RE: Football OOC Prediction
I think when you have a mismatch on paper, as you do with Clemson/App, all the pressure is on underdog in the first quarter to somehow keep it close, the underdog is usually very tight, and playing not to make mistakes, while the favorite plays very loose, and tend to not worry about making mistakes. But if the under dog can stay in the game, or even lead late in the third, you get a complete change in attitudes, the underdogs play with confidence, while the overwhelming favorites start to fear they might actually lose the game and start to choke. The App/Michigan game is a great example of this, when we scored our first td of the game, a 70 yd catch and run, the App receiver Jackson said as he was standing in the endzone, and the two corners he beat actually came up to him laughing, they were not worried in the least bit they just got beat, and treated the td like it was fluke, or joke. But by the end of the third, they weren't laughing anymore, infact reports say a lot of the Michgan players were pissed at each other, yelling and screaming, about how they could actually lose to a FCS program. All we need to do is stay in the game for the first half, if we do that, then our confidence will be high and maybe we can make a game of it.
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