Saturday's match between the Fighting Irish and the Temple Owls marks the first meeting between the two historic programs. With gazillions of wins, Heismans, National Championships, Notre Dame looks to add to its legend by making head coach Brian Kelly one of the youngest coaches to win his two hundredth game. Temple, dealing with a class of opposition it has rarely faced (the Owls have only two wins over ranked opponents since 1974) and a first year head coach in Matt Rhule, should have few ...
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Game by Game Predictions ’13: Leprechauns’ Revenge
We are BAAAAAAAACK PEOPLE! Another annual installment of the post that made everyone LOVE dancing Leprechauns! AWWWWW YEEEEEEEEAH! Once again I'll be picking every game before we've even seen one, my stellar results will WOW you (one way or another) and we'll all get to enjoy the leprechaun jig. Sweetness. My records since we got started are not all that amazing. I'd call it spots of brilliance with some dirt...a little up and down. But whatever, I'm trying to predict each game prior to ...
Good Fridays w/Padre: Scandal Us
At this time in July, as families travel across the country, grade-school children catalog their new experiences so they can write those all-important “what I did on my summer vacation” essays. At this very same time, across America, sports journalists are sloughing off the blackened husks that used to be their integrity and are skimming the sewers of half-truths and scurrilous gossip, as they prepare to smear Notre Dame in the style of angry chimpanzees with handfuls of their own filth. This ...
ND – MSU Will Be a Battle
While MSU has the higher poll ranking at 9 vs ND's 20, these are two pretty similar teams. ND's strength is in the trenches, especially the DL, and we bring a young and inexperienced starting QB to the table, with a strong running game to support him. MSU's strength is in the trenches, they have a monster DL, and they have a strong running game to complement a young and inexperienced QB. Super Cheesy photo of MSU's Top RB Looking at Football Outsiders' stats can help us get a decent ...
Game by Game Predictions ’12: The Leprechauns Be Dancing!
So you guys, by now, know the drill. Wait, there are tens of thousands of you that are new since last year? Well, okay then, a quick primer: I pick the score of every game, and I use Dancing Leprechauns - to the scorn of most of my peeps - to declare my certainty. My records of late: 07: My inaugural year, was ugly. I said 8-4 with a lean towards 7-5. We all know how that turned out. 08: I said 7-5 with a strong lean to 6-6. Pretty good. Sad that I was right, but I was right. 09: Said ...
Game by Game Predictions are Back Baby!!!
I was holding off on this. It takes forever. And I always sorta trail off in detail/quality toward the end (like 99% of my posts). BUT, I like the audacity of it. I like that I'm typically pretty good at the prediction portion, though '07 is a wild exception where I called 7-5 and we all know how that turned out. Last year I was pretty good. I called 7-5 and was right on track into BC. In fact, I was 9 for 9 going into BC. I called the losses to MSU, UNC and Pitt. That's where I got ...
HLS Expert Picks Week 7 Results: The “domer.mq Can Hardly Score Either” Edition
Here are the week 7 results. Biscuit is in the lead. I've got a scoring average only slightly better than the Irish. ...
HLS Expert Picks Week 6 Results: The Super Stealth Ninja Edition
Didn't even know we did an Expert Picks last week, did ya? Anyway, at this point, looks like The Bear has paid the price for his reverse karma picks against ND, and The Biscuit has taken the lead. ...
HLS Expert Picks Week 5 Results: Panzer March
Purdue week came to an end much like the end of a Russian Literature thesis defense, but with less inventive cheering or t-shirts. And The Bear's panzer-like rush over the rest of the field just keeps chugging along. Help us, Bad Kermit. You're our only hope. Expert Previous Score This Week Total Sed 95 20 115 Sed's Dog 120 35 155 The Bear 180 40 220 Dneelan 120 10 130 Bad ...
HLS Expert Picks Week 5: Not All Sons are Loyal Sons
Some of us can't seem to extract our loyalties from our picks. Some of us are not named The Bear. We kid, The Bear. We know this is your clever use of reverse psychology to cause ND to win a game. The Games: Notre Dame/Purdue Cal/Oregon Oklahoma/Colorado The Picks: Sed: ND – 59, Cal – 86, Oklahoma - 72, QB: Oklahoma Sed's Dog: ND - 45, Oregon - 45, Colorado - 45, QB: Oregon Biscuit: ND - 37, Cal - 65, Oklahoma - 50, QB: Oregon Bad Kermit: ND - 63, Cal - 49, ...