2008 predictions Stories - Black Shoe Diaries
2008 College Football Week Twelve Predictions
Week Twelve???? Twelve? How did we get here? Where did it go? And now we're stuck with a whole slate of relatively uninteresting games coming into one of the last weekends of regular season college football. Ah, well. Perhaps all those uninteresting match ups are in place to make way for the big...
The Obligatory Predictions Competition - Week 13
College football's smartest picks contest. It's time to separate the men from the boys. Rivalry Week turns our quasi-rational inquiry into an electric marathon of chance and frustration. But first, the scoreboard: Week 12 Obligatory Results BAMA HAWKEYE (a.k.a. Fielding...
2008 College Football Week Eleven Predictions: The Danger Of Boredom
There aren't many good match ups this weekend. If you had to take a weekend off, this would be the one. I'll be doing that as I head to Western Nebraska for deer rife season next week. It's a nice break, I like going there. Football fans tend to point to the big games as a way of finding out who...
2008 College Football Week Ten Predictions: The Strong Survive
I cannot believe I put this whole thing together last night, then didn't publish it. I tried to back date it, much like a late invoice. It didn't work. Argh. November. This is the time of the year where we start grousing about the BCS and playoffs. Pundits raise their voices, blogs write anthems,...
2008 College Football Week Nine Predictions: Stay Focused
Not a lot of big games this weekend. May be a bunch of intriguing games, but not a lot of big ones. That's okay with me, it's as if they scheduled the games perfectly so that I can focus on Nebraska vs. Oklahoma. Okay, so I'll be watching Texas vs Texas Tech, Georgia vs. Florida. I'll be watching...
2008 College Football Week Eight Predictions: Manic Lifestyle
Mike and I usually join up for a chat on Thursday night, then run through all the games. Last night I was exhausted after a trip to Wisconsin, so we did them via email, then I proceeded to not sleep a single minute for the night. I'm not sure what it is - I'm not overly worried about anything in...
2008 College Football Week Seven Predictions: How'd We Get Here?
It's bloody mid-October already. How'd we get here so soon? Seems like just yesterday we were talking about how the Huskers would rebound from the Billy-Stevey debacle and go 10-2 or 9-3 and once again ascend the mountain towards annual greatness. Yet here we are, looking at a team still trying to...
2008 College Football Week Six Predictions: The Big Ones Fall
What started as a Sunday-Wednesday trip has turned into a Sunday-Saturday trip. I did get out a couple times, and the food here is always “too full” good. It hasn't been all bad. Great group of games this weekend, and I’ll most likely be missing most of them. Very frustrating. I...
2008 College Football Week Five Predictions: Conference Play Begins!
Last week we saw chaos and madness and everyone went into shock. We’re already five weeks into the season - it shouldn’t be that surprising that there are upsets, is it? Parity parity parity - we keep hearing the word, but it’s not sinking in. Now we head into conference play....
2008 College Fooball Week Five Predictions: The Door Is Open!
I was all prepared to write a lead-in complaining about the scheduling in college football, how we haven’t seen many great games, how we need to not hear about the need for a playoff at the end of the year but we do need strength of schedule added back into the BCS formula so there's an...
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