According to out full FBS tiering system, we made four CFL predictions, five NFL picks, and a total of 18 in the major college ranks. How did those 27 Week 9 forecasts go? We're not afraid to show you!
Failures: lost one CFL game (Calgary lost), and two NFL games (New Orleans beat Carolina big, and Cleveland came two points short of covering over Tampa).
We lost ten of eighteen college games. Of the ones where our tiers had results reversed, we missed almost all of them: Ole Miss (Auburn won), UNLV (New Mexico won), Arizona (UCLA by ten), Middle Tennessee (BYU won big), and Kentucky (Mizzou won easily). We also missed on what we thought were spread errors in games we favored Rutgers (lost 37-0 to Wisconsin), FIU (lost to Rice), North Carolina (Miami annihilated the Tar Heels 47-20), Eastern Michigan (failed to cover against Central 38-7), and Oklahoma St (K-St whupped 'em 48-14).
Successes: Got the other three Canadian victors (Hamilton, Edmonton, and Montreal, what we thought were the three harder games!) and three other NFL picks (Philadelphia handled the Texans, Oakland stayed closer than fifteen to Seattle, and the Colts beat the Giants easily).
But our Saturday record was south of five hundred by a game. We did get Duke over Pitt (but barely: 51-48 in OT) and Utah covering against Arizona St (OT again, losing by three). The other six wins were Iowa's rout of Northwestern, BC's win at Virginia Tech, LA-Tech's splattering of Western KY 59-10, Georgia Tech beating Virginia 35-10, Wyoming with the big upset at Fresno, and Utah St handling Hawaii as we expected them to, 35-14.
So, overall, we went 14-13. Basically flipping a coin. Ah well. We will live and learn. More predictions for the weekend are coming very soon!
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