This is a first…..2 Undefeated Top 20 Teams playing on a Thursday installment of Halloween so I call that a Treat!! Thought it was best to prognosticate on these ( noting ZT may be down for a full 24 hours after consuming significant amounts of wax cola bottles, those golden circus peanuts and, of course, no less than a pound of candy corn) without being distracted by Saturday’s contests! Also very confident ZT will need several EpiPens of something to come out of that sugar coma…..
Sad but true…..Gary Danielson and Brian Griese were sighted going into a sports broadcasters party ( not convinced they were invited nor recognized as actual sports broadcasters ) in the costumes below……….
not as bad as their announcing but………….
West Virginia Mountaineers 17 #12 Baylor Bears 41
Baylor HC Matt “It’s now the Green and Gold” Rhule is trying to keep the “Rat Poison” out of his team’s Kool-Aid as they play a group of Mountaineers on a 3-game slide but looking to hunt some Bear. Talk of a New Years Day bowl and other “stuff” like that is particularly tough to keep out of an up and coming team’s head. WV HC Neal Brown is accustomed to weeknight games coming from Troy but notes ” unless you like soap operas or singing shows” hard to find something for the guys to do while waiting to play ( reminds ZT of the quote ” the farther away the remote, the more you like what’s on the TV”). This one will be over early enough to go watch Chip & Joanna Gaines finish rehabbing a mobile home……..
Georgia Southern Eagles 17 #20 Appy State Mountaineers 38
These 2 teams DO NOT LIKE each other!! This goes back to the Southern Conference days and continues in the Sun Belt today! Fans recall Appy State beating Michigan in 2007 and then taking down Mack Brown at UNC earlier this year. Georgia Southern is famous for “Running through Us like shit through a tin horn” per Nick Saban in 2011. The 2019 installment of “Deeper than Hate” has the Eagles on a 4 game win streak after losing early to LSU, Minnesota, and go figure, the La-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns and loving to run ( only threw 4 passes vs. New Mexico State ) vs. the High Powered Mountaineers averaging 41 points per game. ZT notes both teams can run but Appy State can pass as well. Expect no Nightmare in Boone this Halloween!
ZT going to carve a Jack O’ Lantern based on expectations after consuming all the Halloween candy noted above…..
ZT and the Padre back in time for Saturday Prognostications……..
Pigskin Prognostications by the Piedmont Padre and Zimmern's Twin 