We have reached the portion of the season where the picks from earlier in the season don’t matter. The regular season records have all been washed away by this bullcrap rain in Phoenix all week. All of the picks made from game one to game 13 are now moot. Nobody wants to hear that I probably got more picks correct than anybody else, especially not Brandon Zimmerman or Caroline Rice.
Before we get to the staff picks for the Big Ten Championship Game between your Ohio State Buckeyes and their Wisconsin Badgers, we have some paperwork to take care of. Namely, who won the staff picks for the Michigan Game. I know most of us expected me to win because I have done it once in the past, but in fact I did not win. If you’ll recall, Ohio State came out…
It doesn’t matter who won the staff picks last week. All that matters is this week. Right here. Right now. Every staff pick until today was just practice. Preparation. For this moment. For this pick. Ohio State is at Michigan on Saturday and it is the most important thing in the world. This is the staff pick you’ll tell your children about. This is the staff pick that where legends are born.
Ohio State was favored by 50-some points last week against Rutgers, but then only scored 50-some points themselves, so when you look back at our staff picks last week, just know that Vegas was way off too. That being said, not everybody was way off. In fact, only one person wasn’t a mile away from the actual score of 56-21.
If you found yourself bored by the week-after-week Ohio State dominance, then consider yourselves reawakened. Or maybe consider yourselves to blame. Buckeye defensive end Chase Young is out this week — not suspended — while OSU looks into improper benefits, so this does change things a bit for the Ohio State defense. It also changes things a bit for the staff picks.
One of the great things about this job is our ability to help people live out their dreams. That happened last week when everyone here agreed to steer clear of a correct prediction so that one of our long-time forum posters could win the week. That poster was Crabapple Buck, who won the week with his 51-3 prediction. As you may remember, Ohio State went…
This week, there is serious disagreement among our staff. Will the Buckeyes beat Northwestern by a lot? Perhaps they’ll embarrass them by more than that? Some bold staffers think the Buckeyes may humiliate the Wildcats by an even more galling margin!
So last week, I wrote here that a large contingent of the pickers here were going to band together in order to stop Brandon Zimmerman from making the winning pick for the fourth week in a row. We failed. I would suggest you just skip everyone’s pick except for his. In fact, I never read anybody…
As much as we all hate to admit it around here, Brandon Zimmerman was the closest to the pin last week with a predicted score of 65-9 over the Miami RedHawks. This week, the rest of us have banded together and vowed to keep Zimmerman out of the winner’s circle. How do we do that? I have no idea…
Welcome (Ohio) to (Ohio) Miami (Ohio) week (Ohio)! The Buckeyes come into Saturday’s game against the RedHawks as 38.5-point favorites, which also happens to be the exact ACT score that is required to get into Miami (Ohio). Before we get into this week’s staff picks, we should…
When it comes to predicting scores, rarely do you go with a shutout. Ohio State’s first game this season against Florida Atlantic is proof of why. Suffice it to say, none of our picks were all that close last week. Should I tout myself for coming the closest to Cincinnati’s score with my 31-13 prediction? Of course I should. I have earned this. It required incredible foresight on my part…
