Why you should NEVER trust our predictions!

Here at Following Football (ACNC), we pride ourselves on having an opinion. 

We never said it was the RIGHT opinion, however!

Looking back at our Thursday prediction post, we...ah, well, we sucked. However, being Christians of our word, we review it honestly here for your amusement: 

Thursday: Not terrible, as the Colts got off to a huge 24-0 lead and held on to win by more than 3. However BYU/UCF was hardly the yawner we forecast, going into overtime before the home team knocked the LDS kids off 31-24. So... One for two.

Friday: We liked Hamilton (lost by one), the Aztecs (covered) and said Wazzu wouldn't lose by seventeen. In fact, they lost by exactly seventeen. One for three.

Saturday: Down the line, against the spreads, mind you, we chose the BC Lions (won 41-3),  Cincinnati (lost 55-34), West Virginia (didn't cover), Oklahoma (didn't cover and deserved to lose!), Georgia Tech (had to score twice late to make the final respectable), Kent St (got blown out by the team w the longest losing streak in FBS! How does that happen?), Baylor (their offense held up their end of the bargain, but it's hard to cover any spread giving up 58 points! They also really should have lost...), Oregon (with ease), Idaho (sigh...We had such faith in you, Vandals!), Penn St (really? Losing to Michigan this year? 18-13?), and LSU (not the rout we expected, but technically 30-27 is more than two points, and we need the win). So... Three out of ten. As noted gambler Charles Barkley would say, "Turrible...that's just turrible."

Sunday: Better today... We chose the Broncos (thank you, Aqib Talib! Without you last minute pick six, we don't cover at 31-17!), the Panthers (we SAID they'd stay close! A 37-37 tie game is definitely staying close!), the Steelers (oops. 31-10, and it wasn't that close...), thr Chargers (31-28 didn't cover), Cardinals (30-20 did) and the Eagles (covered with aplomb!) - went four for six today! 

WARNING! Following Football does NOT advocate monetary gambling in ANY form!!! We use the Vegas point spreads as a means of determining the EXPECTED OUTCOME of football games, NOT for betting on those games! Spend your money on more important things - like virtually ANYTHING else!

So, for the weekend (with MNF still to come), we went just nine out of twenty-one, or 42%. And that's by cherry picking our favorite games - heaven help us if we had to pick ALL of them! But it's fun, and it's a way of getting excited about our favorite sport. The moment that STOPS being fun, STOP. If you have an addictive personality, STOP ANYWAY!