First of all nobody give up if you’re behind in the scores for two reasons: 1) just about every week one person makes up around 20pts on the leaders and 2) as we did last year, we’ll do a bowl pick ‘em that will add to the regular season scores for a cumulative winner but will also be a stand alone thing, thus even if you are dead last in the regular season you can save face by winning the bowl pick ‘em stage.
Secondly, other than Duke losing, last week was the perfect week of football. GT won, UT won, Notre Dame lost for the second year in a row to Navy, FSU lost which ensures that Bowden’s career will end in a totally melodrama, UVA lost which means Al Groh is one week closer to getting fired, Iowa lost so now we can stop pretending they are good, Penn St lost so now the Big 11 is as mediocre record-wise as the ACC, Michigan lost at home to Purdue, Oregon lost so we can go back to ignoring that worthless conference, Alabama won so the SEC championship should be two undefeated teams, and Boise, Cincinnati, and TCU all won so we could finally have a BCS buster (which is good because the BCS is unholy, it is literally against God’s will).
I mention all of those great games last week because this week there are really only two (Utah @ TCU and Iowa @ OSU, which isn’t that good a game if Iowa’s starting QB can’t play).
Last week’s scores: Derrick 43 (9-1), Jim 37 (7-3), Trey 37 (7-3), Shuler 33 (8-2), Spears 31 (8-2), Jeff 29 (7-3), Mao 27 (6-4), Jared 25 (7-3)
Totals:
Mao 294
Jeff 282
Trey 272
Spears 254 (same top four as last week but everyone gained on Mao)
Derrick 250 (huge weekend for D-rock in his picks and with Ohio St winning)
Jared 240 (making a slow decent)
Shuler 238
Jim 185
Bryan 144 (has now missed two weeks)
This week’s slate of games:
Our Teams
Georgia Tech (7) @ Duke – oh, the humanity
Tennessee @ Ole Miss – Ole Miss imploded this year after ESPN overhyped them
Clemson @ NC St – the Textile Bowl
Northwestern @ Illinois – a game so uninteresting I fell asleep just typing it
Virginia Tech (21) @ Maryland
Iowa (10) @ Ohio St (11) – Big 11 title on the line
Boston College @ Virginia
College GameDay Game
Utah (16) @ TCU (4) – best game of the day and all the money grubbers at the BCS will be praying for an unholy Mormon upset against the righteous Christians of Texas
Fillers
Florida (1) @ South Carolina – what’s wrong with Florida? They’ve got talent, why do they continual barely scrape by teams?
Miami (14) @ unc-chapel hill – the evildoers have a crazy good defense. Duke couldn’t block their d-line (our o-line is assembled by just taking the 5 fattest people who go to Duke and putting them on the field) and their secondary and linebackers swamped our receivers. But at least this year I felt like Duke was in the game. Sure we lost, but last year it felt like we didn’t have a chance, like they were on a different level from us. This year we still lost, but were in the same ballpark as them. Nevertheless, it still hurts.
By the way, sorry for the various religious references. Don’t know where that came from.
Also, all rankings are BCS rankings.
Finally, we have to do something about Texas. I have no desire to watch them in the title game. They’re not that good, their conference is crap, their QB is a douche, and Mack Brown is a former unc coach. They must be stopped.
You know, looking at these games, everyone is going to pick exactly the same winners with the possible exception of UT@Ole Miss. That means that any upset will throw the scores way off so it is paramount that you rank your picks very carefully.
10 – Georgia Tech
9 – Virginia Tech
8 – Florida
7 – Ohio State
6 – Miami
5 – TCU
4 – Clemson
3 – Miami
2 – Illinois
1 – Tennessee
Dude, you picked Miami twice.
Haha, good call.
10 – Georgia Tech
9 – Virginia Tech
8 – Florida
7 – Ohio State
6 – Miami
5 – TCU
4 – Clemson
3 – Illinois
2 – Virginia
1 – Tennessee
I usually do that every week.
since I have no shot of catching up, i’m going mostly upsets here, I will just have to assert my dominance in the bowl pick’ems like I did last year.
10-Utah
9-South Carolina
8-Northwestern
7-Nc St
6-Ole Miss
5-VT
4-Iowa
3-UVA
2-UNC
1-Duke
Holy shit, you are kidding me with those picks?!?! Utah? NC St?
I feel like you are tanking so that you get a high draft pick (which is what the Panthers should be doing at this point).
South Carolina at 9?!!?! HAHA!
10 – GT
9 – Florida
8- VT
7 – TCU
6 – Ohio St
5 – Miami
4 – Clemson
3- Illinois
2 – Tennessee
1 – UVA
10- VT
9- GT (I’m too superstitious to put Tech at 10.. Can’t do it..)
8- TCU
7- Northwestern
6- Tennessee
5- Clemson
4- Iowa (that’s for you, Day-rock. Reverse jinx).
3- BC
2- Miami
1- South Carolina (Is anybody else tickled pink that Tim Tebow is still a Heisman contender? It’s going to be awfully hard for anyone to present him with the award, as he will have performed a miracle and put his cock in every media mouth in attendance).
That’s more meant to be a crack on the mainstream sports media and not Tebow himself, mind you.
make fun of the media all you want, but speak no ill words against Tim Tebow.
and while your point is valid, who else are you gonna give the thing too? Colt McCoy is the only other possibility and he is just as overrated as Tebow if not more so.
10 VT (Maryland is a train wreck)
9 GT (I’ll trade 9pts for a Duke win)
8 Ohio St (Tressel has to win the Big 11 to get people off his back about the two loses)
7 Florida (praise Jesus)
6 Clemson (Freshman Qb on the road is worrisome
5 TCU (love this team, but I fear a BCS conspiracy)
4 BC (UVA is crap)
3 Miami (unc’s defense is possibly good enoughto stop the Canes)
2 NW (did you know they’re a 5pt underdog?)
1 Tennessee (I feel like I should playl the hot hand, and righ now UT is hot and Ole Miss ain’t)
These are not my examples, but I thought they were pretty exemplary of why the Heisman is as big a joke this year as the BSC is every year.
“I’m going to give you the stats of two players. You tell me whose stats are who’s:
Player A: 175 carries, 1,148 yards, 8 TDs, 5 100-plus games
Player B: 169 carries, 1,093 yards, 9 Tds, 5 100-plus games
One of these players is a Heisman candidate. One’s not.
So, can you tell me who are the players, and which one is the Heisman candidate?
Player A, is Alabama’s Mark Ingram, arguably the front-runner for the Heisman Trophy.
Player B, is… Jonathan Dwyer.”
I don’t put this up here to argue that Dwyer should win the Heisman, I just put it up there because it’s not so much about the numbers or strength of schedule or any of that shit this year as it is who makes for a more compelling and fun story.
Also from the same AJC blog post:
“This is in line with this other comparitive stat line:
Tim Tebow
155 rushes, 578 yards, 9 TDs
114-173-4 passing, 1,531 yards, 11 TDs
Josh Nesbitt
209 rushes, 817 yards, 15 TDs
51-115-4, 1,223 yards, 6 TDs”
Not saying that Josh Nesbitt deserves to win the Heisman, but I don’t think Tebow does just because he plays on the Gators.
Now for gambling
As i mentioned NW is a +5 @ Illinois, but something about that feels like a sucker bet. I feel like NW can win but they are a weird team.
Florida @ SC +18 is oneof those “is Florida going to really win by THAT much” games as is Utah +20 @ TCU. But I hate betting those games.
So honestly right now I’m seriously consiering only:
BC -4.5 @ UVA
and
ECU +5 @ Tulsa
The AJC has some really good writers. Especially when it come to college football and the Braves.
So yeah, all those points are valid. Plus, GT has only 1 loss so you can’t really even argue that they’re being overlooked bc they play for a team that isn’t a top cotender.
All of this just serves to point out that a) college football is totally screwed up and b) the Alabama v Florida game for the SEC title in ATL is going to decide who plays for the championship and who gets the Heisman (Tebow good game + win = heisman, Bama RB good game + win = heisman, and if the guywith teh good game stats wise loses then they’ll just give it to McCoy)
10-GT
9-Florida
8-Tennessee
7-VT
6-Clemson
5-TCU
4-Miami
3-BC
2-Ohio State
1-Illinois
10-GT
9-VT
8-Miami
7-Clemson
6-NW
5-Florida
4-BC
3-Miss
2-OSU (I hate this pick)
1-TCU
*Edited at 11:06 AM*
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