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Selections for Saturday, October 11th

This is not pretty at all. I drew a platinum sombrero again last week and now have my work cut out for me to get back above .500 this season. This week's "List of Disaster" is below:

UPDATED: A 2-3 week when a 4-1 could have easily happened. Reaching .500 by season's end is going to take some weekends where I pick more winners than losers, for once.

A few thoughts to the teams I picked:


Georgia: You need to be more aggressive and run up the score.

Fresno State: You gave up 15 points to Idaho in the freakin' fourth quarter. Thanks for nothing.

LSU: How did you enjoy the "Bye" week? Oh, you mean you actually played a game? Could have fooled me.

Michigan State: I'll never stray again.

Boise State: At least someone knows how to TCB.
Georgia (-12/5) vs. Tennessee (Georgia 26-14; LOSS by .5)
Michigan State (+1) at Northwestern (MSU 37-20; WIN by 18)
LSU (+6) at Florida (Florida 51-21; LOSS by...lots)
Boise State (-10.5) at Southern Miss (Boise St. 24-7; WIN by 6.5)
Fresno State vs. Idaho (Under 62.5) (FSU 45-32 (77); LOSS by 14.5)

Last Week: 0-5-0 (0% / 100% / 0%)
Overall: 9-19-2 (30% / 63% / 7%)

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Mid-week Thoughts

Aug 2008 by MattGSeattle - 0 comments

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Last week was not pretty for me... 0-4-1. Overall 13-10-1 (57% win).

The LSU/Florida game is interesting. I almost picked Florida, but I don't know how it's going to play out. It's at the Swamp, Florida can't lose another game, and Florida's D may eat LSU's freshman QB alive, but LSU has an amazing ability to find ways to win.

I'm gun shy and sticking to the basics, although my pick of the week is interesting:

BYU (-23) at New Mexico (my pick of the week)
The coaches are good friends and BYU has a tough game next week against TCU. BYU will be playing conservative and won’t run up the points. 21 points max.

Otherwise, Mizz and OU look unstoppable. I think Mizz is going to light up OK St. and while Texas looks good, I think this is the week we see how good OU is:

OU (-6) vs. Texas
Mizz (-14) vs. OK St.

Also an interesting game I'm not playing:

Utah (-23) at Wyoming
Last year Wyoming’s coach guaranteed a win against Utah in the press and pissed off Utah’s coach. Utah winning 43-0 in the 4th, ONSIDE’s a kick, recovers it, and goes on to get another touchdown to win 50-0 to pay him back… The Wyoming coach is taped giving the finger across the field. There’s some serious bad blood here! I’m not sure if this will continue to this year, so I’m not picking it, but an interesting one to watch.

by mkruger on Oct 10, 2008 5:06 PM EDT reply actions  

I also like your Mich St. choice. I've been on Mich St's bandwagon this year and have a soft spot for Northwestern. I would have picked Mich St. but the Dixie Dynamo dissuaded me this morning. Sounds like MSU's secondary is banged up pretty bad and Northwestern has the ability to exploit their defense.

How's Boise St. run defense? Watch out for Southern Miss... Their offense is tougher than it looks. Their RB, Fletcher I think, is doing well this year. Ran all over me online, and is like 4th in the SEC in real life.

by mkruger on Oct 10, 2008 5:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Let's get some winners today!!!

by Matt on Oct 11, 2008 12:04 PM EDT reply actions  

Georgia...good lord...score one more point!

Thank you Michigan State.

LSU, would you like to show up for today's game?

by Matt on Oct 11, 2008 9:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Boise State appears to have things in hand early at S. Miss. Don't screw it up!

And unless Fresno scores 62 on their own I think the under on the Idaho game looks good.

By the way, Texas actually beat Oklahoma? Wow, that hasn't happened much recently.

by Matt on Oct 11, 2008 9:18 PM EDT reply actions  

Seriously, LSU, just make an appearance.

by Matt on Oct 11, 2008 9:20 PM EDT reply actions  

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