Another Blackout in Georgia?

Last year, I was able to go to Athens, Georgia to attend the Auburn/UGA game. It was a night game on ESPN, but we got there very early for tailgaiting. It was very interesting to see that most of the fans were wearing black and the team came out onto the field for pregame warmups in their normal home red jerseys. After warm-ups, they went back to the locker room and came out wearing black jerseys for only the second time in school history. The effect was pretty cool, but the game sucked. Knowshon Moreno had a coming out party and Georgia romped. After Alabama's dismantling of Arkansas this past weekend and starting to show signs of past Bama teams, I wonder if maybe The Dawgs will try the blackout thing again. Alabama will be playing in Athens this Saturday night on ESPN.

I finally had decent week in College pick'em getting 9/15 (60%) right against the spread. Auburn, East Carolina, Florida State and, Fresno State were some of my misses. The final score of the Fresno State/Toledo game was 55-54.

My fantasy football team is horrible, but I may still be lucky enough to be 2-1 after tonight's Jets/Chargers game. My #1 pick, Tom Brady is out for the year, and #3, Braylon Edwards has dropped almost as many balls as he's caught along with two easy touchdowns. Matt Forte was an awesome mid-round draft and Santana Moss and Jason Witten are currently #1 at their respective positions in fantasy football. I picked up Kurt Warner off the waiver wire and was actually lucky that I started him over Brady in the first game when Brady was knocked out in the first quarter. Now I just wish I had drafted Ronnie Brown, who was actually the highest scoring player in all of fantasy football when he tore up his knee last year. His 5 td's yesterday against the Pats was pretty impressive.

Betting Against the Spread

This year I joined a Yahoo College Football Pick'em pool and have faired miserably. I am currently 46% correct against the spread. In games where the line was "Off", I am at 100%. However, if I was in Vegas, I would have put all my money on USC covering their 10.5 point spread over Ohio State and would have made lots of money. I also wanted Laura to put money on last night's Cowboys/Eagles game but I forgot to give her money before she left to stay at Mandalay Bay this week. More money I could have won. Other than that, I have thoroughly enjoyed the early football season, especially watching East Carolina beating the West Virginia and Va Tech. College football gets exponentially more exciting this week as he SEC gets into full gear with Auburn/LSU, Alabama/Arkansas, and Tennessee/Florida. Auburn better learn the spread offense really quick, because they will not beat LSU 3-2. Alabama should win, as Arkansas had to pull off 4th Quarter comebacks against Western Illinois and La-Monroe. Ike did give Arkansas a week off though.

Outside of football, I have stayed busy with classes at Alabama A&M(one of the HBCU schools) and substitute teaching at Sparkman High School. Tomorrow, I begin practicums (observations) at Rainbow Elementary School in Madison and will continue those every Wednesday through early December.

Kevin seems to really like his new school and rode the bus today for the first time. I will find out after school how it went. Abby's hair is growing back after her self-barbering episode over the summer and she loves her teachers.

Fall officially begins on Monday and last night, the temps dropped into the upper 50's and it is finally beginning to feel that Summer is releasing it's oppressive grip here.