From: scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steven M Casburn)
Subject: Prediction Wrap-Up #10
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:49:58 GMT

     It's time again for Prediction Wrap-Up!

     * I've made the humbling discovery that anti-woofing even affects the PWU.
After writing last week that Jay Boisseau and Tim Pitts pretty much had the 
contest wrapped up, they both went out and had their worst weeks in memory. 
And Mark Mitchell, who I compared to Earle Bruce, came back to win Predictor of
the Week honors with one of the best weeks I've seen in a long time. Here's 
what he did:

 PREDICTED                                     ACTUAL
Alabama 24, LSU 3                            (Alabama 31-11)*
Mississippi State 23, Arkansas 10            (Mississippi State 10-3)
Florida 21, Southern Mississippi 16          (Florida 24-20)*
Kentucky 17, Vanderbilt 10                   (Vanderbilt 20-7)
Mississippi 22, Memphis State 20             (Mississippi 17-12)*
South Carolina 14, Louisiana Tech 10         (South Carolina 14-13)**

     Four great picks, including the co-Pick of the Week. If it weren't for the
Commodores suddenly remembering how to play football, then Mark would have had 
a perfect week.
     The other Pick of the Week belonged to Charlie Cockrell, who predicted 
that Wake Forest would beat Duke 27-13. If Charlie had only had more confidence
in ACC kickers, this prediction would have been dead-on; the actual score was 
28-14.
     * If anti-woofing works, then I guess I should do Goober Smith a favor
here. Goober hasn't had the best of years, and he went 1-4 in Week 10 to fall 
7 1/2 games behind his competitor Jay Boisseau. Let's face it, folks, Goober 
has absolutely, positively no chance in the world of either finishing
with a perfect record next week or of finally having a better week than 
Boisseau. None. Nada. Zip. Write it off. (Hear that, Woof Gods?)
     * As far as I could tell, neither Randy Peppler nor Chris Stassen posted 
predictions for Week 10. If I'm wrong on this, please let me know.
     * And finally, the "What the Hell Was He Thinking" award of the week. The 
"winner" for Week 10 is two-time Predictor of the Week Tim Pitts (how far the 
fall from fame!) Pitts said that Boston College would handle Notre Dame 
relatively easily and go home with a 28-20 victory. Well, it didn't quite work 
that way... :-)

     And now for the numbers:

Jay Boisseau (SWC)                                 2-  2-  0  ( .500)
  (boisseau@chpc.utexas.edu)                      33-  6-  1  ( .838)

Charlie Cockrell (SEC)                             3-  2-  0  ( .600)
  (cockrel@shab06.larc.nasa.gov)                  40- 12-  1  ( .764)

**Scott Davis (Big 8)                              3-  1-  0  ( .750)
  (scott@mccall.com)                              31-  9-  1  ( .768)

Pat Fleming (MAC)                                  4-  2-  0  ( .667)
  (pfleming@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)            41- 19-  0  ( .683)

Mark Mitchell (SEC)                                5-  1-  0  ( .833)
  (mm42@prism.gatech.EDU)                         51- 14-  1  ( .780)

*Randy Peppler (Big Ten/11)                        ?-  ?-  0  ( .???)
  (peppler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)                      26- 16-  0  ( .619)

Tim Pitts (Big East)                               3-  2-  0  ( .600)
  (v262xxve@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu)                44-  8-  3  ( .827)

Cliff Slaughterbeck (Pac-10)                       1-  4-  0  ( .200)
  (crs@milton.u-washington.edu)                   32- 13-  1  ( .707)

Goober Smith (SWC)                                 1-  4-  0  ( .200)
                                                  26- 14-  1  ( .646)

*Chris Stassen (Big Ten/11)                        ?-  ?-  0  ( .???)
  (stassen@alc.com)                               14- 10-  0  ( .583)


*   No Week 6 or 10 predictions on record
**  No Week 8 predictions on record


     As always, comments and corrections are welcome.

                                        Steve
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-- 
    Steve Casburn (scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
    They gave me differential calculus, and I said "Hit me again"
    So they gave me integral calculus, and I said "Hit me again"
    Now I have vector calculus, and...I'm starting to lose consciousness...