Football Picks

by James Justin Wilson and Jacob F.M. Oslick
In the last issue, the Review used a quarter to pick football teams in accordance with the Rational Expectations n the last issue, the Review used a quarter to pickTheorychoosen at random to compeate against the Daily’s “expert” . Essentially, the top twenty-five teams in the NCAA were picks. 

During week four’s games, in which the Review and Daily went head to head, the Review had 6 wins and 4 losses, whereas the Daily picked 21 winners and 19 losers. During week five, we went 6 and 7. We were too lazy to figure out how the Daily did.  Essentially, George Washington beat the Daily’s experts in the first line up. And now good ol’ G.W. is back for another round!

The picks were made using a standard 1967 United States quarter, flipped using the typical thumb action and allowing the quarter to hit the ground. In every game, one team was heads, the other tails. Whoever won the toss was to be the random pick. The best bet used the state of the art digital technology found in a compact disc player. After counting how many games where predicted in a given week, we found a CD with the same number of tracks as games. Then, we placed the CD in the drive, hit “random,” and whatever track played became the game number that was to be the random best bet. Predictions were made on all games involving top 25 teams, as of this printing. The predicted winner, against the spread, is in CAPS.

October 9, 1999

1. Florida St. v. Miami

2. Penn St. v. Iowa

3. Florida v. Alabama

5. Texas A&M v. Baylor

6. Nebraska v. Iowa St.

7. Tennesse v. Georgia

8. Virginia Tech. v. Rutgers

9. Georgia Tech. v. North Carolina

10. Georgia v. Tennessee

11. Purdue v. OSU

13. Kansas St. v. Kansas

14. Michigan St. v. Michigan

15. Texas v. Oklahoma

16. Mississippi v. Auburn

19. East Carolina v. Southern Mississippi

20. Arkansas v. Middle Tennessee St.

22. Syracuse v. Pittsburgh

23. Oklahoma v. Texas

24. Virginia v. Duke

25. Oregon v. UCLA

*Best Bet: Iowa State*

October 16, 1999

1. Florida St. v. Wake Forest

2. Penn St. v. OSU

3. Florida v. Auburn

5. Texas A&M v. Kansas

8. Virginia Tech. v. Syracuse

9. Georgia Tech. v. Duke

10. Georgia v. Vanderbilt

11. Purdue v. Michigan St.

13. Kansas St. v. Utah St.

17. Marshal v. Toledo

18. Miami v. Temple

20. Arkansas v. South Carolina

21. Alabama v. Mississippi

24. Virginia v. North Carolina