Weekend Timeouts



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)...



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...

    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...

13 comments:

Mel said...

...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)...


And where "f@ck yer mama" takes on a whole new meaning. Now I'm waiting for the unPC version of Deliverance Part Deux.

Speaking of low brow humor...I thought this was pretty funny...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/16/us-body-colorado-idUSTRE78F67620110916

It's been done...but there's a movie in there somewhere...too bad Sam Kineson isn't around to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GjyrQiSRs

Dude had me shooting Courvoisier out my nose one night many years ago (it's a hell of a burn...avoid in public, if possible)...while sitting next to the brand new hot babe...needless to say...I didn't get laid that night.

ben22 said...

Mel,

It strikes me that everyone knows we have no leadership but we're all "wasting our summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets"

you know what I'm saying....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngiJUNdsu0

the video is horrible, but it's awesome all the same, nobody needs high def to feel the Boss.

Mel said...

Ben

Thanks for the link. It's obvious we're living through yet another Age of Stupid...not unlike Nero's or any number of asshats through the ages.

I was a couple of hundred words into a response...when it occurred to me that everyone here is more than capable of 30,000 in yet another sociology related, and unread, grad thesis on the matter.

These days (and in my own way)...I'm actually trying to cleave to something a bit more positive.

From Andy...and quote of the month for August IMO:
"I'm cynical enough already."

And AAIP:
"the flippin' ego...should never be the master"

...A couple of things I've been thinking a lot about lately.

AmenRa said...

Weekly 3LB Update 9/16/11

cv said...

Money Mayweather bitchez!

...also (new twist) on Fantasy "Start/Sit" up on...

http://fantasy-sports-nation.blogspot.com/

or

http://fantasy-sports-nation.blogspot.com/2011/09/nfl-week-2-startsit.html

CV (11-5) on NCAA 'Picks' yesterday... I told you last week to BUY LOW...

cv said...

Late breaking line movements & NFL - Week 2 "unit pick" changes at:

http://fantasy-sports-nation.blogspot.com/2011/09/fantasy-sports-nation-2011-nfl-picks_14.html

Plus... EXOTIC bet props

ben22 said...

shit!

and that's what I get for drafting Jamaal charles

he's probably done for the season....

ben22 said...

best part is he ran into the friggen mascot

come on man!

cv said...

@ben

Better... QUICK... get your Dexter McCluster mojo going...

Don't blame it on the mascot... Blame it on Todd Haley... CV has been saying this ALL FRIGGIN PRE-SEASON...

Take a look at my line-up... I'm VERY willing to offer a trade... Michael Turner is even on the offer sheet...

'Ottoman's Empire' likes to wheel & deal...

Season ain't over 'til it's over... Chill w/some Lenny Kravitz & contemplate...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmENMZFUU_0&ob=av2e

cv said...

Look on the bright side...

If he's DONE for the season, he comes off the "can't cut" list...

Anonymous said...

I'd like to know .. "Who had the T.Titans + the Pins, today?"

AAIP

AmenRa said...

#58 will be the nightmare of the Atlanta Falcons O-Line.

AmenRa said...

Coles will still be their nightmare even though the Eagles lost.

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