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I told Willy Mac that I would come by his tailgate yesterday and do you know what, I did, but he wasn’t there.  So does that count as coming by?  I would hope so.  Or was the tailgate I went to even his?  If not, then I weirded out some very nice people.  Anyways, here are Week 13′s The Macallan Cup Standings:

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If you missed Part One of the Weekly Picks O’ the Week, then click here.  Now on to Part Two:

Other Games of Interest

#2 Auburn Tigers (+4.5) @ #11 Alabama Crimson Tide

“The Iron Bowl”

2:30 Friday

-I want to point out something really funny.  If Sakerlina beats Auburn in the SEC Championship, then in all likelihood the (self-proclaimed) “Almighty” SEC will not be playing for the National Championship this season.  It would snap a streak of four consecutive National Champions coming from the SEC.  In fact, that would also result in the SEC Champion being a 3 or 4 loss team (hopefully 4 loss), which means that their conference is about as “almighty” as a box of puppies dressed as kittens.  For once, Sakerlina can’t chant “SEC SEC SEC” because it won’t mean as much when their champion will have lost to Kentucky earlier in the season.  Yes, Sakerlina can claim they won the SEC, but when they will have tied their school record for conference wins and then won the division, it probably means that they didn’t play up to their competition, it means that their competition came down to their level.  And what happened to those vaunted SEC defenses?  This season in conference play, there have been 33 teams score 30-plus points, 14 teams score 40-plus points, 4 teams score 50-plus points, and one game where a team scored 60-plus points.  Either the SEC finally figured out what an offense is or they totally forgot how to play defense.  All I’m really trying to say is that the SEC isn’t the greatest thing known to football anymore, this season they are more or less are an average conference and no longer the king of mountain.  See, there was no reason to bash Sakerlina and the SEC like I did , but too late, I did.  However, I will admit that I do feel a little better.  Sakerlina Sucks!  And a little better.

“I’ll pull for Alabama if I get to meet those, I mean her.”

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I’m generally a laid-back guy, I try not to let things bother me, whether it is Clemson losing a close game, standing in a long line for anything, or bumper-to-bumper traffic (but idiot drivers drive me crazy, no way around that).  Then why is Sakerlina’s success making me want to punch a hole in the wall?  I know they are Clemson’s rival and I was born into a Clemson family (my mom was pregnant with me while she was at the 1982 Orange Bowl where Clemson clinched the 1981 National Championship), therefore I was raised to dislike the Gamecocks, but it just isn’t my nature to be this angry about anything.  For example, my buddy (whose parents and sister went to Sakerlina and he went to GT, but he still pulls for both) called me this weekend and asked me if I was watching the “Carolina” game.  At the time, I was watching the North Carolina game, so I said yes.  He then asked if I saw some random stat the telecast just showed about Troy’s (if you didn’t know, that was who Sakerlina was currently playing) QB’s high school record (he apparently threw 91 TDs his senior season, which is pretty insane) and I stopped him there and said, “When you said Carolina, you should have said SC or the Cocks, they are not Carolina”.  He kind of let that bounce off of him, laughed about it and that was the end of the conversation.  However, I could still tell by the tone of his voice that my comment came off as being malicious (instead of my usual joking tone) and the worst part was that I didn’t even realize it until after I did it.  And that’s just not me, I don’t like being angry, I don’t like that I grimace every time that I see that Sakerlina beat a team like Troy, a team they are supposed to beat, I just don’t like it.

Am I anger because Sakerlina is (finally) having a great season?  Or is it because Clemson is not?  Either way, I don’t let things like that get to me, but every time I hear someone on TV praise the Cocks, I get pissed, change the channel, and then mutter some sort of curse about Sakerlina cheating or something.  It’s almost as if I care more about Sakerlina’s season than Clemson’s, which is the complete opposite way I should be thinking, I should be more concerned with Clemson’s offensive problems than Sakerlina’s SEC (L)East Division win.  Remember a couple weeks ago when I told you guys about me being able to laugh off a Clemson loss and being able to go on with my life?  Then why can’t I do the same thing when Sakerlina wins, that makes no sense to me.  Oh well, I guess it was bound to happen that Sakerlina had a good season at some point, but considering it has never happened in my lifetime, I just assumed it never would and maybe that’s what has got me so worked up.  I wish all of this pent up anger and frustration would go away and the only way I can think of that will make that happen is with a Clemson win this weekend.  If not, then basketball, baseball, and golf seasons, here I come!

And with that, on to some foootbawl!

“Foootbawl!!!”

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The tie for first place has been broken and with two weeks to go, there are only three points separating first through third.  It’s almost like the NASCAR Sprint Cup Standings before today’s race, except we have more mullets, missing teeth, and firework mishap scars.  Here are your standings for Week 12:

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Now, I want to start off by taking a long, deep depressing sigh.  Ssssiiiggghhh….  Nope, I still don’t feel any better about what happened this past weekend.  First off, Clemson loses the only way that Clemson knows how, heart-wrenchingly.  Then, the Cocks go and blow out Florida to win the SEC East, that can’t be more depressing.  Then both of my fantasy football teams lost, which always dampers a guy’s Sunday.  And finally, last week’s picks were just plain terrible, I ended up 3-6, and there is no one to blame but myself….and Duke, UNC, GT, FSU, Florida, and Miss St.  I think this weekend can be summed up nicely by this scene from Ghostbusters:

Venkman:  …this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

Mayor:  What do you mean, “biblical”?

Ray:  What we mean is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff!  Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky!  Rivers and seas boiling!

Egon:  Forty years of darkness!  Earthquakes, volcanoes…

Winston:  The dead rising from the grave!

Venkman:  Human sacrifice!  Dogs and cats living together!  Mass hysteria!

That’s how I felt about last weekend, everything got turned upside-down and that can only mean the Apocalypse is near.  Clemson sucking, Sakerlina winning, my fantasy teams losing (eff you Dwayne Bowe), my picks blowing, what in the hell happened?  I would have been OK if one or two of those things happened last weekend, that’s bearable.  But all four at the same time can kill a man’s soul (ha, as if we dudes had one to begin with).  Let’s hope all of this shitty luck is just getting itself out of the way and culminating into something awesome for me in the future, maybe like a win against Sakerlina, or a fantasy football championship, or maybe even getting a pony for Christmas.

And with that, on to some foootbawl!

“I guess this is related to Foootbawl!!!”

ACC Games

(Pick in Bold.  Lines from Sportsbook.com. Rankings based on BCS Standings)

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