Prediction: MTSU will upset Mississippi State in football on Oct. 17

For college football fans, a fun way to kill time during the heat of the summer is to look at the upcoming schedules of teams and try to pick upsets. An upset I see coming is when the SEC's Mississippi State Bulldogs travel to Murfreesboro to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders on October 17.

First of all, kudos to the Blue Raiders schedule maker for continuing to make progress when it comes to getting teams from big name conferences to visit Murfreesboro. Home field advantage means a lot as we saw when the Blue Raiders knocked off Maryland from the ACC last year.

MTSU has a ton of experience returning from last year's 5-7 team, including 10 starters on offense. True, the only non-starter returning is quarterback Dwight Dasher, but he has the supporting cast to put points on the board.

Mississippi State was one of several SEC teams that had big problems scoring last year. Former Florida assistant Dan Mullen has been brought in as new head coach. He will be installing Florida's spread offense, but as we have seen, it is difficult to be successful in that scheme if a team does not have the talent to run it. Even Urban Meyer struggled when implementing it at Florida in his first year. Therefore, expect the Bulldogs to have problems scoring again this year.

While the Bulldogs defense will be good this year, the Blue Raiders should be able to squeeze out enough points to win.