Wednesday, November 20, 2024

This Week's Picks-Week Thirteen

 

 

Hey, y'all- the new seeding of the 12 team playoff has been released!

From #1 to #12 is as follows.

#1 Duckies
#2 Texsass
#3 Myamme
#4 Boyzee State
#5 Ahia State
#6 The Lions of Nittany
#7 Indiana Wants Me, Lawd I Can't Go Back There
#8 Our Lady
#9 Bamy
#10 Ole Miss
#11 Jawja
#12 Mormons

 

Well, it appears winning your conference is now WAY more important than the strength of schedule. How else can you explain Boise State having a bye over, um, Ohio State, who lost by one point over the number one team in the nation, Oregon?

But what is college football without our yearly argument over rankings?  Sure, it is neat to see Indiana winning, but are they better than Georgia, Ole Miss, and Alabama?  

I don't think so.

Here is a picture of one of the committee members explaining their rankings.

 


 

This Week's Picks!

 

Jawja vs Umassssssss:  After a humiliating loss to Ole Miss, Georgia bounced back and defeated Tennessee and is in the playoff picture. For the moment. The Dawgs opponent this weekend is UMass, who has a 2-8 record this year and fired their coach the other day.  Georgia wins



Bees vs Werewolves of Raleigh:  Two middling ACC teams duke it out in Mid-Town Atlanta.  North Carolina State is probably the better team on paper, but they've had some injuries, and they are 5-5.  Georgia Tech is 6-4.  They don't play this game on paper. Tech wins


Indiana Wants Me vs Ahia State:  Indiana gets its first real test this Saturday against the Buckeyes. They won't pass it. Ohio State wins.


Okie vs Bamy:  Several years ago, this would have been a big  deal game. Not any more.  Bama is just too big  and fast for Oklahoma. The Tide will roll. Bama wins.

 

My Beloved Ows vs Florida International:  Last week was an emotional game given that Brian Bohannan was let go.  The Owls lost the game in overtime which means if things had fallen their way, they would have two wins.  Oh well, Florida International is the large state school in Miami.  The most famous alumni is Andy Garcia.  Owls win.

 

 

Thursday, November 14, 2024

This Week's Picks-Week Twelve

 

 

As we Southerners say, last week was something.

First, Georgia Tech actually beat a real good team: Miami.

Then, Ole Miss absolutely annihilated, killed, whooped-up-on, stomped, and otherwise beat Georgia.

The game wasn't that close.  The offensive line couldn't block. The running backs couldn't run. The receivers couldn't catch. The quarterback couldn't throw.  The defense couldn't tackle. I'm still determining where the pass defense was in the game. It wasn't around the Ole Miss receivers, that's for sure. 

Carson Beck learned a lesson about being a quarterback.

When you are winning, the quarterback is the best, most important person on earth. They get all of the praise, honor, and glory.

It is all your fault when you lose, especially when you throw an interception and fumble a couple of times.

It doesn't help that:

  1. Everyone knows you own a Lamborghini.
  2. Your girlfriend is hot even though, let's face it, you are not the best-looking guy on campus.
  3. The camera catches you smiling with your best bud while sitting on the bench.


I don't make up the rules.

 

On Sunday, it was reported that Brian Bohanon had "stepped down" as the head coach of the Kennesaw State Owls. Soon, Bohanon posted on X that he had been fired and had not stepped down.  Then the Athletic Director, Milton Overton, released a statement saying Bohanon was given the opportunity to "step down."

The bottom line is Brian Bohanon is gone.  


Hey, we wanted a college football team.  This is the type of stuff that happens. Best of luck to Brian Bohanon.  He did his best with what he had, which is all you can ask.

Best of luck to the Owls. We are going to need it. 


This Week's Picks!


Jawja vs Tennysee:  It really depends on which Georgia team shows up to this game. If it is the Georgia team that beat Texas, Georgia will win.  If it is the Georgia team that played Florida and Ole Miss teams, they'll lose.  I still kind of sort of believe that this team can make the playoffs. Maybe. Georgia wins.

Mersir vs. Bamy:  After the LSU game, Alabama has a breather with Mercer.  Alabama wins.

Ellesyou vs Floryder:  Lost in the Georgia-Ole Miss, and the Alabama-LSU game was Florida getting crushed by Texas. It has been a horrible season for Florida. I just don't see them beating LSU, do you?  LSU wins. 


Texsass vs Piggies:  Beef against pork would be a good BBQ challenge.  This time beef wins.  Texas wins.

My Beloved Owls vs Sam Houston: After all of the excitement from last week, Kennesaw State still has two games to play.  The interim head coach, Chandler Burks, is the only FBS head coach under thirty.  He also has some sweet tats.  Life goes on.  Owls win.

 






 

 

 

Sunday, November 10, 2024

What Happened?

 

I don't know about you, but I was happy to see this election season end, which came to an end with a THUD.

I was prepared to wait a couple of weeks to learn who was going to be the 47th President. Remember "the hanging chads"?  (Which would have been a great name for a folk group in the early '60s. "And The Cafe Wha presents....The Hanging Chads!")

But, it was all over by 2:00 in the morning.  We re-elected Donald J. Trump. 

Think of it.  How bad to you have to be to lose to a blubbery, loudmouth, misogynistic, egotistical Fascist with bad hair like Donald Trump?  That's gotta hurt.

But to paraphrase Jim Geraghty, the Democrats would have had a chance 1) if illegal immigration hadn’t surged, 2) if inflation hadn’t been the worst it’s been in four decades, and 3) if the world weren’t on fire from The Middle East to the Ukraine.  Other than that, the Dems had it all going their way.   

In the past ten years, I have learned about the term "gaslighting," which means anything a conservative says that contradicts something a liberal says.  Conservatives are bad gaslighters because they want to hurt people and crush their dreams. 

But it seems to me that the Democrats spent a lot of the Biden Administration gaslighting us. Inflation wasn't that bad. (Biden said, "Inflation ain't bad, pal, come on.")  It wasn't a surge of illegal immigrants, it was just friends we hadn't met yet from south of the border. The President is not senile; he's just walking around D.C in his pajamas like Uncle Junior because he's a man of the people. 

It really isn't hard to understand why Kamala Harris lost.

One, to cut Harris some slack, it is hard to get a campaign up and running in the amount of time Harris had.  Sure, she had help from a overly solicitous news media,which bought her campaign's malarkey about "brat summer", but the nuts and bolts were not in place and at the end Harris took in a billion dollars but ended the campaign $20 million in debt. 

I guess Skittles, rainbows, unicorns and vibes are expensive. 

Two, Harris can give a speech and she pulverized Trump in the debate (she is a lawyer, after all) but that's about all she could do. She did terrible in interviews, both friendly and unfriendly, when she deemed it necessary to give them. When asked a question about what she would done differently than Biden, she said she couldn't think of a thing. As we would say at Wheeler High School in the mid-70s: Duh.  Let's see, maybe not let so many illegal immigrants in?  Maybe care more about the price of eggs and gas? If you're telling people you are a new way forward, maybe don't tell them you wouldn't do anything different. I'm just spitballing here.

Three, I don't know what Harris saw in Tim Walz to make him her running mate.  He was a total doofus who made Dan Quayle look good.

Fourth, the Democratic Party's "lawfare" totally backfired because voters realized the indictments were not about bringing a rouge President to justice; it was about trying to injure Trump politically.  Its main point was to put Trump on trial and to get him convicted as a felon, even if the "felony" was novel meaning nobody had ever been tried under it as a felony before.  All of it had the opposite effect, making Trump even more popular. 

Our Fourth Estate is supposed to be a neutral observer and fair arbitrator, calling balls and strikes.  They didn't do any of that.

I have been saying for years (the first time was in 2021) that there was something off about Biden. If I, as a lowly blogger, could see it, you know the White House press corps saw it. They didn't say anything because Biden was on their team. 

When he crashed and burned after the first debate, Democrats had to push him aside if they wanted a chance to win. Because Democrats fiddle-farted (sorry for the technical terminology) around, they were left with no choice except to nominate Vice President Harris, who, let's face it, never made a good impression.

She gave it the old college try, but it wasn't enough.

Now our betters in the media are stuck in this rut saying they can't understand why the majority of American voters went back to Orange Benito except to say the Trump voters are dumb, stupid, racist, ignorant, poopy-heads that don't deserve to be blessed by our greatness at a Thanksgiving meal.

I am part of the generation that used late-night television hosts
as a gauge to the zeitgeist of the time.  Can you imagine Johnny Carson bawling about George McGovern losing the '72 election to Richard Nixon?  Joey Bishop having the sniffles that Hubert Humphrey lost? No, but Jimmy Kimmel and Colbert acted like it was the day after Pearl Harbor. 

Clearly, they don't care that there are people out there, a majority, who weren't enamored with The Democrats this time.  It happens. 

Social Media was its usual hit-and-miss. You had those posting memes that the LORD had made Trump President again. You had those posting long posts pronouncing SHAME on those who had the audacity to vote for Trump.

Look, I have voted in every Presidential election since 1980. That's eleven elections. The candidate I voted for won six of eleven times.  I believed in my candidates and thought they should have won (still do). But guess what?  George H.W. Bush didn't win re-election. Bob Dole didn't win either.  Sometimes, your candidate fails to win for a variety of reasons that are out of your control.

Despite what some say, there'll be a mid-term election in 2026 and another Presidential election in 2028. Trump will be term-limited from running for re-election.

Better luck next time, Dems.

 






 

Friday, November 8, 2024

This Week's Picks Week Eleven

 

 

You might have missed it with all of the election hoop-de-do, but the NCAA has released the seeding of the 12-team playoff on Tuesday.  

From #1 to #12 is as follows.

#1 Duckies
#2 Jawja
#3 Hercaines
#4 Mormons
#5 Ahia State
#6 Texsass
#7 The Lions Of Nittany
#8 Indiana Wants Me, Lawd I Can't Go Back There
#9 Tennysee
#10 Our Lady
#11 Bamy
#12 The Blue Turf People From Idaho

Of course, this is subject to change based on the school's record.  The first four seeds will get a bye.

Today, everyone here at Picks Central remembers Ben Herbstreit, Kirk Herbstreit's Golden Retriever, who passed away on Thursday. He was good boy.

 


 

This Week's Picks!

Jawja vs Ole Mess:  In the first seeding of the 12 seed playoff, Georgia is the #2 seed even though they are the #3 team in the country.  Georgia had a tough time with Florida last week. Carson Beck threw 400 interceptions. <Editor's Note: It was three> But a win is a win.  Ole Miss messed up on Arkansas something awful. Ole Miss would love to beat Georgia, but Georgia seems to play better against good teams.  It will be close, but UGA wins. 


Bumbles vs Myamee:  I had high hopes for the Bees, but the team is a Wreck. Miami is an excellent team and their quarterback, Cam Ward, could win The Heisman Trophy this year.  Miami wins.


Bamy vs Ellesyou:  Bama is still listed as a playoff team even though they don't seem like a playoff team.  LSU wants to be a playoff team, and one way to do this is to beat Alabama. Good luck. Bama wins.


Whoosers vs Meechigan:  This year's Cinderella (I know it is not basketball, but stick with me) is Indiana.  The Hoosiers haven't lost a game, which is really unusual.  On the other hand, Michigan is having a transition season under a new head coach.  Indiana wants to win this game. They will.  Indiana wins. 


My Beloved Owls vs UTEP:  I watched the Kennesaw State-Western Kentucky game for a few minutes last week. It was just long enough to see Western Kentucky score.  This week, the Owls travel out to the west Texas town of El Paso to play the University of Texas at El Paso Fighting Marty Robbins.  Just a joke.  It is the UTEP Miners.  Famous alumni of UTEP included F. Murray Abraham and Sam Donaldson.  UTEP is 1-8 for the season.  Owls win.