Darrell Huckaby is a syndicated columnist and author of six books including two about Georgia football, Need Two and Need Four. He writes a column for the site each week during the season. E-mail him at dhuck008@gmail.com or visit his website: www.darrellhuckaby.net.

11/27/2015

Huck’s Fearless Forecast

I hope all of you have had a wonderful Thanksgiving, as have I, and that you have many more blessings to count throughout the weekend, especially if you are a Dawg fan.  My lovely wife, Lisa, is out amongst the madness spending money way faster than I can make it.  Someone stole our American Express card last year and I let them keep it six months because they spent a lot less than Lisa did.  But it is Black Friday, so what the Huck!  Let’s pick a few games.

Black Lives Matter says we can play this week at Sooie Pig—Gary Pinkel needs a win in this one to extend his career by one bowl game.  Vince Dooley calls Pinkel “one of the good guys” in college football and he has certainly done himself proud during his brief SEC tenure and I wish him well as he battles the insidious illness that is causing him to step-down.  I hate to see his career end with a loss to a blowhard like Bret Bielema, but I believe that is what is going to happen.   Missouri can’t score and they will have a hard time stopping the Razorbacks’ ground game.

Arkansas 27  Missouri 12

Vanderbilt on Rocky Top—The Nashville Navy has a respectable defense this season but they are venturing out of friendly waters this week and will be doing battle on higher ground, which doesn’t bode well for them.  Butch Jones will add another brick to the foundation is has been trying to build since arriving in Obnoxville and will prepare to take on the title of SEC East favorite for next fall.  I can attest that that role doesn’t always play out as planned.

Vols 31     Commodores 14

We’re Number One at Our Coach Quit AND we lost to the Citadel—This is the game Steve Spurrier really ducked out on when he walked out on his team six weeks ago.  He wasn’t man enough to walk across the field at the end of his career and congratulate Dabo Swinney for whipping his ass in the last game of his career.  There is a a lot of payback involved in this one and the stands will be all orange from the half on.  It will be a Tiger Walk.

Clemson 44  Chickens 10

Free Shoes at The Swamp—Old what’s his name at Florida said his team played like dead fish last week against Florida Atlantic and things won’t get any better this week when that sterling master of moral character (cough, cough) Jimbo Fisher brings his Criminoles across the panhandle to Gainesville to give the Gators their first of two season-ending losses—three counting the bowl game.

FSU  24   Florida 17   

Ole Miss at Mississippi State—The Egg Bowl is for bragging rights but there is a little more on the line for the Rebel Brown Bears—or at least there will be until the end of the Iron Bowl. That hssssss you hear is air escaping from the Rebels’ balloon.

Maroons 31  Mississippi 28

Aggies in Death Valley—The folks at Louisiana State University have bent over backward this week in an effort to prove that they are dumber than the people in Athens, Georgia and win or lose are prepared to fire perhaps the second-best coach in the Southeastern Conference, whose primary sin is not being Nick Saban.  The Hat walks out a winner, at least.

Tigers 34  Texas A&M 31

Roll Tide at Loveliest Village—The new trees at Toomer’s Corner will have another year to mature before being assaulted by toilet-paper.  Tide rolls in the Iron Bowl.

Alabama 35  Auburn 17

Georgia at Sanford Stadium West—Dawgs on Top.  ‘Nuff said.   We run this state.

Georgia 35   Nerds 24

Look for me Saturday at the Joke by the Coke.   I’ll be the good-looking guy in the red shirt, the one with “To hell with Tech” tattooed on his ass.

Darrell Huckaby

Darrell Huckaby is an author, educator and syndicated newspaper columnist.  Contact him at dhuck008@gmail.com.