Braves-Gamecock Football
Week Two
Our annual sports weekly that runs during College Football season returned for its fourth year last Thursday when our Gamecocks half whipped Southern Mississippi as the Braves and Phillies battle for supremacy in the National League East.
Cockstradamus returned from his Azores sabbatical to correctly pick 19 of 26 marquee games including 24th-ranked South Carolina’s impressive 41-13 drubbing of Brett Farve’s alma mater and statement to the SEC East going into this week’s home contest at Williams-Brice Stadium against their rival, 22nd-ranked Georgia Bulldogs.
Boise-mania
The Peach State’s poultry oracle from SC, while atop Stone Mountain, also correctly predicted the Potato State’s Bronco herding of Virginia Gobblers/Hokies in Maryland’s home of the Washington Redskins.
I guess it qualifies as an away game on the road to nearly three seasons worth of winning and nothing else, but Braves-Gamecock doubts scenarios that would enable Boise State to earn our vote for the BCS Championship will materialize (i.e. champions of the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 all have two losses).
However, we have always relished the arguments of equally-deserving teams given that any “championship” outside of an all-inclusive playoff (involving at least 8 teams, and preferably 16) is mythical. We do think the present iteration of the non-playoff championship is the best devised so-far, but given the weak schedule the Broncos play, we would deem it unfair to grant them one of the two exclusive slots barring extraordinary circumstances.
That said, I do think the blue team with the blue field may be the best team and could beat any team in the SEC on a given day. But could they beat all eight teams on an SEC schedule and then win the SEC Championship game? I don’t know, but I do know that the winner of the SEC has to do just that, or something very close.
Bush Heisman
Did the NCAA take away OJ’s Heisman Trophy before he hocked it? Didn’t think so.
Braves-Gamecock thinks most of the NCAA rules violate Liberty and even those that don’t wouldn’t justify recognitions of who won games on the field, won championships and excelled enough to make the trip to New York’s Downtown Athletic Club.
And we weren’t and are not a Reggie Bush fan. We did like Matt Leinart and thought he had a good case for being mentioned in the same breath as Tebow, but it seems he has turned into a whiny jerk sitting the bench in the NFL. Sad.
But, speaking of the NFL, here are picks of Week One losers (in memory of Athens, Georgia’s legendary radio football prognosticator, Leonard Postosties) followed by our division winners picks and then, Week Two college picks.
NFL Week One
Vikings will lose to Saints
Jaguars will lose to Broncos
Raiders will lose to Titans
Bengals will lose to Patriots
Browns will lose to Buccaneers

Texans will lose to Colts
Lions will lose to Bears
Steelers will lose to Falcons
Bills will lose to Dolphins

Panthers will lose to Giants
Eagles will lose to Packers
Rams will lose to Cardinals
Seahawks will lose to 49ers
Redskins will lose to Cowboys
Ravens will lose to Jets, and
Cheifs will lose to Chargers
NFL Division Winner Picks
Dallas Cowboys
New Orleans Saints
Green Bay Packers
Arizona Cardinals
New York Jets
Indianapolis Colts
Baltimore Ravens
San Diego Chargers
College Football Week Two
Georgia will lose to USC
Notre Dame will lose to Michigan
Jayhawks will lose to Ramblin’ Wreck
Presbyterian Blue Hose will lose to Clemson Tigers
Hurricanes will lose to Buckeyes
Trojans will lose to Cavaliers (upset special #1)
Penn State will lose to Alabama
Volunteers will lose to Ducks
Missouri State will lose to Kansas State
Seminoles will lose to Sooners
Gators will lose to Bulls (upset special #2)
Cowboys will lose to Longhorns
Louisiana Tech will lose to Texas A & M
Iowa will lose to Iowa State (upset special #3)
Chippewas will lose to Owls, and
Charleston Southern will lose to Wofford

LAST WEEK’S OPENING WEEK HIGHLIGHTS:
Fourth Annual Braves-Gamecock College Football Ode to Leonard’s Losers
This year we also launch the season with conference predictions as well as our usual selection of weekly picks at the bottom of the column, but first…
Leonard Postosties
This column has always been dedicated to the late Athens, Georgia native, Leonard “Postosties” Postero, pigskin prognosticator extraordinaire, whose “Leonard’s Losers” radio show was a must listen all during our childhood and until his death in 2001.
End of the 1801 “Chicken Curse”
We await the opening Kickoff of the College Football season tomorrow, still basking in the glow of the end of the 1801 “chicken curse” as the Fighting Gamecocks won the College World Series over UCLA (the school with the most NCAA national championships) and their first national championship (The Lady Gamecocks broke their “hen curse” with the 2002 Track and Field crown), when USC will tarnish the feathers of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles as Lane Kiffin’s team (for now) has a luau with non-rainbow Warriors in Hawaii.
I am Gamecock. Born one, raised as one and matriculated as one at the Law School.
Cockstradamus on FBS conference One-Twos
ACC – Clemson Tigers – Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech (and a heckuv an engineer) Yellow Jackets
SEC – USC – Alabama
Big 12 – Texas – Oklahoma
Big Ten – Ohio State – Wisconsin
Big East – UCONN – WVA
C-USA – Houston – Tulsa
Mid-American – Central Michigan Chippewas – Buffalo Bulls
Mountain West – Texas Christian University – BYU
Pac 10 – Oregon State – Oregon
Sun Belt – Middle Tennessee – Troy
WAC – Boise State – Fresno State
More losers next week as Nadal breaks through at Flushing Meadows, that 88 car wows NASCAR and Agnes Scott College remains undefeated….Get me out of here, Percy (Peabody) …
Mike DeVine
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
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