Believe it or not, college football is actually going to start soon. Like this Saturday! But, it's just an FCS match-up between Austin Peay and Central Arkansas on 9:00pm on ESPN. Hey, it's better than nothing. The actual start of college football will be during Labor Day weekend. This year will be different because the Big Ten cancelled all fall sports as well as the PAC-12. The SEC won't start until September 26 and they'll only play conference games. My Razorbacks are going to go through a lot besides the COVID-19 crisis.
All that I hope to say is that all the players will be safe and that there will be as much football that we can enjoy. I need to get excited about something from entertainment this year. I will officially start my football predictions for this season! I will make all of my predictions already for the Razorback football season just to see how accurate I was at the beginning and then I'll compare at the end. Of course I will still make the weekly predictions and analysis as the season goes on. I will also today make this week's game predictions as well. This week is easy since it's just the one game between Austin Peay and Central Arkansas.
Game Predictions:
8/29/2020
Austin Peay vs. Central Arkansas
Winner: Central Arkansas
Arkansas Razorback Whole Season Predictions
09/26/2020
Georiga vs. Arkansas
Winner: Georgia
10/3/2020
Arkansas vs. Miss. St.
Winner: Arkansas
10/10/2020
Arkansas vs. Auburn
Winner: Auburn
10/17/2020
Ole Miss vs. Arkansas
Winner: Arkansas
10/31/2020
Arkansas vs. Texas A&M
Winner: Texas A&M
11/7/2020
Tennesse vs. Arkansas
Winner: Arkansas
11/14/2020
Arkansas vs. Florida
Winner: Florida
11/21/2020
LSU vs. Arkansas
Winner: LSU
11/28/2020
Arkansas vs. Missouri
Winner: Missouri
12/5/2020
Alabama vs. Arkansas
Winner: Alabama
This leaves my predicted record for Arkansas to be 3-7. This is just my professional analysis on it. Of course I will be rooting for them all the way to go 10-0 (which would be so awesome!!!). Well I really hope we can get plenty of college football to watch and hopefully COVID-19 could just die and crawl into the pit of darkness that it came from. This pandemic will prevent us from watching football and seeing entertaining fans. Look at these fans! This video shows a fat one for Arkansas
And look at this guy. Please! I want the entertainment of college football!
As everyone already knows, we are in the middle of a pandemic. Because of this, there has been hardly any sports events happening. While this is going on, football season approaches and I hope that somehow it can go forward in a safe way for the players and the fans. But maaaannn has it been strange in the sports world during all of this.
The most frequent sport that I saw, besides reruns of old games, was the Corn Hole Championship. I didn't even know that that was an actual serious thing going on! Geez it's corn hole. You toss bags into a little hole from a distance. It is really fun to just watch the serious looks that these players are giving as they prepare to toss the bean bags into the corn holes. Look at this image here:
Of course because of the pandemic, they are wearing those face masks and face shields. And of course I was watching one and found this guy:
I feel like I might even take up playing professional corn hole if I'm allowed to wear Crocs. Of course this event was even before the pandemic as you can see with the lack of face masks and social distancing. Check out some corn hole when you can. It is really something else.
I hope that football season can go on since it is my favorite sport. There is only so much corn hole that you can take before you start to look like the guy in Crocs.
Gosh it has been awhile since I've posted something, but here I am. Today I felt like doing correlation coefficients to determine if any particular website of online reviews can predict how well any Star Wars movie will do at the worldwide box office with adjusted grosses. The data that I'll use comes from ultimatemovierankings.com, IMDB, and Rotten Tomatoes. IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are the biggest sources of movie reviews that I use and what practically everyone else uses. Ultimate Movie Rankings is where I got the adjusted world wide grosses because IMDB seems to have bought out BoxofficeMojo where I used to look for movie grosses because now you have to sign up for IMDB Pro (and pay money!) to see those grosses. Ultimate Movie Rankings isn't a very flashy website for this stuff but it is what we got now since this abomination happened. Any who, now let's get to the good stuff. I'll just show you the data that I've gotten here on this link.
As you can see, I already did the correlation calculations when you look to the very right of the spreadsheet of data. Each correlation calculation comes from using the data of the Worldwide Boxoffice Adjusted Grosses to each of the Star Wars movie scores from each piece of data that I've gotten from these websites. If you need to be reminded of what the correlation numbers mean, I'll tell you right now! If the correlation is at 0.00, that means that there is no correlation whatsoever between the two sets of data. If the correlation is 1.00, that means that there is a perfect correlation. The highest correlation that I got was 0.63 when I did a correlation test between the Worldwide Boxoffice Adjusted Grosses to the Rotten Tomatoes Critic Average Scores (out of 10). Even though that is the highest, it still isn't that good. I mean, if you got a 63 on a test, it is barely passing but not really good at all. If we want to see if there is a good correlation, it needs to be between 0.90 and 1. But none of these cases from these websites show this type of correlation. What is funniest about this is that the audience user scores have the worst correlations, even though I hear a lot that fans want movie studios to make the movies how they want them to and then they'll perform better. But of course, this is just a sample of 11 movies that I did. To get an even more accurate correlation, we need hundreds or even thousands of movies. Perhaps this is something to consider for any type of movie as well and not just Star Wars movies.
Since I did all of this research, I will give you some interesting data about these Star Wars movies. For starters, the average Star Wars movie made $1.471 billion dollars worldwide by adjusted boxoffice inflated ticket prices. When it comes to the Star Wars movies that are then "above average" when it comes to this are:
The Phantom Menace
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens.
For the IMDB Scores (out of 10) is an average of 7.5. The "above average" for this category (excluding Revenge of the Sith since it is 7.5 and not above it) are:
Rogue One
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Force Awakens
For the Metacritic Score (out of 100) is an average of 68.1. The
"above average" for this category are:
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi.
For the RT Critic Score is an average of 77.82. The "above
average" for this category are:
Revenge of the Sith
Rogue One
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi.
For the RT Audience Score is an average of 75.64. The "above
average" for this category are:
Rogue One
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Force Awakens
The Rise of Skywalker
For the RT Critic Score Avg (out of 10) is an average of 7.39. The
"above average" for this category are:
Rogue One
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
For the RT Audience Score (out of 10) is an average of 7.71. The
"above average" for this category are:
Rogue One
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Force Awakens
The Rise of Skywalker
According to this, I will now rank all of the Star Wars movies.
Each movie mentioned in a category will get a point that determines how good
they are in the "above average" Star Wars movies.
A New Hope - 7 points
The Empire Strikes Back - 7
points
The Force Awakens - 7 points
Rogue One - 5 points
Return of the Jedi - 4
points
The Last Jedi - 3 points
The Rise of Skywalker - 2
points
Revenge of the Sith - 1
point
The Phantom Menace - 1 point
This means that the only Star Wars movies that I guess that are "below
average" are Solo: A Star Wars Story and Attack of the Clones. Now
seeing these rankings and seeing what is "below average", it just
doesn't feel that right. A lot of people use IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to
see how well movies are doing. In the case of Star Wars, they seem to not
measure them that well. Even the best correlation that we had was 0.63
and that's not good still. To me, I don't think Solo was a below average
Star Wars movie and Phantom Menace is only slightly above average because of all
the hype it had before everyone saw it literally which made it's box office
massive. So far, it is hard to predict how well any Star Wars movie will
do. The only for sure thing is that the first movie of each trilogy is
going to be a box office record breaker.
I like watching all of them and some more than others. But of
course I think that if you want to judge them overall as films, it makes me
think that they are less great if you need books and comic books to explain
plot points better. The Rise of Skywalker would've been better to me if
they had just mentioned that Palpatine was a clone in the movie instead of the
novel to explain how he's back. Of course I like lore and books giving us
more in depth info about it, but stuff like this needs the movie itself to
explain it or even mention it better. Oh well! I love Star Wars and
I'll see any of them any time. Except maybe Attack of the Clones.
Only sometimes. But if it is your favorite movie, I'll just say:
I decided to post about the Super Bowl after everyone has had their say about the outcome. Oh man, this is very much like deja vu right now. If you read my last post about my pick for the Super Bowl, "Super Bowl Champions: Chiefs or 49ers?", I said this on the bottom. (The red shows that I called for the comeback to happen!)
"It is for this reason that I think the FPI has taken a lot to favor the Chiefs because of their recent showing of overcoming adversity very well. Not to mention, that the 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the 2016 Falcons when they played the Patriots in Super Bowl 51. That is the famous Super Bowl where the Falcons were up 28-3 against the Patriots and lost 34-28 making it the biggest choke I have ever seen in my life. Perhaps the same thing could repeat again but with the Chiefs now against Kyle Shanahan? I mean, the Chiefs have been doing phenomenal comebacks throughout the playoffs. So why not the Super Bowl as well?"
If you haven't read this post, you can press on this link.
Anyway, I was seeing that the same type of thing was going to happen to Kyle Shanahan again. In his first Super Bowl, he blew a 28-3 lead against the Patriots. Now, he blew a 20-10 lead against the Chiefs. I guess they improved on the margin of the comeback that they gave up. But still, it is just ridiculous. The meme that described this circus perfectly was this image:
I mean, I picked the Chiefs to win and I loved that they did. They are practically my favorite NFL team now. But what the crap 49ers! I don't hate the 49ers, but sometimes I can get upset at a team for losing a game that they could've easily won if they were just not being downright stupid. I mean how can you lose an NFL game when you are up 20-10 when there is 11:57 left in the 4th Quarter, and then you give up 21 points in a 10:55 time-lapse! Don't get me wrong, the Chiefs have been doing this throughout the whole playoffs. They are perfectly able to do something like this. To go on record, the Chiefs have outscored their competition 100-14 whenever they start their comebacks during the this season's playoffs. But what I want to focus on is how the 49ers could've easily avoided this if Kyle Shanahan didn't get Changnesia.
I'll explain what I mean. This explains why I called this post "Kyle Shanahan? More Like Kyle Changahan." There is a comedy from NBC called "Community." It is a funny show and I recommend it highly. The term Changnesia came from one of the characters named Ben Chang (played by Ken Jeong). In part of the show, he does something horrible to the other characters and disappears for a while. He then appears later and claims that he has "Changnesia" which means that he is having amnesia but can't remember his life as Ben Chang. I won't spoil how the rest of that story arc goes so that you can find it out yourselves. But right here in the Super Bowl and Kyle Shanahan seemed to have suffered from Changnesia.
Don't worry, I'm getting there to why I'm saying this. I'm saying that he seems to suffer from this because he did the exact same thing that made him lose his first Super Bowl against the Patriots. What he did is that he forgot that his offense is good at running the ball.
I will break this down for Super Bowl 51 when Kyle Shanahan was on the Falcons playing against the Patriots first. We see that it is 2:06 in the 3rd Quarter and the Falcons have the ball while they are ahead 28-9. If you don't know, the clock can stop if you throw an incomplete pass or run out of bounds if you don't what to use your timeouts. If you just run the ball, the clock doesn't stop. The Falcons are up 28-9 and if I was the coach, I would want to burn down the clock and get the job done. But no, the Falcons have a 3 and out from 3 passes where 1 was incomplete and a sack. 1 incomplete pass is pretty much a timeout to help the other team have more time to catch up. They only burn 2:15 off the clock. Then the Patriots take 5:07 off the clock to score a field goal. The score is now 28-12. The Falcons still have a good lead so they don't have to worry much if they just play smart. They do for the first 2 plays since they run the ball to start their next possession. But then they pass and then there's a sack-fumble and the Patriots recover! Falcons only burned 1:20 off the clock. Patriots then burn 2:28 off the clock to score a touchdown and a 2 point conversion to make the score 28-20. The Falcons then get the ball back with 5:53 left in the game. At this point, if you are a Falcons' fan, you should be a little worried. But your team is still up 28-20. All they have to do is run the ball, burn down the clock, and they can hoist that Lombardi Trophy. But no, they pass the ball 4 times and ran the ball 2 times this next possession! 1 pass is incomplete and 1 pass is a sack. They only burn 2:26 off the clock which leaves 3:27 on the clock for the 4th Quarter. The Patriots score a touchdown burning 2:33 off the clock while scoring another 2 point conversion to tie the game at 28-28. The game goes into overtime and then the Patriots win it 34-28. The Falcons were good at running the ball. They averaged 5.8 yards per rush attempt in the game but just steered from that at the end. They threw the ball 9 times and only ran 4 times!
You think that after that traumatic event that Kyle Shanahan would learn from his mistakes and run the ball more when he is in that similar situation. But wait! He repeats the same mistakes! This time he ran the ball only 3 times and passed the ball 5 times that resulted in 3 incompletions! He basically gave the Chiefs 3 timeouts by doing that. I'm glad he did because I was rooting for the Chiefs, but come on! It is Super Bowl 51 again. He does this in the exact same situation. This happened during the time lapse in the meme above, except I only covered from the time that they were up 20-10 and then they were down 24-20 because it could've all been avoided if it wasn't for the stupid play-calling. Kyle Shanahan suffered from Changnesia because he did not remember his mistakes from the first time around. He was also averaging 6.4 yards per rush attempt which was even better than his average of 5.8 yards per rush attempt in Super Bowl 51.
It is that time of football season once again. After getting through a week of not caring about the Pro Bowl since none of the players actually try in that game, we finally get to the biggest game of them all: The Super Bowl.
I am a big fan of this Super Bowl because it is a Super Bowl that we've never had before: Chiefs vs. 49ers. We have Patrick Mahomes vs. Jimmy G. Andy Reid vs. Kyle Shanahan. This is gonna be good.
If I am going to pick a team, I will pick the Kansas City Chiefs. For one, I think it is finally time for Andy Reid to win a Super Bowl. Andy Reid has 221 wins including the Regular Season and the Playoffs total in his career. That is 6th all-time which makes him the winningest NFL coach in NFL history from the Super Bowl Era without a Super Bowl win. The time could finally come for Andy Reid to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Also it is time for him to have that fast food buffet in the White House with Donald Trump.
Comparing the Super Bowl Opponents
I am now going to go over some of the stats for each team that shows the comparisons between them. The Chiefs in the Regular Season scored 28.2 points per game which is 5th in the league and allowed 19.3 points per game which is 7th in the league. The 49ers in the Regular Season scored 29.9 points per game which is 2nd in the league and allowed 19.4 points per game which is 8th in the league. When it comes to these numbers, these teams look pretty even. However, they run very different offenses.
The Chiefs are a lot more pass heavy. They averaged 281.1 pass yards per game which was 5th in the league while the 49ers averaged 237 pass yards per game which was 13th in the league. This will show then that the 49ers ran the ball more effectively. The 49ers averaged 144.1 rush yards per game which was 2nd in the league and the Chiefs averaged 98.1 rush yards per game which was 23rd in the league. These are just their stats from how they have been performing during the regular season. The FPI can tell us more about how to predict this match from past performances.
The FPI now has the Chiefs winning it all with a 64.8% chance. The FPI takes into account many factors to how a team can win. It can be if it is a home or an away game, who is starting, amount of rest for each team, past performances, and even things like how long of a distance of travel does a team have to make that affects the team's preparation. In my opinion, I feel that the past performance is what is affecting this FPI rating. Let's look at the these teams more recent performances.
In the past 8 games, the Chiefs have scored an average of 31.6 points and allowed only 15.5 points per game. The 49ers scored an average of 31 points and allowed 23.9 points per game. So far, the Chiefs look more impressive during this run. Not to mention that the Chiefs are 8-0 in this run and the 49ers are 6-2. But maybe I'm the dummy by not looking at it at a different perspective. The 49ers during that run were 6-1 against teams with winning records. They scored 32.3 points and allowed 22.3 points on average for those games. Kansas City was 3-0 against teams with winning records. They scored 36.3 points and allowed 23.7 points on average for those games.
What the FPI is probably taking into account too is also how these teams have endured adversity recently. Let's look at these two teams' playoff games so far this season. The 49ers were able to easily handle their playoff games easily by scoring 32 points and allowing 15 points per game. The Chiefs though had some adversity to overcome. They were down 24-0 against Houston and down 17-7 against Tennessee during their playoff games. But once they turned it on, there was no going back. The Chiefs went on a 51-7 scoring spree against the Texans after down 24-0 to win 51-31. They then went on a 28-7 scoring spree against the Titans down 17-7 to win 35-24. If you were to just take in the scoring numbers for Kansas City for when they did these comebacks, they scored 39.5 points and allowed 7 points per comeback. The way that they have responded to adversity in the playoffs has just been staggering.
It is for this reason that I think the FPI has taken a lot to favor the Chiefs because of their recent showing of overcoming adversity very well. Not to mention, that the 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the 2016 Falcons when they played the Patriots in Super Bowl 51. That is the famous Super Bowl where the Falcons were up 28-3 against the Patriots and lost 34-28 making it the biggest choke I have ever seen in my life. Perhaps the same thing could repeat again but with the Chiefs now against Kyle Shanahan? I mean, the Chiefs have been doing phenomenal comebacks throughout the playoffs. So why not the Super Bowl as well?
To me, the best champions are the ones that usually do well. But when they are faced with adversity, they do it in a spectacular performance. I just love that touchdown run by Patrick Mahomes against the Titans. It shows his toughness and grit to get his team to win. I'll end this post with a video I made that compares this run to a similar one done by Steve Young in 1988.
Once again, my choice is the Chiefs. My record so far for this NFL season has been 56-33 which is 62.9% accuracy. Let the football game and Super Bowl commercials begin!
This week was when the National Championship between Clemson and LSU happened to determine the National Champion of College Football. There were points of the game where I thought Clemson was going to pull it off, but then LSU would put on all gears to embarrass them to a 42-25 beating.
Over the course of this week, I have been hearing from radio shows and on the TV about how people are ranking this LSU team compared to other greatest teams in college football history. I even heard someone say that Joe Burrow is the greatest college football quarterback to every play the game. Since this is MathSportsGuy, I need to really see the numbers in order to really make a good indication on these claims. Let us go over some numbers.
Team Stats Per Game
LSU this year was able to score 48.4 points per game and their defense allowed 21.9 points per game. Their offensive points per game was 1st in all of college football rankings and their defensive points was 32nd in all of college football rankings for the 2019 season. If you are wondering, the record for most points scored per game was set by Army in 1944. The record that they set was 56 points per game. The record for least amount of points per game for defense was tied for 0.8 points per game by Duke in 1938 and Villanova in 1937. Of course, the stats by these teams from the 1930s and 1940s are impressive, but football was way different back then from what it is now.
Let's take a look at the size of the offensive linemen just to see how different the game is now compared to back then. In the 1930s, the average weight of an offensive lineman was 220 pounds with a height of 6-foot-1. In the 1940s, the only difference is that the average offensive lineman weighed 221 pounds. In today's college football, the average offensive lineman is 6-foot-4.3 and weighs 305.4 pounds. Just by looking at these size differences in just the offensive linemen, we can see that the game has definitely changed just by size of the players. If any of the football teams from the 1930s and 1940s were to play today's football teams, they would get slaughtered. This in turn shows that to comparing LSU's 2019 season to average team stats ranked from the greatest stats ever, it won't be a good comparison because a lot of the best stats are ridiculous ones from the 1930s and 1940s.
Strength of Schedule
In today's world of college football, the teams are mainly ranked now by the College Football Playoff Committee. They take heavily on the rankings on who did each team beat. LSU in the 2019 season was able to beat ranked teams like (with their rankings at the time) Texas 9, Florida 7, Auburn 9, Alabama 3, Georgia 4, Oklahoma 4, and Clemson 3. Those teams' current rankings are now Florida 9, Auburn 12, Alabama 13, Georgia 5, Oklahoma 4, and Clemson 3 (Texas is no longer ranked). LSU was able to beat 7 teams that were ranked in the top 10 when they matched them up during the season. But in reality, they were able to beat 6 teams that are currently ranked and 3 of them are in the top 5. When you take into account of when it was this first set of ranked teams that included Texas, LSU beat them all by an average of 15.4 points together. When LSU played Georgia, Oklahoma, and Clemson, who are ranked in the top 5 now, LSU beat them by an average of 26.3 points. Whenever the conversation about LSU playing well against good teams, they on average would beat them by a little more than 2 touchdowns each.
What if LSU played a former greatest of the greats?
ESPN recently released a list of the 150 greatest college football teams ever since this season was the 150th season. Their list put 1971's Nebraska as #1. That year, Nebraska did beat the ranked number 2, 3, and 4 teams of that season. You can say that that Nebraska team does have a good argument of being the best team because they had a dominant season against good teams. You can see the rest of the ranks from this link. Remember what I said earlier that size can be the difference here. In the 1970s, the average weight and height of an offensive lineman was 255 pounds and 6-foot-3. I said earlier as well that the average size of an offensive lineman now weighs 305.4 pounds and is 6-foot-4.3. LSU's offensive line for this season was 6-foot-4.4 and 323.4 pounds. When it comes to a size difference this big, I would definitely take LSU over Nebraska here. I emphasize the offensive linemen because they are the most important part of the offense. They help block for the running backs and give the quarterback the time he needs to make a play. To win a game, you need to score points. Without a good offensive line, it will be very hard to score any points on offense. Of course special teams and defense could make some points here and there. But, most of the points are scored by the offense.
Just watch the plays that even the offenses made for the Super Bowl contenders Chiefs and 49ers did last Sunday. Their offenses were able to score because of the blocking orchestrated by the offensive line. Look at these run plays by the 49ers against the Packers.
Watch this TD for the Chiefs from last Sunday. Watch how the offensive line works to block for the quarterback. One of the linemen pancakes a guy!
Whenever you watch any more football games, just watch how well the offensive line battles to get the offense working. Therefore, the size of LSU's offensive line will determine how badly they will beat Nebraska's 1971 team. Because of LSU's resume of beating a ton of highly ranked teams and beating some of them by a lot, it is a good argument that this team could be the greatest college football team ever. They went 15-0 which makes it more solidified because the College Football Playoff kind of confirms how well these National Champions are because they have more chances to beat the best teams.
What about Joe Burrow?
Joe Burrow probably had the best season that I've ever seen by a quarterback. I mean he put up some big stats. He made a new record of 60 passing touchdowns for the season and a new record of total touchdowns which he made 65 of. He also threw 5,671 yards which is 3rd all-time. He also had a 15-0 record and won the National Championship. I heard on ESPN radio from Jim Rome and on Sportscenter from Kirk Herbstreit that he is probably the best college football quarterback that they've ever seen. I mean, he probably had the best season ever, but the best college football quarterback ever? Let's look at some stats from former quarterbacks.
The winningest quarterback for college is Kellen Moore who had an impressive 50-3 record. Did he do well in the NFL? Nope. He became an assistant on the Cowboys staff. The quarterback with the most touchdowns responsible for is Case Keenum with 178. What is he doing now? Starting a very mediocre Redskins team that finished 3-13 in 2019. There are 3 QBs that I remember that have won the National Championship multiple times. Tommie Frazier for Nebraska, A.J. McCarron for Alabama, and Tim Tebow. How is Tommie Frazier? He never played in the NFL. What about A.J. McCarron? He's Deshaun Watson's backup on the Houston Texans. How about Tim Tebow? He just got married and is a commentator on SEC Nation but only had one year of excitement in the NFL. What I'm saying is that Joe Burrow had probably the best season ever. But, I think it will solidify him even more depending on how well he does in the NFL. If he does well, he can be considered one of the greatest ever. Just imagine if he was playing with LSU his whole career as the starter? It would have boosted his career stats better instead of most of them being from this last season. He was a graduate transfer to LSU.
Feleipe Franks from Florida is a graduate transfer to Arkansas. He was the starter for the Florida Gators. Cross my fingers that he repeats Joe Burrow's season with Arkansas. Woo pig!
Man what an end to the college football season. It has been awhile since I have posted anything about football because of holidays and I've felt....lazy. But, the college football season is over and now I can tally my results of predictions for the season. On my earlier post called "Bowl Games and NFL Games", I made predictions for all of the bowl games for this season. Now that the National Championship is over, I can give my full tallies now. For bowl season, I went 29-11 which is 72.5% correct for my predictions. I think that I was doing pretty good since most of these games seemed to be evenly matched. So, that means that my season total got to 89-23 which is 79.5% correct for all predictions that I've done on the season. I think that is pretty good so far for my first try. I hope to be able to improve that for next season.
Now, NFL season is still going on and it is just getting really hot with these games now. I was just shocked as anyone by seeing the Titans in the AFC Championship! They beat the Patriots at home (which I loved so much!) and then they embarrassed the Ravens at home as well! My favorite meme that I've seen so far from this impressive run by the Titans was:
I am just wondering if this can continue for the Titans when they play the Chiefs in Arrowhead this Sunday. And talk about the Chiefs game! When I saw that the Chiefs were down 24-0 to the Texans, I just thought that it was over. But then after that, they went on a 51-7 point run and then they broke a lot of records. I've heard that the Chiefs staff ran out of fireworks during the game because they scored so much. The best post from this game was:
The guys that make these memes deserve a lot of money for this gold. If you have been reading my posts so far, you may have noticed in an earlier post that I made a prediction for the Super Bowl back in Rivalry Week of College Football in November. Don't laugh, but my prediction was Ravens vs. Seahawks. Now, my prediction is poo doo. So now what we have left in the playoffs is just Titans vs Chiefs and Packers vs. 49ers. I'll try to not make early predictions for the NFL like that again because, it just makes me look like a fool. I mean, these next images show the predictions for the seasons for the 49ers and the Titans from an "expert" on NFL Network.
I don't want to look like a fool like this guy looks now. When you make predictions, you need enough statistical evidence to really make a good argument. Make predictions in the very beginning of the season to prediction the whole season will just do this to you. I always like to make predictions seeing what the FPI on ESPN shows because it is a computer program of all the information about the teams that makes 10,000 simulations of each match-up. So the FPI can give good info on who might actually win. Also use it on weekly predictions and not seasonal or you'll look like this fool.
So, that means I'll make my NFL predictions for this week. So far, my running total is 54-33 which is 62.1% correct. Now my predictions are:
Titans vs. Chiefs. Winner: Chiefs
Packers vs. 49ers. Winner: 49ers
The Super Bowl will be Chiefs vs. 49ers which is a Super Bowl that we've never had before. The Chiefs haven't been to the Super Bowl in 50 years and the 49ers haven't been there in 7 years. Even if this isn't the Super Bowl, we also have the Titans that haven't been to it in 20 years and the Packers haven't in 9 years. We have a group of potential Super Bowl Champions that have not even been to the Super Bowl in a while. This means that this will be the first Super Bowl that I am actually going to enjoy since Super Bowl 50 because it was Panthers vs. Broncos. What I am saying is that the Patriots will not be in the Super Bowl which is so relieving. This last image will explain what I mean after the Titans beat the Patriots in Wild Card Weekend.
