After all of these years some of you still don't get that I'm superstitious with my predictions. Don't take it at face value... Also oline auto corrects on the iPad to online.. Half of what I wrote about whiter some how got deleted ... Heal over heel was an example of my terrible spelling capabilities.. Generation spell checker ...
I'm superstitious too. I always predict a UConn undefeated season, no matter what the year or what the sport, for fear that my predicting a loss will actually make it happen (yes, yes, somewhere back in the hippocampus or some other damned area of my brain, I believe I have the power of a wizard). I predict national championships in all of the sports, just in case I cause us to lose one. Fortunately for me, I've been right a lot of times with our men's and women's basketball teams, our men's soccer team, our polo team...
UMass - W - but not as impressive as we would like NC State - L - Glennon should be one of the best QB's we see and this will be a big step up in competition level from UMass @ Maryland - W - The Terps are in for another disastrous season in my opinion - maybe Year 3 is the charm? @ W Michigan - L - Everyone seems to be chalking this up as a surefire win because they're a MAC team but I don't think we do well against pass first offenses let alone do we do well on the road Buffalo - W - just an inferior opponent @ Rutgers - L - I know they are experiencing a coaching transition but given it was from within, I don't see them experiencing the same "growing pains" we had last year. Their defense will be smothering and I'm still worried about occasional lapses in our secondary to give up a big play. This assumes they don't have a billion turnovers against us like they did last year. Temple - W - the season see-saw (W, L, W, L, etc) continues - on paper this is a team we should beat by a healthy amount but I suspect it will be closer than we want @ Syracuse - W - our first road win, sending the fruit off to the ACC without a win against UConn in the past six years @ USF - W - getting on a roll - something about USF just doesn't impress me, their offense is completely anemic unless BJ is scrambling - I think we squeak by on the road Pitt - W - Defense is really heating up now - we go from making Tino Sunseri look like a Heisman winner last year to turning over the ball at least three times @ Louisville - L - This team has the potential to be pretty good this year - they have a pretty tough schedule early (NC State, FIU and USM all in a row is going to be a very rough stretch) but I think by the end of the year they will be playing their best and, once again, I have doubts about our ability to win on the road against good teams Cincinnati - L - by this point I think we'll have lost our chance at the BCS due to head to head tiebreaker against Louisville - strong potential for a let down game Overall record - 7-5 (4-3) - improvement is seen in our record over last year but there will still be a ton of "what if's" involved in each of the losses. HCPP goes on to the third year of his contract and to another incredibly long off-season for all of us. By the way, I of course hope that the team will do better than this but this is my "realistic" view.
