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THE NEWSCASTER-Pigskin Predictors

PAGE 8 - December 10, 2008

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Last Week’s Winners

Week #15

GB @ JAC

PHI @ NYG

TEN @ HOU

DAL @ PIT

BUF @ NYJ

TB @ CAR

SF @ MIA

MIA @ BUF

Tie Breaker:

JAC @ CHI

Our game ball goes to Chris Nielsen, Taylor Made

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South Florida at West Virginia

Homes with picks of 9-1. Philly’s upset of the Giants

Missouri vs. No. 2 Oklahoma

was his only miss. Chris picks up 1 game on Jerry

No. 5 USC at UCLA

and Harold in the overall race. We’d like to wel-

Navy vs. Army

come new predictor Darryl Diamond to the Pigskin

No.1 Alabama vs. No.4 Florida

line-up. Take on the Press Box Pundit, see this week’s

Press Box by Doug Johnston.

For the week: 8-2

For the week: 6-4

For the week: 7-3

For the week: 8-2

For the week: 9-1

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PRESS BOX

for CBS, called the game the Ali-

but Texas, Southern Cal, Penn State

8th to play Oklahoma for the BCS

Oklahoma dispatched Missouri to

Frazier match of college football.

and a couple of more teams have

National Championship. That game

win the Big Twelve. Southern Cal

By Doug Johnston

ESPN newscasts were filled with

legitimate arguments that they be-

has all the trappings of a great foot-

throttled UCLA to wrap up the PAC-

comparisons between the two pow-

long in the championship game.

ball game too. Tim Tebow elevated

10 title and will face Big 10 winner

SEC Championship lived

erhouses and most sportscasters

As the bowl season ap-

his play to an even higher level than

Penn State in the Rose Bowl. Texas,

up to the hype

predicted a clash of titans. This time

proaches, the Press Box Pundit will

most people thought possible in the

playing the role of bridesmaid in the

The media, particularly

the game was every bit as great as

list all of the bowl games and give

absence of the Gators #1 playmaker

final BCS standings in spite of beat-

ESPN and CBS, hyped the SEC

the billing.

his prediction. I will be seeking a

Percy Harvin who sat out the game

ing Oklahoma and finishing 11-1,

Championship football game to

The Gators beat the Crim-

challenger for these predictions, but

with an injured ankle. His leadership

will play Ohio State in the Fiesta

such an extreme that even this die-

son Tide 31-20 in a struggle that

before anyone gets the idea that I

and will-to-win is extraordinary.

Bowl and Alabama will play Utah in

hard Gator grew tired of it. It was

saw 5 lead changes and more mo-

will be easy prey, remember that my

Virginia Tech whipped

the Sugar Bowl.

billed as the most important SEC

mentum swings than Carter has liver

dismal showing during the regular

Boston College to win the ACC and

My feeling is that the BCS

Championship game since the in-

pills. Florida outlasted the Tide and

season was based on picking up-

earn a trip to the Orange Bowl to

has the two best teams in college

ception of that game in 1992. Gary

earned a trip to Miami on January

face Big East winner Cincinnati, and

football playing for all the marbles,

Continued on page 10 Press Box

Danielson, the color commentator