Each week the KUsports.com staff picks the winners of six college football games.

This weekend, there is only one game on which everyone agreed. Maybe — just maybe — the previous week’s outcome for Kansas football played an influence. While Kansas vs. Memphis might not have inspired much variety, at least some big-time college matchups and the subject of video games did.

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WEEK 2 MATCHUPS

Oklahoma at Tennessee

Oregon at Michigan State

Boise State at BYU

Iowa at Iowa State

LSU at Mississippi State

Memphis at Kansas

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

(Supposedly) Saturday is National Video Games Day. What is your all-time favorite video game?

Last week: 6-0

I only had a Nintendo 64 growing up,
so I was and still am awful at most
video games. The only three video
games that I’ve been really good at
are Ken Griffey Jr. Slugfest, NFL
Blitz 2001 and Mario Kart. I’ll give
the nod to NFL Blitz 2001.

Last week: 5-1

I never really liked video games much.
I much prefer(red) pin ball and that
shuffle bowling game where you
slide the disk and knock the pins
back. I also like the [tabletop hockey
game][3] in which I could beat
everybody in my grade school except
Terry Barnes.

Last week: 5-1

Mario Kart on the Nintendo 64. I used
to play it nightly with my dad and
brother.

Last week: 5-1

Galaga (old school)

Last week: 4-2

If I were to go all the way back to my
Atari days (yep, I said it), I’d have
to go with One-on-One: Dr. J vs. Larry
Bird. I’m sure that game can’t hold a
candle to any basketball game that
came after it (even Double Dribble),
but something about it got me. Maybe
it was the idea that I was playing
with two legends or maybe it was the
fact that I was 6 years old and had no
idea what I was doing in any aspect of
life anyway. Either way it was
awesome. Others that deserve mention
here (and I’ve gotta be honest, I
rarely ever played non-sports video
games): Baseball Stars for the
original Nintendo. That was the first
game I remember that you could make
your own team and players; NHL ’95 for
Sega Genesis. Sadly, I used Detroit’s
Sergei Fedorov and Steve Yzerman to do
my damage (the Colorado Avalanche
weren’t a team yet); And another
Genesis game Coach K College
Basketball, in which I used Duke and
Cherokee Parks, another buddy used
Georgia Tech and Stephon Marbury and
the third regular in our rotation of
roundball wars used Syracuse and
Lawrence Moten. I can recall one
particular game where the Yellow
Jackets were wearing out the Orangemen
and my buddy went into the “locker
room” at halftime and had some choice
words for Moten, who was playing like
a dog.

Last week: 4-2

Mattel Electronic Football. The
original handheld. Nothing but posers
since.

Last week: 4-2

Oh, man … Asteroids, Joust, Tron,
Dig Dug, Tempest, Centipede, Space
Invaders and the granddaddy, Galaga,
all ate more more of my allowance
quarters than I’d like to admit, and I
have a special fondness for
home-console classics like Tank Battle
and Defender and Pitfall!, but I’ll
have to go with the one that made all
the others possible, Pong.

Last week: 4-2

Super Mario 64 (with Mario Kart a
close second).

Last week: 4-2

This is tough, so I’ll go with my
favorites from three different eras.
Nintendo — Super Mario Bros. 3.
PlayStation/PS2 — EA Sports’ NCAA
Football. PS3 — Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Last week: 3-3

Pong, the first video game I ever
played, never has been topped.
Unsophisticated, yet brilliant. I
understand it caused countless college
students to flunk out because they
would alternate playing Pong with
staring hours on end at lava lamps
while scarfing pizza with a towel
stuffed under the door crack.