Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Cincy today and so are Kirk and the GameDay crew. I’ll be back for my picks on this pivotal Week 11. I’m 10-10 vs the spread while Chris Jackson is a stellar 14-6. I have no room for error if I want to catch him. But I knew he was a serious GameDay player…so it is what it is. Be better…play better, or go home.
The goal acheiving portion of the season starts today and I’m pretty well jacked even with OU having a bye week. I’ve got to start having a string of 3-0 weekends on my picks or at the worst 2-1. Like the Sooners…I have little room for error.
What a glorious autumn day it is in Deer Creek, Oklahoma. The leaves on the red maple and Chinese pistache are not in peak color, but trending there. If Teddy Roosevelt were forced to live in Oklahoma County…he’d want to come live at our place here in the wilderness with creeks, ponds, and dense forest all around to insulate us from the Oklahoma Trump crazies.
Teddy Roosevelt by far is my favorite president of all-time…not even close. Still laughing my ass off from when Mike Pence compared Donald Trump to Teddy Roosevelt. Of course that was before Trump was instructing his Trump Proud Boys to hang Mike Pence and then go urinate in Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Unbelievable…truly unbelievable. That would be like comparing Nick Saban to Mike Gundy or Tony Bennett to Justin Bieber or Tucker Carlson to Tom Brokaw.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
None of us really get any intrinsic joy in paying taxes, but that doesn’t mean you remove your own brain, roll it in the dirt, and then piss on it before reinserting it in your head.
I’ve had my coffee. I’ve fed the wild turkeys, deer, squirrels, and raccoons. Pauli wouldn’t budge this morning. She doesn’t like walking the forest line in the dark except in the evening when we’re trying to sight the mountain lion. Plus, there was a heavy dew this morning…she hates that. She won’t even pee on a heavy dew.
Enough of that. Let’s get to the picks. From this point on we’re upping it to three games a piece. It’s the goal achieving portion of the season for us as well. This is when you want to bring your A game to the GameDay studio.
National Game of the Week for me is red-hot Auburn with their Heisman hopeful QB Bo Nix at Kyle Field to play the equally hot Texas A&M Aggies. This is a classic SEC West game with a bunch on the line for a spot in my top ten next week. I’m taking Auburn and 4.5 points with the hope this truly is Bo Nix’s magical football season for the Auburn Tigers. Bo Nix is a great story this college football season.
Baylor at TCU. If you study Baylor’s track record this season you’ll observe their schedule for the most part is littered with Big 12 home games. The only quality road opponent they have this season is/was O State.
The Bears only loss came at Stillwater to Mullet King’s O State Cowboys. BTW…I was looking at Gundy’s hair this past Tuesday at his presser and his hair looks wonderful without the mullet. He has beautiful hair for a man his age. I wish I had his hair. Boone would be so pleased. He left Gundy thirty bucks in his will for Gundy to get his hair cut. I’m going to feature Gundy’s hair next week on my blog regardless of how they do today in Morgantown as a road 3.5 favorite. I wouldn’t touch that game with a twenty foot pole. No way. Four words…O State Aggie Factor. No way in hell.
Baylor and TCU hate each other with a passion. This is a road game for a TCU team which just basically fired Gary Patterson. I’m taking Baylor and giving the seven points.
My third game is Cincy hosting a 3-5 Tulsa Golden Hurricane team which just lost to previously 1-6 Navy last week. I’m taking Cincy and giving the 22 points what with GameDay there and the fact the Bearcats need to win out with style points galore the rest of the way. Plus they’ll need a sequence of miracles to be selected by the Committee.
Chris Jackson is taking Cincy as well. He’s taking Iowa State at home and giving the emotionally fragile Texas Longhorns the 6.5 primarily because he hates UT football more than any other human I know. And in an upset alert special which will pay him double if he hits it…he’s taking the Purdue Boilermakers at home getting the 3 points versus one of the worst pass defenses in the country in the Michigan State Spartans.
I almost took Purdue in that game as well… it’s certainly on my Upset Alert crawler this morning. But my heart is with Bo Nix and of course you should never bet with your heart.
Hope you have a great GameDay watching your favorite team on your patio deck. It’s a perfect college football Saturday in Oklahoma. It would be a great day for ribs, brisket, and cole slaw with some Coors Light to wash it down.