Weekly Picks of the Week - Week 1

Here is a weekly post I used to do for an old website I used to write for (before those jerks shut it down without letting me know) and I thought I would start my weekly college football picks again for you guys.  Since I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to do this, I figured I would pick all of the big match-ups each week, something along the lines of any games where both teams are ranked in the Top 25, plus any other games I feel like should be included.  Let's see if I still got the magic picking touch:

Picks in Bold

Rankings based on Coaches Poll
All lines provided by Sportsbook.ag

#9 South Carolina Gamecocks @ Vanderbilt Commodores (+6.5)

Thursday 7:00

Tennessee Volunteers v. NC State Wolfpack (+3)

Georgia Dome

Friday 7:30

#22 Boise State Broncos @ #13 Michigan State Spartans (-7)

Friday 8:00

#14 Clemson Tigers (-3.5) v. #25 Auburn Tigers

Georgia Dome

Saturday 7:00

#8 Michigan Wolverines (+14) v. #2 Alabama Crimson Tide

Cowboys Stadium

Saturday 8:00

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (+7.5) @ #20 Virginia Tech Hokies

Monday 8:00

-For those of you who don't know (or even care), I graduated from Clemson and fellow Brainfart contributor, Alex, graduated from Georgia Tech, which makes both of us pretty big college football fans.  On top of that, all of Alex's family went to Clemson's nemesis, the University of South Carolina, and so he grew up a fan of the Gamecocks (cocks, hehe) and yet we somehow remained friends all these years.  Well, when we were putting together our College Football Preview a couple of weeks ago, Alex picked South Carolina to win the SEC East and Southern California to win the PAC-12.  However, when he wrote in his picks, he put South Carolina as "USC" and spelled out "Southern California".  As I Clemson fan, I found this hilarious for a couple of reasons.  The first reason is that when you are watching a football game on ESPN between South Carolina and whoever, what does the small scoreboard in the corner of the screen say?  It says "SCar", not "USC".  What I'm trying to say is that when the national media doesn't refer to your team as USC, then you are not USC.  The other reason I found it funny that Alex claimed South Carolina as USC is because Southern Cal is definitely The Real USC.  Hell, South Carolina can't even claim to be The Real Carolina (UNC owns that title).  The reason that USC is The Real USC is because they can claim 11 National Championships and 36 Conference Titles.  Meanwhile South Carolina has only ever won one Conference Championship in their 120 year history and that was all the way back in 1969.  So, you tell me who the real USC is (hint - it's not South Carolina).  Oh, and don't get me started on who Alex is supposed to pull for if Georgia Tech actually played South Carolina (which is scheduled to happen in 2021 and 2022, yeah, they schedule that far ahead), that's as confusing as it was to go through puberty.

Also, I don't feel confident with any of these picks mostly because I went heavy anti-SEC and that can never be a good thing.  Then again, I'm sure that most people are tired of hearing all the pro-SEC crap they spew on ESPN every day that they are secretly hoping I am correct with all of my picks this week.  Fingers crossed.

Last Week's Results:  0-0
Season Results:  0-0

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