Here are some of my predictions (I'll gladly eat these words someday, if that day should arrive):
1. No starter named at QB until ULM. No clear winner in the battle even after that game. We win.
2. Vandy will give us as much as we can handle . . . we SQUEAK by. Lambert is pronounced the winner of the "who can hand off best to Chubb" contest.
3. USCe at home feels like a win to me . . . but I may be whistlin' past the graveyard. Our running game and conditioning wins this one.
4. We cakewalk past whoever the second cupcake is. I'm not even looking.
5. Alabama proves to everyone on earth that defense wins football games. Stop the run, stop UGA.
6. Tennessee proves to everyone on earth that if you hold onto the ball all game long, you win. A success-starved-crowd goes bonkers. The season is over.
7. Missouri comes to town after it's too late, and by then we actually have a QB with some experience and we win, all but ensuring our presence in a mid level bowl. (Missouri goes on to back into the east again, announcing to the world "we own this division".)
8. We do not lose the week after Missouri. But someone gets caught smoking dope.
9. We get revenge against the Gaytors, who by now are hating their new HC.
10. Kentucky is Kentucky, getting ready for basketball season. It's still way too close.
11. We play a very spirited game against Abuurn and should win it, but something like a blown coverage ruins it. Talk of slipping in the back door to the SECCG stops.
12. Ga. Southern looks pretty scary.
13. We THUMP the GnaTs this year.
Let's add up those totals. Hmmm . . . 9-3.
Music City Bowl . . . we play someone like Cincinnati or Pittsburgh or Purdue and make them look better than they are, but win. 10-3 and then the media blitz is on for Eason. Finally ranking 14th.