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Southeastern ConferenceFab 4-plus-1 picks
We have tried a varied number of picks each of the last two weeks and achieved a deeper and more thorough mediocrity in our for-entertainment-only ventures. Alas.
After a 5-4 mark last week that included wins on the Auburn-Georgia over and with SMU, Vanderbilt, UCLA and Boise State covering the number, we’re 40-28-1 overall this year. That we are treading water is of little consolation after our white-hot start to the season.
Still, you have to bank entertainment where you can find it. Let’s try to find it this weekend.
And if you are shaking your heads when you are looking at the point spreads, well, you should be — the guys who do this for a living are starting to understand the products with which they handicapping. To counter that, you have to know which teams the public favors, because the pros certainly do. And they shape the lines accordingly.
San Jose State minus-2 over Navy: This game is tonight and is part of the travel-package part of this week’s picks. Follow along: Who is more regimented than the Navy football team? So how big will the shock to the system be of flying across the country for a Friday game and a 9:30 p.m. kickoff, since the Navy kids are more often than not bunked down by that time? If you need football reasoning to be convinced — and that’s fair — San Jose State quarterback David Fales will more than likely be drafted before Georgia’s Aaron Murray next spring.