Cuban Linx

After winning 5 or 6 straight to finish last year and starting 2-0 this year i guess i was due for a loss.

Looks like i haven't finally reached #1 after all. Pretty sure it's me against Secret Agent next week, i guess i'll have to reach the top the hard way and beat two #1 teams in two weeks.

Man, all the PRIDE guys other than Rampage must really miss their roids i guess. I look forward to Wanderlai losing to Houston Alexander or whoever in December. Griffin/Tavares was really good as expected, Machida/Nakamura was awful, Sanchez looked 1000x better than his last fight but Fitch is just a beast, and the LHW division got turned upside down big time. Huge wins for Forrest and Jardine, god knows where they go with the division now. At least this settles that Rampage is definitively the #1 guy in the division now.

Despite being ranked pretty much all of the last 2 years of this contest i've never made it to the top, but barring someone else making a huge jump i should finally be #1.

THURSDAY Texas A&M at Miami FRIDAY Oklahoma at Tulsa SATURDAY Illinois at Indiana Air Force at BYU South Carolina at LSU Penn State at Michigan Maryland at Wake Forest Colorado State at Houston Kentucky at Arkansas Connecticut at Pittsburgh Iowa State at Toledo Georgia at Alabama Oregon State at Arizona State Washington at UCLA Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the South Carolina/LSU game? 56 Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will Arkansas' Darren McFadden have against Kentucky? 170

Arizona @ Baltimore (7.5) Buffalo @ New England (15.5) Detroit @ Philadelphia (6.5) (6.5) Indianapolis @ Houston Miami @ N.Y. Jets (3.5) Minnesota @ Kansas City (2.5) (4.5) San Diego @ Green Bay San Francisco @ Pittsburgh (9.5) St. Louis @ Tampa Bay (3.5) Cincinnati @ Seattle (3.5) Cleveland @ Oakland (3.5) Jacksonville @ Denver (3.5) (4.5) Carolina @ Atlanta N.Y. Giants @ Washington (4.5) Dallas @ Chicago (3.5) Tennessee @ New Orleans (4.5) Tennessee - 24 points

I'm in, even though i almost always go badly in Roto leagues.

Making a last minute switch from the Bears to the Bengals sure worked out great.

If Florida State win i'll win outright but even if they don't i'll win by tiebreaker, looks like i'm moving to 3-0.

I'll be there.

It's odd, losing the team's next franchise superstar for his whole rookie season should bother me a lot more than it is, i guess the Jailblazers era has made me numb to the repeated disappointments this team has provided pretty much the entire time i've been a fan. Looking on the bright side, Roy, Aldridge, Outlaw, Webster, Frye, Jack & Rodriguez will get full opportunity to play maximum minutes and should make for a fun if not particularly good team, give those guys a full season of experience and improvement, add yet another top 5 lottery pick and a healed Greg Oden and 2008/09 should be shaping up pretty damn nicely for Portland. Hopefully.

Atlanta @ Jacksonville (10.5) Buffalo @ Pittsburgh (9.5) (7.5) Cincinnati @ Cleveland Green Bay @ N.Y. Giants (1.5) Houston @ Carolina (6.5) (7.5) Indianapolis @ Tennessee (3.5) New Orleans @ Tampa Bay San Francisco @ St. Louis (3.5) (3.5) Dallas @ Miami Minnesota @ Detroit (2.5) (3.5) Seattle @ Arizona Kansas City @ Chicago (12.5) N.Y. Jets @ Baltimore (10.5) Oakland @ Denver (10.5) San Diego @ New England (3.5) Washington @ Philadelphia (6.5) Tennessee - 21 points

THURSDAY West Virginia at Maryland SATURDAY Virginia at North Carolina Tennessee at Florida Notre Dame at Michigan Ohio State at Washington Southern Miss at East Carolina Arkansas at Alabama Mississippi at Vanderbilt Louisville at Kentucky Boston College at Georgia Tech Wyoming at Boise State USC at Nebraska Hawaii at UNLV Florida State at Colorado Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the USC/Nebraska game? 67 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Tennessee's Erik Ainge have against Florida? 210

For once the 'obvious' winner i picked didn't end up getting upset in week 1, thank you Pittsburgh.

Looks like i went 6-1 in differing picks for a comfortable win, not a bad start on my way to winning this two years in a row.

I hate these matchups where i'm relying on teams like East Carolina and Western Michigan to win, but it looks like i'll retain a top 3 ranking as long as Arizona State can hold onto a 19 point lead.

I'll have 300 points coming my way if Dakota Fanning dies, so i'm not giving up hope of victory just yet.

Danielson really needs to form a tag team with Pirata Morgan now.

THURSDAY Oregon State at Cincinnati SATURDAY Nevada at Northwestern Nebraska at Wake Forest Miami at Oklahoma Alabama at Vanderbilt Oregon at Michigan Boise State at Washington South Carolina at Georgia Missouri at Mississippi North Carolina at East Carolina TCU at Texas Indiana at Western Michigan Virginia Tech at LSU Colorado at Arizona State Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Virginia Tech/LSU game? 56 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Texas' Colt McCoy have against TCU? 240

New Orleans @ Indianapolis (5.5) Atlanta @ Minnesota (3.5) Carolina @ St. Louis (0.5) (3.5) Denver @ Buffalo Kansas City @ Houston (2.5) Miami @ Washington (3.5) (6.5) New England @ N.Y. Jets (3.5) Philadelphia @ Green Bay (4.5) Pittsburgh @ Cleveland Tennessee @ Jacksonville (6.5) Chicago @ San Diego (6.5) Detroit @ Oakland (1.5) Tampa Bay @ Seattle (6.5) N.Y. Giants @ Dallas (5.5) Baltimore @ Cincinnati (3.5) Arizona @ San Francisco (3.5) Tennessee - 21 points

I'll be in, hopefully i can get past the first week for once.

12-1 so far with Connecticut & Boston College giving me outright victory in the game of the week, looks like i'll keep a top 3 spot in the rankings.

I expect Evans group will basically be BLK OUT part 2, Eddie Kingston would be my guess to be the next member of the group.

THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 60 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 98

Fridays and Saturdays are the only days i can make it to a live draft so Saturday is perfect for me.