Hey Mizzou Fan!

After the BCS announcement show last night, I now know for sure that there is a God. And he has a great sense of humor. Being part of the Kansas alumni out there I received all kinds of grief from Mizzou fans last week. Telling me about KU's weak schedule, how the Jayhawks couldn't win when it mattered, and how they didn't want to hear any excuses about missed field goals or one bad half. I think my favorite was this email (one of many) I received last week from a Mizzou grad:

Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius(real men of genius)

Today we salute you, Mr. Excuse Ridden Over-Confident Kansas Football Fan. Eleven straight wins, you wore that classy "Muck Fizzou" shirt like you meant it (Pinch me, I'm dreamin'!)

A season of bloated statistics and over-hyped wins against Junior Varsity competition (Serve another cupcake!)

Losing to a superior team with better players is no match for your what-if scenarios and could-have-been dreams (The field goal missed by inches!)

So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light you emphatic engineer of excuses.After all, you would've won the game if it was played somewhere else!

(Mr Excuse Ridden Over-Confident Kansas Football Fan.)

OK, fair enough. Now do me the decency and return the favor. I don't want to hear about how your team was robbed, how it wasn't fair that KU got to go to the BCS and you didn't because they beat the Jayhawks, and again the crappy non-conference schedule that KU played. As usual, at least in my experiences with Mizzou, they are upset because KU was smarter than they were. Under the current BCS setup you should play a soft non-conference schedule. This allows your school to go to a big bowl game in Miami while your school gets to go freeze its ass off in Dallas. Oh, and don't have your team run it's mouth about how OU got lucky the first time and then lose by 21 points. It's bad form.

There is one ray of light for you Mizzou fan. The Big 12 has 2 teams in the BCS - that's a payout of $34 million to the conference which you get a cut! You're used to the subsidy KU provides you with all of the Final Four runs, so it shouldn't be hard to accept a handout from their football team as well.

NCAA Football Winning Picks: Week 2

Time for this weeks NCAA football picks. For the season we are 3-2 and up 81.80 "tokens." Apart from knowing that Michigan and Notre Dame both suck (wow, looking forward to that match up next week. I think it comes on at snooze thirty) the experts here at FTT have learned much from last week’s results. As always, first four picks are laying 50 tokens and the lock of the week is laying 100 tokens.

Rutgers -16 at home over Navy. Rutgers got zero respect in all of the preseason polls and they’re pissed. Time to beat up on another cupcake.

Penn St. -17.5 at home over Notre Dame. Now I have to be honest here, this one scares me. But from what I saw from ND last week, I don’t have any hope for their winning anytime soon. And Claussen will start his first game in front of over 100,000 loud PSU fans. Good luck Jimmy. Make sure you show the Penn State D Line all of those rings you won in high school. I would take the Over here – only 43.5, but I’m not sure if Notre Dame can score.

Georgia -3.5 at home over South Carolina. Look for the Dawgs to hang another loss on the Ol’ Ball Coach. Georgia beat USC 18-0 at USC last year – and they’re even better this year. I like UGA by 10-14 in this one.

Tennessee -10.5 at home over Southern Miss. After the Beatdown in Berkeley last week (the Vols gave up 45 points) look for a quick start from the Vols. Coach Fulmer will want to prime the tanks with Florida and Georgia both coming up in the next three weeks. Tennessee wins this easily.

LOCK OF THE WEEK

Mizzou -6 at Ole Miss. I’m going to keep riding the Mizzou gravy train until the odds makers come to their senses. Mizzou can put up a lot of points – it comes down to their defense. If they can stop the run on Saturday, they’ll win by 2 touchdowns.

RESULTS UPDATE:

4-1 for the weekend, 7-3 for the year. Brings in 227.25 tokens and up 309.05 for the year. Doubles up in two weeks.