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2012 SMU Football

On Sunday, at 5:30 central time, the SMU football season kicks off! Whoo! FOOTBALL! (Said in my best southern voice.) Last year I made a prediction about SMU’s record before the season began, and I wasn’t too far off. I thought they would go 8-4, they actually went 7-5 (although the loss against Navy was ridiculous – seriously SMU? That’s still upsetting.). Anywho.

I had predicted they’d lose to TCU, but beat Tulsa. In fact, they lost to Tulsa (what?), but beat TCU (boo yah!!).

They’re going to play in the Big East the season after this one, so the hope is to leave good ol’ Conference USA on a high note. (Which means we’ll have to beat Houston … gulp.)

Anywho, time to get down to it!

9/2 @ Baylor Win (you’d better)
9/8 v Stephen F. Austin Win (or the tears will fall)
9/15 v Texas A&M Loss (I’m not kidding myself here)
9/29 v TCU (Fam Wknd) Loss (SMU won last year, TCU will be angry)
10/06 @ UTEP Win
10/13 @ Tulane Win
10/18 v Houston Loss
10/27 v Memphis (Homecoming) Win
11/03 @ UCF Win?
11/10 v Southern Miss Loss
11/17 @ Rice Win
11/24 v Tulsa Win (don’t lose to THEM, they’re in Oklahoma!)

Sorry, Oklahoma, but you’re easy to make fun of.

Overall predicted record: 8-4 (I’m consistent).

I almost want to put an asterisk next to every game where I have predicted a win, because SMU is still really shaky in my mind. I have seen them play quite a few games that they really have lost due to their own silly mistakes.

Here’s hoping this season is a good one!

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2011 SMU Football Schedule – A Fan’s Take

SMU, my dear alma mater, used to be great at football (when they cheated massive amounts). Now we probably only cheat as much as any other school (well, except for the schools that are being caught), and that makes things tougher.

We’ve got a tough schedule this year, and yet hope springs eternal. According to Sports Ratings SMU will be looking at a 6-6 season, but I’m hoping for 8-4. Let’s check it out.

9/4- @ Texas A&M

  • Cartoon gulp. 0-1

9/10 – Texas El Paso

  • Ok, let’s do this. 1-1

9/17 – Northwestern State

  • Eh? Sure … 2-1

9/24 – @ Memphis        

9/30 – @ TCU

  • Hope springs eternal!! 3-2

10/15 – UCF

  • Time to bounce-back!(?) 4-2

10/22 – @ Southern Miss

  • Eh. 4-3

10/29 – @ Tulsa

  • Pleeeeeasssee (Roger Rabbit style)! 5-3

11/5 – Tulane

  • FINISH HIM! 6-3

11/12 – Navy

  • GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY! (Also go SMU!) 7-3

11/19 – @ Houston

  • I may be there!! (Probably sad though.) 7-4

11/26 – Rice

  • Pillow fiiiiight! 8-4

For good measure, the old fight song … Yeah, I’m excited about their football season. So sue me!

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Weekly Wacko (50)

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A few things from this weekend.

1) Yesterday a work buddy and I went to the SMU v Rice game at Rice. Rice is like the Houston version of SMU, but Rice didn’t strike me as being as snobby as SMU (though I am admittedly biased against SMU in this case).

SMU won, which was the best part of the game.

BUT. A close second was Rice’s band.

During halftime the Rice band took the field. They had a group of maybe 8 guys in shorts and shirts off to one side. Then I noticed they were tossing a Frisbee. Oh and apparently a fake/prop/empty keg was being dragged around by one guy … Hey, those shirts are all polo and the collars are popped …

That’s when I realized that those Rice students were doing their best impression of SMU students. This cracked me up pretty good. One of the Rice students also had a fake muscle-man outfit on with no shirt on over it.

The band played some songs then stripped off their band uniforms to reveal that underneath all of them were wearing ‘SMU outfits.’

Awesome show.

2) This book I’m reading for class keeps referencing Dilbert. I started to think I should go buy one of those Dilbert books because I’d probably enjoy it more now …

That’s when my brain stopped and I was sad for myself.

Corporate Brad indeed.

3) I’m wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks t-shirt today. I like this shirt. For a while – during the most heated of the news stories on Arizona and immigration laws – I didn’t wear the t-shirt. This is because Arizona became associated with some bad things. Protesters would even show up to Diamondbacks games when they traveled out of state to play.

I want to make it clear that I am pro Arizona Diamondbacks. Anti racism. When I want to support racism I’ll get a t-shirt that says, “let’s go racists – race it up!” Or whatever it is the KKK wears underneath their white robes.

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Well, that’s enough crazy for today. Time to make some pancakes for myself.

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