Padre has a FLASH THURSDAY Upset Prediction
Temple Owls 31 UCF Knights ( Co-National Champions 2017 ) 30
Owls leave droppings all over the Knights and the Orlando Sentinel Sports Department
ZT has nothing after flying Coast to Coast and then home in the past 36 hours other than a major Wedgie that may take a tow truck with super cables to remove…….More to come on a BIG CFB WEEKEND!
Friday Games……ZT now has on a fresh pair of Duluth Buck Naked Performance Boxers and 4 lbs. of leftover Halloween Candy. Perfect paring for Friday Night Prognostications..
Arizona Wildcats 31 Colorado Buffaloes 28
Buffs start off 5-0 and now are on a 3 game slide but QB Montez has been without his favorite target WR Shenault, Jr. for the past 2 weeks……..they did hold a “players only” meeting but was later reported a guy figured out how to put weed in candy corn and just wanted to share the recipe. The Wildcats ( 4-5 ) under 1st year HC Kevin Sumlin are about as consistent as a 4-year old’s explanation of why the family cat is now green. Good news is they have some confidence off a nice drubbing of Oregon. Seeing some special teams improvement as well that could be a difference maker. Wildcats win on a late field goal and Buff’s mascot Chip the Buffalo shoots off his “other one’ with the t-shirt cannon.
Pittsburgh Panthers 24 Virginia Cavaliers 23 – Friday Night Upset Special
UVA is 4-0 at home while Pitt is 0-4 on the Road…..Pretty Simple Right?………” Not So Fast” (thank you Lee! ). 3 of the Pitt road losses were to Notre Dame, Penn State and Co-National Champion UCF Knights ( I almost wet my pants just saying that! ). HC Narduzzi will have this team ready to play. Cavaliers schedule is weaker than old elastic at a weight watchers convention. For that reason ( and the fact UVA wait-listed me for grad school some years ago )…..ZT likes Pitt to clip the Cavs in Charlottesville.
Down to 3 lbs. of Candy….but still plenty of bite size Baby Ruths so ZT will be back with Saturday Prognostications later…….
Padre has finished counseling all parishioners that Halloween is simply fun and not a ritual to do bad things to black cats. Now he is ready to lay it on us……
Florida Gators 27 Missouri Tiger 23
Both teams are reeling from tough loses last week, but I think it will be close. I do think my Gators find a way. Missouri is better than their record, but the home field gets my Gators through the day with a W. Meanwhile, I hate Georgia. “Dawgs” is a dumb way to spell dogs. And Dallas traded Herschel Walker to get Emmitt Smith. Yeah. Who was better?? GO GATORS. #Pettiness.
West Virginia Mountaineers 41 Texas Longhorns 34
Am I the only one who think WV HC Dana Holgerson listens to Lynard Skynard before the games and then The Grateful Dead after the games???
Georgia Bulldawgs 30 Kentucky Wildcats 16
Kentucky plays hard for a while, but depth and talent just take over. Just too much. And the Pups win the SEC East, then pray LSU upsets Bama. Also, Green Bay wants their logo back, smelly mutts! #PettinessIsOkayForFootball
Michigan Wolverines 33 Penn State Nittany Lions 17
Boogers and Khakis are stronger than simple uniforms. Michigan is getting closer to that playoff!!!
Alabama Crimson Tide 34 LSU Tigers 17
The Tide keeps rolling and Coach O keeps Geauxing.
Northwestern Wildcats 27 Notre Dame 26 – UPSET OF THE WEEK
The Irish run out of lucky charms in Evanston. Northwestern used to be a Methodist school by the way. John Wesley > Golden Dome…
Padre is heading back to eBay to bid on the remaining 218 Spurrier items still available on the auction site……
ZT now down to 2 lbs. of Candy, primarily Vanilla Tootsie Rolls ( which are just WRONG anyway ) so here we go:
Georgia Bulldogs 31 Kentucky Wildcats 16
Who would have thought this game would be for the SEC East…..IN FOOTBALL?!? Well, you know it is big with Kentucky vs. Duke on Tuesday and it is not the lead story in Lexington. Georgia had a nice game but was challenged against the Gators. Expect to see HC Kirby Smart to play balanced offense and win the # of plays battle. Wildcats LOVE ball control and have a very solid Defense so this will not be easy. Expect plenty of RB Snell and QB Wilson and they are loaded with confidence with Kentucky making more proclamations about winning than President Trump. If Georgia can get in the end zone, and ZT believes they will, Kentucky will turn back to a Basketball School before Daylight Savings Time ends early Sunday…….and no prince to bring back the glass cleat to HC Stoops.
Ohio State Buckeyes 41 Nebraska Cornhuskers 31
Buckeyes needed a week off after getting pummelled by the Boilermakers. Cornhuskers have found some offensive momentum and while very hard to see HC Scott Frost and the Big Red Thrashing Machine pulling the upset, ZT believes it will be closer than the boys in the desert think! Nebraska Offense with QB Adrian Martinez continues to quickly improve as does the running attack with Freshman RB Washington. Urban has got to run the table, starting with Nebraska, to make the playoffs. OSU doing something ZT hates, going with a gimmick uniform. In this case, the special throwback Black uni from the 2015 Penn State win. Just for that reason alone, they won’t cover the spread. After the game, Urban discloses he has an illness that was responsible for the Purdue loss. When pressed, he says it is PSOD and walks away with a tear in his eye. Later it is learned this is Pumpkin Spice Overload Disorder.
Florida Gators 31 Missouri Tigers 24
Mizzou had Kentucky beat last week while Gators simply made too many mistakes before Georgia took it over late in the 2nd half. Both teams had sessions with Dr. Phil this week with the following evaluations:
“Mizzou, just play ball. You are too worried about what others think about you and you wouldn’t worry as much if you knew how seldom anyone really thought about your football program.”
“Florida, you are ok now! The only thing worse than being in a bad relationship for 3 years is being in 2 bad relationships for 6 years. You finally found your soul mate again!”
After the game, both teams hug at midfield and share Pinterest account logins with each other.
ZT QUICK PICKS before the BAMA/LSU Prognostication
Michigan Wolverines 38 Penn State Nittany Lions 24
PSU will not win a National Championship with James “Excuse of the Week” Franklin and this week won’t beat Michigan. After the win, Harbaugh admits Booger McFarland is his favorite sports announcer.
Washington State Cougars 37 California Golden Bears 21
Cal is looking to get bowl eligible as well as planning their next 6 pointless political protests while everyone in America simply wants the Cougars in the playoffs for the Mike Leach press conferences. Leach notes he still doesn’t understand why you need a costume to be a “Stripper” for Halloween.
Bama 37 LSU TIGAHS 27
TUA vs. everyone else in the USA. Let’s face it, Bama fatigue is everywhere. If you ask Nick Saban, he will blast you just like he did the 37,000+ UA students a few weeks ago. While the Tide has made waste of all opponents this year, they really haven’t faced anyone as good as LSU and nothing like the environment of Baton Rouge at night! LSU must force some turnovers and this defense is capable of doing just that. On the offensive side of the ball, QB Joe Burrow has to do what he has most of the year and that is take care of the ball and minimize the 3 & outs. LSU is on a 7 game losing streak but in this rivalry, that is only a stat. Pretty sure the TIGAHS would love to repay Bama for ruining 2015 and an almost sure Heisman for Leonard Fournette. In the end, Bama wins but in a much closer contest than ZT’s 10 point prediction. After the game around midnight, Gary Danielson is questioned by NOLA PD about an encounter with a female impersonator dressed like Caitlyn Jenner on Bourbon Street. Rumor is it involved a bag of Astro Pops and something about a pole vault…..it even scared the cops.
ZT is done and with the National Peanut Festival in progress, expects to eat so much fried “everything” in the next week that Blue Cross/Blue Shield will consider my arteries uninsurable for 90 days.
Pigskin Prognostications by the Piedmont Padre and Zimmern's Twin 