Dr. MEAC (aka KING MEAC)

Football Predictions for September 15-18

Dr. MEAC is feeling on top of the world because Dr. MEAC is the only one in the world that picked MisSISSIppi Valley State to torch Southern last week. Yes indeedy (Dr. MEAC shole is greedy) who else but Dr. MEAC could have picked the Delta Devils to knock off the De Facto Devils of the SWAC but Dr. MEAC the Great?

No one.

So please pardon Dr. MEAC if he is feeling his oatmeal with his perfect score last week (it matters not how many games' outcomes went against the predictions of Dr. MEAC because a Valley win over anyone trumps about five or six losses).

Renegades of this atomic age
This atomic age for renegades

So, like James Bond with a good script, I am going to leave it on red and let the dice roll again.

For this week's SWAC game, I am picking MVSU to throttle a very disappointing Alabama A&M. The Bulldogs will not be able to do anything with Valley's quarterback but watch him set records over their heads ... all day long.

WINNER: MVSU

Nothing stays the same, there were always renegades
Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Payne
Like Martin Luther King, Malcom X
They were renegades of the atomic age

Our independent Black college game actually features a game between two white schools in the Jack Daniels Classic. Former Black college Tennessee State travels to the claustrophobic confines of Tennessee-Martin to see which white boys can jump higher and which white boys can block and tackle better.

No, Dr. MEAC does not care about this game either.

WINNER: UTM

Hand clap, hand clap, the renegades

For our featured SIAC game of the week, we travel to Brunswick, Georgia, a city best known for being too close to Jacksonville, Florida to withstand being downwind.

This game is interesting for a few reasons. First of all, Fort Valley State usually plays decent football (Dr. MEAC wonders if they would be interested in joining the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference). Their best athletic trainer is a Rattler that is very special to many of us here at meacfans.com. It is also interesting because Dr. MEAC always thought that Clark was Atlanta's "other" girls' school (Dr. MEAC supposes that the butch ones that couldn't get into Spelman had to go somewhere). Finally, Dr. MEAC did not know that Brunswick had a football field.

WINNER: FVSU

There was a time when our music
Was something called the Bay Street beat
People would gather from all around
To get down on the Bay sound

The Dr. MEAC CIAA game of the week is the Willie Gary Bookoo Bucks Classic in Durham. This year's Bookoo Bowl has Gary's alma mater Shaw taking on the newest member of the ... wait ... Dr. MEAC has not yet authorized that press release ....

As you were.

Shaw takes on North Carolina Central University, the only DII school that has more scholarships than George W. Bush has lies.

Shaw is interesting because, in spite of having a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very wealthy attorney as an alumnus, they still cannot accomplish jack-squat on the gridiron.

WINNER: NCCU

You had to be a renegade those days
To take a man on the dance floor

An up-and-coming star in the MEAC solar system (relatively speaking of course ladies and gentlemen) is Delaware State University. We here at the MEAC Bunker are very proud of the work of DSU's President Sessoms as he continues working very hard to make that school our league's first white member institution.

Dr. MEAC salutes Dr. Sessoms' sell-out behind.

Dr. MEAC is also very proud of the strides that the Hornets' football team has achieved so far this season. Frankly, if Del State lost the rest of their games by horrifically shameful scores, Dr. MEAC will forever hold a special place in his liquor cabinet for the Hornets after they beat the traitorous Rattlers in Tallahassee to open the season.

Dr. MEAC loves y'all fuh life yo.

This week's match-up figures to be a great test for the Hornets as they travel down to one of Virginia's many redneck enclaves to play James Madison. JMU is named after the only president who's First Lady was more famous than him (Dr. MEAC loves those snack cakes).

WINNER: DSU

Like Afrika Bambattaa and the Soulsonic Force
We're talking about Mr. B, Pow Wow, G-L-O-B-E
Was a renegade, yes, a renegade of the atomic age

Some things in life are inevitable. Death. Taxes. South Carolina State finding a way to not go to the playoffs. You can set your watches by 'em, people.

Another of life's certainties is that we will have at least one game that is so bad, one match-up so pathetic, one contest so un-inspiring, one battle so likely to induce mass snoring that we have to call it the AFTER-PARTY SPECIAL. Yes, this week's APS is so boring that it appears that the only reason they're actually playing the game is to help low-life promoters pitch a marketing angle to mobs of tight-skirt-wearing women and BET-After-Dark-addicted men to some club for $10 covers and Long Island Ice Tea drink specials.

That having been said, let's get the prediction over with.

Two of Black college football's worst football teams bring their stank to the Buckeye State's Cuyahoga County for a special brand of L. A. Clippers meet Prairie View ineptness. Morgan State and Savanah State will surely set the MEAC back at least fifteen years when all is said and done.

Forget the winner this week people.

LOSER: MEAC

So many renegades
What's that
It's a hand clap
The renegade

As the MEAC schedule begins to get into high gear, the conference hometown gets what should be a treat as defending league champ Hampton comes to Greensboro for a game. That's the good news. The bad news is that they have to play North Carolina A & T.

The highlight of this game will be a mini-class reunion for Dr. MEAC and some of his classmates from his cohort at SUNY-Buffalo (class of 1984 aka the Renegades of Ed.)

WINNER: HIU

Just jam sucker
Say jam sucker

One of the highlights of the football season for the administrative staff at the MEAC Bunker is to bear witness to the annual smackfest that normally ensues on meacfans.com between Florida A&M's Strike Force and Howard's Blue Meanies. Sadly, however, this year's superwar of isht-talking never materialized between the two biggest collection of snobs on meacfans.com.

Nevertheless, so long as there are mullet sandwiches to toss at Howard's bench-warmers from the formerly jam-packed band section of Bragg Stadium, football fans can always look forward to enjoying the bad side of sportsmanship when the Rattlers and Bison play each other.

WINNER: HU

Say groove, sucker
Say groove, sucker
Say dance, sucker
Say dance, sucker

This week's big game of the week is so big that Dr. MEAC even came up with a special name for it: Dr. MEAC's BIG GAME OF THE WEEK.

The Bethune-Cookman vs. South Carolina State rivalry has always been a heated one eagerly anticipated on both sides of Mary McLeod Bethune's family tree. Some of the highlights of the series include future NFL Hall of Famer Deacon Jones punching out then-BCC President Richard Moore's mother on his way to the locker room at halftime ... Wildcat cheerleaders putting gobs of BenGay in the bloomers of the Bulldog cheerleaders in 1968 only to be foiled because they didn't know that Bulldog cheerleaders don't wear fresh drawers ... Willie Jeffries beating Larry Little in a thumb-wrestling contest after the Bulldog coach arranged to have an ice cream truck drive by.

This game has all of the trappings of a great game: great offenses, great defenses, rabid fans, big stadium, entertaining marching bands, online pregame smack with fat people, and - best of all - two coaches that hate each other.

Buddy Pough has stated publicly that he is jealous of the older Alvin Wyatt's physique while the Wildcat coach is upset that the Bulldog coach sent his team's game tapes on a FEMA plane.

Dr. MEAC has fond memories of SCSU and Orangeburg and Dawson Stadium. Dr. MEAC will never forget how the Bulldogs notched their first winning season in forty years when they became winners in 1987. Dr. MEAC will never forget the hard work and sacrifice put in to make that team a winner again. Dr. MEAC will never forget how his gut hurt when he was fired by S. C. State.

WINNER: BCC

Now move, sucker
Now move, sucker

Thanks hip-hoppers. You've been great.

I am Dr. MEAC and I need a drink.