Eleven Warriors

Wisconsin 51 – UNLV 17
Prediction: Wis 54 – UNLV 12.  Pretty much nailed this one as Wilson looks to be an added demension to the otherwise poundy pound Wisconsin offense.

Michigan State 28 – Youngstown State 6
Prediction: MSU 49 – YSU 10.  Well I certainly expected more out of the Spartan offense that a weak 28 points against an FCS squad.  That’s not going to earn them back-to-back B1G champioships.

Northwestern 24 – Boston College 17
Prediction: Northwestern 32 – BC 24.  Well, in one regards I was compeletly and totally off base on this game as I predicated my call on Persa.  Oh well, the Wildscats still won and the game was still a dud.

Penn State 41 – Indiana State 7
Prediction: Penn State 42 – Indiana State 6.   Yeah!  I am thinking Nits fans will be hoping I am not this close in my prediction of this week’s game.

Purdue 27 – Middle Tennessee State 24
Prediction: MTS 28 – Purdue 24.  So close on this one, but the quarterbackless Boilermakers escaped with a last second victory over a very afwul team, at home. This is going to be an ugly year in West Lafayette.

Iowa 34 – Tennessee Tech 7
Prediction: Iowa 45 – TT 9.  Again, another underwhelming win over a FCS opponent. 

Ohio State 42 – Akron 0
Prediction: OSU 56 – Akron 17.  It was so damn hot.  A great start to the Fickell era.  The team played with good intesity in a game that may give the doomsayers pause. Also, a shutout is a Good Thing®, regardless of the opponent.

Illinois 33 – Arkansas State 15
Prediction: ILL 38 – Ark St 17.  Freeze had no super powers and Zook is still on the hot seat.

Michigan 34 – Western Michigan 10
Prediction: Mich 27 – W. Mich 24.  Hmmm.  Broncos play tough before letting a bad team look good and how many UM fans are pricing out airfare to Pasadena.  Michigan is BACK!  For this week anyway.

USC 19 – Minnesota 17
Prediction: USC 36 – Minney 28.  Less offensive production than I thought but, at the same time, the agonizing closeness was more than I foresaw.  Kill and his boys tried, they really did.

Nebraska 40 – Chattanooga 7
Prediction: Neb 54 – Chatta 9.  Well now, looks like someone in the B1G knows how to properly defeat a FCS team, although the score is still a little too close for my liking.  Based on week one, Big Red doesn’t look up to the task in Camp Randell.

Ball State 27 – Indiana 20
Prediction: Ball State 28 – Indy 27.  It’s an amazing record of ineptitude.

Results:
Week One 11-1 (.917)

Welcome to my week one preview.  After perusing my in-depth analysis you should have an even greater appreciation for the actual 11W staff.

Thursday, Sept 1st

UNLV @ Wisconsin(10) - 8:00pm

A bottom feeder MWC team comes into Camp Randall for the second part of a home-and-home that saw the Rebels get crushed last year in a game, in which, ol'Bucky only showed up for the second half.  The only interesting part of this match up is the over/under on Wisconsin 100-yard rushers.  I'm going with 4.

Wisconsin 54 - UNLV 12

Friday, Sept 2nd

Youngstown State @ Michigan State(17) - 7:30pm

I did not approve of Ohio State playing the FCS Penguins and feel the same for Michigan State this year.  Boo!

Michigan State 49 - Youngstown State 10

Saturday, Sept 3rd

Northwestern @ Boston College - noon

In one of only 2 BCS match ups in week one the middling Wildcats visit the middling Eagles.  BC finished last year on a 5 game win streak against a regular murders row (Clemson, Wake Forest, Duke, Virginia and Syracuse) before falling to Nevada in the Hunger Games Fight Hunger Bowl.  However I have little faith that BC coach Frank Spaz will do more than mind the store and think that a middling B1G team is better than middling ACC.  Persa should prove too much in a game that could be a dud.

Northwestern 32 - Boston College 24

Indian State @ Penn State(25) - noon

Another FCS match up.  The Sycamores should be just the prep game the Nits need leading up to next weeks tilt against Alabama, teaching Penn State how to lose, badly.

Penn State 42 - Indiana State 6

Middle Tennessee State @ Purdue - noon

The Blue Raiders are terrible, but Purdue has no quarterback and someone has to lay an egg.

Middle Tennessee State 28 - Purdue 24

Tennessee Tech @ Iowa - noon

Wow, the roads north out of Tennessee are going to be packed this weekend!  Or, well...  Anyway, another exciting FCS match up.  Come on guys!

Iowa 45 - Tennessee Tech 9

Akron @ Ohio State(16) - noon

Sloppy first half.  Talent wins out.  Fickell's competiveness gets the best of him and keeps the foot on the gas in the 4th quarter.

Ohio State 56 - Akron 17

Arkansas State @ Illinois - 3:30pm

The best thing the Red Wolves have going for them is that their first year head coach is named Hugh Freeze.  However, unless he has super powers this game is over early as Zook begins another year on the hot seat.

Illinois 38 - Arkansas State 17

Western Michigan @ Michigan - 3:30pm

nom nom nom, Hoke hungry nuf to eat horse!  Many questions in a game the Broncos will be hoping they can sneak away with an upset in, as Michigan grinds through another offensive gear change.  Unfortunately Bronco's quarterback Alex Carder probably won't be able to adjust his throwing motion to counteract Hoke's gravitational pull so expect a ugly game that sees the wolvies on top.  Also expect the WE ARE BACK talk to reach new heights, at least for a week.

Michigan 27 - Western Michigan 24

Minnesota @ USC - 3:30pm

Welcome to this week's Marque Match Up®.  I would really love to see the Gophers represent middle American and pull out the win against a down USC team and their smarmy coach.  Sadly though, as Red told us all, Minnesota is no place for fairy tales.

USC 36 - Minnesota 28

Chattanooga @ Nebraska(11) - 3:30pm

Big Red shows they do belong in the B1G with an intriguing FCS tilt.  Yay!

Nebraska 54 - Chattanooga 9

Indiana @ Ball State - 7:00pm

How bad is Indiana football that they are playing away against a MAC team?  Okay, they aren't really away, it's at Lucas Oil.  Did you know you can get season tickets for Ball State, that include the grudge match in Lucas Oil, for $75.  The whole season!

Ball State 28 - Indiana 27

Just left Katzinger's Deli. Place completely over run by Miami(FL) fans walking down from the downtown hotels. Made the line way too long for 2pm on a school day. At least they waited until I was leaving to start wooting and getting their swagger on.

I am quite surprised that they were able to read the, "places to eat" guide left in their hotel rooms.  Of course the concierge my have just given them a picture map.

Also, had to bite my tongue over hearing one U fan complaining about how long it took to get a sandwich.  I so wanted to say something along the lines of, "Hey now buddy, this is the midwest not south beach.  We like things slow here.  Slow sandwiches, slow Sunday drives...  slow penalty flags."

There is a well established track record of wealthy WASP scions rebelling against their comfortable lives of privilege.  These “Trustafarians” often end up as jet setting self-absorbed leftists living a life of sequestered luxury all the while thumbing their noses at the very society that created the wealth they enjoy.  These people are, to say the least, annoying, but more importantly they are cliché.  Another rich white kid wearing a Che shirt?  How original.  But now what about rich black kids?  Not really something that we have much track record with but everyday we become a more integrated society and while the percentage still stinks more and more blacks are climbing up the ladder.

While a sample size of one a trend does not make it appears for one rich black son the rebellion took the form of Thug-Life and not Marxism.  The one that I speak of is Duron Carter, son of Ohio State and NFL legend, Cris Carter.  Duron was born after his father had already started his NFL career, so while the first few years in the NFL were a little rocky for dad, Duron was in fact born with a silver spoon up his ass.  By the time Duron enters high school his father is one of the highest paid NFL players and a future Hall of Famer, who, aside from aside form his on field heroics and built a security business with, as of 3 years ago, 25 locations!  Duron is the son of privilege, even if it’s not a standard old money blue blood line.

Now I know it might seem odd to claim that a Duron, following directly in his father’s foot steps by becoming a receiver at Ohio State, is a rebellious child but rebellion is not always at the meta level.  Duron is the child of well educated and intelligent parents, whose father one of the most well spoken ex-NLF starts to make the jump to TV analysis, and went to a private Catholic school.  Yet Duron seems to have pushed back against this breeding by self identifying with the street.  To hear him talk, to read his internet posts/tweets is to watch one trying ever so hard to prove they are “real”.

Stop trying to be something you are not.

Let’s look as some recent tweets;
Ungrateful niggas! Can’t do nothing 4 ppl!     4:03 AM Jun 18th  via UberTwitter

Niggas that get 21′d can’t say shit!!!!! If this was 2k the next niggas would be on the court now!!!! #celtics old shitty niggas     12:35 AM Jun 16th  via UberTwitter

RT @L_Anderson6: cavs fans please stop suckin on the celtics dick.. they whooped the cavs then they was sorry..now they sweet as fuck outta no where SMFH!!!!

@tysofly lol true… We will just stick 2 bein real then!     8:47 PM Jun 14th  via UberTwitter  in reply to tysofly

No doubt philosopher and theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas, namesake for your high school is ever so proud of his desire to, “stick 2 bein real”.  As, I imagine, are Duron’s parents.

Fort Luaderdale FL, Columbus OH, now Coffeyville. What's next, prison?

Thanks to Duron’s fascination of a street culture that deemphasize things such as, duty, education and commitment he will find himself plying his trade at the Coffeyville Kansas Community College.  Hopefully begin stuck in the middle of fucking nowhere, attending a community college with an enrollment of under 1,300, will be a catalyst for change.  It is a waste, and a shame to watch some one given so much, including the physical ability to be a wide receiver at an elite FBS program throw it all away over love of a vile culture that promotes violence and debases women.
Though Coffeyville worked as a spring-board for Ron Springs, 78-79 starting Ohio State tailback and Mike Rozier, the 1983 Heisman winner for Nebraska, I have my doubts to the likeliness Duron will make a comeback.  Ron and Mike were hungry young men that needed a little more time to bring up their grades.  Duron on the other hand has never known hunger and though having started with the grades, let his school work decline so rapidly that he was ruled ineligible to play before the season was even over.  I doubt we hear much noise from Duron as I suspect he has, in his heart, chosen an ignorant street culture that his father has nothing to do with as a method of establishing himself as a different person from his pops.  Someday he may change, but I suspect it will be long after college football is an option.