Weekend Timeouts

- FANTASY SPORTS NATION HOMEPAGE -

As I stated last week... I'm going to continue to publish a weekend 'feature' game (NCAA or NFL) here in this space (as well as a link to the blogspace I'm running now which deals exclusively with NCAA/NFL Football & Fantasy Sports)...

- link to all week 3 NCAA picks -

- link to all week 2 NFL picks -

WEEK 3 - FEATURE GAME

#1 Oklahoma Sooners (-3.5) vs. #5 Florida State Seminoles 
(8:00 PM)

I'm not featuring this game so much because of the high "unit pick" value, but more because of the implications towards the national rankings... This is the first time that the Florida State Seminoles have hosted a TOP 5 team in Doak Campbell Stadium in about a decade so to say the place will have an electryfied atmosphere would be an understatement...

Florida State had fallen on some mediocre standards (by THEIR standards) the past few seasons... Recruiting is tough in the state of Florida... Lot's of athletic talent... SHIT for brains... The 'hom(stead)ies" who can't make it to Tallahassee, Gainesville, or Coral Gables on grades have been sponged up by, essentially "junior colleges", (like FIU, UCF, USF, & the like - schools that basically have division I football programs - but aren't much past 'Curious George goes to College' in the freshman English lit 101 class)...

There is 'HOPE' though (you know - for 'CHANGE')... 98% of the studs who don't make it to the NFL ought to head back to mama after their college years... There, they can seed a whole new crop of babies (which will have several beneficial effects)...

• In the future, we won't have to worry about Al Gore marginally losing elections in Fla.
• Surely, a whole new crop of Florida schools will emerge (University of South Central Florida A&M - now THAT's a catchy name)
• More and more interest, instruction, & child development will emerge in the ranks of pee-wee football...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-LHxEKSJI0

In any case... I'm taking FLORIDA STATE in this spot for (1 unit)... I'm following up on a theme that I've been following all year, which is, fade teams that have an "issue" to deal with until they get over that issue... In this case, the "issue" is Oklahoma QB Landry Jones being unstoppable in Norman, but 4-5 on the road... This will probably his toughest road test thus far, in the most hostile environment...  

There's also the VEGAS angle to consider... Vegas lost revenue both Thursday & Friday nights (when publicly backed LSU & Boise State both covered [games I won a unit each on])... The public is behind the 'Sooners' here because, well, the public is usually behind whoever is ranked #1 and doesn't have the GUTS to think for thmselves... They'd rather have the media tell them that Romney, Bachmann, & Co. are the 'best chances' to defeat Obama... After all, the media knows best... The 'consensus' is never wrong... Consensus here (the parrot sports media), will remind you all day long that Oklahoma beat Florida State by 30 points last year (scoring 44 points in a row at one time)... They'll tell you that the ACC has not beaten a TOP #5 opponent in the past 32 tries... So basically, you'll know ALL THE REASONS why you 'should have' taken Oklahoma over Florida State last year... If you want to wait until next year, you'll hear about how Florida State was more adapted to playing zone coverages, & how the crowd noise effected Landry Jones & the hurry up offense style... So as always, you have a choice... Bet on LAST YEARS charts... Or, 'take a guess' on how you think TOMORROW'S charts will look...

FLORIDA STATE for (1 unit)

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Note: I'll continue to use the other blog only as a 'pick' resource for quite awhile (Comments are disabled there)... Whether any of you like it or not... I like to hang around HERE to yuk it up... Why?

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name...