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Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
In straight-up wins and losses, I was 5-1 in last week’s SEC predictions, although I misread the final margins by which the top two teams in the league would emerge victorious while nailing precisely the sort of game the Palmetto State Poultry would play. The upshot is that I am 47-7 in league...
Week Five BlogPoll Ballot Draft
I apologize for my delay in posting yesterday’s postgame wrap-up, but it wound up being a busy weekend. My wife had a family get-together at her parents’ home on the north side of town on Saturday, which meant that my brother-in-law, Craig, and I left Sanford Stadium after the game and headed (or...
Kyle Gets Contrary: Why I Agree With Damon Evans, and Disagree With David Hale and Mark Richt, Regarding Out-of-Conference Scheduling
We here at Dawg Sports are huge David Hale fans, as evidenced by MaconDawg’s recent interview with the man himself. David is thorough, insightful, and informative, and he offers measured, reflective opinions without passion or prejudice. Respect for him in these parts is substantial. Nevertheless,...
Official Dawg Sports Glib and Flippant Conference Championship Forecasts
Each autumn, on the eve of football season, I like to take a stab at picking the winners of the various conferences, as well as offering a few oddball predictions. I will revisit all of these in January to see just how well or poorly---all right, how poorly---I did in forecasting the events of the...
The 2009 Banana Peel List, Part I
Now that it's less than a month until Selection Sunday, we're slightly overdue to review the races in 22 of the 23 conferences that can will probably only receive one bid to this year's tournament. The 23rd is Memphis (or FedEx U, based on this story) and the 11 Dwarves, and since that race is...
Revisiting My Preseason Forecasts (Part I): Conference Championship Picks
All right, I’ve put it off long enough; it’s time I finally faced the music where my preseason predictions are concerned. I’m going to start with my conference championship picks, where my forecast of an S.E.C. title for my alma mater was as erroneous as every other positive prognostication I made...
Don't Bet On It!: Bowl Edition (Part VII)
It’s here. It’s finally here. No, I don’t mean Christmas Eve . . . I’m talking about the last installment of my postseason predictions. We’re down to the big four two games you probably care about and two more you probably don’t the national championship game and three other games that are just...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest/Around the S.E.C.
I’ve put this off as long as I can because I don’t particularly enjoy picking games on championship weekend whenever the ‘Dawgs are sitting at home watching it on T.V. just like I am. Nevertheless, a regular weekly bit is a regular weekly bit, so I’m going to go ahead and offer you a set of...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
Because the ‘Dawgs are idle this Saturday (and, thus, there is no need for me to prepare an installment of Too Much Information), I have been able to take a more leisurely approach to this week’s posting schedule. For instance, I didn’t take you around the S.E.C. until Thursday morning, which means...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the S.E.C.
While it sounds good to say that I went 4-1 in last week’s S.E.C. predictions, last Saturday’s slate of Southeastern Conference games wasn’t any great shakes, so, really, there’s not a lot of pride to be taken in my having improved my record in league prognostications to 60-14. In other words,...
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