I'd like to take a moment to commemorate Terion Stewart joining my personal "favorite highlights" reel alongside honorable entries such as Ryan Williams dragging a hapless NCStater to the goal line, Deron Washington dunking three balls on Greg Paulus, and Darren Evans knocking the Old Bay out of Terrapins.
This is never getting old.
Also beating out all of us .500-and-below folks last week with 4 are our stick-receivers SEIKOH, King James, Spriggy, and VPIhokieME.
The rest of us get to split a Spiderman Popsicle
Oh yeah, we have to talk about
THE GAMES
Mile High Cadets at Cadets-with-Marine-Option (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Moocows at Waterboys (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at TeethBirds (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Railroad Barons at ¹⁰ Sponsored by (Roll)Tide (Alabama. -10.5)
³ Wak at ¹⁸ Ineligible QBU (Mia. -4.5)
Not-Your-1990s-Duke at Got-Shutout-by-San-Diego-State (Duke -2.5)
Make Your Picks Before You Forget Here
SUMMARY
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5)
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5)
Duke at California (Duke -2.5)
Comments
I'm feeling pretty confident this week.
Stop it! Stop it! my record is already dead.
I feel like 1-5 is coming
Considering over half my wrong guesses have been off by half a point.... I hate these spreads
Congrats to the 4 tied this past week:
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5)
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5)
Duke at California (Duke -2.5)
No idea of drinks this weekend...might loos for something in the Oktoberfest realm...who knows. Meh.
for better or for worse, I've decided to try a new strategy this week. I'm going completely with literal coinflips for each of my picks. We'll see how that goes.
Heads = Home Team
Tails =
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Update. Coin flips got me 0-4 so far with two games remaining. Good chance I'll go either 0-6 or 1-5.
Would not recommend
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5)
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5)
Duke at California (Duke -2.5)
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5)
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5)
Duke at California (Duke -2.5)
Another 44 hour marathon this weekend(awake from 7am friday-3am Saturday: work Friday day, pool tournament 6-11pm ;club 1145pm-2am;club to Blacksburg 2am-545am Saturday; tailgate 545am-1130am Saturday, game til 4/430pm;drive back 430-730/8 pm; club 830/9pm til 2am Sunday.)
Gonna be weird weather day-44 degrees at start of tailgate;70ish for kickoff!(ah well better than last Thanksgiving UVA game when it was 22 with windchill of 13 when we got there at 6am and high for
the day was 27 with windchill of 21... )
Steady 3; moved up to tie for 4th! Helps that 2 of my 3 misses were Navy and Texas both of which were only picked right by one player (and not the same one)-side note have we ever had that happen before TWO games of 6 that nearly everyone picked wrong team? My other miss was picking FSU over Miami- hate both teams so went with hoping Miami wasn't 'bak'- c'est la vie.
The tailgating was fun (my friend and I are having a race to 30 in drinking backgammon games -I started strong in the first two weeks but he stormed back with 7 straight wins; this week I had another string of wins only to drop back towards the last few). The clubbing was also good-though a bit annoyed the game took over 3.5 hours to finish so I was late getting there.
It was hot and sunny at the game (after being cold and foggy when we arrived at 545AM)-better than two weeks ago though. At least the next game at Lane is a night kickoff again! Nice to see the 1965 'Claiborne Gang' team (including Frank of course) honored during one of the TOs.
As a matter of principle, I'm going to start keeping track of what my scores would be if I simply pick the team I want to lose the game. If this works out, maybe I'll formally join next season. You can't join in the middle, right?
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5) Although I like both, had to pick one
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5) Although I am not a fan of either, dislike Texas
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5) This should be obvious
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5) Sick of Alabama
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5) Although I dislike both, dislike Miami more
Duke at California (Duke -2.5) Frosty's #1 is Baylor, but UCLA Bruins are #2, so have to root against Cal (the only Bears team he dislikes)
So I went 4-2 picking each team I want to lose knowing my sports luck is terrible.
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5) Win
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5) Loss
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5) Win
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5) Win
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5) Win
Duke at California (Duke -2.5) Loss
Maybe I should have signed up from the start.
Going 4-2 will have you caught up in 3 weeks. Lol
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5)
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5)
Duke at California (Duke -2.5)
One single person picked Air Force, and they got it right
I should have it coes against my better judgement, two digit rivalry games are just asking for the underdog pick
It's just mathematically impossible I can be this bad. 0-4 so far. What the fucking fuck?
I basically picked opposite of what I thought and still went 1-5.
This is not my year.
Vandy what the hell. Why you do me like that.
Yay, one again
Back to 2
I thought I was going 0-6 after my cold start, salvaged the week with a 2