My final results are up, but if you don't want to click the link, then I'll put it here: I went 23-16 this year (which means I am now 274-220 overall). I got off to a pretty strong start, but other than going perfect on New Year's Eve I pretty much faded down the stretch. In particular, New Year's Day was a disaster for me, as I missed three out of the five games. Afterward, I failed to really recover, going 2-5 down the stretch.
But hey, there's a reason why I always say, "all predictions wrong". Nonetheless, I do continue to get more than half of them right. Perhaps next year I'll start comparing myself against the spread or use other metrics than just wins and losses, but that'll be determined sometime next December I suspect.
Some closing thoughts on the season as a whole.
- For starters, my Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets finished eight in the AP Poll, blissfully one spot ahead of Georgia and Tech's best ranking since finishing ninth after the 1998 season. I never expected this sort of season, but neither did anyone else. Next year, it is unlikely we will surprise anyone. With Justin Thomas returning, I suspect we will start the season ranked in the top 15, and maybe even the top 10.
- How about those Buckeyes? They committed four turnovers and won by 22, which really means that it wasn't even that close.
- Will we see a shift in the perception of the power five conferences after this? I believe that we're back to some real parity in college football. The only way we can really tell, though, is if we get more power five teams playing each other during the season. We'll see how that shakes out when we do our usual out-of-conference schedule rankings. Suffice it to say, though, reports of the Big Ten's death were greatly exaggerated.
Until then.
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