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Seedy K’s Peerless Postseason Pigskin Postscript

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Angelo Pizzo, you’re on the clock.

And, while we’re waiting, my final tally.

Got the last three of the CFP correct, pushing my hugely winning total for the entire postseason to 17-9. Following a winning percentage of 66% for the regular season

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Of course, I had Indiana winning it all, I’ve been slobbering all over them since the middle of last season.

Yes, the rumors are true. In the corner of my TV room, there’s an homage to You Know Whom, featuring a Curt Cignetti bobblehead.

The ever burning incense is “l’essence du vestiaire du Hoosier.”

So, yeah, I rode this out of nowhere tale to its not really inevitable conclusion.

What a dang ride. Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Postseason Pigskin Postscript →

Seedy K’s Peerless Postseason Pigskin Prognostication: Championship

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Yes, this screed shall finish with my national title prediction.

But first, the long and winding road to get there. Known in the biz as a tease.

Or filler.

You ever been to an Indiana HS baskeball game?

If not, do yourself a favor and put it on your bucket list. Near the top.

I have. A couple are memorable.

Years ago, a New Albany tilt at Scottsburg. It was a time warp. Back to the days of Miracle Milan and Bobby Plump.

Ten cent popcorn. Fifty cent hot dogs. Twenty five cent Cokes. (Admittedly this was like 25 years ago, but still.)

A 70something guy leading a halftime cheer as he’d done at every Scotties home game since he was a student there. I later learned that he’d also been principal of the school.

Biased refs who whistled the Bulldogs for a foul every time they dared look at a Scottsburg player. Despite having a bunch of guys foul out, NA still won in OT.

The experience was just too quaint.

Been to a Jeffersonville/ New Albany game.

The paradigm of Hoosier Hysteria. Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Postseason Pigskin Prognostication: Championship →

Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Champs Week

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Yes, it’s true what the tuned in amongst you have heard.

There are head prognosticator positions open at both vegasbetsbig.com and betyourira.com. With championship games, West Point vs. Annapolis, the CFP and Bad Boy Mower Pinstripe Bowl still to be played.

And, yes, a bidding has ensued for the services of, ahem, do I really need to spell it out?

OK, I shall.

S E E D Y  K.

And that’s despite the reality that before Week 0, I pronounced with arrogant certainty that the winner of Kansas State/ Iowa State game in Ireland would be in the CFP.

For transparency purposes, I feel compelled to advise that my agent Sid Kibbutz has been contacted by both seeking my services.

When Sid approached Glorious Editor about an extension and raise, GE’s exact response, “Get outta my office before I call security and have you escorted out of Chron Tower with extreme prejudice.”

Yet I, a man of integrity, a man of ethics, a former barrister at the bar — both Toy Tiger and Jefferson County and Federal Courts — am keeping my talents right here at the Chron and seedyksports.com.

Kiffin dat!!!!!!!

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All of that aside, I head into the postseason smokin’ hot.

I bested my 4-1 Week XIII performance with an even more superior 6-1 this Weekend XIV past.

Hold your applause.

Only my flyer on Pitt over the Irish — Ouch — didn’t play out as planned.

The Texas Archies upset A&M. Ryan Day and the Buckeyes finally got one in the Big House. Vandy turned “Rocky Top” into a dirge. Indiana lowered the Boilermakers to simmer. Mike Norvell gave Seminole fans a hint that the future shall probably look like the recent past, falling to interimly coached Florida.

And the Louisville Cardinals ran Mark Stoops right outta the Dark and Bloody ground, 41 zed.

The post season is upon us.

Your peerless prognosticator is in post season form.

This weekend’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Champs Week →

Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XIV

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To fill airtime during fallow sports times of the year, ESPN does this Ocho thing.

“Sports” you’ve never heard of, or even conceptualized.

How far up on a roof you can throw a beanbag, and some such. Stuff you made up in your backyard after school when you and your best pal were nine years old and bored.

Now it’s televised. “World Championships” in some dude’s driveway. On the World Wide Leader Deux.

Thankfully I haven’t seen any Quidditch yet. But did once while walking Seneca Park.

Anyhooooooo, one of those new “sports” is Omega Ball.

Which is soccer played on a circular field with three teams and three goals.

Moderately interesting. If it’s late in the rainy afternoon, you’ve been running around all day doing errands and need some white noise to ease you into a nap.

What on earth does this have to do with college football’s Rivalry Week?

This, simply the most fascinating SEC battle of the first quarter of the 21st Century.

Ole Miss vs. LSU vs. Florida.

The Lane Kiffin Bowl.

Reported to be “played” Sunday November 30.

It will be televised live, I’m so sure.

Originating from Oxford or Baton Rouge or Gainesville, site to be determined. Be sure to keep your eyes on those flight logs.

You shall find no predictions on that one below.

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Last week was Get Back Loretta/ Get Back To Where You Once Belonged for the nation’s foremost forecaster.

OK, so Decembrist Baby Blue Bill Belichick didn’t win his rivalry game as a gift for his stylin’ May GF. Duke came back on Carolina, thanks to a pretty damn nifty fake FG called by Manny Diaz.

That was my only miscue.

Quack over Trojans. Commodores over Wildcats. Nittany Lions over Cornhuskers. And a Mustang stampede in Big D little a double l a s. Over . . . ahem.

4-1 for the week, improves my W/L on the season to 49-29.

Intending to close out the regular season with a flourish, I present this week’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XIV →

Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XII

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Somewhere along the way, I obviously did something to perturb Wageranius, the Greek God of Betting.*

*Who actually ran a book in Athens during the glory years. Remnants of his parlor still stand right near the Parthenon. His website advert is almost in tact, “BetYourAss.cae” Yes, I’m advised they had some sort of computer thingie back then, with pulleys and magnets and dripping water or some such, invented I believe by Digitales, Socrates’ nephew. 

Not exactly sure how I got on his bad side, but my recent predictioneering has taken a turn for the worse, and something’s afoot beyond my lack of foresight.

U of L as everyone is aware couldn’t close. Iowa came with seconds of taming the Quack, but didn’t. UCLA is firmly back to its norm of mediocrity.

IU, IU, IU just does it. And UK continues its uptick as predicted.

2-3. Meh. 41-25 for the year.

Bigger slate this weekend.

In a state of sleep-deprived delirium because of some little basketball game last evening I present . . .

. . . this week’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XII →

Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XI

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It didn’t take long for my winning streak to evaporate.

Tulane’s Green Wave fell at the Alamo midweek.

An omen before I was even able to greet anyone with “Joyeaux la veille de la Toussaint.” The script was written. I didn’t need any admonition from Father Brennan, something like, “You’ll see me in hell, Seedy, there, we will share out our sentence.”  The Waves’ L was enough to warn me my weekend was going to be a rafting adventure down the River Styx. No meet up with Damien necessary.

Auburn’s Plainsmen lost to UK — Stoops said it was a comin’ right? — which was such an embarrassment that they fired their coach.* Harsh.

*There are guys eyeing these jobs with extreme longing. Like a one-eyed cats peepin’ in the seafood store.

Vanderbilt visited the Burnt Orange just as they caught fire in Austin. A late surge wasn’t enough.

Utah bopped the Satterfields. Indiana is a season long killer, not just All Hallow’s Eve weekend. Ask the Terps, who suffered the Hoosiers fifth fiftyburger of the campaign. Louisville escaped thanks to the UPS RBs.

Hello mediocrity, my old friend.

3-3 for the weekend. 39-22 for my less than desirable season.

But the calendar’s flipped to November, Grantland Rice/ light the fireplace weather. When the days are colder and grayer and I’ll feel less guilty spending all day Saturday eating popcorn and pizza while watching football.

My stretch run of correctitude commences.

Honoring the sorority sisters at Bama, who take dressing up for football seriously. At least according the prexy of the Tri Delt’s:

“The football players, they’re walking in doing the Walk of Champions,” says Tri Delta president Finley Lowe, a Louisville, Ky., native. “They’re all suited up, they take so much pride in that. And in the same way, we take pride in how we look.”

While not dressing up, I’m taking pride in this week’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XI →

Seedy K’s Pigskin Prognostications: Week X

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Their knock is like nobody’s else’s. Especially at 1:39 in the morning.

The polizei I’m talking about.

Sure enough, when I answered, there was police badge 714 staring me in the face.

“Mr. K, I’m Detective Joe Friday. This is my sidekick, Officer Bill Gannon.

“Our Fraud squad has been alerted by someone who identified himself only as Glorious Editor that were preparing an article making claims that seemed felonious.

“That you were going to post an article, claiming to have correctly predicted last weekend’s college football games.”

I was aghast. My boss had actually called in the gendarmes. That an officer of the law was at my door and had a backup behind him, his hand resting on a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 15.

This is what it’s come to.I’m Rodney Dangerfield in his mind.

Where’s the faith?.

I stammered.

Friday interjected.

“All we want are the facts.”

Friday: : “Do you pick Vanderbilt to beat Missouri?

“Yes, the score was 17-10.”

“Did you pick BYU to beat Iowa State?

“Yes, the score was 41-27.”

“Did you pick Indiana to beat UCLA?”

“Yes, the score was 56-6.”

“Did you pick Tennessee to beat Kentucky?”

“Yes, the score was 56-34.”

“Did you pick Louisville to beat Boston College?”

“Yes, the score was 38-24.”

“Officer Gannon, are those correct numbers? Did you check to see if K actually made those predictions?”

“Yes, sir, on both counts.”

“Mr. K, sorry to bother you so late. We were told to check it out immediately prior to Wednesday afternoon. We shall advise Fraud to close the investigation.”

My sphincter loosened.

What I go through for an editor, who obviously still has no faith, despite a previous proclamation of same.

It would appear, unlike Franklin, Napier and Kelly, I still have the same gig for another week at least.

The 5-0 perfecto raises my tally to 36-19 for the year.

This weekend’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Pigskin Prognostications: Week X →

Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week IX

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I was derelict x2 regarding the Louisville Cardinals’ magnificent upset over the U last weekend.

First, in my game story, I forgot to give credit due for what was arguably the moment of the game. Or one of them. What is called by those studio panels of 14 ex- players and coaches on the telly, a “four point play.” When a team in Red Zone scoring range is held to a FG.

So yeah, better late than never, a Game Ball to DB Tayon Holloway. Who late in the 2d Q raced down Miami star Malachi Toney after a catch and gridiron consuming streak toward paydirt. Holloway pulled him down at the Cardinal 9 yard line. U of L’s D held, forcing a Hurricane FG.

Four point advantage to Cards. Difference in game, U of L won by 3.

Then there’s this, says he, now an official member of the Oh Ye Of Little Faith Club. Having seen nothing previously that indicated Louisville was up to the task, I broke my tradition and picked Miami.

Plus I forgot that Mario Cristobal will always make a game losing decision or two in the close ones.

Rarely am I so deliriously pleased to be very wrong.

As for the totality of last week’s picks.

4-2.

At one point Saturday I was looking at an ofer. Cards had already proven me wrong Friday night.

I knew I was in trouble with my Blue Devil prediction, when Duke kept driving the field early but couldn’t score. Georgia Tech is simply better. And sits atop the ACC standings.

Iowa trailed Penn State but pulled it out. Same can be said for UCLA over Maryland in extras. Indiana actually trailed early on before dismantling Michigan State.

Then there was my choice Texas. The Longhorns kept saying to Kentucky, “Here’s a gift, take the game.”

The Cats, as they are wont to do said, “No, thanks anyway.”

UK’s ball to open OT. 1st and Goal at the 3. Dowdell up the middle for no gain. Boley up the middle for two yards. 3d & Goal at the 1. Dowdell up the middle for no gain. 4th & Goal at the 1. Dowdell up the middle for no gain.

No feints. No fakes. Nothing innovative. Four straight cracks at one of the best DLs in the land. No nothing.

No score. Texas which actually lost yards on their possession, kicked the winning FG.

So, yeah, 4 up 2 down. 31-19 for the year.

One more bit of snicker before we forge ahead. In the Bottom Ten PFOTWOTY when Sam Houston We Have A Problem fell to UTEPid, 17-35, the stands were jammed officially with 671 Bearkat faithful.

OK, now, this weekend’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week IX →

U of L CardFile: Indiana

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There have obviously been improbable results for Louisville Basketball through the years.

Either by the final result, or the manner of victory (or defeat), or the margin of said score at 00:00.

But, for the life of me, I simply at this juncture, about a half an hour after the buzzer, cannot remember one as beautifully dumbfounding and improbable as what happened this Day Before Thanksgiving 2024.

Louisville 89, #14 Indiana 61.

Louisville 89, #14 Indiana 61.

One more glance at the official box to make sure that is not a typo, that I am remembering correctly.

And one more repetition . . .

. . . because my fingers are so happy typing it out.

Louisville 89, #14 Indiana 61.

And the absolute truth, to use a well worn cliché, which absolutely is apropos, The Game Was Not Nearly That Close.

At 5:45 left, Kasean Pryor stole the ball, streaked down for a fast break slam, making the score 82-45.

+37.

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Game Ball to Pat Kelsey. Continue reading U of L CardFile: Indiana →

Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Rivalry Week

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Last weekend was one where I was pretty pretty pretty bold with my picks.

Kansas has been playing well of late. I’m still not sold on the whole Sanders shtick in Colorado. Although son is a fine QB. So, picking the Jayhawks seemed logical. Which proved a correct assessment.

Plus, as with interest rates, it’s fun when Prime goes down.

North Carolina has been reeling. BC in November is not a nice place to play. And I’ve had Mack Brown atop my Dead Man Walking list for weeks now. BC won. Tar Heel AD Bubba Cunningham finally had enough of Brown, saying sayonara a few days after my pick played out.

Ohio State, Texas and Louisville were all pretty easy choices. But hey.

In the PAC2 title game, I came thissssssssssssss close to tabbing Oregon State. But I didn’t. Had the game finished 20 seconds earlier, I would have registered my second perfecto of the season. But it didn’t. A truly back and forth affair was my miss of the weekend.

5-1 for the weekend. 57-21 on the season.

Not bad.

This week’s winners: Continue reading Seedy K’s Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Rivalry Week →