College Football Week 15 Picks

4-3 vs the spread last week, 40-27-1 for the season. . .

The end is here. . .just a few conference championship games, and the Playoff field will be set.  Let's hope the Playoffs provide a little drama, because the regular sesason was pretty dull.  No players or teams seemed *special.*  The SEC doesn't have a decent QB, the Pac-12 has several teams with dynamic offenses but sorry defenses, ditto for the Big 12 (and their name schools sucked), so the Playoff Committee has a TCU/Baylor Sophie's Choice, the ACC has the only unbeaten (for now), Florida State, but the Semen-oles are living on borrowed time, the Big 10 has Ohio State, with a third string quarterback and a horrible run defense.  As for the Heisman Trophy, I suppose it will go to Oregon's Marcus Mariota, by default, as long as he doesn't botch the Pac-12 title game against Arizona, but with the suspension/injury to Todd Gurley, there really hasn't been a Heisman player this yesar. . .

The Flops of the Year were UCLA and Oklahoma, teams that should have made a run at the Playoffs, but finished with 3 losses, Notre Dame (7-5), which finished with a four game losing streak, the season-ender being an especially ugly ass-kicking from USC, Stanford (7-5), South Carolina (6-6), Auburn (8-4 and what happens you gain over 600 yards on Alabama and still lose?  You fire the DC). And Georgia with its Clean Shirt defense once again failed to take advantage of the weak SEC East, somehow finishing second to a Missouri team they destroyed on their own home field.

Coaches of the Year: 1. Gary Patterson (TCU). 2. Rich Rodriguez (Arizona). 3. Gary Pinkel (Missouri).  Nobody had any of these teams in Playoff or Conference championship contention.  

Negro Wonder Boy Flop Coaches of the Year: 1. James Franklin (Penn State), 6-6 on the year, all six losses in the horrible Big 10. 2. Charlie Stong (Texas), 6-6 and National Leader in claiming *moral victories* every time he lost.  3. David Shaw (Stanford), 7-5.  *Affirmative Action* *sports casters* said this darkie would be able to keep Stanford at Harbaugh levels, he was such a brown football genius.  He was just a Harbaugh by-product, though, and the biggest pussy coach in the nation, twice punting late in tie games on the opponents side of the field.

Coach Who Had The Worst Year: Nobody fucked it up more than Brady Hoke (Michigan), finishing 5-7, losing to Rutgers and Maryland, looking completely clueless in the Shane Morris Concussion-gate, and looking like something from Diary of a Wimpy Coach after apologizing to Mark Dantonio over the absurd stake-gate.  Hoke should be fired by the time this gets posted, and all Michigan fans everywhere can get set to have their hearts broken when Jim Harbaugh says *thanks, but no thanks.*

Arizona +13.5 vs Oregon: Ha!  Still no respect for Rich Rodriguez' Wildcats.  They've kicked Oregon's butt twice in a row, and are still a heavy underdog.  I understand part of the reasoning: Arizona's defense is truly awful, and they've lucked out with a great turnover margin. . .but this is the Pac-12, where outside of Stanford, everybody has a suspect defense.  I don't know if Arizona is up to an Oregon hat trick, but, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, I gotta go with RichRod to at least cover.  Arizona.

Alabama -14.5 vs Missouri: Somehow Missouri came back from the dead late in the fourth quarter last week and beat Wisconsin South, robbing the nation of what would have been an exciting Georgia - Alabama title game.  Now we get this mismatch.  Gary Pinkel is a helluva coach, no way this Missouri team should have fnished 10-2 and SEC East champs.  This is a 7-5, 4th in the East team.  As good a coach as Pinkel is, I see no way he can keep this game close. After this Alabama 30+ win, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina fans are going to be irate all over again for their teams finishing behind the Tigers.  Alabama.

Florida State -4 vs Georgia Tech: End of the Line for the Hymen Trophy winner and the Semen*oles.  Florida State don't have the discipline to withstand 60 minutes of rushing football.  As long as Tech don't give the game away in the first half with turnovers or special teams fuck-ups, they will wear down FSU and run away late from Outlaw State.  Georgia Tech.

Wisconsin -4 vs Ohio State: Ha ha ha poor Urban Meyer!  At least he's already got his excuse, poor us, we had to play a 3rd string QB.  But listen, they would have lost this game with Braxton Miller or J.T. Barrett. . .because the Buckeye's run defense is HORRIBLE!  And what does Wisconsin do? RUN, RUN, and RUN some more.  The Buckeye's couldn't stop Michigan's Drake Johnson, for crying out loud, how in Hell are they going to stop Melvin Gordon?  They won't.  So Urban Meyer is going to be 35-4 at Ohio State, with no conference championships, no BCS bowl wins, no Playoff appearance.  No coach in the history of college football has ever had a more meaningless 35-4 record.  But at least he'll have his excuse.  Wisconsin.

So what would the Playoffs look like if Florida State loses?

Alabama, TCU/Baylor, Oregon and who?  Do you take both TCU and Baylor, with the Big 12 looking like the Cat who ate the SEC's canary?  Or do you take a two loss team like Mississippi State?  Toss the Big 10 a bone and take Wisconsin?  Georgia Tech?

And what if Oregon loses?  

You got to take Arizona.  Got to.  Imagine RichRod getting into the first-ever Playoffs. . .while Michigan is 5-7 and looking for another coach, again!

Anyway, here's my final playoff prediction:

#1 Alabama vs #4 Baylor

#2 Oregon vs #3 TCU

I don't see how you can take a two loss conference championship team over a one loss conference co-champion.  The Big 12, with no conference championship game out-foxes the Big 10 and the ACC!!