Paul the Octopus, although meeting a premature death at the age of 2, achieved worldwide fame for his prognostication skills during the 2010 World Cup, correctly picking the winners of 8 out of 8 games involving his adopted country of Germany during the month-long competition, as well as the final match between Spain and The Netherlands. According to the statistical experts at Wikipedia, the probability of such an achievement is 0.39%, or 256 to 1. Not even Jimmy the Greek, Nostradamus, Miss Cleo, or Philly Cheese can claim such a rate of success. Even though Paul's owners at the aquarium stated after the World Cup that he was officially entering into retirement, saying "[h]e won't give any more oracle predictions – either in football, or in politics, lifestyle or economy. Paul will get back to his former job, namely making children laugh." Er...sorry owners, slight change in plan! Paul's in it for the money, the glory, the fame, and lest we forget, the female octopi. Now, in the fall of 2011, Paul has risen from the grave (not unlike his two idols, Elvis and Tupac) to stake his long-overdue claim to the Buckeye Pregame Guest Panel crown, and provide some thoughts and predictions for the upcoming college football season.
Paul BOLDLY predicts that the national champion will emerge from the Southeastern Conference (really going out on a tentacle there), and that the Heisman Trophy winner will be a quarterback. Like his Guest Panel predecessors Carl, Andy Katzenmoyer's Professor (i.e. Prof. BadA**), Nostrapigskius, Man Getting Hit by Football, and Ari the Greek, Paul vows to carry on a tradition of excellence for the Buckeye Pregame Guest Panel.
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