With Pigskin Prognosticators parody could still happen

I must admit my goal for this year’s Prognosticator competition is to have a five-way tie. The ultimate in parody.

So far I’m coming reasonably close to that goal. The five prognosticators are within three games of each other after three weeks. Defending champion David Horowitz is tied for first with Dustin Della at 20-10, Mary Quijas is tied with myself at 18-12 and J.R. Flores is at 17-13.

But Flores tied with Horowitz for having the best week last week as both went 7-3. Of course my question, I’m sure, is the question everybody is asking. What happened to Georgia State?

Actually most people are probably asking who’s Georgia State? But I still noticed the fact that after Georgia State won at Tennessee, it lost at Western Michigan — 57-10.

How does that happen? In college football when you’re dealing with 18-21-year-old kids, the old cliché of anything can happen rings true.

So in college football it’s dangerous to go by how teams do against common opponents or jump on the bandwagon of a team that supposedly pulled off a big win — like I did with Georgia State.

Like in the first round, the wild card round of the NFL playoffs. It happens every year. There’s always some darkhorse team that wins in the first round of the playoffs so all the so-called experts jump on that team’s bandwagon and say something like “you better watch out, this team could be a real Super Bowl contender” only to see that team wash out the next week in the playoffs.

Or like how all the so-called experts, especially at ESPN, jumped on the Cleveland Browns bandwagon. The Browns then proceeded to lose to the Tennessee Titans 43-13.

Full disclosure. Not a fan of ESPN. Actually I detest that network. I think that network has ruined the coverage of sports.

I call it the Espnization of sports and all the other networks constantly copy ESPN and I don’t know why.

Like constantly showing the announcers in the booth (who cares?) and that stupid split screen in which the sideline reporter is interviewing somebody who has nothing to do with the game while I’m trying to watch the game. But I digress.

Anyway I’m still trying to keep this competition as close as possible.

I just hope I don’t fall off of whatever bandwagon I jump on. It’s actually a good idea not to jump on that bandwagon the first place.