Super Bowl Like We've Never Seen Before

 

It's finally here!  The Super Bowl is here!  I don't know about all of you, but this looks like a great Super Bowl to me.  We have the Bengals who have never won a Super Bowl, and then we have the Rams who haven't won the Super Bowl since the 1999 season and their QB, Matthew Stafford, is a 13-year NFL veteran going to his first Super Bowl.  This is Bengal's QB Joe Burrow's first too, but he had arguably one of the best seasons ever at LSU in 2019 and it's his 2nd year in Cincinnati.  Matthew Stafford had to play 12 seasons with the Lions to get here finally.  Either way, if you are a big football fan, this will be so great.  The NFL FPI does favor the Rams (66% chance) but I really don't know.  I think the Bengals have a great shot too.  I guess if you were to put a gun to my head and answer,  I would say Bengals because they've just been shocking me the whole playoffs and I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled this one.

That's my pick.  Bengals.

I went 0-2 last week and so I'm 1-5 (16.67%) for my NFL Playoffs predictions.  These playoffs have just been unpredictable to me.  I am now 150-102 (59.52%) on the whole season. This have been my lowest accuracy so far for a season in the NFL.  My highest is 63.96% for the 2020 season so it's not too bad.  These games have been great and I hope this Super Bowl is great too.   

Go Bengals!  But I'm fine with either one because what a great Super Bowl we have this year.

NFL Conference Championship Weekend

 

It's that time of year again.  We will see who will go to the Super Bowl this year between the Bengals and Chiefs for AFC and 49ers and Rams for NFC.  We could possibly have a Bengals vs. 49ers or Rams Super Bowl or Chiefs vs. 49ers or Rams Super Bowl.  Last week, I went 1-3 (25%) in my predictions.  It was a crazy playoffs weekend.  Probably the best ever.  I was really on the edge of my seat particularly watching Rams vs. Buccaneers and Bills vs. Chiefs.  This brings my NFL season total to 150-100 (60%).  I hope these games will be great too and the Super Bowl ends with a bang.

NFL Championship Round:

Bengals vs. Chiefs: Chiefs

49ers vs. Rams: 49ers

Divisional Round!

 

It's the Divisional Round!  Sorry I didn't post last week.  My new job got me really tired and I wanted to do nothing last Saturday.  But, I am ready to go.  Since Georgia beat Alabama in the National Championship, I was 216-77 (73.72%) for my College Football predictions.  I went 8-8 (50%) on my last NFL predictions which brings me to 149-97 (60.57%).  I decided to take a look at my prediction performance so far through out the years on this graph below.

It looks like my accuracy hasn't really changed much.  I think it is because I have been doing more games than when I first began.  Oh well.  I still do it.

But! Let's get to the predictions now.

NFL Divisional Week:

Bengals vs. Titans: Titans

49ers vs. Packers: Packers

Bills vs. Chiefs: Chiefs

Rams vs. Buccaneers: Buccaneers

Week 18 of NFL and National Championship Monday

 

College Football is almost over for the season.  Just one more game.  The game that all of the teams want to get to.  The National Championship.  I pick Alabama because they handled Georgia pretty well the last time they played and I can't see Nick Saban losing to a former assistant twice in the same season.  But, Georgia could surprise us and play a closer game.  Who knows what will happen.

I'm happy that Arkansas went 9-4 on the season.  I only predicted them to go 7-5 and they did more than I thought they would.  Hopefully the players that are leaving the program won't affect us much and that Sam Pittman can keep this success going.  Bumper Pool is staying for another year which is good for the defense.  We'll just see.

This Bowl Season, I went 23-14 (62.2%) for my College Football predictions (Total: 216-76 (73.97%)) and I went 12-4 (75%) for NFL predictions (Total: 141-89 (61.3%)).  Now let's do this week's predictions!

NFL Week 18:

Chiefs vs. Broncos: Chiefs

Cowboys vs. Eagles: Cowboys

Bengals vs. Browns: Bengals

Packers vs. Lions: Packers

Bears vs. Vikings: Vikings

Washington vs. Giants: Washington

Colts vs. Jaguars: Colts

Steelers vs. Ravens: Steelers

Titans vs. Texans: Titans

Saints vs. Falcons: Saints

Jets vs. Bills: Bills

49ers vs. Rams: Rams

Patriots vs. Dolphins: Patriots

Seahawks vs. Cardinals: Cardinals

Panthers vs. Buccaneers: Buccaneers

Chargers vs. Raiders: Chargers

Almost New Year, Plenty of Football

 

I took a break from last week from predictions and now I am back.  So far, I am 13-9 in the bowl games so far.  I would be 17-5 if I didn't favor the SEC teams.  Oh well.  I'm excited for the playoff games to start and for Arkansas' bowl game.  I hope the season ends with a bang.  The NFL has this week and next week to finally end the regular season and begin the playoffs.  We'll see how this all goes.

Last week I went 9-7 (56.25%) for NFL predictions (Total: 129-85 (60.3%)).  Now let's do this week's predictions!  I'm not updating my college predictions until bowl season is over.

NFL Week 17:

Chiefs vs. Bengals: Chiefs

Falcons vs. Bills: Bills

Giants vs. Bears: Bears

Dolphins vs. Titans: Dolphins

Raiders vs. Colts: Colts

Jaguars vs. Patriots: Patriots

Buccaneers vs. Jets: Buccaneers

Eagles vs. Washington: Eagles

Rams vs. Ravens: Rams

Broncos vs. Chargers: Chargers

Texans vs. 49ers: 49ers

Cardinals vs. Cowboys: Cowboys

Panthers vs. Saints: Saints

Lions vs. Seahawks: Seahawks

Vikings vs. Packers: Packers

Browns vs. Steelers: Steelers

Bowl Games and NFL Games

 

It's that time again.  It is about to be bowl season.  There are many bowl games and I will make my predictions for all of them.  Especially for the Outback Bowl since my Razorbacks will play in it.  Even though Arkansas is 8-4 and Penn State is 7-5, they still seem to be a tough opponent to beat.  Right now the ESPN FPI has Penn State favored at 58.9%.  Penn State is 0-4 against teams that in the current Top 25 and Arkansas is 1-3 for this season.  Both are 0-3 against teams that are currently in the Top 10.  They look evenly matched so we will see how it goes.  But I feel confident that the Razorbacks can end the season 9-4 and be 4-0 in trophy games this year.  There are a ton of bowl games so we will just get to those in a second for predictions.

If you have followed me for a while, I made a preseason prediction for all of Arkansas' games.  I predicted that we would go 7-5 and we went 8-4.  It makes me happy that we actually performed better than I expected.  For the 2020 season, I predicted us going 3-7 and we did and I predicted the exact games that we would win and lose.  The link for the 2021 season prediction is here.

Last week I went 0-1 (0%) for my College Football predictions (Total: 193-62 (75.69%)) and 9-5 (64.3%) for NFL predictions (Total: 120-78 (60.6%)).  Now let's do this week's predictions!

Bowl Season:

MTSU vs. Toledo: Toledo

N Illinois vs. Coast Carolina: Coast Carolina

Western Kentucky vs. Appalachian St: Appalachian St

UTEP vs. Fresno State: Fresno State

UAB vs. BYU: BYU

E Michigan vs. Liberty: Liberty

Utah State vs. Oregon St: Utah State

Louisiana vs. Marshall: Louisiana

Old Dominion vs. Tulsa: Tulsa

Kent State vs. Wyoming: Wyoming

UTSA vs. San Diego State: San Diego State

Missouri vs. Army: Missouri

North Texas vs. Miami (OH): North Texas

UCF vs. Florida: Florida

Memphis vs. Hawai'i: Memphis

Georgia State vs. Ball State: Georgia State

W Michigan vs. Nevada: W Michigan

Boston College vs. East Carolina: Boston College

Houston vs. Auburn: Auburn

Air Force vs. Louisville: Louisville

Mississippi State vs. Texas Tech: Mississippi State

UCLA vs. NC State: NC State

West Virginia vs. Minnesota: Minnesota

SMU vs. Virginia: Virginia

Maryland vs. Virginia Tech: Virginia Tech

Clemson vs. Iowa State: Clemson

Oregon vs. Oklahoma: Oklahoma

North Carolina vs. South Carolina: North Carolina

Tennessee vs. Purdue: Tennessee

Pittsburgh vs. Michigan State: Michigan State

Wisconsin vs. Arizona State: Wisconsin

Wake Forest vs. Texas A&M: Texas A&M

Washington St vs. Miami: Miami

C Michigan vs. Boise State: Boise State

Cincinnati vs. Alabama: Alabama

Georgia vs. Michigan: Georgia

Penn State vs. Arkansas: Arkansas

Oklahoma St vs. Notre Dame: Oklahoma St

Iowa vs. Kentucky: Kentucky

Utah vs. Ohio State: Ohio State

Baylor vs. Ole Miss: Ole Miss

LSU vs. Kansas State: LSU

Predicted National Championship:

Alabama vs. Georgia: Alabama

NFL Week 15:

Chiefs vs. Chargers: Chiefs

Raiders vs. Browns: Browns

Patriots vs. Colts: Patriots

Panthers vs. Bills: Bills

Cardinals vs. Lions: Cardinals

Jets vs. Dolphins: Dolphins

Cowboys vs. Giants: Cowboys

Washington vs. Eagles: Eagles

Titans vs. Steelers: Titans

Texans vs. Jaguars: Jaguars

Bengals vs. Broncos: Broncos

Falcons vs. 49ers: 49ers

Seahawks vs. Rams: Rams

Packers vs. Ravens: Packers

Saints vs. Buccaneers: Buccaneers

Vikings vs. Bears: Vikings

Army and Navy and Heisman

 

It is that week again.  We have the Heisman Trophy Ceremony and the Army vs. Navy game.  Next week is when Bowl Season starts.  This week is just a little break from a lot of College Football before that part of the season starts.  When it comes to the Heisman, Bryce Young will definitely win it this year.  His stats are crazy but what convinced me was his last 2 games.  When he played Auburn, he didn't really have a good game compared to how he usually plays. He was 25-51 with 317 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 1 INT.  But his Heisman moment was on Alabama's last drive during regulation before overtime.  Alabama gets the ball with 1:32 left in the 4th Quarter starting at the Alabama 3 yard line.  3 yard line!  Bryce Young was able to lead the offense to score a touchdown with 24 seconds left in the game to tie it.  If it wasn't for his brilliant time management and clutch throws then Alabama might've lost the game and not be in the playoff potentially.  That was the drive that convinced me that he deserves the Heisman.  He already has the monster stats from the whole season.  Now he has a great moment when his team really needed him during adversity to be clutch and give them the chance to win.  He also threw 421 yards and 3 TDs against Georgia.  Freaking Georgia!  That's my case for Bryce Young for Heisman.  

With Army vs. Navy, Army all the way this year.

Last week I went 6-5 (54.5%) for my College Football predictions (Total: 193-61 (75.98%)) and 9-5 (64.3%) for NFL predictions (Total: 111-73 (60.3%)).  Now let's do this week's predictions!

NFL Week 14

Steelers vs. Vikings: Steelers

Raiders vs. Chiefs: Chiefs

Ravens vs. Browns: Ravens

Jaguars vs. Titans: Titans

Saints vs. Jets: Saints

Cowboys vs. Washington: Cowboys

Falcons vs. Panthers: Panthers

Seahawks vs. Texans: Seahawks

Lions vs. Broncos: Broncos

Giants vs. Chargers: Chargers

49ers vs. Bengals: Bengals

Bills vs. Buccaneers: Buccaneers

Bears vs. Packers: Packers

Rams vs. Cardinals: Cardinals