By Wahl, on February 1, 2010, at 11:51 am | One comment
BJones, The Great Wahl’s College Football Senior Writer, asked me to put together a quick commentary about last night’s Pro Bowl experiment…so here we go.
For the unfamiliar, the Pro Bowl is usually played in Hawaii the week after the Super Bowl. This year, it was played in Miami, the site of this year’s Super Bowl, [...]
By Wahl, on January 7, 2010, at 4:39 pm | Leave a comment
I’ve watched maybe three college football games from start to finish this year. I went to the Penn State/Northwestern game in Chicago over Halloween. I also watched the entire Big 12 and SEC Championship games. Texas looked terrible. Alabama looked amazing — especially when you consider the way they dominated a Florida team that just [...]
By Wahl, on December 4, 2009, at 9:32 am | Leave a comment
The only entertaining moment from last night’s Jets-Bills game was the ball that bounced off the face of Braylon Edwards. That man cannot catch a football if his job depended on it. Oh, wait…
After that play, I just turned it to the Oregon-Oregon State game. That was 1000x more entertaining.
Jesse, at least be happy that [...]
By BJones, on December 3, 2009, at 6:45 am | 2 comments
Last week: 8-5 straight, 6-6-1 vs. spread
Total: 41-19 (.683) straight, 33-25-2 (.569) vs. spread
I’ll let last week’s mediocre performance speak for itself, but just add that I once again picked WSU to lose by less than a gigantic margin and was wrong. This week’s theme is, you guessed it, conference championships, practically and/or [...]
By BJones, on November 26, 2009, at 9:35 am | Leave a comment
Last week: 5-1 straight, 3-3 vs. spread
Total: 33-14 straight (.702), 27-19-1 (.585) vs. spread
Last week, 31-point underdog Washington State got me again with their 32 point loss. This week, I’ll be betting against them again, as our theme will be in-state rivalry games. I’ll spare you long analyses of the many games as tryptophan may [...]
By BJones, on November 19, 2009, at 7:14 am | Leave a comment
Last week: 2-5 straight, 4-3 vs. spread
Season: 28-13 straight, 24-16-1 vs. spread
Last week’s numbers prove that there’s a reason we call them upsets. I am pleased that UCF over Houston was the one good upset I hit, but unhappy that it was not enough to drop the Cougars from the rankings, not enough to make [...]
By BJones, on November 13, 2009, at 8:58 am | 4 comments
Last week: 6-0 Straight, 5-1 vs. the spread
Total: 24-10 Straight, 22-11-1 vs. the spread
After my best week yet, missing perfection thanks only to Washington State, I am feeling a little bold or perhaps anxious to bring my numbers back down. So this week’s theme will be ranked teams that will lose.
West Virginia (7-2) @ #5 [...]
By BJones, on November 6, 2009, at 8:21 am | One comment
Last week: 5- 2 straight, 2-5 vs. spread
Season: 18-10 straight, 17-10-1 vs. spread
Fitting to last week’s theme of trick or treating, I had success in the straight pick department, and stunk up the joint vs. the spread. Folks and Goats who called their bookies last week based on my picks certainly did not get a [...]
By BJones, on October 28, 2009, at 9:30 am | 4 comments
Last week: 4-3 straight, 5-2 vs. spread
Overall: 13-8 straight, 15-5-1 vs. spread
The themed week did not bring any greater success in the straight picking category, but did bring a plethora of errors in need of correction. Rather than explain them, I direct you to last week’s comments, which were infinitely entertaining and educational. In light [...]
By BJones, on October 23, 2009, at 7:40 am | 10 comments
[You can read the previous wonderful contributions of BJones here and (the web traffic record-breaking piece) here].
Last week: 4-3 straight, 5-1-1 vs. spread
Total: 9-5 straight, 10-3-1 vs. spread
Last week my strength lay in picking vs. the spread rather than outright—a strength of little meaning anywhere but Vegas. But then again, picking and ranting about football [...]
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