College football Week 2 picks against spread: Oklahoma, Ohio State a tough pick'em

Week 2 of the college football season features some huge nonconference games that will surely impact the College Football Playoff chase.  There are a total of four games between top-25 teams on Saturday: No. 5 Oklahoma at No. 2 Ohio State, No. 13 Auburn at 3 Clemson, No. 14 Stanford at No. 6 USC and yes, No. 15 Georgia at No. 24 Notre Dame. That’s a lot of blue blood fighting for playoff positioning, and it makes for tough picks against the spread. MORE: Straight-up picks Week 2 Here’s how we did last week: Straight up: 8-2Against the spread: 6-4 Each week, Sporting News college football writer Bill Bender will pick 10 marquee games against the spread. Here are his picks for Week 2.  Noon, Saturday, ESPN2 Truth be told, we rarely get this one right. That spread scares us too, because the natural instinct is to take that Iowa defense that limited…

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