gpb@msdc.UUCP (George P. Burdell) (09/17/85)
George had is best week yet last week. He picked 18 winners out of 26
games. He lost 3 games out right and 5 to his spread. For the season,
he picked 27 winners, 11 losers, and 11 spread losers. That's 54% which
hopefully will improve as the season goes on. Here is George's record on
point spreads. 31 out of 50 came within 9 points of the spread.
Points 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-up Total
Week 3 8 10 3 2 4 27
Season 12 19 7 5 7 50
Here is George's Top Twenty or so for week number four. Once again Air
Force moved up several notches because of their trouncing of Wyoming,
49-7. Other interesting games that saw some movement were:
Miami whipping Rice by 28 which made them crack the top 20, Northwestern
moved up (but didn't crack the elite group) by surprising Missouri, 27-23
(Missouri was favored by 11). Florida dropped a couple of points by
allowing Rutgers to come back and tie them. Finally BYU moved up
higher in the top twenty by overwhelming the Huskies of Washington, 31-3.
George's Top Twenty (or so) - Week four
1. Auburn Tigers 14. West Virginia Mountaineers
2. Oklahoma Sooners 15. Oklahoma State Cowboys
3. Florida State Seminoles 16. Mississippi State Bulldogs
4. Maryland Terrapins 17. Miami Hurricanes
5. Southern Cal Trojans 18. Southern Methodist Mustangs
6. Air Force Falcons 19. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
7. Iowa Hawkeyes 20. Alabama Crimson Tide
8. Brigham Young Cougars 21. Illinois Illini
9. Florida Gators 22. Penn State Nittany Lions
10. Arkansas Razorbacks 23. Kansas Jayhawks
11. Nebraska Cornhuskers 24. Michigan Wolverines
12. Ohio State Buckeyes 25. Michigan State Spartans
13. Louisiana State Tigers
Now, here is George's predictions for Saturday's games. We apologize for
getting this out so late. I've been out fighting a mild case of strep
throat and this is the first chance I have to post this.
Once again George is going on the limb for this week's games. For this
week we include the most exciting conference of them all.
I'm talking about the bastion of football powerhouses, where the scores
sometimes end up being 6.02 * 10^23 to 12 * 3.14159. That's right -
It's the Ivy League!!! (My apologies to all the Ivy-leaguers out. Flames
to /dev/null, please). So here they are:
Baylor at Southern Cal Southern Cal by 8
Boston College at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh by 7
Brown University at Yale University Yale University by 6
Brigham Young at Temple Brigham Young by 5
Colorado State at Louisiana State Louisiana State by 15
Cornell at Pennsylvania Pennsylvania by 6
Georgia at Clemson Clemson by 6
Illinois at Nebraska Nebraska by 5
Memphis State at Florida State Florida State by 12
Michigan at South Carolina South Carolina by 1
Michigan State at Notre Dame Notre Dame by 3
Missouri at Texas Texas by 6
Navy at Indiana Indiana by 3
North Carolina State at Wake Forest Wake Forest by 5
Ohio State at Colorado Ohio State by 3
Princeton University at Dartmouth College Dartmouth College by 1
Rice at Air Force Air Force by 19
Rutgers at Army Army by 2
San Diego State at UCLA UCLA by 7
Stanford at Oregon Oregon by 5
Texas Christian at Kansas State Texas Christian by 1
Tulane at Kentucky Kentucky by 9
Vanderbilt at Iowa State Iowa State by 9
Virginia at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech by 7
Washington at Houston Houston by 8
Washington State at Utah Utah by 3
West Virginia at Maryland Maryland by 7
There you have it. What do you all think of all this and about the
race to the National championship. I think it's funny that Oklahoma has
kept it's number one rating in so many of the polls and has not played
a game yet. Their first one is on the 28th. Who do you think deserves
the number one ranking? Let's hear from you. Until next week, we hope
your teams all win this week.
George P. Burdell
George's Football Picks
Atlanta, Georgia
{gatech,ihnp4,mcnc,ncsu,akgua}!msdc!gpbdday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) (09/18/85)
>6. Air Force Falcons 19. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Air Force??!! I hope this doesn't mean that if Air Force slips by BYU
pummels the rest of its easy schedule that we'll have to endure another
WACky choice for #1 this year.