This Week's Picks

Here we are at the end of another college football season and another award winning season of This Week’s Picks. Since 1959, This Week’s Picks have been predicting the winners of college football games, usually with about of the same lack of success rate as Dick Morris and Karl Rove.

During the early years of This Week's Picks with Karl and George.

This will be a very special edition of This Week’s Picks because it will be an All Georgian This Week’s Picks because the three of the four major colleges in Georgia are involved in either a conference championship or a playoff game. For some reason Kennesaw State missed the playoffs.

This week’s picks!

The SEC Championship: Georgia vs. Alabama.  This is as big time as it gets in College Football: two one-loss teams fighting to see who gets to play (and destroy) Notre Dame in the BCS Championship. Last year UGA played LSU and got killed in the second half. This year, the Dawgs have a better chance of winning the SEC than they did last year. However, they need that little something extra: they need THE MANIS JINX.

For those of you that don’t know, THE MANIS JINX occurs when I pick a team to win and then that team loses. It has come down to this. Alabama is great team and is a serious beast. They should win this game. They will. Alabama wins.  BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH. Now you are cursed Alabama. You may not win another game for ten years.

     Coach Saban reacts to THE MANIS JINX

The ACC Championship: Georgia Tech vs. Florida State. You know how kids get a participation medal? This is Tech's participation medal. They played lousy in a lousy division. They are playing in the championship game because, hey, somebody has to play FSU.  Tech looks about as bad as a football team going to a conference championship can look. If they win The ACC, they get a trip to the Orange Bowl. If they win The ACC, look for mass suicides at the offices of the Orange Bowl.  That shouldn’t be a problem Florida State is way better than Tech. Florida State wins.

Central Arkansas vs. Georgia Southern: Here’s a brief history of The University of Central Arkansas. It was founded in 1907 as The Arkansas State Normal School.  The name was changed in 1908 to The Arkansas State Quirky School when it was realized that there were no normal people in Arkansas.  The name was changed again in 1909 to The Arkansas State Just Plain Nuts School, which was its name until 1975. Famous alumni include Gil Gerard and Scottie Pippen. The school has no motto. This bothers a lot of the students. “Dude”, they say, “I wish we, like, had a motto or something”.  On the other hand, Georgia Southern has tons of mottos. For example, "Ego Amo Beer. Is Planto Mihi A Jolly Bonus Socius" Georgia Southern wins.

 This year's Homecoming Queen at The University of Central Arkansas.