saturday a trap setting for the Cougars?<\/p>\n<p>We remain in the Big 12 with a matchup between Kansas State and Arizona State, and then see Utah State travel to Texas to take on Texas State in a game Aggies fans don&#8217;t seem to optimistic about this season.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the exciting matchup between FBS newcomer North Dakota State taking on a hot New Mexico team looking to position itself for a spot in the College Football Playoff conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The night closes out with a top-15 matchup between Utah and Houston in what will almost certainly have conference title game implications. Will the spotlight of ESPn &#8220;College GameDay&#8221; be a distraction, or set the stage for Utah&#8217;s push to the top?<\/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 So &#8230; who saw the chaos of last weekend coming? While the upcoming slate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892275,"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-892274","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\/892274","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=892274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}