Dr. MEAC (aka KING MEAC)

Football Predictions for October 6-8

Hello.

How are you.

Dr. MEAC is not in a playful mood after last week's debacle. Sure Dr. MEAC picked Albany over the perennial SWAC champions from Tuskegee but that was easy (there was still "sauce" in the bottle when that pick was made).

The rest of it I cannot explain like Dr. MEAC forgetting that this week's official bye for Florida A & M was preceded by the Rattlers' increasingly normal "bye" whenever they square off against a white school.

Dr. MEAC remembers when FAMU would feast on the ofays but now they lay down for the white folk more than the Secretary of State in the after-hours Oval Office.

Anyway, let us get to this week's picks (Dr. MEAC is starting to feel like Chris Berman - if we make it to .500, Dr. MEAC will throw a party).

INDEPENDENT

Langston vs. Texas College on that little work camp outside of Gutherie, Oklahoma. Langston's colors and mascot reminds Dr. MEAC of Miami's HBCU, Florida Memorial. Texas College's "certification concerns" reminds Dr. MEAC of the University of Miami in the 1980's.

WINNER: TC

SWAC

Southern vs. Alabama A&M at Mumpsford Stadium. This game is not very interesting outside of Dr. MEAC's entry in an office pool to see when and how SU athletic director Beggy LaFleur is going to call on Jaguars to petition FEMA for money "because Mama Jag would've wanted it that way."

WINNER: Dr. West

SIAC

Miles vs. Lane. Okay boys and girls. Dr. MEAC is going to be honest with you. Dr. MEAC only picked this game because he missed that little bald-headed white man in the ring with large Kneegrows at Caesar's Palace in Vegas.

Let's get it on!

CIAA

Elizabeth City State vs. Bowie State in Elizabeth City. How a school named after a big cracker knife loses to a school named after an little girl is beyond Dr. MEAC but it happens this weekend.

Boooooo on Bowie.

WINNER: ECSU *try saying that three times real fast.

MEAC 

Delaware State vs. Bethune-Cookman in Dover, Delaware aka Very East Philly. The Hornets are an improving football team that continues to punish those that disregard them ("FIU scores again!"). What was seen as a fluke showing against SC State's newest daddy is starting to look like a solid performance against a strong Coastal Carolina Cluckers team. Bethune continues to struggle to find its way. The long trip from a currently tropical storm drenched Daytona to Dover has typically ended in an even longer trip back for the 'Cats after a loss at Del State.

This week could spell more of the same ... except that Dr. MEAC was talking to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's newest top ref over tuna rolls and hot sauce and the subject of this game came up. One of us was wearing a Mary Bethune lapel pin and it was not Dr. MEAC

WINNER: BCC's ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Morgan State vs. N.C. A&T in a suburb of our nation's capital. It seems like such a shame to sit in traffic that long for a game this bad.

WINNER: PEOPLE WITH YARDS TO RAKE


Gardner Webb vs. Hampton in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Boiling Springs. Frankly ladies and gentleman, Dr. MEAC cannot help but think that the defending MEAC champions are playing in a classic sponsored by a topical treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

WINNER: THE FREE CLINIC


Finally, our surprising pick for game of the week is also our early game of the week. Norfolk State hosts South Carolina State this Thursday night. The Bulldogs are a-hurting after last week's loss that had many SC State fans questioning the play-calling amongst themselves. The loss was so shocking that some Dawgs are even wondering about the rest of the season. Dr. MEAC thinks that such thinking is premature - especially since Howard and FAMU are still in the MEAC.

Meanwhile in the other locker room, the Behold Green and Gold are feeling very, very good about the direction that their football team is headed in. The past few weeks have been a big boost to the confidence of the Spartan players (which is good because someone emailed them the things that Sharpe Tiger was saying about them and sailors last week). Indeed, last year's sad sacks (and the year before's and the year before's and the ...) are feeling like they can take on anyone - including South Carolina State.

The stands at Vincent Price Stadium will be howling like the extended remix of the Thriller video Thursday night - especially as the first down markers are torn down (do you really see NSU students climbing up on a goal post??).

WINNER: NSU

Thank you, thank you all.

You've been ... you.
I'm Dr. MEAC and I need a drink.