This Week's Picks

I rarely write about my stats here at Picks Central, but I would like to mention I only missed two games last week. One was the Baylor-TCU game. Okay, this game was a big deal to Baylor and the Aroused Lizards have lost a lot of their stars. Generally, however, in the past when these two met, TCU won. Congratulations to the B-Bears for being the first team to mess up my blog.

The second game was, of course, Georgia vs. Boise State. It seems any time Georgia spends any thought on uniforms, they go out and lose the game big time. A few years ago, UGA was playing Bama and UGA came storming out with their black jerseys. They looked cool until they got totally stomped. Then they played Florida wearing black helmets and got beat 4000 to nothing. This game was kind of like that. The uniforms were awful, simply awful. Not quite as bad as Maryland’s uniforms, which look like Walt Disney threw up on them. Georgia uniforms looked like what somebody thinks “the future” looks like. In true Georgia fashion, we blamed the uniforms and Mark Richt. Don’t feel bad, Coach Richt, we blamed the Confederate uniforms when Sherman burned Atlanta.

This Week’s Picks!

Illegal Game Birds vs. Depressed Dawgs: This is not a must win for UGA. It is a must win for Mark Richt. Georgia can beat this team, but they can’t beat South Carolina if they play anywhere close to how they played against Boise State. If you know a real estate agent in Athens, Georgia, they might be picking up a listing real soon. South Carolina wins.

Buzzy vs. Muddle Tennessee: While UGA was crying over their loss to Boise State, the Bees were crowing over their win against a FCS team that is always in the lower division. Oh yeah, they passed a lot. Mr. Personality will make sure that never happens again. Middle Tennessee almost beat Purdue last week. It would be tempting to pick MTSU today. I just don’t see them winning this game. Bees win.

Messy State vs. Almostburned: MSU almost beat Auburn last year with the expensive quarterback that the Wartigers could afford and the Other Bulldogs could not. Well, he’s not in the Plains anymore. The Other Bulldogs win.

Bamy vs. Lions of Nittany: Why in Joe Pa’s day, a game like this would be “The Game Of The Week” if not for the month or year. Back then, we called sandwiches “flat breadies”. We walked to school, too. It was uphill, both ways. We liked it! We loved it! Not like now with your fancy-pants cells phones. Back then, if you wanted to make a phone call, you had to find a dime and a pay phone that worked. If it worked, it was great! We liked it! We loved it! Sorry, got carried away. Bama wins.

Our Lady vs. Meechigan: Another formerly real important game. Now we watch it just to see Brian Kelly turn purple and Notre Dame’s stock to fall even further. Michigan wins.

Tusculum vs. Georgia Southern: In the first home game of the season, Georgia Southern (school motto: “Hey Mabel! Black Label!”) plays Tusculum. Tusculum is a small college located somewhere on the planet Earth. GSU wins.

Birmingham-Southern vs. Huntingdon: Huntingdon’s motto (“Enter to Grow in Wisdom; Go Forth to Apply Wisdom in Service. Yeah, right”) will be put to the test when they meet the Mighty Panthers featuring our buddy Cole Rudder who intercepted a pass last week for a touchdown against LaGrange College. (Cole, you owe me five bucks for mentioning you in my award winning blog). Birmingham-Southern wins. (That’s another five dollars, Cole.)