{"id":1915,"date":"2010-01-03T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/03\/sec-predictions-interlude\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T06:27:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T11:27:31","slug":"sec-predictions-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/03\/sec-predictions-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Predictions (Interlude)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No SEC action today, so a quick moment of reflection on this SEC Bowl season.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was not a good day for my picks; losses included South Carolina and Arkansas, both of which I said I should not pick.  Oh well, live and learn.  My sole winner was Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>The only pick I have left is for all the marbles.  Alabama is the one SEC team that I really do not want to win.  Well, actually I did not want Arkansas (their coach is a f\u2019ing wanker), South Carolina (cannot stand the fighting chickens), Florida (ugh!), Tennessee, or Auburn to win, but I digress.  I am of the school that you pull for the conference, not the actual teams.  A healthy SEC makes Georgia look better; at least in my own little world.<\/p>\n<p>Of course none of this matters for a couple of reasons.  First, with the BCS all the other teams and games are relegated to second class citizens.  Except for maybe the Rose Bowl; elitists never conform.  Second, the Mountain West Conference has kicked the shit out of all takers, winning this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009%E2%80%9310_NCAA_football_bowl_games\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009%E2%80%9310_NCAA_football_bowl_games', 'Bowl Challenge Cup');\" target=\"_blank\">Bowl Challenge Cup<\/a>, with one more game to plan.  Then again, it is all comes down to Texas\/Alabama, so no one really cares about the MWC\u2019s impressive record.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nRegular Season Record: 46-41<br \/>\nSEC Championship: 0-1<br \/>\nSEC Bowl Record: 4-5<br \/>\nFinal Record: 50-47<br \/>\n\u2014<br \/>\nSEC Bowl Record: 5-4 *Actual, not my predictions<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No SEC action today, so a quick moment of reflection on this SEC Bowl season. Yesterday was not a good day for my picks; losses included South Carolina and Arkansas, both of which I said I should not pick. Oh well, live and learn. My sole winner was Ole Miss. The only pick I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/03\/sec-predictions-interlude\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEC Predictions (Interlude)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}