Dr. MEAC (aka KING MEAC)

Week 8

Football Predictions for October 13-15

Thank you once again Sports Fans for tuning into the Dr. MEAC Picks Column.

Let's get right to the action by looking at a game that promises to have no action. That's right, the first pick of this week is a sure bet to be our AFTER PARTY SPECIAL since our first game pits Tennessee Tech against Tennessee State except for one big problem. This stinker of a game between two sorry sacks of sweaty socks is being played in Cookville, Tennessee. In other words, the after party can only be found at the bottom of whatever cheap domestic booze you can get your hands on in Scopes-Monkey-ville.

WINNER: Tech

This week's CIAA game is being touted by some wanna-be Tobacco Road (okay, dollar store cigarettes) boosters as the MEAC play-in game. Winston-Salem State hosts NC Central in an eagerly anticipated game here in the MEAC office. All of the pomp and circumstance and excitement and business expos and spelling bees and beauty pageants and dog shows and car club rallies will be there for the fans .... Oh wait. This is football. Dr. MEAC was thinking ahead to basketball season.

Oops!

WINNER: WSSU

Okay, enough about the J-V BCF programs. It's on to the big boys ... and Prairie View, too.

For our SWAC Game of the WEEK, Dr. MEAC was thinking about the FEMA Bowl featuring Southern and Jackson State but Dr. MEAC refuses to pay the $40 parking that Jag AD Creflo LaFleur is requiring while he waits for that first set of debit cards to arrive on the Bluff.


Thus, this week's SWAC game is dedicated to all of the no-clue's that really thought that Shreveport had a serious chance of hosting this year's Bayou Classic. Please, the Superdome had more beds than Sh'port. As proof of the complete lunacy of the so-called "Stay-in-Louisiana, Stay-in-Shreveport" option, Dr. MEAC wants each of you readers to look at where this week's Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs. Grambling State game is going be played ... Pine Bluff.

WINNER: HOUSTON


A few years ago, our first MEAC game on our league slate was a guaranteed slug-fest. But things have gotten so bad, so quickly for both
Morgan State and Howard that this year's game will most likely be a turnover fest ... as in the stomachs' of football fans unfortunate enough to be in attendance.

WINNER: LACROSSE


Our next conference game features the sinking Titanic of the MEAC, North Carolina A&T, versus the rising Jolly Roger of the MEAC, Delaware State. Playing this game in Greensboro will not help the Aggies escape the certain thumping that awaits them from from the flight of Al Lavan's bumble-bees.

WINNER: DSU


Up next on the scorecard is the MEAC's SC: the SC State Bulldogs who have been the game of the year on everyone's schedule thus far (just ask Coastal Carolina). Like their Hollywood counterparts, the Dawgs have had to really pull out all of the stops for their victories against aggressive MEAC foes. The SC State faithful are feeling very good about facing traditional (and currently defanged) nemesis Florida A&M at home in Orangeburg. I can smell the early stages of boiling souse already.

The Rattlers have had to endure a year of heartbreak and brief elation (come on ... beating Howard? That's like sleeping with a Dancing Doll - it does not get any easier). The recent thrashing at the hands of previously scoreless and first-downless Florida International (they're a pretty good soccer school) indicates that this team has nothing left to hope for.

Except for a spoiler roll for a MEAC contender.

WINNER: FAMU

Hmmm..... Dr. MEAC loves sports but he cannot figure out how anyone can really consider golf a sport. *Unless it is Dr. MEAC trying to convince the NCAA that Bethune-Cookman, with a total enrollment of 1,500 students (half of that number is either in the marching band, the Head Start, or both) is a division I-AA school thanks to its golf team.
Hmmm..... Dr. MEAC loves sports but he cannot figure out how anyone can really consider golf a sport. *Unless it is Dr. MEAC trying to convince that Bethune-Cookman, with a total enrollment of 1,500 students (half of that number is either in the marching band, the Head Start, or both) is a division I-AA school thanks to its golf team.


WINNER: that Cracker Barrel right off I-95


This week's Dr. MEAC GAME OF THE WEEK showcases two teams that Dr. MEAC never ever EVER thought would be on the same field at the same time for a GAME OF THE WEEK but Dr. MEAC will be doggone if Ken Howard and his band of Shiney Misfit Mercenaries have not started to turn the Norfolk State Don't-Ask-Don't-Tells into a band of "brothers" that chew up grass and spit out nails.

All of the years of Norfolk State losing its across-the-water battles against the always powerful Hampton Pirates, all of the suffering, all of the insults, all of the shame ... will have to wait another year at least before it can end for NSU.

Norfolk State is a young team that has not yet learned how to finish games and the let down after the South Carolina State game is still lingering.

This game stays close for about two and a half quarters before turnovers, lack of poise, and Joe Taylor's coaching takes control.

WINNER: MEAC FOOTBALL FANS

I'm Dr. MEAC and I need a drink.