Sed’s not hearing things. Those are the footsteps of a large pack coming up behind him.
To Review:
Despite the fact that ND is not playing Purdue, this may well be the most boring week of the college football all season. Luckily Notre Dame gets to renew it’s “rivalry” with Navy this weekend, and we here at HLS would just like to say it’s an honor, Navy dudes.
Oh Sure, Sed might have the big lead, but a funny thing has happened lately. You can sort of feel it in the air tonight (cue Genesis). Momentum. It’s a fleeting feeling, but when you’ve got it, you should embrace it, and take advantage of it. Sed, at least for this week, don’t got it.
They can both feel it. Ew.
Week 8. The week where Sed finally stumbles and the rest of the pack comes up behind him and starts to take him down.
My father used to remind me, on a fairly consistent basis, that everyone wants to bite the lead dog in the ass. I don’t know what that says about DNeelan’s inner-thoughts, but it’s an idea I’m fully supporting right now.
vs. 
The Pack vs. Sed
This Week’s Games:
| ND vs. UCLA | GaTech vs. Clemson | Fredo vs. FSU | Bonus? | |
 Bad Kermit |
ND 48 |
GT 27 |
BC 35 |
Kevin Kolb |
 ChisND |
ND 52 |
GT 41 |
BC 38 |
Colt Brennan |
 The Biscuit |
ND 51 |
GT 42 |
BC 38 |
Colt Brennan |
 Dneelean |
ND 50 |
GT 34 |
FSU 28 |
Quinn |
 domer.mq |
ND 55 |
GT 49 |
BC 31 |
Colt Brennan |
 Sed |
ND 49 |
GT 45 |
FSU 23 |
John Beck |
…Doesn’t Anybody Stay In One Place Anymore?
No. Well, at least not if you’re Sed.
Most of the rest of us, though. Where are we?
Ah. There we are. See? Next to the Totem pole. No. The other one.
| The Hnad Picked Game | The Other Big Game | Who The Hell Cares? | Bonus Points | Week Points | Season Points | |
Bad Kermit |
10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 240 |
ChisND |
10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 215 |
The Biscuit |
10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 225 |
Dneelan |
10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 195 |
domer_mq |
10 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 40 | 170 |
Sed |
20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 315 |
We’ve made a departure from our normal rules this week to accomodate for the fact that the greatest football program in the history of the world.
Each expert has picked their own “big game” this week to go along with the other, usual, not quite so big games.
| Personal Pick | A Big Game | Some Other Game | Bonus? | |
Bad Kermit |
Texas over Baylor 58 |
Michigan 43 |
USC 38 |
Colt McCoy |
ChisND |
Texas over Baylor 42 |
Michigan 52 |
USC 38 |
Graham Harrell |
The Biscuit |
Texas over Baylor 49 |
Michigan 55 |
USC 38 |
Colt Brennan |
Dneelean |
UF over Auburn 40 |
Michigan 42 |
USC 24 |
Miami (OH) |
domer.mq |
UF over Auburn 40 |
PSU 35 |
USC 40 |
Colt Brennan |
Sed |
WVU over SU 56 |
Michigan 49 |
USC 77 |
Colt Brennan |
Well, sometimes you shoot from the hip and you shoot first, and you kill a bounty hunter or two. Other times, you end up stuck in carbonite. Sure, right in the middle of the whole series it’s not looking too good. But fear not! We’ve still got another half of the season to go, and if that’s not enough to thaw me out, I can always manipulate the rules for the bowl game. I could always handicap the system like they do in NFL Blitz when one team gets too far ahead, thus ensuring that every last moment counts.
Meanwhile, Sed just keeps piling on the points. Lame. Who the hell chooses to be a decepticon for their persona? At least choose to be an Autobot. Autobots had the good sense to transform into mobile things, like cars. Decepticons kept transforming into lame things like boomboxes and handguns. Great job, Decepticon! You’re a boombox! Now how are you gonna make it out to that secret meeting in the arctic?
Week 6’s Results: Help us, Bad Kermit. You’re our only hope…
| The ND Game | The Other Big Game | Who The Hell Cares? | Bonus Points | Week Points | Season Points | |
Bad Kermit |
10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 210 |
ChisND |
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 185 |
The Biscuit |
15 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 45 | 185 |
Dneelan |
10 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 40 | 165 |
domer_mq |
10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 130 |
Sed |
10 | - | 10 | 15 | 35 | 265 |
Time for something bold. Time to shoot first and from the hip. Time to be the Han Solo of HLS. After having missed out on an entire week of points (I’d have gotten all of the winning teams and their exact point totals, by the way), it’s time for me to do something amazing. If you read earlier today, I predicted that, IF a lot of things happen in a particular way, the Notre Dame/Stanford tilt will be a real barn burner. As such, I’m expecting 83 points to be scored in this game. 83! And I’m also picking Graham Harrell of Texas Tech as my bonus pick QB. Trust me.
The games:
You may or may not have noticed that the weekly picks for week 5 never appeared on the blog. Some people theorized that domer.mq was hit by a truck. Sadly, it turns out that domer.mq just let everyone down. Again.
And as such, this week 5’s results will include a score of zero, zilch, nada, zippo for our fearless leader. How ever will he recover? Fear not, dear reader. For our fearless leader/evil genius has his henchmen busy at work devising the rules for “The Bowlicious Round.” Ah hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ah HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa. AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HA!
Week 5’s Results:
| The ND Game | The Other Big Game | Who The Hell Cares? | Bonus Points | Week Points | Season Points | |
Bad Kermit |
20 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 45 | 180 |
ChisND |
20 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 50 | 165 |
The Biscuit |
10 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 40 | 140 |
Dneelan |
20 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 45 | 125 |
domer_mq |
zilch | zip | nadda | bumpus | zed | 110 |
Sed |
20 | 20 | 10 | 15 | 65 | 230 |
WTF? Seriously, who saw that coming? Maybe it’s my blind hatred of all things John Elsmith that kept me from realizing that all games between MSU and Notre Dame must end in bizzare, arrhythmia-inducing fashion.
Anyway, one guy that saw one thing coming that nobody else saw coming was Sed’s call for the score total of the UCLA/Washington game, unless of course he was calling for UCLA to lay 70 points on Washington. Maybe that’s what he was thinking. At any rate, he’s now got a firm, long lead on the rest of us schlubs…
| The ND Game | The Other Big Game | Who The Hell Cares? | Bonus Points | Week Points | Season Points | |
Bad Kermit |
10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 135 |
ChisND |
10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 115 |
The Biscuit |
10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 100 |
Dneelan |
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 80 |
domer_mq |
10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 110 |
Sed |
10 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 40 | 165 |
We’re back baby! The confidence is up! The boyrs are ready! Here we go!
Whappow! Ya know what the ladies like? The ladies like this!
Whappow!
The ladies also like when we make great picks.
Well, that was unexpected.
Essentially none of this past weekend’s games went as planned. At least, not according to my plan. FSU played like they’d been spending more time with Jen Sterger than actually practicing football. Then again, so did Notre Dame. We pretty much all sucked, almost as much as Michigan. And the only real mover and shaker was ChisND, proving that, unlike Notre Dame this past weekend, you can make a comeback. So with that, we move on…
The Games:
- Notre Dame vs. Michigan (Sucks)
- The Other Big Game: Florida vs. Tennessee
- The Game Everyone Probably Missed: Clemson vs. FSU
EDSBS has already called this week the Footballpocalypse. Right they are. We may never see another weekend of college football like this for weeks!
It looks like the experts are changing their tactics a bit, giving up on homerism and adopting a win at all costs mentality. We’ll all be playing for late ’80s Miami in no time.
This week’s games are:
It was a tough call as to who merited “the other big game” and, heck, with all the huge games, there are an awful lot that nobody really cares about either.
On to the picks:
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As always, the rules are here.
I really have no comment here. Sed’s ability to not be a homer like most of us, save BK, has enabled him to pull away from the pack in week 2 like Pitt’s high powered offense. (We’re still checking on that. Nobody, apparently, watched Pitt’s game on Friday night, prefering to watch reruns of Full House.) I think I’ll wait to pick Brady as a top 5 yardage passer yet again until we play a cupcake like Purdue.
Again, the rules of the game are here.
Last week we saw what was expected when West Virginia helped Marshall help West Virginia. All they need now is a little quand.
We also saw what we thought we were expecting in the Miami/FSU game, as we all pretty much predicted a defensive battle and got, in its place, offensive anemia.
And finally we got something unexpected in the ND/GT game. While we probably all expected a tough game, we didn’t expect the score to look like something out of a Chicago Bears game.
This week, we’ve got 3 new games, 5 new teams:
And now on to the picks:
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