FOX 2 Sports Wrap: November 12 NFL & College Football picks

Time now for our football picks, and I did pretty well last week, James Paxson. McClap, McClap again. Thank you. We've had two very good weeks. Yeah, 6-0 somehow. I don't know how I managed that. I ended up taking the lead right now, but it's very, very close. One game lead? One game lead, yeah. All right. So we're going to do all this stuff. Yeah. You want to do Michigan right now? Well, let's... Do you want to talk Michigan? Yeah. I've been waiting all week to talk Michigan. I want to start Michigan State. All right. Sorry. No, I just... I'm getting ahead of myself. I've been wanting to do this all week. I can't... Well, we'll get... No, you go. No, you go. I just want to say... Who's going to laugh? Who's going to laugh first? Me or you? Probably me. No, you go. You go. So, I was at the pig house for that game. Oh, glorious. Honestly, I mean, I'll say this. Yeah? Michigan's 0-2 with me there. Love it. You hate to see it. I don't. I don't at all. That was also one of the worst football games I've ever been. Not the point. We're not going to do that right now. All right. Okay. So I got to hear your point. All right. We're going to go close up on you, James. You deserve this. This is karma for everything you've ever done. That you get a coach who's an old man who doesn't care and that he has no idea what a rivalry is. And you played one of the single worst offensive games I've ever seen and lost to a team who could not score a touchdown if they started at the one yard line. You deserve this. Thank you. And you know what, James, that honestly, I'm, I, yeah, I, I'm going to go with that. And I'm going to actually make sure your name's spelled correctly on the suit. Don't care. Nope. That's not, that can be Jeanette. There we go. She's a cool person. He doesn't even know what any of the rivalry games are. You're probably going to lose out and you're not going to be bowl eligible. You're going to go five and seven on this year. And you were national champions a couple of years ago. It was probably better when you knew all the teams plays. This is so funny to me. Well, the funniest part to me was when, um, oh, oh, oh, here we go. Thank you, Dylan. Thank you, Dylan. We got this. All right. You're, you're holding a little lower, there we go right there. Perfect. Yep. Now it's on camera. Um, I'm just going to say. The funniest part to me when the Connor Stallion scandal came out, and we're getting off on a tangent here, and I love it. No, we got a little time. Don't worry. Thank you. Was the fact that it came out the week before Michigan-Michigan State. Oh, of course. And that game, that team was horrific. Right. Harlan Barnett. Harlan Barnett. We'll never forget. God bless him. Jumped into a tough situation. The Big Ten was going, oh, they'll know all of your offensive plays, and I'm going, what, all two of them? That team was brutal that year. But this team was, it seems worse than that one. And that's where I said all week when people have asked, this is App State level. This is a terrible Michigan State team. You're Michigan playing at home. You have a quarterback that makes $12 million who played the same amount of plays that I played. Do you know how much they must hate Bryce Underwood? Were at 15-0 in the fourth quarter, they went, Hey, we'll stay with him. We'll stay with him. Bryce Underwood ran right up to Kyle Whittingham and said, Hey, coach, you need me? And he said, yeah, coffee, two sugars. I was like, this is ridiculous. And I love it. I love it so much that you deserve this. I'm You know what? And let's start with Michigan, Oregon by a million. starting Or... We're going to get to our picks in just a second. What is it? Ten and a half, Oregon by 200. All right. You know what? So here's what I'm going to say right now. Okay. All of the football games I watched were just bad offensive performances. to The Lions, not great. Yeah I suffered through three-quarters of Minnesota and Buffalo. Not great. That's rough. now. That was a rough game. Understandable. That was a really rough game. Why they ended up trading for Kirk Cousins after that game. That was a brutal game to watch. Um. I mean... Georgia, to me, feels kind of like that IT team right now in college football. They're the number one team. They really just kind of seem to have it. Here's how I'd say it. Georgia is just a step above everyone. And what I mean by that is, I don't know if anyone's really, really good or number one, going to beat everyone, for sure the championship team. But what I believe I've seen now is that the Georgia Bulldogs are here and everyone else is there. Now, I'm getting really close, and I don't believe any of us picked them, but to be clear, I picked them last week to beat BYU. Utah's getting up there because their offense looks really good. They're very clutch. That quarterback is playing out of his mind right now. So Utah's getting up there. And that BYU team is pretty good. Right. That was probably the best game of rivalry week because a lot of them weren't close or very good games. But Georgia's just a step above everyone. Miami with the Malachi-Tony injury, I can't put them up there. Utah, we'll say for now they're here. And then everyone else in the SEC, I don't see it. I don't see it with Bama. I don't see it with Tennessee. And UCLA, I got to see them beat a real team, and they don't have the schedule. Well, correct me if I'm wrong. It feels like the SEC and the Big Ten have kind of flipped over the last few years in a way. The Big Ten is way more top-heavy with the normally Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, where the SEC is kind of cannibalizing itself, where it has a bunch of really good teams in it. During the late 2000s, early 2010s, it was... Bama, LSU. Auburn for a couple years or Georgia toward the end of it, but it was really top-heavy, though, at the same time. That's easy. You added Oklahoma and Texas, who have had really good years in national championships, but they've been, for the most part, above average to good. And you see that this year with both Texas, Oklahoma not as good. That's where you experience that. All right, we're going to jump into the picks. Can you give me the records again? Our records, I'm 25-15 and two pushes. You're 24-17. And one, that's good for both of us. That's a really good year. Really respectable games. Yeah. If we bet on it, it wouldn't happen. Right. Exactly. So Motor City Casino Hotel Live Line. I got nothing as far as that one goes. All right. But Washington minus three and a half against Michigan State. I got to take Washington in this one. Sure. I don't necessarily think Michigan State is going to be able to get away with having. That bad of an offensive performance. We feel gold Michigan to death. You did. It was glorious. Yeah, it was. But I've never wanted a game to end 15-0 more in my life. I was kind of hoping we would be able to shut them out. It didn't happen, but that's okay. But I got to go Washington and lay the play out. I'll make this quick. I don't think MSU can do what they did. And Washington's probably going to have a lot more success. I'll take Washington to cover and, of course, win. All right. Michigan, we already saw. Oregon by a million. You know what? I'm going to take Oregon to cover. Oregon, two million to two. That one was easy. All right. Someone tell Kyle Whittingham there's a game going on. He doesn't know. Honestly, I think the comps between Kyle Whittingham at Michigan and Jonathan Smith for Michigan. You're going to get me in trouble. Let's move on. I don't want to make comps. I'm going to stop. Let's do it. We'll go to my first wildcard pick, Texas LSU. I'm taking Texas to win that game. Is Big Game leaning back after that Alabama loss that he just cannot win the Big Game anymore? I think he is. Okay. Texas is good. When they want to be. Yeah, that's fair. When they want to be, but they're good. So I'm going to take Texas in that game. Yours is Wake Forest SMU with SMU by a point and a half. I wanted to talk about this. So college football playoff comes up. We talk about who's really great, who's good, all that stuff. Most overlooked team in the country, and I'm not kidding, is the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Have you watched Gio Lopez play this year? I have not. 18 touchdowns, one interception, four games with three-plus touchdowns. Their only loss right now is to Miami. They were ranked 13 earlier this week. Which is a respectable loss. Ranked 13 earlier this week. Maybe get into that ACC championship game. Give me Wake Forest plus one and a half. I love it. All right, we are going to go Patriots, Lions. Lions, and this is in Munich. We've got our crew in Munich. First of all, I want to give you a chance to plug. What? What is the plan for Game Day Live this week? Because I know y'all have one. Of course. So we are on from 8 to 9 a.m. before we kick it to Fox's coverage. So, of course, Dan Miller will be in Germany. It'll be Woody Woodruff and Will Birchfield in the studio. We're starting at 8 a.m., of course, earlier day with the earlier game. Then 9 to 9.30, it'll be national Fox coverage. Kick off 9.30 on Fox 2. It'll be a great game, I think. I'm going to take the Lions, though, to win. I'll take the two and a half. This is probably the toughest game I've picked in a while. I will go Lions, even though a lot of the Patriots stuff scares me. Here's the only reason I'm going Lions. The New England defense just did not look like it was last year. Christian Gonzalez is not healthy, who's their best corner. When you have St. Brown and Jamison Williams, I think Lions win. And give me the two and a half. And Jahmyr Gibbs obviously having a great year as well. I'll take Lions, but it's a tough one. It is a tough one. San Francisco-Dallas is my first wild card. I'm going to take San Francisco by three and a half. Simply put, San Francisco is just really, really good. I know they've got some issues at wide receiver right now. They did just trade Keenan Allen. That should help. That should help a little bit. And Mike Evans is expected to come back. Deebo Samuel might be back as well. I think the Allen thing was a good one. It went under the radar with the trade deadline, but Keenan Allen will help out. I'll take the Niners in this game over Dallas. You have got a couple of interesting ones this week. Oh, we're doing both of them right now? Well, we're going to start with this one. Okay. You said, actually, I'm going to hold that line for a second. Hold on, hold on. Let's just do this real quick. Jacksonville 10 and a half. This one's easy. I think from the trade deadline, the winner was the Jacksonville Jaguars, and we can actually start talking about them winning a Super Bowl. When you get Jordan Davis, I don't care what you give up. There was a lot of talk this week on, could you really want to give that up? Yes, for one of the best defensive tackles on a defense that's already good, you do that. Oh. They also got Jesse Bates, who's one of the best safeties in the league. They play a Tennessee team that's really struggling. Give me Jacksonville to cover the 10.5. My second wildcard pick is an NFC North one. Minnesota, Green Bay. I think it's going to play. I think so as well. That's what I've been reading. I'm operating under that assumption when I make this pick. I'm going with Minnesota in this game. Their offense just can't be as bad as it was. No, and their defense played really good. They stopped the Bills, really, and they've already beaten Green Bay. I like the pick. Yeah, I'm going to take Minnesota to win and obviously cover in that way. And then your next one. Oh, boy. All right, give me a second. All right. I'm going to. I'm going to get some hand sanitizer for this one. You know, last week when I picked... Hold on, hold on. I'm making a really dirty move right now. It's disgusting. You told me I was a better human being than... Well, I'm not better than you. Okay, fair enough. I mean... I'm fine with this now. Okay. So... I'm going to take the Chargers plus four and a half and betting on a team that hasn't won a game all year and who has looked really terrible and who went 37 drives without a first down at one point this year. And Justin Herbert's looked terrible. I know it's crazy and it's so disgusting. I didn't want to do it without putting hand sanitizer on my hands. Look, Baltimore's really struggling. They have Jacoby Brissett. It's Monday night football. They're not going to go winless. It's not going to happen. No, they will eventually win a game. I think they win Monday. I don't like that I'm doing this. I don't feel good about myself. This is a wild card pick that I chose. I just saw this game as the one game the Chargers are going to win. Do what that would do. A team that is winless. This deep into the season. To bet on it. That's an insane human being, and that's me. What I'm saying, though, no one's been fired yet in the NFL in general. Here's not even the shocking part. They did virtually nothing at the trade deadline, which means one of two things. I didn't expect Herbert to be dull, for one thing, for the record. I expect, no. I thought it was going to be something. I expected them to do something trade deadline-wise because your team went nowhere this year. And you have pieces to give up. So I think it means one of two things. One, they think this is just a rough year and they're going to be back next year. Or two, they have no idea what to do. Because this was a team talked about with going to the Super Bowl and now they haven't won a game by week nine. This is, it's a brutal season for the Chargers. Give me the Chargers. All right. James Paxson calling the Chargers. I don't feel good about it. Chargers get their first win this weekend. Monday night. Locking it in. Thank you so much, as always, for the picks and, I mean, the sign that Dylan gave was a nice touch as well for our Michigan coverage. That does it for Fox 2 Detroit Live at 830. Have a good rest of your night.