Here are the games for the Guest Panel to consider this week. Below are the standings as well. Mel Kiper takes the lead after predicting five correct games last week, while most of the panel predicted three or four correct. Mel Kiper and Bowl Ban were the only panelists to predict Stanford's victory over USC. The large group at second place last week is now broken up into second, sixth, and eighth place.
Standings:
1. Mel Kiper's Hair (13-5) (5-1 last week)
2. Funtik the Hog (12-6) (3-3 last week)
2. Funtik the Hog (12-6) (3-3 last week)
2. SPAM (12-6) (4-2 last week)
2. Old Bag of Man (12-6) (4-2 last week)
2. Philly Cheese (12-6) (4-2 last week)
6. Batman (11-7) (3-3 last week)
6. Black Widow (11-7) (3-3 last week)
8. Dr. Funkenstein (10-8) (2-4 last week)
2. Old Bag of Man (12-6) (4-2 last week)
2. Philly Cheese (12-6) (4-2 last week)
6. Batman (11-7) (3-3 last week)
6. Black Widow (11-7) (3-3 last week)
8. Dr. Funkenstein (10-8) (2-4 last week)
8. Hudy the Dark Knight (10-8) (3-3 last week)
8. Corso (10-8) (3-3 last week)
8. Corso (10-8) (3-3 last week)
8. Bowl Ban (10-8) (4-2 last week)
12. Big Dog (9-9) (1-5 last week)
Games for this week:
1. UAB vs. Ohio State
2. Missouri vs. South Carolina
3. Clemson vs. Florida St.
4. Rutgers vs. Arkansas
5. Michigan vs. Notre Dame
And the oddball game this week is:
6. Troy vs. North Texas
13 comments:
Hudy Picks:
Games for this week:
1. UAB vs. Ohio State - OSU
2. Missouri vs. South Carolina = USC
3. Clemson vs. Florida St. = FSU
4. Rutgers vs. Arkansas = Ark
5. Michigan vs. Notre Dame = Mich
And the oddball game this week is:
6. Troy vs. North Texas = No Tex
1. Ohio State
2. South Carolina
3. Florida State
4. Arkansas
5. Notre Dame
6. Troy
OLD BAG OF MAN IS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW BEATING CAL GETS YOU DOWN 4 SPOTS IN THE POLLS BUT BEATING PURDUE AND THEN MSU GETS YOU 15 PLUS SPOTS UP IN THE POLLS?
1) OSU. TIME TO WORK ON CONFIDENCE BUILDING ON THE DEFENSE.
2) MISSOURI. NOT SOLD ON SOUTH CAROLINA WITHOUT THEIR STARTING QB.
3) FLORIDA ST. THEY'RE AT HOME AND CLEMSON IS THE MSU OF THE ACC.
4) ARKANSAS. I DON'T THINK THEY'LL STOOP THAT LOW.
5) MICHIGAN. IF I COULD I'D PICK THEM BOTH TO LOSE. NOTRE DAME NEEDS TO GET KNOCKED BACK A LITTLE BIT.
6) TROY.
Ohio State, 35-7. Cal got OSU's attention just in time for Sparty and Husker.
South Carolina - SEC always rolls the Big 12
Florida St. - three games ago, WV hung about seventy on Clemson. The leaky ship won't be fixed in time to face FSU's onslaught. A true litmus test for how good the Seminoles really are
Arkansas - a night game at home outweighs the Hogs coaching disadvantage with John L Smith
Michigan - the Irish get lured into a shoot out. Can't win a gun fight with a Shillelagh (had to google the spelling of that...)
North Texas - Mean Green in this quintessential Oddball matchup.
Octoberfest this weekend folks! We won't get the contest results till Weds or Thurs of this week!
spamsandwichsan says...
1. Ohio State over UAB - I am actually not working during this game, so urban better step it up for me this week... Especially in the third quarter!
2. South Carolina over Missouri
3. Florida St. over Clemson
4. Arkansas over Rutgers
5. Notre Dame over Michigan - both will lay an egg, but home team will have advantage
6. North Texas over Troy
Philly Cheese
1. Ohio State
2. South Carolina
3. Florida St.
4. Rutgers
5. Notre Dame
6. Troy
Big Dog Pickx, Week 4:
1. Ohio State
2. Missouri
3. Clemson
4. Rutgers
5. Notre Dame
6. Troy
Batman,
This season has been intolerable! Throw out all the old rules of picking. No favorite is the favorite, no old rules apply.
It is like a big breaking putt, all feel - no science.
1. Ohio State
2. South Carolina
3. Florida St.
4. Arkansas
5. Notre Dame
And the oddball game this week is:
6. North Texas
Also, apologies to anyone who bet my "stone cold lock of the week" Navy last week. What an idiotic pick that was!
I would like to take a moment and say how impressed I was with Notre Dame last week. I watched Brian Kelly closely as the camera showed him quite often calling every offensive play. I think he has a really good football mind. In his third season, he has his players in there and it is time to see what ND can produce this season.
I hope they beat Michigan but it is consistently the hardest game of the season to pick. Moderator Neff never omits this game from the weekly package it falls in.
Thought of the week:
The Law of the Garbage Truck
Many people run around full of garbage, frustration, anger and disappointment. As their garbage piles up they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they'll dump it on you. Don't let them unload on you. Keep your lid on.
From: Every Day a Friday by Joel Osteen.
Kudos of the week:
Mel
1. OSU
2. Missouri
3. Florida state
4. Rutgers
5. Michigan
6. Troy
Ohio State wins - one would have to think this would be Appalachia State-esque to go the other way...
South Carolina - 'Cock drops' Mizzou - take the under on the 10 pt spread though
FSU over Clemson - not sure why this is a hard pick...am sure there's a high chance I'll eat my words
Arkansas mauls Rutgers - rebound week for the hogs
Notre Dame beats the other michigan team...as always MKH endorses a targeted natural disaster
Troy wins by 2.5 - per Vegas
Black Widow’s Picks:
1. Ohio State over UAB: OSU is playing an SEC non-conference staple and the result will not be much different.
2. South Carolina over Missouri
3. Clemson over Florida St.: Upset alert.
4. Arkansas over Rutgers
5. Notre Dame over Michigan
6. Troy over North Texas
Funtik the Hog
Ohio State def. UAB: The Pope can’t be happy with his team’s effort (especially defensively) last week vs. a mediocre, at best, Pac-12 team. These are not the Sweater Vest Buckeyes of old, built on defense and special teams. Braxton & Co. can score with the best of them, but the question is, can the defense stop anyone? This Saturday should be an easy win, but, fear upcoming dates vs. traditional Big Ten running teams, i.e. Michigan, Michigan State, etc. After last week’s embarrassment, Funtik is going to go with the easy pick (sorry, folks), and declare this game his Funtik the Hog’s “Clairvoyant Snout Bucket Rummage” Pick of the Week for Week #4 (2-1 record thus far, I am ashamed to say. Hold off on putting those deposits down for the timeshare in Fiji until October).
South Carolina def. Missouri: Not really sure what to make of this game (and on the subject of Cocks, where is Buckeye Cock on the Guest Panel this season?!?!). SC is usually a top 15 team, but they always lose 1-2 teams a season that they have no business losing, and they end up playing in the Capital One or Outback Bowl instead of a BCS bowl. Do I think this game is one of those games? Not really, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see the Missoura Tigaz win this game.
Florida St. def. Clemson: Florida State (or FLAST, as Mrs. Funtik the Hog likes to refer to them as), have been mighty impressive thus far, allowing a single field goal through its first three games. Granted, the schools they’ve played thus far have more prowess in men’s basketball than football, but I digress. FLAST, err, Florida State is getting a lot of love from Las Vegas this week, getting a line of more than 2 touchdowns. This Hog thinks that the Seminoles will emerge victorious, but it’ll be a lot closer than a 2 touchdown margin of victory. Take Clemson with the 14.5 points.
Arkansas def. Rutgers: Even though he’s a pretty terrible head coach (look at his career at Mich. State, and his tenure thus far at Arkansas), John L. Smith gives the best press conferences ever! He is a sound bite waiting to happen! Even if he doesn’t survive the season in Fayetteville, can the school still employ him just to give press conferences? As for the game, even though the Razorbacks (and lest we forget, they are Funtik’s distant American second cousins) have stunk it up so far this season, it’s still an SEC team, at home no less, versus a Big East team. When in doubt, this formula usually proves successful.
Notre Dame def. Michigan: Is there any possible way that both teams could lose this game? Barring that preferred result, I’ll go with the Battlin’ Leprechauns. I make this pick based solely on the facts that the game is at Notre Dame; the Fightin’ Irish have actually done something this season (beaten a top 10 team on the road at night), whereas the Wolverines got embarrassed at a neutral site game versus a vastly superior opponent (and barely beat an unranked Air Force team at home), and, for all the love that Denard Robinson receives, he shrivels up to a shell of his usual self in big games. Running up and down the field against UMass is one thing, but against Alabama or Notre Dame, it’s an entirely different story.
North Texas def. Troy: Going with the Mean Green here, simply because their home stadium is named Mean Green Stadium. Another nominee for the top five D-1 college football home stadium names (along with the Glass Bowl for the University of Toledo).
Funtik the Hog
And now, for the moment about 3 of you have been waiting for…the announcement of Funtik the Hog’s College Football “Hog” Crush of the Year for 2012. Drumroll please…and this year, the honor goes to…QB “Man of” Steele Jantz from the Iowa State Cyclones! In all fairness to the rest of the competitors, this was never really a competition. When you have a name like Steele Jantz, and that’s your birth name, you’re pretty much automatically guaranteed to be Funtik’s Crush for the year. Not to mention he’s a pretty decent QB too – over a 70% completion percentage, 7 total TDs through 3 games, and already with a win over hated rival Iowa this season. Here’s wishing success, love, honor, and respect to “Man of” Steele Jantz, Funtik the Hog’s College Football Hog Crush of the Year for the 2012 season.
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