I’m not going to pretend that I actually watched the Pitt-Temple game, since it wasn’t available in Central Pennsylvania, and I was obviously watching Ohio State-Michigan anyways (painful… just painful…). So I’ll either let Chas wrap that one up or wrap it up myself later.

As for my picks against the spread, I went 3-1 on the week. This improved my season record to 23-23-1 (0.500, baby).

Of course, this also means that Chas went 1-3 on his bizarro picks, decreasing his season record to God knows what.

As far as my specific picks, I thought that Michigan would prevail over my Buckeyes because of John Navarre and his short passing game. I never foresaw Chris Perry’s absolute domination of what had been the best run defense in the nation. That made this loss particularly painful.

Temple always plays Pitt tough, so that pick was money in the bank. And until the oddsmakers start taking the Mountaineers seriously, I’ll continue to pick Rodriguez and company against the spread.

My only foul-up was Penn State-Michigan State. Jeez. This is the hardest-to-figure-out Nittany Lion squad ever. They have gone back and forth between quasi-sucking and full blown black hole sucking on a near weekly basis. Tough against Ohio State and Wisconsin. Keystone Kops against Northwestern. Look impressive at home against admitted Big Ten whipping boy Indiana. And against Michigan State, the Lions couldn’t stop PA native Jeff Smoker and a simple passing scheme to save their miserable, drunk-driving lives. If I had only stuck by my own rule of always picking against Penn State this season, I would now be 25-21-1.

At least Penn State was able to close out their season in true Nittany Lion fashion… with an arrest. I wonder what Maurice Humphrey was so mad about Sunday morning? Perhaps a fellow student wanted to discuss what happened out in East Lansing?

See ya next fall, Lions. We Pitt fans have a bowl game to worry about.

Hail to Pitt.