Saturday, October 31, 2020

College Football: Two Amazing Predictions

The Dawgs beat the Cats today in Lexington.
The Jackets looked good in their throwbacks, but their effort to confuse the Irish by wearing similar looking uniforms failed miserably. Uniform grade: B. The TV numbers were too small. And why bother with throwback unis if you don't wear the right color socks and shoes?
New rumors: instead of being drafted by the jets, might Trevor Lawrence stay in school another year? Would be cool if he could win two Heismans, but...see my predictions below.
Florida donned throwback uniforms as well. So did Boston College.

Sparty upset mighty #13 Michigan. Perhaps the Big 10 is a wee bit overrated.

Boston College thought they were going to upset #1 Clemson, who was without the face of college football Trevor Lawrence, as well as three defensive starters. The Tigers started a true freshman QB. Everything went the Eagles way in the first half, including a 97 yard fumble return TD. In the second half the officials started calling all the obvious BC penalties (& a few against Clemson) and the Tigers quietly rolled to a close victory. After the game Dabo announced Lawrence will miss next week's game in South Bend. Now for the next week all the so called experts will blather on about how Notre Dame will beat Clemson. Well you've heard it hear first - Clemson will beat the Irish. I'm afraid young Mr Lawrence may go the way of Peyton Manning, missing out on the Heisman Trophy because of the two games he's missing. Should Clemson beat the Irish, Travis Etienne becomes your Heisman leader.

Clemson scored more than twice as many points against Tech than Notre Dame, and gave up half as many to the Jackets as the Irish did.

Dawgs defense shut down Kentucky. Hopefully they can keep it up next week in Jacksonville against Florida's potent offense. As everyone says, it's obvious Georgia needs to find more offense. Many want JT Daniels to play, but as I've said before Daniels obviously hasn't impressed the coaches or he would've gotten playing time before now. I may have watched football my entire life, and I'm not sure about everyone else on social media, but I'd say the UGA coaches probably know just a little more about the situation, considering they've seen Daniels and Bennett in every practice and meeting.

ESPN sure built up the Ohio State / Penn State game. Penn State is not that good. Yet a blowout win by the Buckeyes will just inflate the national media's opinion of them. They'll probably sneak past UGA into the top four. Clemson's top spot may be in jeopardy as well. Well, the playoff will settle things in the end.

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