We’ve Only Just Begun (2025) Footy Thread

I know I am repeating myself (Carpenter pun alert), but Hippo is very glad that a long ago New Year’s Resolution (to stop ever making New Year’s Resoliutions) has held for yet another year.  Everything will just fall to shit regardless, remember.

So..to the JV playoffs.  5 matches, 5 “so boring it might as well be the NBA” snoozers, after last night’s Paedo State romp.  Three chances to break that turgid streak, today, or complete a perversely impressive 8-for-8.  Arsenal also play Praise Beesus today at 12:30, bizarrely the only Prem action we gets.

Steerfuckers South (-13) v. Arizona State (1:00, ESPN)

I don’t give a tin shit where these “bowls” are being played, nor about their sponsors.  Annoying this game isn’t played in the desert, in from of thousands of semi-literate Sparky co-eds.  Anyway, 13 is a pretty damned big spread, given how Steerfuckers South (i) don’t forward pass very well; and (ii) have a season-long tendency to let any and all comers hang around.  But a trend is a trend, and nobody believes an upset is even remotely possible.

THEEEEEEE Ohio State (-2.5) v. Oregon (5:00, ESPN)

This is really the only “must see” of the day, if you need to sleep off your DTs in one or both other windows.  Michigan’s ass-blasting of Roll Damn Tide yesterday puts Coach Samsquanch and his Tree Nutz in a whole new light.  They just ran into a buzzsaw, that nobody really saw coming.  Shit happens.  I said I backed the tOSU/Vols winner to win it all, and I stand by it.  I am expecting a 10-ish point win for the “lower” seed – Quack Attack needed everything to break right in order to barely beat tOSU in their first matchup.  In Eugene.  At night.  I am not a Dillon Gabriel believer, and the team with superior strength in the trenches will win.

Notre Dame (+1) v. Georgia (8:45, ESPN)

In the “Indiana Klan” book scotchy recommended (I finished in like a week, was REALLY good), I learned that the “Fighting Irish” moniker only really took/cemented thanks to the student body rising up to stop a 1920s Klucker parade in South Bend.  Their footed ball squadron can still get fucked, though.  Much like tOSU, I will back UGA to ride its advantages in the trenches and at wideout to win the day.  Would set up an all PAAAAWWWWWLLLLL/B1G raging semis, which is better than having same contain Notre Dame.  Christ, can you imagine how unwatchable a semi ND v. Paedo State would be?  UGH.  Caveat emptor – my disgust might be overstating the Bulldogs’ chances here, but Kirby Smart is legitimately the best coach in the field.