So I have been challenged. I will answer said challenge. Yes, I enjoy talking about and referencing college football. I like it much more than pro ball. I will even answer the bell and make a habit of making predictions each week on speaktherights.com as the college football season rolls on.
I can’t pick’em all. So I will give my prediction on ten games a week that interest for whatever reason. So be it.
Ole Miss will beat Boise State…there is too much to lose here for the Rebels to lose.
Bama will beat West Virginia…yes, Brother Tim, I do believe the Tide is a good team.
Kentucky will beat Tennessee-Martin….because they better.
South Carolina will beat Texas A&M …and everybody else. They will be champs.
Miami (Fl) will beat Louisville…Florida State won the national championship last year…more than enough to motivate Miami to beat ACC newcomers.
Indiana will beat Indiana State…if Coach Wilson wants to come back to work Monday.
Mississippi State will beat Southern Miss
LSU will beat Wisconsin
Auburn will beat Arkansas
Marshall will beat Miami of Ohio…the Year of the Herd will begin.
I am so delighted that my friend Jerry Brown will be coaching for the Brownstown Central Braves this Saturday as they take on the Charlestown Pirates at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The game is tentatively scheduled for a 2:40 PM kickoff. I wish I could be there.
Jerry’s son, Clay, is the quarterback of the Braves, he’ll be able to say he played quarterback on the same field Peyton Manning played on. Clay is a senior this year. The Braves should be pretty tough. They were 12-1 last year with a fraction of the number of seniors they have this year.
My dear wife, Carrie, and I will be in Oxford, Ohio watching the Thundering Herd of Marshall play on Saturday. They play the Miami of Ohio Redhawks Saturday afternoon. A report will be forthcoming.
More than anything, I hope all the guys out there playing will do so without the incident of injury. Nothing can deflate the optimism and quality air out of a team like a devastating injury. Still, it happens each year. Just ask Ohio State. They lost their starting quarterback to injury this week.
Man. I will be so glad when it cools off. Carrie warned me it would get hot in August. Remember those cool days in July? I do. I miss them. I used to write these posts on a comfortable screened-in back porch. My pipes can’t take the heat and humidity. If I go out to write on the porch right now, I would probably have a hard time breathing and would not have a very good time.
The cooler weather will certainly be here soon. I am so looking forward to it. Let the leaves fall where they may.
Until then we will find a way to continue to….speak the rights.
Danny Johnson