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Addison Recorder Pick ‘Em Week Fifteen – Championship Edition

December 4, 2014 by Alex Bean Leave a Comment

Welcome to the Addison Recorder‘s football Pick ‘Em column. Each week Alex and a guest writer will predict the outcome of the most intriguing games on the slate. He will try to be as expert as possible, but we make no guarantees for his guests.

Actually, I’m gonna fly solo this week. I’ve loved having all my guests contribute, but I’ll close college football’s season being the lone voice shouting into the void.

Bowling Green Falcons MAC Champs

My folks paid thousands of dollars to subsidize this in my time at BGSU.

Northern Illinois vs Bowling Green

The rematch in the MAC Championship is a good place to start. Two years ago, North Illinois managed to run all the way to the Orange Bowl after winning this game. Last year, Bowling Green walked in and knocked off the defending champs and their Heisman-finalist QB Jordan Lynch to win their first conference title in 20 years. So despite the requisite coaching turnovers at both schools, it seems appropriate that both are back. That being said, this probably won’t be much of a game. The Huskies are 10-2 and have a punishing rushing attack. BG is 7-5 and has seen its defense regress from a year ago. So I say sorry to my Alma Mater. NIU by 17. [Read more…]

Posted in: Football, Pick ' EM Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, Arizona Wildcats, Bowling Green Falcons, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia tech Yellowjackets, Mizzou Tigers, Northern Illinois Huskies, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oregon Ducks, Wisconsin Badgers

Addison Recorder Pick ‘Em Week Twelve – Does Not Compute

November 13, 2014 by Alex Bean 3 Comments

Welcome to the Addison Recorder‘s football Pick ‘Em column. Each week Alex and a guest writer will predict the outcome of the most intriguing games on the slate. He will try to be as expert as possible, but we make no guarantees for his guests.

This week we welcome back our very own Andrew Rostan. Last time he made picks it led to the worst Saturday in Big Ten history. Let’s hope it works out better this time!

Dan Mullen Mississippi State

Dan Mullen has taken MIss State to undreamed of heights. Bean thinks he would look good in Maize and Blue.

#1 Mississippi State at #4 Alabama

Bean: The marquee matchup of the weekend. Mississippi State has gone from unranked to top dog this season thanks to a string of impressive wins over the heavy-hitters of the SEC. Bama stumbled against Ole Miss, but has fended off all else. They also have history and probabilities on their side, since the Bulldogs have never experienced this sort of success before and have much better recruits. I think that makes the difference and the Cinderella run will end. Crimson Tide by 7.

Rostan: Let’s talk college, Bean. The senior Mr. Rostan sent me this really fascinating article yesterday by one of his favorite writers, Nat Hentoff, on how colleges discourage some forms of free public speaking and even disinvite some speakers. Hentoff didn’t even have to touch on the shame of Anita Sarkeesian at Utah to make his point. Higher education at its best, as Mark Shiffman also recently pointed out in his excellent essay “Majoring in Fear,” is supposed to challenge us, to make us reflect, to present us with points of view we don’t have to agree with but should at least try to understand, because only be overcoming fear and uncertainty in dealing with new and different ideas can we work together to build a great country.

And speaking of “Majoring in Fear,” I think every student in America is fearful of Mississippi State, and not even Saban can change that. Bulldogs by 7. [Read more…]

Posted in: Football, Pick ' EM, Sports Tagged: Alabama Crimson Tide, Arizona Cardinals, Auburn Tigers, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Georgia Bulldogs, Houston Texans, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Wisconsin Badgers

Addison Recorder Football Pick ‘Em: Week Four

September 18, 2014 by Alex Bean 1 Comment

Welcome to the Addison Recorder‘s football Pick ‘Em column. Each week Alex and a guest writer will predict the outcome of the most intriguing games on the slate. He will try to be as expert as possible, but we make no guarantees for his guests.

Utah Utes Michigan Wolverines

Utah at Michigan did not go Bean’s way in 2008. (Image via)

Utah at Michigan

Bean:

This game is asking for my tears. Michigan has beaten a couple terrible teams with some authority, but got shut out for the first time since the first Reagan administration in their last game against Notre Dame. Utah, meanwhile, is coming off a very unlucky 5-7 season dictated by injuries and has destroyed the first two cupcakes on their schedule. I live in great fear of this game. I can already see Utah blitzing Devin Gardner into mistakes and getting enough big plays to walk out of Ann Arbor with a win. If this game was being played in Salt Lake City I would easily predict Utah. As is…<vomits>…Michigan by 3. [Read more…]

Posted in: Football, Pick ' EM, Sports Tagged: Auburn Tigers, Bowling Green Falcons, Clemson Tigers, Denver Broncos, Florida State Seminoles, K-State Wildcats, Michigan Wolverines, Seattle Seahawks, SUNSPHERE, Utah Utes, Wisconsin Badgers

Addison Recorder Football Pick ‘Em: Week One

August 28, 2014 by Alex Bean Leave a Comment

Welcome to The Addison Recorder’s football Pick ‘Em column. Each week Alex and a guest writer will predict the outcome of the most intriguing games on the slate. He will try to be as expert as possible, but we make no guarantees for his guests.

Appalachian State at Michigan

Appalachian State Michigan Upset 2007 WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY

WHY THE FUCK ARE WE BRINGING THIS UP AGAIN?! (Image via.)

Bean: Fuck this game. I hate Michigan’s AD, Dave Brandon, for scheduling it. I’m sure he did it because it will draw interest in a cheap way (his reason to exist, apparently) and could exorcise the ghost of The Horror. But it won’t. All it does is bring up memories of that fiasco and even if Michigan wins in 2014 they cannot erase the loss from 2007. Not ever. Playing this game is so stupid I want to explode. Michigan will win, because ASU isn’t as good as they were in ’07. But neither is Michigan. <sighs angrily all day> Wolverines by at least 20 points.

Travis: This game is the best thing since sliced bread. This game invented the wheel. This game painted the Mona Lisa, with enough time left over to make creme brulees for the entire coaching staff and roster of App State. This game is a thing of beauty, a tribute to all that is good and right with the world. Also, Michigan is going to dominate. Wolverines by 21. [Read more…]

Posted in: Football, Sports Tagged: Appalachian State Mountaineers, Clemson Togers, Florida State Seminoles, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Michigan Wolverines, Oklahoma State Cowboys, South Carolina Gamecocks, Texas A&M Aggies, Wisconsin Badgers

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