College Football TV Viewing Guide Week 14 (Mega- Conference Wheaties Edition)

The regular season ends for all but the service academies this weekend. Soak it in, cause only 35 games left after Saturday. The holiday season of college football is almost over. :(

Unfortunately, my Hokies are off this week, shut out of the ACCCG and trips to Mons Venus by a couple below avg Bud Foster days vs GiT and UNC. The good news, almost every game this week is Cleveland Steamer hot! Easily on paper the best batch of games in a somewhat disappointing season of good games. Like the grand finale of a fireworks show, the CFB gods are letting us go out with the biggest bang.

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It really could not have worked out better, not only do we have the $EC, ACC and B12 Championship games but the Pac10 and Big East are set with games where winner takes all (trip to a BCS game.) The best Thursday night game of the year, a game that really matters between 2 teams, Oregon State and Oregon ... that hate each other ... the Civil War.

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I'd be remiss if I did not mention the coaching drain on cfb. No, not because good coaches are leaving, but characters that I love to ridicule are leaving me with just Kiffin, Wanny (who I can't touch this year) Stewy and the Zooker. Gone are Ole Dadgumit Bobby B, Mark Mangino, Charlie Weis and algroh. Couple that with loss of UT's Phat Fil last year and my targets for personal scorn are drying up.

Bobby B, finally got scalped this week, should have happened 2 years ago. They tried to guide him out, but he wouldn't leave. In essence he was let go, he probably fought it some, but guessing he reflected some and realized ... that he sucks now. He HAD an amazing run, Dadgumit made f$u what it was (14 straight top 5 finishes with superior athletes) and now currently is (mediocre trash with bad assistant coaches and overhyped uncontrolled Florida talent.)

Without him I am lost on how to write about the noles. My parting shot that I have verbally, if never written about Dadgumit won't be good, if you are a fan. I've always thought him to be a hide behind the Bible hypocrite who somehow fooled a bunch of people and all of the media with his southern charm and phony jokes. His 90's f$u teams had more boys will be boys criminals than Florida and Miami combined and it wasn't close, somehow he got by unscathed. If you were a star you got the Warrick or Jano treatment if you weren't you got the Coles treatment. I was not fooled, that said I will miss him cause I now fear f$u might actually be good again. The noles are down 3 head coaches, Dadgumit, the Associate HC Chuck the Chest and Asst HC Mickey Andrews (with his very outdated schemes) and only have 1 man to guide them in Jimbo ... they might go places. Let's hope not.

Dadgumit is an inspiration to all, see this youtube video to get fired up and kick some ass, Seabass!I think the f$u just did an execution on Tuesday!



Last week's picks and to date tally:
straight up 6-2 to date 65-39 --- 63%
against the spread 2-6 to date 45-58-1 --- 44%

If I gambled on my picks thru the season I would have a broken arm, neck in a brace and missing the finger between the middle and pinky on my left hand (which would make me a natural for the shocker.)

The Games and Picks Thursday, December 3rd Defacto Pac10-CG
16theotherotherOSU (8-3) [+10] at 7Oregon (9-2) 9:00 pm espn
The Civil War is must see tv, my pick to be the 2nd best game behind the $ECCG. Everyone knows how much better the Ducks are now than they were vs Boise State in game one, but the same can be said for the Beavers. This shouldn't be a layup game. Speedy play makers all over the place, Rodgers, James, Rodgers, Masoli, etc can all house it at any time. The anti-$EC game, points and more points. Stay up late for it. These guys don't like each other and with the added gasoline called winner to the Rose Bowl to this game and it's gonna be testy!

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Saturday, December 5th Defacto Big East-CG
5'nati (11-0) at 15 P.I.T.T. (9-2) [+1] noon abc
For a few weeks I have thought the Panthers would beat the Bearcats, even with Wanny as coach? After the loss to the neers and their stock slipping a bit, am I still confident? No, but the game is at home, they are way more physical, the ND/Kelly rumors and the 'nati D being exposed weekly is giving me confidence. Kelly is a top 10 coach whose star is rising. Someone be it ND or another is going to pay him a lot and very soon. I can't joke Wanny this year, his team has played very well. For the sake of my soul, I want 1 more good game out of his crew.

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23w-Fn-vu (8-3) [-2] at RUTSgers (8-3) noon espn
The slowly declining neers are trying for a 10 win season after finally getting Stewy's statement win (the OU Fiesta bowl game was more DickRod's scheme than him.) First go into the always friendly shithole called Piscataway, NJ and win then win the bowl game against possibly former neer coach and current huckster Ole Dadgumit in the Gator Bowl. Part of me wants them to burn like their couches, but the other part wants me to win at least this week giving Stewy more ammo to be their coach for algroh like long time. RUTSgers is a dog team on the road, but fairly stout at home. Should be a close game.

C-USA-CG
ECU (8-4) vs 21Houston (10-2) [-1] noon espn2
Making this simple. The Pirates avg O vs Cougars below avg D ... 31 pts. Houston's very good O vs ECU's above avg D ... 35 pts. Hope I am wrong.

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'zona (7-4) [+7.5] at 18SoCal (8-3) 3:30 pm abc
The battle of Pac10 leftovers ... probably sucks for Trojan fans to hear that but it is the truth. Zona can score and will on SoCal but likely not enough. I just hope we are lucky enough to see a terse Stoops/Carroll handshake at midfield like the ones he got from Slick Rick and Hardballs. The Pac10 needs more bad blood and it seems like it's going that way. The other schools are tired of taking Pete's shit and that's a good thing. Way to have some backbone you left coast stoners!

$EC-CG
2bammer (12-0) [+5.5] vs. 1UF (12-0) 4:00 pm cbs
The GoY, it's the finals played in the semifinals ... otherwise known as the $EC Championship Game. For most of the year, I thought bammer was better, then the Tide turned and Florida was better only to find their best pass rusher (they rarely blitz) is out the game with a boys will be boys moment ... a DUI. All things being relatively equal, give me the team with the best qb and leader. Damn, it's not close in that regard. That tells me Saban will have to scheme his ass off vs the Gators and hope that Tebow doesn't beat them like he did last year. This game could end up being a very ugly, defensive struggle like many $EC games tend to be, but I don't want to miss a minute of it.

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ACC-CG
Klempsum (8-4) vs. 10GiT (10-2) [-1] 8:00 pm espn
This game is for the $EC 7th place. No effin' luster now that the Gamecocks and dawgs smacked around my conference's division winners. Pretty embarrassing ... again. An early season rematch where GiT got up a few scores early to be shut down the 2nd half as Dabo Swinney's Tigers should something Tommy Bowden's never did ... fight, toughness and never give up. They will use that game as a confidence booster for this game. On the other side CoY PJ will get his boys a choppin' again this week and the offense will rebound. I think GiT wins, better offense, better coach and more battle tested coming from the far superior division. The question to me is ... will it be close? It's about the D, the ugga game version or the Hokie game version (really effin nice that they saved their only good D all season for the Hokies!) If Spiller were a true running back and not Reggie Bush lite, I could think about picking Klempsum more.

Big XII-CG
22Nebraska (9-3) [+13.5] vs. 3Tejas (12-0) 8:00 pm abc
Take a look at this Tebow homer blog about the Tebow vs McCoy comparison here. Ignore the stuff about Tebow, focus on what is important. McCoy hasn't played a top 20 D & only 2 top 40 ones. The Huskers are almost elite and are a top 10 D. Make no mistake about it, they will slow down the Horns and likely a lot. Pelini knows how to defend the spread pretty well and the rb's are only slightly above avg for Tejas. Beat the shit out of Shipley and make the other wr's beat them. After watching aTm slice thru what was supposedly a good Tejas D gives me hope that the Huskers can score too, not a lot but enough. In the end, it's just hope though, as I think it will be 28-21 or something like that for the Horns. I want them to lose, I think TCU is the better team.

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Gonna be busy myself Saturday night as the Holiday party season starts but I won't start attending til after 7:30 when the most important game is still on. Very amped for the Civil War and the Battle for the Souf! Happy viewing, the only thing left is Army/Navy, 25 shitty bowl games and 9 good bowl matchups!