I was hard on him early, but the Miami kid has some game. This game was technically a push, since the spread was hit on the money (17 points), so we all start out with a tie (as far as I know, you can't bet on the push...everybody just gets their money back), but Severely Caned gets the gold star of the night for nailing the score dead to rights. Keep this up and nobody's gonna need Jesus or The Virus.

As mentioned, I didn't watch the game, but I caught the highlights on sportscenter, and I could pat myself on the back for saying Reggie Ball and Calvin Johnson would have monster games (which they did), but that was probably the easiest pick of the week. That's like picking Chris Leak to light up the UK secondary on Saturday. It's almost a given. CJ is damn near unstoppable, though he struggles against more physical corners, as UGA showed last year when Tim Jennings went and beat CJ half to death every time he came off the line and ultimately made the game winning interception while covering CJ. And CJ had a good 8 inches on Jennings. As far as I know, the receiver contact rules are different in college than in the NFL, so you can jam receivers more and knock them around off the line of scrimmage, and I'm not sure why more teams don't do this with oversized receivers like CJ who tend to shy away from contact and get alligator arms after a big hit. Jam him up front and have a LB come in for help on the short stuff and a safety for the deep stuff if he pushes past you. I don't think it's that unreasonable to have 3 guys on him, just not necessarily man-to-3man. In a zone scheme, cheat an LB and a safety to his side of the field and keep them close enough to jump a route at any level of the defense. I'm not sold on the rest of the GT offense, and it's been shown consistently that as CJ goes, so go the Jackets. UGA just blanketed him all night last year and made him a non factor, and the secondary was the weakest part of their defense. Anyway, when Ball's head is on straight enough to get it to him, GT is one of the more dangerous teams in the country, especially since they have a very solid defense on the other side. Ball has the talent to take a game over, but not the head for it. He melts down way too easily and once he starts to play with emotion instead of composure, you can start counting the INTs, overthrows, personal foul penalties and clock mismanagement immediately. UGA revealed this in his freshman season when he started jawing at the safeties after a (legal) hit on the sidelines, after which the safeties promptly flattened Ball on a flurry of blitzes before he got yanked out of the game, which GT laughably said was from an injury, but was just because he got too fired up to play QB. He's got WR attitude at the QB position, and that just doesn't work.

I think those High Lifes are rotting Jeezy's brain. I'm gonna one up him again (and stab myself through the heart at same time) and say Spurrier TRIPLES the spread and wins 90-0. Who's gonna blink first here, son?