Week #12 College Football Picks
Cold…cold…cold. This week’s college football games will be played…many of them…in some very cold weather. Polar Vortex…polar bear…polar whatever. It is cold.
I said something about being sad last week because November is here. The end of college football’s regular season is on the horizon.
I’m also sad because I have been on this planet for over 46 years and this is the first weekend that I have seen college football come around without being able to watch it with my Granny. She is still here as I type these words this late Friday morning. But…she won’t be watching football this weekend, I don’t think.
I am so glad Granny was a guest two weeks ago at speaktherights.com as she picked a Sunday’s worth of pro football games. Granny is famous for uttering a shrill of a yell when her team is on defense and they are closing in on an opposing ball carrier…”GET HIM!”
For Granny…these are the speaktherights.comCollege Football Picks for Week #12:
South Carolina will beat Florida…The Head Ball Coach goes to Gainesville one more time and gets one from the jaws of the Gators. Steve Spurrier, the SC coach, won a Heisman trophy at UF. He won a national championship there as a coach. Gator fans miss him…and they hope to beat his butt!
Penn State will beat Temple…A Nittany Lion should always be favored over an Owl.
Va. Tech will beat Duke…Oh how I hope I am wrong. Here’s the thing…Duke is 16-1 in their last 17 regular season games. It has to stop somewhere before they get to FSU in the ACC Championship game, doesn’t it? Understand…I hope Duke wins 100-0.
Rutgers will beat Indiana…All the grumbling about the basketball team’s tom-foolery in Bloomington will probably give Kevin Wilson a reprieve. That and the injury to his quarterback may keep him around. The Hoosiers playing a conference game in New Jersey? That is almost proof that players should be paid.
Notre Dame will beat Northwestern…This game is a must for the Domers to keep any hope of a grand bowl game they feel is befitting to them.
Tennessee will beat Kentucky…The last time the Wildcats won in Knoxville was thirty years ago. The Cats have improved. They will need to beat Louisville to make it to bowl eligibility because they won’t beat the Vols.
Georgia will beat Auburn…UPSET CITY, baby. The SEC West gets all the love. Georgia wants some love. They have the tools to beat Auburn, though it won’t be easy and it will probably come down to a turnover or some form of stupid tax.
MichiganState will beat Maryland…Coming off the embarrassment that was the OhioState defeat last week; Sparty is ready to take it out on Big Ten new kids on the block.
Alabama will beat MississippiState…The Tide just won’t stand for it. The players don’t want to disappoint the home folks. They won’t. The Bulldogs are good…but not good enough to come into Bryant-Denny to beat Bama…not yet.
Marshall will beat Rice to push their record to 10 wins and 0 defeats and the jockeying for being placed in a major bowl game will begin in earnest. The Herd is a tough bunch. They really are. I think they will win 13 games and still be robbed of a chance to win a BIG TIME bowl game. That is one reason I am not a fan of the college football playoff. In 1984 BYU won all its games and was crowned the National Champion of college football. That BYU team beat a 6 win Michigan team in the Holiday Bowl to finish undefeated. Funny, within the context of playoff to be or not to be…I rarely, if ever, have heard anyone complaining about the BYU Champs of thirty years ago. Translation: be careful what you ask for. The bigger College Football tries to get, the more clamoring you will hear about paying players.
By the way…I am so over all these alternate uniform schemes. Teams wearing three or four different helmets/ uniform schemes in a season is stupid tax. What is it for? Recruits? Are we relegating the tradition of college football because a PR guy said you’ll get more/better recruits who like to play video games where they like to make their own uniforms?
When I turn on the TV I want to look at the screen and know I am watching Alabama. Check that…I do know. Alabama hasn’t screwed that up.
When I watched Louisville play FloridaState on a Thursday night recently, U of L came out not looking like Cardinals. They looked like pelicans that had been drug through an oil spill. They were gray…oil gray, I would say. Butt-ugly oil gray.
Which leads me to this: pass a little of that wasted alternate helmet money on to the players in the form of a stipend to help them get relatives to the game that might not have a chance to see a game in person. We’re not talking about kids getting rich.
All we are saying…is give good sense a chance.
Speaking the rights.
Danny Johnson