Who Was Right? 2010 Predictions Gone Very Wrong
by bammer on Jan 14, 2011 12:59 PM CST
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Back on Sept. 1st I posted a challange, pick the winner from each conference, the heisman winner and eventual National Champion and we would check back at the end of the season to see who was dumb....Well the time has come. As usual I rule all.. You can see the original post here.
Here were mine..
SEC
West- Bama East- UF
Winner: Bama
ACC
Atlantic- FSU Coastal- Va Tech
Winner: FSU
Big 10
Iowa
Pac-10
Oregon St.- .
Big 12
North- Nebraska- South- Oklahoma- .
Winner: Nebraska
WAC- Boise MAC- TCU
Some hits and a few misses there..Actually besides the mid majors I didn't get a single conference winner right...But i had at least the division winners right for a few. What i really missed on was the NC game and Heisman winner. (Ponder? What was i thinking?) funny thing..I didn't see a single person pick Auburn..on a Bama site..IM SHOCKED.
I had to LOL at 5026's pick for Clemson winning the ACC and Texas winning the Big 12..
Todaddy had I think 3 conference winners right but missed of course on the NC.
jtcrimson picked UGA to win the east...how cute.
Thomas Walker at least had Oregon winning the Pac-10...but was wrong saying no one goes undefeated out there.
Worst prediction of the thread?....yeah i said this..
Texas is the sleeper in the B10 south.They are pretty much in the same boat as OU. Lost a lot of guys from both sides of the ball and big time contributers to boot..The Big 12 should be a lot of fun to watch this year.
Bumpjon was pretty close but his picks dont count since he picked multiple choices for each conference :)
Worst BCS prediction? TexaninNYC
Rose Bowl: Ohio State over Oregon
Fiesta Bowl: TCU over Iowa
Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech over Connecticut
Sugar Bowl: Florida over Texas
BCSNCG: Alabama over Oklahoma
Anyways...just by looking at it you can tell we are all geniuses and should be getting paid for our immense amount of knowledge...
Anyone want to stab at early predictions for the spring games?
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I don't know how bad of a BCS prediction that was by TexaninNYC
He got 6 of the 10 teams right. Replace Iowa with Wisconsin, Texas with Stanford and the two SEC teams. I think that actually looks pretty solid, since he nailed the Big 12, ACC, Pac-10, and Big East champs and got TCU and OSU as at larges.
Exactly
And, you know what? He may just be a savant, and a year early…the sharps have that as the early game for 2011.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Sir Francis Bacon
by Stuck in the Plains on Jan 14, 2011 5:13 PM CST up reply actions
Bumpjon was pretty close but his picks dont count since he picked multiple choices for each conference :)
It’s funny that my completely snarky fake picks came te closest.
And why was TNYC’s picks so bad? He got 6 of th BCS teams right; he just had the bols a little wrong.
well the BCS CG was wrong...
Rose Bowl was completely wrong and so was the Sugar…i guess he came closer than most but its still pretty far off.
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Picked the wrong bowls...
But if you read between the lines, I did pick every conference winner but the SEC. Just sayin’
Death, Taxes, and Tim Duncan.
good call Bammer, thanks for linking to OG thread too...
SECW – Bama
SECE – fla
ACC – dont know/care. VT? certainly NOT miami
BE – WVU
big 10 – osu edges out iowa
big12 N – nebraska, Neb is big 12 champ
big 12 S – OU
pac 10 – oregon, arizona will be mediocre, arizona state will aspire to mediocrity…
MWC- Utah
WAC – Boise
national champs, Bama over undefeated Nebraska. Boise is either 12-0 or 11-1. either way, they miss out due to undefeated bama and nebraska…
kellen moore for heisman if boise beats VT. if VT wins, could very will be ryan williams, the dion lewis for Pitt if they do well, or Jake Locker/Andrew Luck if Washington/Stanford does well. it wont be an SEC player, ask charles woodson/peyton manning why
well, i was about 33% right i’d say. got the ACC champ, had Boise beating VT. got Oregon as pac 10 champ. OSU and WVU finished with mutltiple team ties for confernce title, that kinda counts. i was too high on Nebraska and Utah thats for sure. TCU really did prove me wrong. and i didn;t see Nevada coming.
needless to say i wont even address how stupid/horrific the SEC turned out. as well as my heisman prediction…. i do have one mroe prediction about this years heisman left though. it will be vacant within 12 months…
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. - Raoul Vaneigem
take this job and shove it - Johnny Paycheck
The only thing worse...
…is Newton for Heisman….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 14, 2011 6:41 PM CST up reply actions
I can't even remember my picks
that was soooo long ago, but I do remember that I thought Clemson would be good this past year and their season took a dramatic down turn with the AU loss, which they should have won.
As far as Texas, well Gilbert really had me fooled.
And, if anyone in all of America picked Newton for Heisman than I want to meet them. It was definitely a year of surprises.
I hope 2011 is not a year of surprises because a lot of folks think Bama vs. OU, which would be an awesome game in New Orleans for the NC.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
ill help ya
SEC- Bama (13-1)
ACC- Clemson
Big 10- OSU
Big 12- Texas
Pac- Oregon
Big East- Pitt
NCG- Bama vs. Texas- round 2.
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Thanks.
well I did get OSU, Oregon, and Pitt.
But Texas and Clemson look pretty dumb right now don’t they?
I think if I had been logical I would have still picked us to have won the SEC, but with 2 losses, not one. I picked us with 1 loss because I really thought, inspite of our losses, that the SEC would be down sans Tebow. I could have never forseen AU.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
Fine, I'll give you mine for 2011...early and truthy
B12N: Mizzou
B12S: OK (Conf. Champ)
B10Legeaders: Nebraska
B10Leadends: OSU (Conf. Champ)
ACC Coastlantic: Va. Tech
ACC Atloastal: ‘Noles (Conf. Champ)
PAC10Granola: USC (ineligible, so runner-up in a risky prediction, Arizona State)
PAC10Flakes: Oregon (Conf. Champ. If not for coaching changes, this would be Stanford’s)
MAC BADFOOTBALL: Ohio
MAC FOOTBALLBAD: NIU (Conf. Champ)
SECW: Alabama/LSU tie – Alabama with h2h tiebreaker (Conf. Champ)
SECE: UGA/USCe/Florida tie – UGA in tiebreaker
BE: W f’n VA/TCU tie – WVU in tiebreaker
MWC: Boise St
CUSA SUCKHARD: UCF
CUSA SUCKSHARDER: Houston (Conf. Champ)
SunBelt: Troy
Bank it, suckas.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Sir Francis Bacon
by Stuck in the Plains on Jan 14, 2011 5:27 PM CST reply actions
Mine's the worst?
I picked Oregon to win the Pac-10, Ohio State to win the Big-10 (they shared it), Va Tech to win the ACC, UConn to win the Big East (which I was soundly mocked for), and Oklahoma to win the Big 12. Other than picking Bama to win the SEC, I got every single BCS conference right, plus TCU as an at large (and sans Boise State.) Granted I was high on Texas and Florida (but seriously did ANYONE see that Texas meltdown coming?), but all in all I’m damn proud of this prediction, my friend.
Death, Taxes, and Tim Duncan.
I hate to even mention this,
but speaking of correct pre-season predictions, who is mocking Kirk Herbstreit now? He still may have just been taking some shots in the dark, but if so he got pretty lucky.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 14, 2011 5:49 PM CST reply actions
He got it right...ouch!
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
That ain't all...
Auburn was payin’ for? >.>
by BigBamaDaddy on Jan 14, 2011 6:30 PM CST up reply actions
actually in week 6
After the barn almost lost its 3rd game of the season, he mentioned how he would love to go back on that prediction, but that he had to stick to his guns. So let’s just say he wasn’t confident about his pick throughout the season.
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
by TopDaddy on Jan 14, 2011 9:23 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Honestly,
I’d say most folks who guess ‘em correctly feel like wavering during most seasons. I sure know there were moments in 2009 when I wasn’t sure we’d make it all the way. That’s just college football.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 14, 2011 11:56 PM CST up reply actions
I got all of 1 major conference correct
Unless you count OSU tying for the Big 10.
"You know, we had a lot of fun tonight. But there's nothing funny about vapor lock! It's the third most common cause of cars stalling. So please, take care of your car and get it checked!" -Joe Namath
Oh, I'd count a tie.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
Not so much a prediction,
but the week leading up to the Duke game some people were talking about Arkansas, and I said that I thought we were more likely to lose to South Carolina, LSU, or “even to Auburn” than we were to Arkansas. I really didn’t see Arkansas only dropping 1 other conference game though.
formerly 'ud2'
I had Landry Jones, Ponder, Moore, and Trent
As a Heisman finalists…. (Maybe I was accidentally picking for next year?)
Death, Taxes, and Tim Duncan.
i will never........
make a living picking preseason champs, because who could have forseen the way this season went. The gators and longhorns going backwards and the barners miracle season.
I stand by my pick of the dawgs, because my wife told me too.
Now abides faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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