2021 "Phil Shlameele" NCAA Football Preview - The Most Accurate of the Last 20 Seasons!
#1 - Alabama. "Who knew Tua's younger brother would be better? Returning all american Dax Hill looks like a stud too. Signed the #1 class in 2019, 2020 and return 16 All-SEC to the 2 deep. What an amazing job Nick Saban does between this and his consumer award winning car dealership. Ranked #1 in customer satisfaction by Consumer Reports."
#2 - Clemson. "After coming up just short in 2018, 2019 and 2020, is this the year they finally get past the Tide? Rematch #7 in the College football playoff looks likely. The ACC looks weaker then normal."
#3 - Georgia. "Despite back to back to back SEC title game losses to Alabama, Kirby Smart is still in Athens. He's on the hot seat though and will need a big win over the Tide this year to overcome perceptions his #4 ranked classes can't overcome Alabama's #1 ranked recruiting classes."
#4 - USC. "Head coach Urban Meyer looks rejuvenated out West, with a #2 class incoming and Hollywood stars lining up to sponsor a team bonding trip to Ibiza during spring break. The Trojans were a missed FG from going 12-0 in Urban's first season and look to improve in 2021. Top QB JT Daniels is rested and primed for a big season after touring Australia in his new EV Escalade."
December 9th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
6/10.
December 9th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Ok cool
Hook em
December 9th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
So this is...satire?
December 9th, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
Lol yes, an attempt at satire... But in a'll honesty this seems like an accurate prediction 3 years out.
December 9th, 2018 at 3:29 PM ^
2021 was my original prediction for Michigan making the playoffs. I think they have a chance to win the B1G next season but I doubt they finish 12-1, I think it will be 11-2 or 10-3, and if the playoffs are still only 4 teams, we probably will not reach the playoffs but a Rose Bowl and beating OSU and defeating the west division winner would be great for 2019. 2020 we'll be at OSU and we usually end up losing in the horseshoe.
December 9th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
Did Shlimazel & Hasenpfeffer contribute to this?
December 9th, 2018 at 3:36 PM ^
This is not very good.
December 9th, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^
No - but the good news it is too well written to be another retarded Sparty Troll...
After reading it again - it was a noble satirical effort that fizzled a tad. But a worthy try - kudos to the OP for "entering the arena".
December 9th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
People need to stop obsessing over which 17-year-old is going to which school. It's out of our hands and frankly kind of stalkerish. The grown adults who follow these kids on Twitter . . . seriously, that's just weird.
I stopped paying attention to recruiting a few years ago and have never regretted that decision.
December 9th, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
I don’t do the twitter thing but these kids want to be followed. That’s why they are on Twitter
December 9th, 2018 at 4:13 PM ^
Don't give a darn about the hype but the bottom line is that recruiting matters and the field isn't level. Thus we get the same re run going on a decade plus.
Agree though, get of Twitter don't stalk.
December 9th, 2018 at 4:48 PM ^
So worrying about a 17 year old college decision is weird, but obsessing over the play of 18-22 year olds in normal ? Ok.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
It's all weird. I find it insane how many people angrily tweet at current players when they screw up. Or yell at professional athletes when they fail. Hell, it's weird we have traveling hockey teams for 5-year-olds. But you can try to draw some lines somewhere, and stalking high schoolers on social media so you can encourage or discourage them from attending colleges is probably a good one.
December 9th, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
Can we start the 2021 Harbaugh to the Jets rumor now?
December 9th, 2018 at 3:57 PM ^
Isn't there enough crap on this blog?????
December 9th, 2018 at 9:09 PM ^
There was a gaping satirical hole that would complete the crapfest. Unfortunately, this sucked so a round two is before us. Be steady.
December 9th, 2018 at 4:02 PM ^
0/10. try harder
December 9th, 2018 at 4:05 PM ^
C'mon - the "ACC looks weaker than normal" deserves some score.
December 9th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
Haha kind of an attempt at satire. Phil Steele is the "most accurate" mag in college football so why not have some fun with it?
In all honesty does anyone here doubt this is the top 4 in college football in 3 years? Alabama vs Clemson part 7. The suspense is killing me. And college football.
December 9th, 2018 at 4:24 PM ^
To hell with the critics, including me - keep writing, my man...
December 9th, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
So this is one of the downsides of doing a lot of meth.
December 9th, 2018 at 4:15 PM ^
December 9th, 2018 at 4:58 PM ^
Things can change in college football. Would have been nice to beat Meyer but chances are OSU will take a step back with Day in charge.
I’m sure he’ll pull out all the stops to beat us but the game is in Ann Arbor next year. That will probably be the biggest game of Harbaugh era. Maybe even since the turn of the century.
Beat OSU and the talk will be that the rivalry is changing and that Michigan is now the standard bearer of the Big Ten.
Next year’s schedule lined up nicely and if we can retain most of our talent it could be a huge year where we finally get over the hump.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
Thanks for this, appreciate the creativity
December 9th, 2018 at 5:13 PM ^
i hate this
December 9th, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
Fantastic! Everyone is ultra-interested in your feelings. Anything else bothering you?
December 9th, 2018 at 5:28 PM ^
This is better than 75% of board posts - entertaining, original, and had some thought behind it. It is not announcing news you can find anywhere, it is not repeating someone else's report from 1 hour to 2 days ago, it is not an emotional rant about things being terrible or things being great, it is not asking a question that can be googled, and it is not someone asking to fund a kidney transplant for a long lost cousin.
I like the effort UM fan 13. Thanks.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:29 PM ^
I like it, too, UM fan. Clever and creative. And funny, especially Urban at USC. And, Indy Pete, I like how you explained why we should like it -- though you made me wonder why I read this Board.
December 9th, 2018 at 9:43 PM ^
Agreed. This is way better than that one about Urban Meyer leaving OSU because he was scared that Harbaugh would have his number the the next 6 years of the 10 year war. It even had a reference to a shitty CBS reality show about people getting voted off an island....
Oh the irony, Indy Pete.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:20 PM ^
DeShaun Watson says Clemson already "got past the Tide."
December 9th, 2018 at 6:37 PM ^
FWIW OP, I thought it was pretty good.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:41 PM ^
Shmangela?
December 9th, 2018 at 7:27 PM ^
Keep up the work.