After a rough week, Prognosticators entering unknown

It was a rough week for the Prognosticators last week — and that’s when we knew the teams were were actually picking.

This week we’re picking teams we know nothing about. Or at least I know nothing about South Dakota State, Villanova, Montana State, Sam Houston, East Tennessee State or North Dakota State.

The only things I know about schools that tend to have longer names is they are in the FCS in college football and seeded like No. 14 in the NCAA Basketball Tournament who sometimes manage to pull off a major upset but most of the time are clobbered by the much higher seed.

But this week we’re left with the FCS playoffs so I threw those games in for fun. But since I don’t know anything about those teams I may be in store for another dreadful week and on my way again to being “The Best Last Place Picker in America.”

Actually it was a tough week for all of us Fearless Prognosticators, with the exception of Mary Quijas of Juicy Burger and Catering. Somehow Mary managed to go 6-4 last week to break a previous threeway tie for first.

She’s now back in first by herself at 83-56, two games ahead of David Horowitz of Horowitz Jewelry, who went 4-6 and is now 81-58. But last week was even worse for Dustin Della of Suncrest Bank. After being in a three-way tie for with Mary and David last week he fell into third after going 3-7 and is now 80-59 on the season.

Yours truly also went 3-7 last week and is now 75-64 on the season. J.R. Flores of J.R.’S Barbershop also struggled last week, going 4-6. But he gained a game on me and is now just two games behind me at 73-66. All J.R. needs is one good week to make me “The Best Last Place Picker in America again.”

Of course today is the Army-navy game a game I like to refer to as the last true college football game. With coaches being paid insane salaries, transfer portals, NILS and the big business that college football has become, the Army-navy game has maintained its purity. You won’t find any Army-navy players in the transfer portal like in that stupid Dr. Pepper Fansville commercial.

Anyway we again encourage you to frequent the businesses of our prognosticators whenever possible and safe. And as always we wish you a blessed week.