Week 1 2013: Saturday afternoon updates!

The games are in full force this afternoon, but I wanted to take a moment to make a quick update for some more predictions.  First off I wanted to post my preseason predictions for this year since I forgot to join in on the fun last week.  So here it is, without further adieu, COLE’S 2013 PRESEASON PREDICTIONS AND GUESSES ABOUT OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN THIS SEASON BROUGHT TO YOU BY COLE!!!

Samantha Ponder to change hair color at least once during season
Lee Corso to handle more than 4 live animals on set
Desmond Howard to pick Michigan every week
Lou Holtz to predict Notre Dame to win it all
Someone finally wins the Chris Fowler hundred dollar bill
SEC to backdoor their way into national championship game
David Pollack to wear a dress at least once this season
Todd McShay will look at the tape, tell us player X “has limited measurables but great intangibles”
Kliff Kingsbury will wear ridiculous sunglasses, start a hipster coaching trend
Bob Stoops to lose at least one bowl game
Les Miles to do at least one interview on Gameday from his baller-ass Tiger room
The Tom Rinaldi-Tebow memorial segment to be replaced by the Manziel scandal segment sponsored by TMZ

Billy the Cat
Billy the Cat

And now for a brand new weekly piece which we will feature this season, Gameday Picks with Billy the Cat!  This is Billy.  He is a cat.  He lives with us sometimes, and sometimes he lives elsewhere in our neighborhood.  It mostly depends on what house in the neighborhood feeds him the most.  He is also a big college football fan, and this year he is going to be picking the College Gameday Headgear Pick game to go toe-to-toe with Lee Corso to see once and for all who is more talented at picking big games: Lee Corso or a cat.  Each week, we will put down two bowls representing the teams, and release him into the living room, and whichever bowl he chooses is the team he picks.  This week, the bowls were filled, Billy was released, and he chose the red bowl representing his bold prediction of Georgia over Clemson.  Check back for Billy’s results (and all of the ESPN guys) in a couple days and we will see how things shake out this year.

Billy picks UGA over Clemson!
Billy picks UGA over Clemson!

2013-14 College Gameday Season Preview

Ladies and gents, boys and girls, children of all ages… one week from today I can confirm that the College Gameday boys will be COMIN’ TO YOUR CITAY!  And that means one thing and one thing only:  College Gameday Season Preview!  That’s right.  Lee, Kirk, Chris and Desmond sat around this morning making their bold picks for the season to come.  In case you missed it last year, they all did quite poorly with their preseason picks (don’t worry, we will be reviewing that this week for your pleasure).  As for this year?  Here’s how things are shaking out.  The guys all think that Texas A&M is better with one John “Football” Manziel.  Kirk and Des said 10 wins with, 8 wins without the Heisman trophy winner.  Lee said 10 wins with, 6 wins without.  They all had BIG years for Stanford predicting the Cardinal to win the Pac-12, and some of them predicting even bigger things!  Frankly, there weren’t a lot of big shocking predictions for this year.  Desmond Howard predicts Ohio State will not go undefeated, and also predicted Michigan will win the Big 10.  This would be shocking if he wasn’t the #1 Michigan homer on the planet, and the #1 Ohio State enemy.  Anyways, read up below for the full slate of picks.  Each one had a BOLD PREDICTION OF THE DAY which I have highlighted below, because these things are important.  We also welcome back Jennifer, who has not only decided to put up with this blog for another year, but actually verbally agreed to marry me during the offseason, so let us all rejoice.  Enjoy!

Lee Corso:
TAMU 10 wins w/ Johnny Football, 6 wins without
Ohio State *SHOULD* go undefeated, but WATCH OUT!
Penn St to win 8 games
Notre Dame to win 8 games, go to BCS Bowl Game
FSU over UNC in ACC
Texas to win Big 12, make BCS Bowl
Ohio St over Nebraska in Big 10
Stanford over USC in Pac 12
Bama over S.Carolina in SEC
Johnny Manziel to win Heisman
Stanford over Bama in BCS Championship
BOLD PREDICTION OF THE DAY: Oregon will miss Chip Kelly

Kirk Herbstreit:
TAMU 10 wins w/ Johnny Football, 8 wins without
Clemson over Miami in ACC
Okla St in Big 12
Ohio St over Mich St in Big 10
Stanford over USC in Pac 12
Bama over Georgia in SEC
Teddy Bridgewater to win Heisman
Bama over Ohio in BCS Championship
BOLD PREDICTION OF THE DAY: AJ McCarron to play a big role at Bama this year

Desmond Howard:
TAMU 10 Wins w/ Johnny Football, 8 Wins Without
Ohio State not undefeated
No Rose Bowl for Wisconsin
Miami over Clemson in ACC
OU in Big 12
Michigan over Ohio St in Big 10
Stanford over UCLA in Pac 12
LSU over S.Carolina in SEC
Marcus Mariota to win Heisman
LSU over Stanford in BCS Championsihp
BOLD PREDICTION OF THE DAY: Louisville will not play in the national championship game

Jennifer’s Picks:
Clemson to win ACC
Texas to win Big 12
Ohio St to win Big 10
Stanford to win Pac 12
Georgia over Bama in SEC
Braxton Miller to win Heisman
Georgia over Stanford in BCS Championship
Texas as this year’s sleeper to win the BCS Championship