Hello football fans. Your Pickled Pigskin Picker here. Hope you’re enjoying this early fall weather, even though it’s 90° here in the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Not really football weather, if you ask me. But you didn’t, and I said it any way. Oh, well. If you bothered to read this so far, you haven’t seen anything to do with the actual picks. So skip on down and see what’s in store this week, along with a title I’ve gone and given each game, mainly because the first game is actually called the Red River Showdown. Let’s see if Chas or Mumsee can get a third victory. Or maybe one of us other folks will get our chance to shine in the virtual glory of Pickledom
So, have at it. Just get those picks in by high NOON Eastern Time Saturday
1. The Red River Showdown: #19 Texas vs #7 Oklahoma @ the Cotton Bowl
2. The Swamp Rivalry: #5 LSU @ #22 Florida
3. The Other Florida rivalry?: Florida State @ #17 Miami
4. First Round Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy: Navy @ Air Force
5. “Because Mumsee Likes one of These Teams”: San Diego State @ Boise State
6. The “Who’s the Worst in Texas” game: UTSA @ Rice
7. A Game That Matters: #6 Notre Dame @ #24 Virginia Tech
8. “Who Doesn’t Want to be the Worst in the PAC-12”: California @ Arizona
9. Pillow Fight: Colorado State (1-4) @ San José State (0-4)
10. Tie Breaker (winner and final score): A team from Peter L’s State vs Chas’ State:
Week 5, folks! So far, Mumsee has won half the time, including last week. So, of course, she picked Boise State Broncos for the tie breaker. (I’m reminded of the theme from the old “Mr. Ed” TV show: “A horse is a horse, a horse of course…”) She manages to pick them whenever they play a team whose mascot is the Cowboy. Interesting.
Here’s the list for this week. We got better last week, with the low score being 6, instead of that being the high score. Get your guesses in by NOON Saturday, Sep. 29, 2018.
1. #20 BYU @ #11 Washington
2. #12 West Virginia @ #25 Texas Tech
3. Army @ Buffalo
4. Florida St @ Louisville
5. Virginia Tech @ #22 Duke
6. #4 Ohio St @ #9 Penn St
7. #7 Stanford @ #8 Notre Dame
8. South Carolina @ #17 Kentucky
9. Pillow Fight: Purdue (1-3) @ Nebraska (0-4)
10. Tie Breaker: Pick winner and final score: Boise St @ Wyoming
Chas won last week, so he picked his favorite South Carolina for the tie breaker. The Pillow Fight is a true bottom of the barrel game, as the two worst teams in NCAA Division 1, at least according to ESPN’s Bottom 10 poll, go at it. New Mexico State travels all the way to El Paso for a match up with UT-El Paso. All the way here means about 40 miles south on Interstate 10.
Anyway, have at it and let’s see who can get it right. So far our best score has been a disappointing 6 out of 10, and only one of us has predicted the winner in a tie breaker game.
Place your guesses by 12 NOON EDT Saturday.
Here are the games:
1. Nebraska @ #19 Michigan
2. Navy @ SMU
3. #22 Texas A&M @ #1 Alabama
4. #3 Clemson @ Georgia Tech
5. Kansas @ Baylor
6. Arizona @ Oregon State
7. #17 TCU @ Texas
8. #7 Stanford @ #20 Oregon
9. Pillow Fight: New Mexico State (0-4) @ UTEP (0-3)
10. Tie Breaker (guess winner and final score) South Carolina @ Vanderbilt
Here you go, folks. The third week of seeing how good you are at guessing the winners of college football games. So far, not so good. The best anyone has done has been 6 out of 10. Where I teach, 60% is failing. So let’s see how we do this week. Mumsee chose the tie breaker. It’s going to be a big one as #17 Boise State Broncos travels to Oklahoma to take on the #24 OSU Cowboys. A real rodeo there. And the Pillow Fight moved North, since the ESPN choice is in the hurricane zone, so I chose two winless teams from the Midwest.
Get those guesses in by NOON EDT Saturday.
Week 3
1. Hawaii @ Army
2. #12 LSU @ #7 Auburn
3. #1 Alabama @ Ole Miss
4. #4 Ohio State @ #15 TCU
5. #22 USC @ Texas
6. #10 Washington @ Utah
7. Rhode Island @ UConn
8. Florida State @ Syracuse
9. Pillow Fight: Central Michigan @ Northern Illinois
10. Tie Breaker (pick the winner and the final score): #17 Boise State @ #24 Oklahoma State
It’s Week 2 in PPPPP world. Kim won last week and chose the tie breaker, which also is the ESPN “Pillow Fight of the Week”. That’s right. Both East Carolina and North Carolina are that bad. There aren’t many quality Top 25 games this week, so the games are not as “important” as they will be later in the season. But I included UCLA this week just to get our busy author to take a break from her daunting task of editing her latest novel. You need it, Ma’am.
Remember, pick the winner of all the games and the score of the tie breaker. No prizes, just bragging rights and the chance to pick the next tie breaker. Hopefully all the games will be played. Both Nebraska and Iowa State cancelled games last week due to thunderstorms, and this weekend the remnants of Gordon are hitting the area. We’ll see.
Get those picks in by NOON EDT Saturday, 9/8/18.
1. Eastern Michigan @ Purdue
2. Arizona @ Houston
3. Duke @ Northwestern
4. Georgia Tech @ South Florida
5. Memphis @ Navy
6. Colorado @ Nebraska
7. Iowa State @ Iowa
8. UCLA @ #6 Oklahoma
9. #17 USC @ #10 Stanford
10. Tie Breaker pick the winner and the final score: North Carolina @ East Carolina
(This is also the ESPN Bottom 10 Pillow Fight of the week.)
(Rankings based on AP Top 25 Poll; Pillow Fight based on ESPN Bottom Ten)
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