Thanksgiving is Tentative

November 24, 2020 Good Day Grover Pickers,  My favorite college football note this week is not FSU’s attempt to lick door knobs until they couldn’t play Clemson due to health concerns (I make a joke, but that was all on Clemson’s stupidity),  it’s that the football playoff committee will meet in person in Dallas this …

Long Live the Grover Pickers

November 9, 2020 LSU football coach Ed Orgeron said in September that he figured his whole team had already had covid, so the Tigers were therefore prepared to get through the full SEC football season.  Except… LSU has another covid breakout and had to cancel/postpone this week’s game against Alabama.  And… If all or most …

The Worst Grover Picks Blog Ever Because It Contains Zero Vote Count Updates

November 4, 2020 Good Day Grover Pickers,  While you enjoy watching the Thursday night NFL game between “Who is Left for the 49ers” and “Who is Available for the Packers”, please enjoy this weekly preview as well.  MACtion is BACK! Ball State, Bowling Green, and all the directional Michigan schools kicked off Wednesday night. The MAC …

The Choices Are Limited But You Must Decide

October 28, 2020 Good Day Grover Pickers,  Ever feel like your choices are limited? Do you feel stress when you have to go with A or B, and there is no C?  It’s not a great feeling. Not in America. We are supposed to have unlimited choices. 45 kinds of Cheetos. Unlimited plastic surgery options …

Chantys, Polls, and America’s Tackiest City

October 20, 2020 Good Day Grover Pickers,  The Polls are Open!  This is the week we traditionally get the first college football playoff ranking, but, this year, it’s the first week we get to see more than half of college football open their season! In the absence of the official polls, here is the Official …

If We All Become Robots, The Pandemic Won’t Matter

This week we get a couple of cancelled games, two Monday night NFL games (maybe), and the renewal of Pete Axthelm’s Bay of Pigs Rivalry.  AND… Nick Saban got the virus. More on that later  Also, we have the disintegration of a promising Florida Gator season, wrecked by poor tackling, surprising stupidity, and the pernicious …

Is Your Coach a Bozo, a Guy Named Earl, or in the Sun Belt?

Good Day Grover Pickers,  Welcome to week 2-ish of the Covid Football Season. UPDATE: The Sun Belt Conference is the best conference in the land, replacing th SEC, which is winless so far this season.  Last week the Sun Belt dominated the Big12. Louisiana beat a ranked Iowa State. Arkansas Stat beat Kansas State. Coastal …

The Covid Kickoff

Good Day Grover Pickers, The Grover Picks return this Thursday night, covid not withstanding. Here are your Pre-Season Top 13 Thoughts, Explanations and Solutions, which may take until Thursday to finish reading. 13- Hard Knocks- No program has ever made football more boring than this season of HBO’s covid drenched ‘Hard Knocks’ following the Rams …