Here are AJC’s Mark Bradley’s top 10 football predictions. My thoughts are in italics [AJC]. And really, some these are pretty good predictions. keep in mind that this is a Georgia newspaper and he has to sell newspapers. He must really be dumb. He doesn’t ever mention Ole Miss or South Carolina. What self respecting columnist would ever do something so dicked up?
this is so UGA centric I got sleepy to trying fix bradley’s errors. So please forgive me for being a sloth…
Georgia will go 10-2 and come within an eyelash of rendering the reigning BCS titlist a runner-up in its own division. The Dawgs will beat Florida. Unless Herban Meyer has figured out how to start 11 QBs on defense.
1. I see the Bulldogs winning in Knoxville but (Ainge owns Richt and Athens. Richt owns Neyland ) 2. losing in Tuscaloosa. Part of me even envisions Georgia beating Florida on Oct. 27.
Then another part – the brain, I believe it’s called – recalls that the Bulldogs stopped enjoying Jacksonville about the same time Vince Dooley stopped coaching.
3. Alabama will win as many games (nine) as Auburn. That sound you hear is the Tigers’ window of opportunity slamming shut. Nick Saban isn’t a very nice guy, but he’s a very good coach. look at his outstanding record: With Dolphins: 15-17 (2005-Abandoned) With LSU: 48-16 (2000-’04) With Michigan State: 35-24-1 (1995-’99) With Toledo: 9-2 (1990) Shared 2003 NC with one loss
LSU will again have the SEC’s most talented team and will again lose twice –
4. LSU will almost lose when the Tigers go to Tuscaloosa and get outcoached by the guy who used to coach them and then win anyway despite Les Miles and his unnatural obsession with Nick Saban. The obsession is right out of the movie Waterboy. The way that Fonzie was scared to death of Jerry Reed…
5. lose against Florida in the SEC championship game.
That will serve as payback for the Gators’ loss in Baton Rouge on Oct. 6.
Georgia Tech will go 8-4.
6. One magazine projects the Jackets as a Top 15 team,
but I can’t imagine how losing the nation’s most talented player and a four-year starting quarterback makes you better. Yes, Taylor Bennett looked good throwing to Calvin Johnson in the Gator Bowl, but Johnson could make any quarterback look good. (Even Reggie Ball – sometimes.) Tech was staring at a breakthrough season last November and couldn’t beat Georgia or Wake. Sorry, but I don’t see this year’s Jackets being quite as good. Nobody really gives 2 shits about Georgia Tech Football. Is Tech where they send football players not good enough to play for UGA?
I see Florida State being lots better with Jimbo Fisher calling plays.
7. I see the Seminoles winning the ACC Atlantic.
8. Darren McFadden won’t win the Heisman because he’ll get hurt. (Louisville’s 9. Brian Brohm will take the trophy.) ESPN will win the Heisman for a Big East player. Not necessarily Brohm but any of the others like Slaton or Smith. I hope that there is a 3-way tie for the Heisman with Brohm, Smith and Slaton.
Phillip 10.. Fulmer will be replaced by David Cutcliffe the first week in December. (The final straw will be Tennessee losing to Kentucky for the first time since 1984.) Hearing the news, Johnny Majors will laugh deep into January. If he loses to UK and Vandy in the same season he will be gone. Majors will laugh if he is coherently sober enough to comprehend what happened to Fulmer. Cutcliffe won’t be the head coach…unless Ole Miss will take him back.
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