UK's Chances

I've been trying to get Lynn to write something for a few days, but she refuses. I've been calling her Harper Lee for her extreme reticence, and you should too. I guess the heavy lifting is going to have to fall to me.

Summer sports are the worst. I have been looking forward to college football since the end of Euro 2008. College football is the Dude: it's the sport for its time and place. Baseball is, at best, Donny, and thus needs to shut the fuck up and get off my TV. Of course, this is just, like, you know, my opinion, man. Even if it's not fact, I still can't wait for the football season.

In Lexington, the approach of fall brings one burning question to the fore of every Kentucky fan's mind: how many games will the football team win? The most popular answers to that question are "Hopefully, enough to be bowl eligible," followed closely by "We have a football team?" My answer? SEVEN.

Games we are sure to win: (4)
Norfolk State, Middle Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Vanderbilt

I've just jinxed the team. We're going down.

Games we are sure to lose: (2)
Florida, Georgia

These two teams are first-class and one of them will be playing for the SEC Championship. Of the two, I think we have a better chance to beat Georgia. We play them at home, and it could be a trap game for them, falling between their games with Florida and Auburn.

Six close calls, of which we will win three:
Louisville, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi State

If I had to pick three of these, I'd say we will beat Louisville, South Carolina, and Mississippi State. If I could pick any one of these teams to beat, at the expense of losing three other games this season, it would have to be Tennessee. This is just getting embarrassing. Plus, now that Bruce Pearl is pulling all the tail that the southeast has to offer, we need to take them down a peg or two. Hell, though, we might just win all six. Look out, BCS!

So, we'll make it back to seven regular season wins, then brutalize another unsuspecting ACC powder puff in the Music City Bowl, then go into next season with the national media predicting a three-win season. Again.