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Up to week 9, here's the totals:

bgsufalcon24 62 - 20 (.756)
jpfalcon09 58 - 17 (.773)
MarkL 57 - 25 (.695)
LowryFalcon 49 - 19 (.721)
BGFalconfromCincy 49 - 17 (.729)
daspollak 49 - 20 (.742)
VDub26Falcon 44 - 18 (.710)
falconfan1999 43 - 15 (.741)
svillefalcon 42 - 17 (.712)
footballguy51 41 - 18 (.695)
Chimie 23 - 11 (.676)

BG won! And nobody got perfect, and we've all still got a game tonight on last week's predictions. Again, I'll be posting on Thursday for games Friday to Thursday, and there is a MAC game tomorrow to predict.

5 games to predict, all MAC games. Here's the matchups for this week:

Friday, November 5
Western Michigan at Central Michigan, 6:00 pm
Saturday, November 6
Akron at Ball State, 1:00 pm
Temple at Kent State, 2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 9
Toledo at Northern Illinois, 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 10
Miami at Bowling Green, 8:00 pm

And, for my predictions:

Western Michigan at Central Michigan. Winner: WMU. CMU is just not playing well at all right now. CMU hasn't lost to WMU in a very long time. That ends tomorrow night.
Akron at Ball State. Winner: Ball State. It is very tempting to pick Akron here. Neither team is playing well. But, I think Ball State is good enough to beat the Zips.
Temple at Kent State. Winner: Temple. Kent is going to play extremely well, but Temple has scored two straight shut outs. Temple wins nicely.
Toledo at Northern Illinois. Winner: NIU. Believe it or not, these two are both undefeated in MAC play. Someone's got to lose. Toledo generally has NIU's number, but NIU at home is going to win huge IMO. NIU is the far better team right now. Also, if anyone didn't know, Toledo has terrible luck with QB health (06, 07, 09) and again lost a starting QB for the season. Dantin was injured against Eastern Michigan and is out for the season.
Miami at Bowling Green. Winner: BG. No Miami Whammy this time. I don't know when the last time was that we had a wining streak vs. Miami, but I sure would like to start one after knocking them off at their house last year. Miami has played surprisingly well this year and is certainly in the MAC East race right now. Our defense has improved a lot recently and completely shut down CMU last week. I am going to call for BG's defense to play stellar and shut down the Miami offense, and for the BG offense to be efficient and effective, though not necessarily explosive. Good solid win for BG.

We're in the home stretch. Good luck, everybody! I think we'll end with the MAC Championship game, and the winner gets a little Christmas gift from me!

Friday, November 5
Western Michigan at Central Michigan, 6:00 pm- I like Western here. They played well against NIU. Central, well they stunk!
Saturday, November 6
Akron at Ball State, 1:00 pm- Ball State, although this will be Akron's best shot at a win.
Temple at Kent State, 2:00 pm- great game here! Kent is going to win a close game.
Tuesday, November 9
Toledo at Northern Illinois, 7:00 pm- NIU will win a very entertaining game
Wednesday, November 10
Miami at Bowling Green, 8:00 pm- Miami is more consistent that we are. I hate picking against BG, but it worked last week and we won. I'll gladly take the hit to my won-loss record in exchange for another BG win!

WMU: Short week after a bad loss for CMU can be a recipe for disaster, right Virginia Tech?
Ball St.: They win the Pillow Fight of the Week.
Temple: I feel they are the better team, but I wouldn't be surprised if Kent won.
NIU: They are the class of the MAC, and they will show it against UT.
BG: If this game was played on Saturday I would take Miami. Since we get a chance to get some bodies back I am going to take BG at home.

Saturday, November 6
Akron at Ball State, 1:00 pm
-Ball

Temple at Kent State, 2:00 pm
-Temple

Tuesday, November 9
Toledo at Northern Illinois, 7:00 pm
-NIU

Wednesday, November 10
Miami at Bowling Green, 8:00 pm
-BG

Shoot, forgot the Friday night game. Oh well, I wouldn't have known who to pick anyhow.

Akron at Ball State, 1:00 pm - Ball State - Until Akron wins one, can't pick them. The rubber city is good at football...err...futbol at least.
Temple at Kent State, 2:00 pm - Kent State - Wow tough one, I'm going with the Flashes at home in a defensive struggle that puts the Mac East up for grabs.
Tuesday, November 9
Toledo at Northern Illinois, 7:00 pm - Northern Illinois - Northern Illinois moves closer to a Mac West title with a big home win against UT.
Wednesday, November 10
Miami at Bowling Green, 8:00 pm - Bowling Green - I have a hunch on this one, Miami has looked ok, but have had games where they've inexplicably crumbled (coughOhiocough). For that reason, and BG's starting to look better lately, I'm going with the Falcons at home.

BG is a 2 1/2 point dog to the 'Hawks. No over/under number listed by Danny Sheridan.

Go Falcons!!