I'm 11-18 With My Picks So Far This Season and My SEC Is 2-5! I'm Dying Here!

Things can only get better, right? We've completed 29 of the 44 bowl and playoff games so far this post-season, and if I can go 11-4 on the remaining games, I can still at least break even. It might seem optimistic to think I can win 73% of the remaining games when I've only gotten 38% right so far, but now we're getting to the good games with teams that I know, not those only-think-about-them-during-bowl-season Sun Belt and CUSA teams.

As for the SEC, the best is yet to come. Sure, we're down 2-5 right now, but that includes the Alabama-Oklahoma, SEC vs. SEC, first-round game, so 1-4 might be the better statistic. Today, No. 14 Vanderbilt (10-2) and No. 13 Texas (9-3) play, and tomorrow we'll see No. 9 Alabama (9-3) again and, most importantly, No. 3 Georgia. Alabama should be good for two more wins and Georgia three, and if the Mississippi State Bulldogs (5-7) can pull off a victory, that's potentially eight wins by SEC teams. 

That would make the SEC 10-7 overall, and since Ole Miss will lose their game to Georgia, and another loss will be either Alabama or Georgia (Alabama) in the Championship Game, the SEC's inter-conference record would be 7-4. And those four losses will be A&M, a Texas team, 8-4 Missouri, 7-5 LSU (who only lost by three), and 8-4 Tennessee, who never win big games and haven't beaten a Power 4 team with a winning record all season.

Yes, that's a big-ass dose of copium right there, a double-dose really (one for my record and one for the SEC's), but this year I need all the painkillers I can get my hands on. And someday, when this post-season is finally over and done with, you'll look back at these posts and think, "My God, he was right about everything!"