Thursday, September 24, 2009

Thursday Night Picks and Open Thread: the Sophomoric Humor Edition



Not since Houston Nutt coached Casey and Nathan Dick* has the SEC provided such opportunity for high school guy humor as tonight's matchup of Houston Nutt's Ole Miss Rebels and Steve Spurrier's South Carolina Gamecocks. The Nutts are a 3.5 point favorite over the Cocks. Our own Max Power and Chuck Visor will be there LIVE tonight in Columbia, so come back tomorrow for a full recap from them. Their previews are here and here. Max says his Rebs will cover; Chuck thinks Spurrier pulls out the W.


Will the Cock's play stiff on D? Will they get any penetration into Ole Miss' backfield? Will Snead's potent offense score early and often? Does Nutt's team have the balls to win on the road? Will Ole Miss Nutt all over Carolina's Cocks? These and other questions will be answered tonight at 7/6 Central on the World Wide Leader. Leave your pre-dick-shuns, gametime observations, and favorite genital-based puns in the comments thread.

*That's right, Arky had two Dicks and one Nutt. Until last year when Petrino came and they had three dicks. Bu-dum-bum-CHING!



Two corrections: (1) The line moved a bit since yesterday to a 4.5 point spread. I still think Ole Miss covers.
(2) This is the matchup with greatest potential for sophomoric hijinks since two weeks ago, when Joe Cox topped the Gamecocks, Dawggy-style.

17 comments:

  1. By the way, I pick the Nutts to cover. Ole Miss may get tripped up this season, but Skerlina doesn't have what it takes to be the team to do it.

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  2. I choose S. Carolina to cover also with a 3.51 point win. We'll say the final is Ole Miss 38.67-S. Carolina 35.16.

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  3. Colonel Reb' will eat fried chicken tonight.

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  4. You're looking LIIIIIVE at the latest medium on which South Carolina has affixed that damn palmetto.

    South Carolina was looking good ... until my wife changed the channel.

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  5. I think Hello Kiffin has a solid post (if not a bowel movement) up there, but what do you guys think about restricting non-game day threads (from the commish or otherwise) on Thursday nights and Saturdays? To the extent we get traffic during games, it's probably good to have the open thread stuck to the top.

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  6. I started watching at the start of the 2Q after my son's soccer game. SCAR with a long, methodical, clock-eating drive for a FG, trading 3-and-outs, a big punt return for OM followed by a fake punt that failed to convert, and now another long SC drive, again stalling in the red zone.

    SC is committed to stopping the run on defense and playing pretty balanced on offense. Eating clock is also good for SC. But if they don't get TDs when they have the chance, I think OM will win this game with a few big plays in the 2nd half.

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  7. Yeah, you're prolly right, C'est Bon. I'll think about the best way to keep the gameday threads at the top.

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  8. Its 5 minutes into the 3rd quarter and I've missed all of the game until now, but it looks like Nutt has Snead on the usual Nutt QB road. If SC doesn't put some points on the board in the 3rd, Ole Miss will win. Go Cocks!

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  9. And SCAR goes and ruins a perfectly good SEC defensive struggle.

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  10. uh oh.... I see a moral victory coming up for Nutt.

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  11. Damn, Gamecocks. Is another top-5 biting the dust?

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  12. Craig James never believed in Ole Miss. Jesse Palmer blaming swine flu and a weird September schedule. Craig James begs you not to change the channel, suggesting Snead can step up and win this one.

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  13. There's the first big play that, as I predicted, leads to the OM come-from-behind victory. Garcia playing his part to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with another 3-and-out.

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  14. Um, did Spurrier just suggest that beating UK in Columbia a couple years ago was a victory over a top 5 team?

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  15. Somebody tell the judge that Chuck Visor's gonna be late tomorrow.

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  17. Suggested title for Chuck's after-action report tomorrow: "O-VER-RA-TED! Clap Clap ClapClapClap!"

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