Only a few days away!  Time to get excited for the upcoming season.  To build further anticipation for next weekend and also to prepare everyone for watching next weekend’s games, I’ve decided to put together a viewer’s guide for all of the first week televised game.  This is kind of a take-off on a column the Charlotte Observer [...]

Along the same lines as my weekly picks entry, I’d also like to offer my predictions of a few upsets that could definitely happen in the first week.  These are ordered from smallest underdog to largest, and the value in each parentheses represents the number of points by which each team is currently an underdog according to the World Sports Exchange.  [...]

I think it is close enough to the start of the season to go ahead and make my first set of picks. Most lines are already up for the opening weekend; including the site I use which is World Sports Exchange (www.wsex.com).  Let me first preface this by saying that I am not advocating sports gambling by writing [...]

With football season nearly upon us, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on this summer in my sporting life.  It is a summer that I will remember for a long time, whether I want to or not.  Since I’m not a baseball fan, I direct most of my energy as a fan [...]

Brett Favre man… you’re becoming Muhammad Ali.  No you were never as good as Ali, but you’re similar in that you have a great legacy that you’re tarnishing with this retirement/return cyclical nonsense.  Go out and coach somewhere if you still want to be on a football field.  You’re just going to become worse and worse [...]

Date Bowl Teams           19-Dec New Mexico Air Force Fresno State 19-Dec St. Petersburg Cincinnati Southern Miss 20-Dec New Orleans Troy UTEP 22-Dec Las Vegas Arizona Brigham Young 23-Dec Poinsettia Northern Illinois Florida Atlantic 24-Dec Hawaii Nevada Tulsa 26-Dec Motor City Central Michigan Wisconsin 26-Dec Meinke Car Care NC State West [...]

When all the smoke is cleared, here’s how I see the final rankings for the 2009 season. For full analysis of each team see conference predictions below. 1 Southern Cal 2 Florida 3 Texas 4 Oklahoma 5 Virginia Tech 6 Oklahoma State 7 California 8 Ole Miss 9 Kansas 10 Illinois 11 Ohio State 12 LSU 13 Alabama [...]

Here are the teams I’m predicting to disappoint in 2009 in order of the relative disparity between my picks and the experts’ average while also taking into account the relevance of the pick.  The experts’ average, which is listed in parentheses, consists of the avg. of the Athlon, Phil Steele, Sporting News, CBS, and various other sources.   1.  Oregon- [...]

 Here are my surprise teams in order of the relative disparity between my picks and the experts’ average while also taking into account the relevance of the pick.  The experts’ average, which is represented in parentheses, consists of the avg. of the Athlon, Phil Steele, Sporting News, CBS, and various other sources. 1.   Illinois- 10th in [...]

Sun Belt 1.   Troy (74)- See Notre Dame and UCLA analysis regarding Phil Steele’s continual use of hard drugs when making some of these picks.  He continues this trend by ranking Troy as the # 31 team in the nation.  That’s way too high for them, but they should win Sun Belt though. 2.  Florida [...]

MAC East 1.   Buffalo (81)- The Bulls should be relatively good again under superstar coach Turner Gill.  Should win the division again but think CMU will nose them out in the title game. 2.  Temple (85)- I really want to pick the Owls to make their first bowl in 30 years, but I just can’t [...]

Independents 1.   Notre Dame (25)- Phil Steele must have taken a Michael Phelps bong hit before he picked the Irish as # 7 in the country.  ND will lose at least 3 and not make it to the BCS. 2.  Navy (63)- Predicted this team to surprise in ’08 and I was right.  Unfortuantely, it [...]

C-USA East 1.   East Carolina (41)- Pinkney should lead experienced squad to repeat C-USA championship.  However, team has no chance of BCS contention with brutal non-conference slate. 2.  Southern Miss (52)- The Eagles built a lot of momentum for ’09 by winning their last 5 games in Fedora’s first year.  Still think they’ll get nosed [...]

WAC 1.   Boise State (19)- With Moore at QB, this team def. has a shot at the BCS.  However, it’s too risky of a pick since the dream could very well be gone after their first game. 2.  Nevada (53)- Kapernick may be the most underrated QB in the nation, and the Pack will emerge [...]

Mountain West 1.   Brigham Young (30)- Expect another solid 9 or 10 win season from the Cougars.  Max Hall will continue to put up ridiculous numbers, and the team should win the MWC title. 2.  TCU (33)- I have the Frogs quite a bit lower than the experts’ average but can’t consider them a disappointment [...]