College football season kicks off soon ... and then some totally random thoughts

It's such a great time of year to be a fan of the sports stuff. Baseball pennant races are heating up, the kickoff of Week 1 of the NFL season is just a week away, and college football starts its season this weekend. With that fun in mind ...

You didn't ask for 'em, but here are our college football picks for this weekend:

No. 13 Wisconsin over Akron
No. 3 Southern California over Virginia
No. 5 Florida over Hawai'i
No. 6 Missouri over No. 20 Illinois
No. 18 Tennessee over UCLA
No. 7 LSU over Appalachian State

FYI, there will be no Appalachian State-type upset of a major college football powerhouse this year. That was a once-in-a-lifetime, lightning-doesn't-strike-the-same-place-twice type of occurrence. With that in mind, let's go out on a limb ...

Upset pick of the week: Utah over Michigan

And our totally random college football pick of the week: Sacred Heart over Assumption College

Some other random thoughts on sports ...

Who is FOX going to put on prime-time TV in October when the New York Yankees fail to make the playoffs?

Was watching the Best Damn Sports Show Period (yes, it's still on the air) last night at one of our favorite local watering holes and Petros Papadakis was on talking college football. Seeing Papadakis (Photo, he's the dude on the left) makes me realize just how far Southern California football had come in just a very short period of time. Just a few years ago, Papadakis was a running back for the Trojans. Here he's looking more like LenDale White after a trip to the Ponderosa buffet than Reggie Bush.

Apparently, Brett Favre isn't on God's fantasy football team ...