gpb@msdc.UUCP (George P. Burdell) (11/13/85)
. . . . he just never gives up.
George had another average week picking the football games last week.
He picked 23 winners, 9 losers, and lost 6 to his spread. For the
year he has a 200-81-59==340 record. That makes him 59% right for the
year. If George were going to the bookies, he'd probably be just breaking
even. "Just wait for roundball season," he told me. Here is his
spread record for last week and the season. Once again, he hit his average.
Points 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-up Total
Week 11 12 5 5 5 11 38
Season 82 77 57 38 86 340
Pctage 24 23 17 11 25
George's top twenty or so seems to have stabilized (knock on wood). There
are some teams that still like to flip-flop between each other but as the
season goes on, the maximum number of points you can change diminishes.
Penn State finally blew someone away last week. The bad news is that George
doesn't have a power rating for East Carolina so the game does not count
in the top twenty calculation. Once again, Penn State is not there. In
fact George has the Lions tied for 26th with a 116 power rating (Michigan
has a 130 power rating for point of reference). Now, I can hear you
yelling out there so here is George's top twenty or so for this week:
George's Top Twenty (or so) - Week twelve
1. Michigan Wolverines 12. Arkansas Razorbacks
2. Nebraska Cornhuskers 13. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
3. Air Force Falcons 14. Baylor Bears
4. Iowa Hawkeyes 15. Auburn Tigers
5. Miami Hurricanes 16. Florida Gators
6. Brigham Young Cougars 17. Tennessee Volunteers
7. Ohio State Buckeyes 18. Southern Methodist Mustangs
8. Georgia Bulldogs 19. Alabama Crimson Tide
9. Oklahoma Sooners 20. Oklahoma State Cowboys
10. Maryland Terrapins 21. Louisiana State Tigers
11. UCLA Bruins 22. Arizona State Sun Devils
Well, it's starting to get into the interesting part of the season.
The media is plotting out all of the different conference match-ups that
we'll see. (If Georgia beats Auburn and Tennessee loses and LSU
gets lost at the airport....). Also, the bowl scouts are going to their
games of interest to them. The alumni are starting to pressure the
coaches. Yep, Fall is here (basketball season starts next week !!!!).
Air Force flies into BYU this week to decide the WAC crown. George
has this game as a toss-up because BYU has been coming on of late. I
hope Air Force pulls it out. Auburn goes to the dogs this week and we
hope they can sink their talons into them bull puppies but George still
thinks Georgia will win. Maryland-Clemson should be a good game and
we hope that Clemson can pull the upset so Tech will have a share of the
ACC crown (provide they beat Wake Forest). But George will go with
Maryland by a touchdown. Here are the rest of this week's picks.
Air Force at Brigham Young ** EVEN **
Arkansas at Texas A&M Arkansas by 3
Auburn at Georgia Georgia by 5
Boston College at Syracuse Syracuse by 11
Brown University at Dartmouth College Brown University by 3
Colorado at Oklahoma Oklahoma by 11
Columbia at Cornell Cornell by 21
Colgate at Rutgers Colgate by 7
Indiana at Illinois Illinois by 12
Iowa at Purdue Iowa by 14
Iowa State at Kansas State Iowa State by 1
Kansas at Nebraska Nebraska by 22
Kentucky at Florida Florida by 16
Maryland at Clemson Maryland by 7
Memphis State at Army Army by 10
Michigan at Minnesota Michigan by 12
Mississippi State at Louisiana State Louisiana State by 12
Mississippi at Tennessee Tennessee by 17
Navy at South Carolina Navy by 5
North Carolina State at Duke North Carolina State by 3
Notre Dame at Penn State Notre Dame by 4
Northwestern at Michigan State Michigan State by 15
Oklahoma State at Missouri Oklahoma State by 17
Oregon State at UCLA UCLA by 28
Oregon at Arizona Arizona by 7
Pennsylvania at Harvard University ** EVEN **
Rice at Baylor Baylor by 25
Stanford at Arizona State Arizona State by 19
Texas Christian at Texas Texas by 20
Temple at West Virginia West Virginia by 5
Texas Tech at Southern Methodist Southern Methodist by 20
North Carolina at Virginia Virginia by 8
Southern Cal at Washington Washington by 4
Utah at Colorado State Utah by 6
Texas-El Paso at San Diego State San Diego State by 12
Virginia Tech at Vanderbilt Virginia Tech by 8
Wake Forest at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech by 15
Wisconsin at Ohio State Ohio State by 17
Wyoming at New Mexico New Mexico by 8
Yale University at Princeton University Princeton University by 12
That's all for this week. Later in the week or early next week, George
will enter the Land of the Giants and predict the major hoop action.
Look for his pre-season "Top Twenty or So" soon. Have a good week and
keep up the comments.
George P. Burdell
George's Football Picks
Atlanta, Georgia
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