Here are AJC’s Mark Bradley’s top 10 football predictions. My thoughts are in italics [AJC]. And really, some these are pretty good predictions. keep in mind that this is a Georgia newspaper and he has to sell newspapers. He must really be dumb. He doesn’t ever mention Ole Miss or South Carolina. What self respecting columnist would ever do something so dicked up?
this is so UGA centric I got sleepy to trying fix bradley’s errors. So please forgive me for being a sloth…
Georgia will go 10-2 and come within an eyelash of rendering the reigning BCS titlist a runner-up in its own division. The Dawgs will beat Florida. Unless Herban Meyer has figured out how to start 11 QBs on defense.
1. I see the Bulldogs winning in Knoxville but (Ainge owns Richt and Athens. Richt owns Neyland ) 2. losing in Tuscaloosa. Part of me even envisions Georgia beating Florida on Oct. 27.
Then another part – the brain, I believe it’s called – recalls that the Bulldogs stopped enjoying Jacksonville about the same time Vince Dooley stopped coaching.
3. Alabama will win as many games (nine) as Auburn. That sound you hear is the Tigers’ window of opportunity slamming shut. Nick Saban isn’t a very nice guy, but he’s a very good coach. look at his outstanding record: With Dolphins: 15-17 (2005-Abandoned) With LSU: 48-16 (2000-’04) With Michigan State: 35-24-1 (1995-’99) With Toledo: 9-2 (1990) Shared 2003 NC with one loss
LSU will again have the SEC’s most talented team and will again lose twice -
4. LSU will almost lose when the Tigers go to Tuscaloosa and get outcoached by the guy who used to coach them and then win anyway despite Les Miles and his unnatural obsession with Nick Saban. The obsession is right out of the movie Waterboy. The way that Fonzie was scared to death of Jerry Reed…
5. lose against Florida in the SEC championship game.
That will serve as payback for the Gators’ loss in Baton Rouge on Oct. 6.
Georgia Tech will go 8-4.
6. One magazine projects the Jackets as a Top 15 team,
but I can’t imagine how losing the nation’s most talented player and a four-year starting quarterback makes you better. Yes, Taylor Bennett looked good throwing to Calvin Johnson in the Gator Bowl, but Johnson could make any quarterback look good. (Even Reggie Ball – sometimes.) Tech was staring at a breakthrough season last November and couldn’t beat Georgia or Wake. Sorry, but I don’t see this year’s Jackets being quite as good. Nobody really gives 2 shits about Georgia Tech Football. Is Tech where they send football players not good enough to play for UGA?
I see Florida State being lots better with Jimbo Fisher calling plays.
7. I see the Seminoles winning the ACC Atlantic.
8. Darren McFadden won’t win the Heisman because he’ll get hurt. (Louisville’s 9. Brian Brohm will take the trophy.) ESPN will win the Heisman for a Big East player. Not necessarily Brohm but any of the others like Slaton or Smith. I hope that there is a 3-way tie for the Heisman with Brohm, Smith and Slaton.
Phillip 10.. Fulmer will be replaced by David Cutcliffe the first week in December. (The final straw will be Tennessee losing to Kentucky for the first time since 1984.) Hearing the news, Johnny Majors will laugh deep into January. If he loses to UK and Vandy in the same season he will be gone. Majors will laugh if he is coherently sober enough to comprehend what happened to Fulmer. Cutcliffe won’t be the head coach…unless Ole Miss will take him back.
Prediction: Tim Tebow doesn’t get tackled until somewhere in Mid November.
Love the jab at Johnny Majors.
Prediction: Tebow leaves Baton Rouge as a quadripelegic
Bet tebow’s sternum gets concaved
I’ll take that bet. If Tebow still has the chest of a young Paul Bunyon after the game, you have to wear a Gator Shirt on Christmas day.
I took a shit on my neighbors porch this morning. He is a geightor
I don’t know. I predict Tennessee will be sky high for this season. They are also back in the running for the Fulmer Cup!!
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=3562
That deflects the attention off of Florida’s 10-12 gun/assault weapon/stealing/stabbing/Drug arrests very nicely.
Meyer would have made him the face of Florida football
To compare big east football players to Darren McFadden is retarded. The whole heisman thing is retarded. Fuck it I hope colt brennan makes it a 4 way tie of losers that play in jerkoff conferences for heisman. I loved ESPNs soft lense story of Cold Brennan — the kid date raped some girl and got thrown out of colorado for it and they made him look like a martyr.
I think Tennessee wins the SEC East, and I hope LSU wins the SEC West. The only way Nick Saban wins 9 games in Alabama is if he finds a way for Bama to join the sun belt conference between now and september — their defense sucks and they have no running backs. There’s only so much that Wilson can do. Ole miss will have a better record than Alabama.
Kentucky is going to surprise some people.
Tebow is gonna look like every first year starter that plays a real schedule (I’m looking at you colt mccoy), but he may not even be the starter this year due to a pre-season eye injury stemming from the media circle-jerk tebow love fest.
“Ole miss will have a better record than Alabama.”
Whoa, whoa, whoa Purpleheart. Don’t get crazy now! Brent Shaffa is still at the QB for the Rebels-less.
I am going out on a limb though and saying Ole Miss upsets Florida this year. We all know Herban’s motto of “If my players can’t smoke it, they can’t play on it,” and Ole Miss has the Big East-like Astroplay or Fieldturf shit on the field. Plus, maybe UT’s LB corps will be able to seriously hurt Tebow the week before.
Taco Bell Soft Tacos –
I thought that Jevan Snead would be able to play but then checked again; turns out he actually played at Tejas, so he’s got to sit out. Maybe I was getting a little crazy, after all, Brent Shaffa is Reggie Ball 2.0 but didn’t they get another solid Juco QB in Seth Adams?
Their schedules are roughly equal in difficulty, The QB situation is roughly the same – does anyone really think JPW will be better than Brodie Croyle (I thought Brodie was a damn solid QB). BenJarvisGreenEllis is a really good RB, (Bama has no proven RB), Bama prolly has better recievers, but Mico McSwain is as good as the Bama WR’s, Ole Miss O line is better. Both defenses will be so terrible, the world will think it’s performance art. Ole miss is really young but has some solid talent, and Saban’s defensive genius in Bama will take time to get his recruits in — with the current talent it is like putting lingerie on a water buffalo.
I can’t wait for this season.
Both of you boys are forgetting about the Bat-Shit Crazy Ed Orgeron factor.
Remember Joe McKnight? Ole Most had been recruiting the kid since conception/ O fucked that up. He is the epitome of the peter principle.
And yes, I can’t wait for practice to start.
http://loserswithsocks.com/2007/02/23/somber-cajun-ed-orgeron-fails-to-button-joe-mcknight/
Reggie Ball 2.0 is gold
Purpleheart, Seth Adams is solid. It wouldn’t surprise me if he beat out Shaffa for the starting QB gig. Then Shaffa would break out the TPX and raise hell.
I feel very uncomfortable choosing between Ole Piss and Bammer. One has the talent but has a UFC fighter for a coach, and the other has Vandy-level talent, but now has a good coach, if they don’t fire him before the season starts.
Ole Miss’s best shot at beat Bammer was last season when certified MENSA member Mike Shula was running the show. Saban won’t make the same cheese dick mistakes Shula made.
Ole Miss isn’t good and won’t be as long as The O is coach.
“Ole Miss isn’t good and won’t be as long as The O is coach.”
Agreed, but he is pretty entertaining to watch. I just wish more ole miss games were on TV, I enjoy watching O’s facial expressions.