While the objective writer in me proposed compiling a list of positives and negatives for each team, weighing statistics, previous performances, and strength of schedules, the fan was much more straightforward.
The fan in me said, “I don’t care about all of this numbers bullshit. I don’t care that we’re 0-8 against the SEC. I don’t give a flying you know what about an LSU Tiger. Lions are the real kings of the jungle. I bet you most of the LSU players don’t even know how to spell S-E-C S-P-E-E-D. And if you even think about picking LSU over me for one second, I will kill you. Like, you dead dawg.”
Needless to say, the fan in me was much more aggressive in his approach.
Think about this as a diehard fan: If there’s a game you have a chance to win—even if the chances are minuscule, like they were for Hawaii or Illinois—there's an extremely high probability that your gut is going to go with the guys you’ve grown up with.
There’s always that hope that an upset can happen. And if it does, the feeling is unparalleled in sport.
Just think about being that one Appalachian State fan in the Big House who suddenly owned over 100,000 people.
And let's be honest: It would be blasphemous to pick against your own team in a game they end up winning.
In my particular case, the internal struggle between the writer and the fan was no contest. The fan in me was much more persuasive—and hell, I’m not even a journalist anyways.
Besides, once I started to bleed Scarlet and Gray from my pores as I debated with myself, I kind of got the memo.
I know I’ll certainly create a few enemies with this outlandish prediction—LSU fans will want to kill me, everyone else will advise that I seek some form of medical attention—but here it goes...
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