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Looking past whether the match is any good or not, TNA needs to put Ultimate X away for a while just due to the sheer overkill of the match. They're getting towards WWE 2001/2002 Ladder Match levels of overuse, it's TNA's special match so naturally they want to use it, particularly with the FSN/Spike TV restarts, but if they keep doing it so often it will quickly stop being special and just become 'another' gimmick match.

THURSDAY Boston College at Virginia Tech FRIDAY Colorado State at New Mexico SATURDAY Clemson at Georgia Tech Ohio State at Minnesota Oklahoma at Nebraska Cincinnati at Syracuse Missouri at Kansas Central Florida at East Carolina Air Force at BYU Georgia vs. Florida Michigan at Northwestern Mississippi State at Kentucky Marshall at Tulane Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Boston College/Virginia Tech game? 49 Tiebreak #2: How many yards rushing will Northwestern's Tyrell Sutton have against Michigan? 102

Arizona at Dallas (8.5) Chicago at Detroit (2.5) Cleveland at Houston (1.5) Green Bay at Cincinnati (9.5) Jacksonville at St. Louis (0.5) Minnesota at Carolina (7.5) Oakland at Tennessee (0.5) Washington at N.Y. Giants (2.5) Kansas City at San Diego (5.5) Miami at New Orleans (2.5) Philadelphia at Denver (3.5) Tampa Bay (11.5) at San Francisco Buffalo at New England (8.5) Baltimore at Pittsburgh (10.5) New Orleans - 10 Points Tennessee @ Pit - 24 Points

I knew i was pushing my luck taking Hill for a second straight season, but i had hoped he'd make it to the start of the season at least. I'd mention how i'm glad it wasn't his ankle again, but if i did that i'm sure he'd slip on a banana peel of something and be out for the season to spite me, so i won't.

Back in the top 10 rankings, couldn't keep me down for long.

Draft D'Brickshaw to be the cornerstone of their OL, though if some other team gets a huge hardon for Leinart or whoever and throws a big package of picks/OL help at them feel free to take it. Whatever they do i doubt they'll fix their mess in one offseason, take Furgeson now and trade what'll probably a top 3 pick in the following years draft for more help, unless someone better than D'Brickshaw will be available then. Personally i'd rather they draft another QB to take Carr's place on death row and give Tennessee two easy wins a season, and hell i wouldn't be surprised if they did, if David Carr getting murdered every game for about 3 years hasn't taught them by now that they should probably look into getting an Offensive Line that doesn't suck, then maybe they'll never learn.

I don't think ROH has put on anything but good/great shows in Chicago so far, and the lineup looks to be shaping up to be another good one. One of the biggest complaints people seem to have with live ROH shows is the crowd, but the assholes tend to stay out east so that shouldn't be a problem either.

To kick off the final round: Phoenix Forward James Jones I wanted a picture of that huge guy attacking Jones from behind in the Pacers-Pistons crowd brawl, but it wasn't to be.

The first of my final two picks: Marquis Daniels, GF

THURSDAY Virginia Tech at Maryland FRIDAY Southern Miss at UAB SATURDAY Northwestern at Michigan State Virginia at North Carolina N.C. State at Wake Forest Michigan at Iowa Nebraska at Missouri Texas A&M at Kansas State Kentucky at Mississippi Rutgers at Connecticut Texas Tech at Texas Tennessee at Alabama Vanderbilt at South Carolina Auburn at LSU Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Virginia Tech/Maryland game? 55 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Texas Tech's Cody Hodges have against Texas? 299

In order to change my character i'd probably have to actually establish a character of some sort first. 3+ years i've been around and Stryke is still just 'some guy'. Of course most of my character ideas are so horrible i'm glad i've been too busy no-showing to put any of them into action.

El Luchadore Magnifico © vs. Jimmy the Doom -> ELM SWF CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH JJ Johnson © vs. KOJI Kitano © -> JJJ Bruce Blank © vs. TORU Takahara © -> TORU Opening Bout Haffy vs. Manson -> MANSONOSITY via removal of Haffy's spinal cord.

The Complete Naked Gun Collection Ghostbusters 1 + 2 Collector's Pack

Peanut Butter Sandwiches, very exciting.

An NBA player arrested? I'm sure the Trailblazers are trying to trade for him as we speak.

I'd imagine Flik (left TSM) and Smell the ratings!!! (fell of the face of the earth) would be out, so that would put players like Barry Bonds, Jim Edmonds, Andy Pettitte, Todd Helton, Carl Crawford, Ichiro and David Ortiz up for grabs. Considering where i ended up i hope the draft is in the reverse order of where we finished as well.

Back in the winners circle, finally a conference win and a win over someone who like me was ranked until last week should hopefully have me hovering not far from the top 10, the Gamecocks aren't finished yet.

I quite liked the whole series of Undertaker-RVD matches. Probably one of the more unlikely pairings where both men work really well together.

Ian Rotten doing a Taipai Death Match, somehow i don't think getting punched in the head with broken glass is the best thing for a guy with a fractured skull and numerous concussions to be doing.

Mistico could get super over in about 5 seconds if they allowed him, though i'm sure the WWE's idea of using him or any Lucha guy would be having them get killed by Snitsky in 10 seconds. Instead of kicking babies Snitsky can start kicking Mini's around instead. I doubt the WWE has any clue who these guys are anyway, they'll bring in Super Porky thinking he's a Rey Mysterio clone and get pissed when they discover he isn't, like they did with Ultimo Dragon.

When you head into goofy 7 foot White Guy territory for your starting C, you know you're in trouble. Chris Kaman, C By this way, with my luck with Centers this pick ensures that Chris Wilcox quickly take the Clippers starting job and have a fantastic season while Kaman rots in hell (or on the bench, whichever), so someone feel free to take him.

For my obligatory Trailblazer pick and returning another player from last years team, i select: Darius Miles, GF with hopefully a few less arrests to his name. Pick #2 to come when i decide which center i'll be putting up with this season.

I wanted Krstic as well. God damn it, i'm going to get stuck with fucking Mark Blount for a center again this year, i really need to stop leaving the C position until last, it never fails to screw me over.

Half-Mantis/Half-Manatee.

THURSDAY Clemson at N.C. State FRIDAY UTEP at Tulane SATURDAY Wisconsin at Minnesota Michigan State at Ohio State Ohio at Central Michigan Northwestern at Purdue Iowa State at Missouri East Carolina at SMU Penn State at Michigan USC at Notre Dame Florida at LSU Louisville at West Virginia Memphis at Houston Nebraska at Baylor Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the UTEP/Tulane game? 63 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Clemson's Charlie Whitehurst have against N.C. State? 234