The Atlanta Fixer's WEEK NINE Picks

WEEK 9

I’m gonna get philosophical about the games this week…

The only Favorite is

OREGON -17 @ California- “Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He’s tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth...” -Salman Rushdie

 All the Dogs:

MARYLAND +11 @ Wisconsin- “It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.” -Tom Holt

BYU +7 @ Boise St- “Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory...”- Bernie Taupin

NORTH CAROLINA +7 @ Virginia- “On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea...”-Patricia Cornwell

VANDERBILT +21 @ Mizzou- “I’ll be cold in my grave before I recognize the state of Mizzourah…”- Grandpa Abraham Simpson

EASTERN MICHIGAN +20 vs Northern Illinois- “In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human… The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog…”- Edward Hoagland

OHIO U +10½ @ Western Michigan- “I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Western Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found...”- Stephen Hawking

OREGON ST +13½ @ Stanford- “We have all, at one time or another, been performers,& many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings...”- Laurence Olivier

PENN ST +14 vs Ohio St- “Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He is the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way...”- Lew Wasserman

UCONN +28  East Carolina- “Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone...”- Karl Pilkington

FLORIDA ATLANTIC +28 @ Marshall- “You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI…”- Hannibal Lecter

SOUTH CAROLINA +17½ @ Auburn- “Life is short, so don’t waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won’t pay any attention anyway.”- Pat Dye

 

Selah...