Who wins The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party?
A buddy of ours said on Facebook: “Georgia-Florida is the World’s Largest Cocktail Party, which Florida-Georgia is a crappy country group”. We sniggered, slightly, bearing in mind our memory of that goddawful band ‘highlighting’ plays on CBS was that how we could have put our foot through our TV whenever we heard them ****ing singing.
- No.14 Florida vs Georgia
If you’re a grad of Florida or Georgia, a student at Florida or Georgia, or a fan of Florida or Georgia, or merely want a fight on The Landing this weekend with a bunch of smashed-up ‘bros’ and their wives who are fighting each other too, you’ll probably be in Jacksonville. And if you hate your life – because the game’s probably not going to be that great, if you consider how bad both offenses are – you’ll probably be watching the game alongside a lot of people dressed in red and blue on Saturday afternoon.
PREDICTION: Florida’s a 7-1/2 point favorite. I’m going for Florida to win 20-13 in an ugly game where only the thing keeping us watching is that it’s going to be Uncle Verne’s last Cocktail Party game. Sadly, it’s not going to be Gary Danielson’s.
2. No.15 Auburn at Ole Miss
Get this: This is Auburn’s first real away game this season (we don’t count Mississippi State, folks!), and it comes against an Ole Miss side who seems to always take the lead and then blow it. The biggest problem for Ole Miss – as dynamic as the offense can be at times – is their horror show of a running defense, which took a battering against LSU. This week, they face an Auburn side which has run for 2120 yards and 21 TDs. Kamryn Pettway could go crazy. He’s put up back-to-back 150+ rushing efforts, and he could do the same today. Auburn’s also got a pretty solid defense. You know, it’s a pretty solid team.
PREDICTION: This could be the most entertaining game on the SEC’s schedule this week (not very hard, we know bearing in mind what else is there). Auburn’s a 4-1/2 point favorite, but we think Auburn’s going to win this by 10 in a secretly great game until halfway through the fourth quarter.
3. No.18 Tennessee at South Carolina
The Gamecocks might be the worst team in the SEC right now – although it’s a real battle between them, Missouri and Mississippi State right now (Vanderbilt’s a solid fourth-worst after showing defensive backbone). Will Muschamp’s guys struggled to beat UMass last week, and now they get Tennessee – which is still a pretty good team despite back-to-back losses coming into town. Expect Josh Dobbs to have fun. And all this will be despite the injury to star running back Alvin Kamara.
PREDICTION: Tennesee’s a 13-1/2 point favorite, but we think they win by 21. And they swear at themselves for the game not being as close as that.
4. Kentucky vs Missouri
Kentucky are SECOND in the SEC East. Yes, SECOND. And they are really aren’t great. We know they are awful because they gave up 38 to Mississippi State and won by a field goal. Sure, it was entertaining if you like shoot-outs, but UK isn’t very good, are they? Anyway, Missouri played Middle Tennessee State last week……and lost. The errors killed them, and but it’s a shock that they are 5-1/2 point home favorites for the Wildcats. Must be the scary Farot Field.
PREDICTION: We’re going with Missouri to win by 7 in a high-scoring game, because we want some happiness for our friends at the Mizzodcast, one of the best college football podcasts you’ll listen to.
5 A+B We’re calling for Mississippi State to beat Samford and Texas A&M to hammer New Mexico State by 50 (they are 43-point favs). No surprises here.