College football picks and superstitions

Weekly Predictions 10-03-08

The last time and only time I have done a weekly prediction for college football was this same weekend last year. I posted the predictions on SN for the top 10 ranked teams. Needless to say I did not do very well, I missed 7 of the 10. To go back in time on this very memorable weekend, there was 6 teams in the top ten that lost that weekend. Oklahoma lost at Colorado, Florida lost at home to Auburn, S. Florida beat West Virginia, Kansas St upset Texas, and Rutgers was upset by Maryland.

I bring this up as most athletes young and old are very superstitious. I think about these little things when it comes to Oklahoma football. My hope was being if I quit posting weekly projections, OU would win the rest of there games. Well that did not happen so that brings me to today. Sounds dumb I know, but deep down all of you have your habits when you watch your favorite teams. Some have favorite shirts, maybe a hat. Maybe you have to sit in a particular chair or side of the couch. Maybe only certain foods or drinks. Maybe it is a favorite bar or a particular persons house. We all have these tendencies, but the question is how many of you try something different just to see if your luck changes. When I watch OU play especially a big game(I do this as well when the St Louis Cardinals play), I do all kind of crazy little things to try to help change the momentum or luck. Sometimes if I am sitting watch the game, I will change course and lay down or vice versa. I have changed shirts or hats in the middle of a ball game. I have went to a different room in the house to try to help. I have quit watching a game in hopes of my team playing better, but it never lasts very long because you have to check and see if it did anything by you changing the channel. I have got a different type of drink. I have even changed which feet were crossed over the other in hopes of helping my team. I do realize my superstitious beliefs and trying to motivate my team by changing positions is really not going to work, but I do it anyway for my team. How many of you do the same? Any other further obsessed tendencies?

Here’s the pick for this week

1 OU at Baylor- OU wins 48-26. Baylor hangs but cannot slow down the OU offense.

Kentucky at 2 Alabama- Alabama wins going away 33-21, but Kentucky keeps it close for awhile.

4 Missouri- Nebraska- Nebraska cannot keep up and Missouri gets first win in Lincoln in 30 years. 42-20

5 Texas- Colorado- Texas avoids trap game and heads to Dallas to play top 5 game against OU. 35-24

6 Penn State- Purdue- I think PSU wins 28-24 but this could be upset alert.

7 Texas Tech- Kansas St- Texas Tech wins this in blowout fashion 55-18

23 Oregon- 9 USC- I feel bad for Oregon. Back up QB and USC looking to make a statement. USC 48-17



Hopefully these picks do not jinx me. If they don’t I will be back next week to make these weekly projections. Either way next week I will have a preview of the Red River Shootout, hopefully with at least OU undefeated but for some odd reason I want UT to be undefeated as well.

Enjoy your games and your teams this weekend and if you need to turn your hat around maybe it will bring some good luck.