Let’s just say it’s a good thing I didn’t bet on any games. Also, I fucked up the scores last week. I figured out the amount of points people got and just put that as their score without subtracting the points they missed. I’ve redone last week’s stuff and here’s what the scores should’ve been:
Weekly: Spears 47, Jeff 45, Shuler 45, Mao 41, Trey 41, Derrick 39, Bryan 37, Jim 33, Jared 33
The affect of this on the overall scores is that everything is much closer. I apologize for the screw up. Here is where the scores as of last week actually stood:
Totals from last week:
Mao 236
Jeff 220
Jared 206
Trey 204
Spears 202
Derrick 184
Shuler 178
Jim 123
Bryan 115
As for this week, there’s a Thursday game again this week so get your picks in before that. Everyone’s teams are in the mix this week and the slate of games is actually really good and very difficult to rank. We’ve got a total of 6 rivalry games (ok only three of them are actual rivalry games, but the other ones are close). Here are the weekly scores from last week and this week’s CORRECT totals.
Weekly scores: Jeff 33 (8-2), Trey 31 (8-2), Mao 31 (7-3), Bryan 29 (8-2), Shuler 27 (7-3), Jim 25 (6-4), Derrick 23 (6-4), Spears 21 (7-3), Jared 9 (4-6)
Totals:
Mao 267
Jeff 253
Trey 235
Spears 223
Jared 215
Derrick 207
Shuler 205
Jim 148
Bryan 144
This week’s games to pick:
Our Teams
Virginia Tech (23) @ East Carolina – Thursday game, I give credit to VT for playing at ECU
Florida St @ Clemson – rivalry #1 despite the fact that it can’t be called ‘the Bowden Bowl’ anymore
Northwestern @ Iowa (4) – two teams that make absolutely no sense
Virginia @ Miami (17) – the student bodies of these schools couldn’t be more different
Wake Forest @ Georgia Tech (10) – Wake coming off a nice upset and GT played a horrific 1rst half against Vandy
Ohio St (16) @ Penn St (11) – rivalry #2; I don’t know if this is an actual rivalry, but it should be
Duke @ unc – rivalry #3, the Battle for the Victory Bell, features my Duke team who haven’t beaten the tarholes in football since 2003 and Duke has lost 18 of the last 19 times in this rivalry. That is not a typo, they’ve lost 18 of the past 19. Needless to say, I WANT THAT FUCKING BELL!
Memphis @ Tennessee – rivalry #4 in as much as they are in the same state
College GameDay
Army @ Air Force – rivalry #5 and even though Air Force will probably win, we all know that army guys are way tougher than Air Force guys
Filler
LSU (9) @ Alabama (3) - rivalry #6 and by far the best game of a pretty solid week of football
By the way, my little comment on the Wake @ GT game is incorrect. Wake actuallly didn’t win against Miami. They were up 17 in the second half and I stopped paying attention, but appartenly Miami ended up beating the.Unbelievable.
Anyway, Wake did not pull off an upset as the comment says. GT, however, did play awful in the 1rst half against Vandy.
10 – Virginia Tech
9 – Georgia Tech
8 – Tennessee
7 – Miami
6 – Iowa
5 – Penn State
4 – Air Force
3 – Clemson
2 – Duke
1 – LSU
10 – Tennessee (all of a sudden Crompton is a decent QB)
9 – Air Force
8 – VT
7 – GT (Riley Skinner had a concussion in Wake’s last game)
6 – Alabama (LSU can’t score)
5 – Iowa (two comeback teams)
4 – Miami
3 – Penn St (Just taking the home team)
2 – Clemson (lot of distractions for FSU)
1 – Duke (Duke is a 10pt dog but you know I’ve got to believe)
Interesting Bets:
Oregon St +7.5 @ Cal
USC -10 @ Arizona St
and my favorite
South Caolina +7 @ Arkansas
Of course all of those are away teams so I probably will go a second week in a row without gambling …although the South Carolina thing is really tempting
10-Iowa (luckiest team ever)
9-Air Force
8-Tenn
7-Miami
6-VT
5-UNC
4-GT (come on deamon decons)
3-Penn St
2-FSU
1-Bama
Jim Hunt informed me that he will be putting 6 points on VT.
He will then fill out the rest of the games. But until then, 6pts for VT on Jim’s card.
10-Tenn
9-GT
8-VT
7-Iowa
6-Miami
5-Clemson
4-Penn
3-Air Force
2-Alabama
1-UNC
Here goes nothing.
10 – Tennessee
9 – VT
8 – Iowa
7 – GT
6- Miami
5 – Air Force
4 – Penn St
3 – UNC
2 – Alabama
1 – Clemson
10- Iowa
9- Tennessee
8- Miami
7- VT
6- Air Force
5- GT
4- Clemson
3- Alabama
2- Penn State
1- Duke
10 – Air Force
9 – Virginia Tech
8 – Georgia Tech
7 – Tennessee
6 – Iowa
5 – Miami
4 – UNC
3 – Clemson
2 – Alabama
1 – Ohio State
Sorry, Trey, I thought yesterday was Thursday. I think yesterday was Thursday here in Mississippi, but today is Sunday. It’s a weird state. Anyhoo, me picks-
10- Tennessee
9- Air Force
8- Georgia Tech (I fear a let down… And I’m going to the game, which could throw off the whole seaon’s karma… we’ll see…)
7- Miami
6- VT
5- Iowa
4- Clemson
3- Penn St
2- Alabama
1- Duke
Wow, I was the only one to put VT at 10. Cool. Also, did anyone else know that ECU had changed their helmets to the skull and crossbones?
I know Iowa has had some ridiculous comeback’s this year, but can they really do it again against Northwestern? We’re all in trouble if they lose, no one picked NU.
Iowa, dead. Neidermeyer, dead.
Go NW. I picked Iowa but only at 5 so all you suckers that had them higher than that I’m going to gain ground on you.
You have to fear a team with a QB named after a French existentialist philosopher; KAFKA!
I only had them on 6, just because Northwestern has been so unpredictable all season.
ps – UVA sucks. Al must go
My 9, 7, 6, 3 picks are all in close games and Duke can’t move the ball against unc and the defense is just too damn small to be able to stop unc’s ground game. Also the announcer for the game is CLEARLY pulling for unc. “It’s a Carolina blue sky”, “Duke must’ve blow a coverage bc he had tons of room to run” (there was a holding penalty on the play, which is why the guy had tons of room to run), “How did Thad Lewis end up falling through the cracks all the way to Duke?”
Hey, fuck you buddy. How did you fall all the way up the ESPN ladder despite being a clear d-bag? Oh wait, ESPN loves d-bags. Nevermind.
I’m glad Oregon isn’t on the list this week. Jesus H. Christ, what the fuck are they doing down in Palo Alto???
Notre Dame loses! Amazing, losing to Navy two years in a row.