College Football 2008 Week 1, Part 3: Even More Picks

I guess I don’t remember the lesson I learned last year…and the year before that….and, you get the point.

Every year I learn the hard way that I should just stick to my games I like best and leave it a lone. While that idea sounds so good on paper I always leave out a few games I wanted to pick and usually pick ones where my mind may have changed. In future weeks you’ll be reading this stuff on Fridays but this week is a little different and I’ll get to that at the end of this article.

In any event there are some real decent games considering its just week one and while we’ve already covered a whopping 15 of them why not kick the season off in grand style and see just how far we can push this thing. I know my readers love my picks, whether it’s because its helping them out or because it gives them material to fire away at me with starting Sunday (and yes, the new forums should be running by then), either way it’s all free all the time right here.

So lets get started, or shall I say finished, or is it actually let’s start finishing…whatever, I’m picking some more games.

Virginia Tech -9 1/2 at East Carolina (Saturday 8/30/08 12 EST) 2 Units

I am going to personally thank all of the members of the media and my fellow writers that compose what is known more commonly as the blogosphere for gifting me points in this game. Everyone is on ECU and perhaps I’m just missing something. ECU played VT tough last time they met, very tough in fact with a much bigger spread, but they didn’t even get a whiff of an idea as to how they could crack Bud Fosters defense. Foster’s lunch pail crew, and really Beamer Ball in general, have become as much of a part of top tier D-1 football as the traditional powers like Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, etc. Who would have thought we would ever be mentioning the Hokies in the same sentence with those teams but we do on an annual basis. I can’t say the same about Skip Holtz and his Pirates so I’m laying the wood and feeling pretty comfy about it with 2 units.

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