College Football Quick Picks: Week 13

It's almost Thanksgiving, and that means excessive amounts of food and rivalry football.

This week is a football fan's dream as there are games Thursday on into next week if you include the NFL.

Rivalry's are one of the best parts of college sports. In college football in particular, rivalry games provide for all kinds of added excitement. I'll be watching a whole lot of the stuff this weekend, and I find a lot of cool games out there so I give to you the gift of many many picks.


No. 2 Alabama defeats Auburn

No. 3 Texas defeats Texas A&M (though I'm really pulling for the Aggies in this one)

West Virginia defeats No. 9 Pittsburgh

No. 18 Clemson defeats South Carolina

No. 7 Georgia Tech defeats Georgia

No. 19 BYU defeats No. 21 Utah

No. 20 USC defeats UCLA

This Week's Irrational Upset Special


Florida State defeats No. 1 Florida

This is based on the Bobby Bowden factor, so it may be a silly pick.

I personally think Bowden will get one final season, and he should, but there are still rumblings that the boosters want Bowden to step aside and let offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher start being the head ball coach (probably so someone else can start calling plays).

If this is indeed Bowden's final game against Florida, his team knows about it and will play out of their minds for him to get one more big win.

Of course, if he's coming back next year, the 'Noles sans Christian Ponder will probably just get steam-rolled by little Timmy Tebow on his senior day.

Quick Picks Recap: Week 2

One fewer game picked, one less loss. Not a bad week with a 4-2 record. Leave it to Tennessee and West Virginia to screw up a perfect week. With all the craziness going on in college football yesterday, I consider this a highly successful week. There were some real classic games, and just tons of excitement. Reason 1,321 why college football is superior to the NFL in all ways aside from the overall talent pool.


Some late game heroics by USC and Wake Forest helped push my season record to 8-5. We need to get some separation from .500 though in the coming weeks.

It's Almost Football Season...

Today, somewhat on a whim I went out and purchased the NCAA Football 09 for Playstation 3. We don't actually own one of the systems, but someone's is at our house making it fair game for use. After playing two games already against a human opponent, I think it's safe to say that the game experience is truly immersive. The gameplay is pretty good so far but we're just getting the hang of it. I'll be sure to poat more as things progress on the video game frontier but so far the only thing that sucks about this game is the fact that Matt Ryan is on the cover of the PS3 version. I'll be sure to remedy that soon.


UPDATE

It's late night now and after contesting several virtual gridiron battles our early verdict is that this game is awesome. The gameplay is very smooth, almost too smooth at first as it takes some getting used to. You really have to talior your game plan to the team your using. I tried some long passing when I was West Virginia playing against Clemson in Morgantown and failed to have much success. It was only when I started using screen passes and the absurdly fast Noel Devine that I began to make some noise offensively. More to come.