wk 13 picks

So, its rivalry week, lots of great games to pick and a stupid wac match up! Anyway, the buckeyes survived a road trip where TP still had TP moments and the WR had the dropsy’s! Hard to believe, better come out this week and play well. T.U.N may have worst defense in their history, but also might have best offense they’ve ever had. Robinson should be getting more hype for Heisman; it is more impressive that he’s put up numbers he has (1500 plus rushing and passing) on a team with no defense. Opponents normally facing such a bad defense can be safer, trying not to give up the big play and knowing they just need to slow offense down – not completely stop it. Robinson has had big play after big play anyway and he’s missed parts of a lot of games. So breaking the QB rushing record with a game to play and being the first QB ever with 1500/1500 (not even Timmy Christ did it) is sick impressive. My hope and feeling is like much of T.U.N. losses, the buckeyes will score often and get enough stops to win comfortably. Scary thing is the one thing you don’t want to see in a big underdog (especially in a rivalry game) is a great offense, because it gives a ‘punchers’ chance. The bucks will need to play turnover free and win on special teams (another place where fighting richrods are inexplicably bad). One last bit of paranoia to get off my chest, I will be in the shoe for my third live viewing of the best rivalry in sports. I am 1-1 with my first game being ‘the slip’ in the shoe – a devastating loss. The second time was at the big house for Troy’s second win of his 3 victories as a starter and the sounding board for the following years Heisman run. I’m hoping that the curse was truly with coop and I will be 2-0 seeing it live under Tress and not 0-2 seeing it at the shoe. Wish me luck! Go Bucks!

On to this weeks picks, or as I like to call them “opposite Jared picks”!

10 pts – A&M wins, hey all you Tressel ball haters: Can it be frustrating at times? Yes Should you ever ever bitch? No Why? See down years of team up north, fsu, usc, okla, nebr, Miami, and now Tejas. I mean they are in serious danger of no bowl game, which proves down falls can happen to anyone (even if you’re in a week conference like the big 12 or big new 12). Appreciate tressel ball, it’s been really really good to you.

9 pts – bama wins, well Saban will do it again and give us the Oregon v Boise St championship game that will polarize college football into those that love it and those that hate it. Unless (and hopefully) Cam can clinch the Heisman with a great performance.

8 pts – Boise wins, please please please Nevada pulls the upset, and you won’t, but please prove me wrong.

7 pts – PSU wins, I’m picking this cause sparty is sparty and this is what bucky badger needs to guarantee a rose bowl bid when they demolish n’western sat, so it will happen. Kind of hoping the one good thing that would come from a Boise st nat champ game vs Oregon would be a Stanford v Wisconsin Rosebowl, so badger fans can find out; a) how bad Scott Tolzien really is against a good defense (that doesn’t lay an egg like the bucks did) and b) what it will be like for them if richrod gets canned and Harbum takes over.

6 pts – Ok st wins, finally their year and they got boomer sooner at home, don’t get it done now and it will never ever happen. Better buck up cowboys.

5 pts – Oregon wins, I know zona has a good stoops defense, but ducks are at home and should score/win big. Only concern is are they looking past zona and thinking about beavers. Nothing good ever comes of thinking about tomorrows beaver when you need to tame today’s wild cat!! Does the pac10 have the best nicknames or what? You can have some cougar, beaver, wildcats, all while smoking a little tree and never have to worry about disease because you just wear a Trojan and enjoy your dance with the sun devil! Even for a man that’s a little husky, or (next yr) built like a buffalo, you just bruin up, ride that bear and make her quack like a duck!

4 pts – Ark wins, less miles will never run out of trick plays, odd moments, and dumb luck, but if you have a good QB and he plays well you can beat LSU with solid play. Don’t and he will pull some craziness out his arse and have you saying “how the hell did we loose that game?”

3 pts – Mustache wins, looks like he has the best of the worst, bet the Fiesta bowl is stoked about the possible Okst/neb vs pitt match up?! Ooooo sounds fun.

2 pts – Buckeyes win, everything says bucks should win number 7 in a row and 9 or 10 easy, except for one thing…… It’s still the best rivalry in sports and anything truly can happen. I literally can not emphasize how bad I want this one to cap off a great decade that I desperately needed after the 90’s! If things go south, I’ll be devastated, mad, irate, spewing irrational, mean, despicable things that I don’t really mean (well at least not all of them) and then I’ll probably cry, get depressed and then head home to what really matters (my family) and spend time with my wife and our family and friends and get some perspective that keeps me from taking that last step of the cliff. Or I’ll get arrested at the game and hope they come bail me out! Let’s hope we just have the safe thing and get the W! Go Bucks!

1 pts – FSU wins, well I think finally maybe the original bad boys of the sunshine state can regain some glory in this rivalry and get a W, but the gators have the jail talent lately and are quite capable of saying we have the biggest check book right now and our money and criminals will kick your butt. Urban is still one tough warden and his inmates want their extra slice of bread next week and 2 hrs of outside time a day.

Good luck to Justin and Bill trying to make a comeback on Jared, may he falter and you get 55 (assuming you picked the bucks, if not may you get 9 out of 10 right)!