See What the Cauldron is Bubbling Up for Week 4

Hello Sports Fans. Friends, Romans, Football Fans, lend me your beers . . . cause we’re celebrating another week of red-hot, inyour- face, Texas-hold-ons, kick-tail pigskin prognosticatin’!

Ol’ Bubbles – for the second straight week – was bubbling hot. We had four games on tap and the record was an almost-perfect 3-1. The only one that tripped me up – and THAT’S putting it mildly was Marlin. I went with my heart and not my head and picked the Bulldogs to pull the upset . . . and boy was I wrong! The Pirates rolled to a 37-0 victory. That’s OK, B’dogs! I got you this week. Read on!

By the way, for those keeping score at home, after two weeks of picks yours truly stands at a very impressive 6-2, or 75 percent. I’m willing to bet Arch would love to have a 75 percent somewhere in his football repertoire. Ditto Jerry, too, who needed a field goal to first avoid losing and then got another field goal in OT to barely squeak by the N.Y. Giant Disappointments. But I digress. On to this week of Friday Night Brights!

Cameron at Lorena

How good did we look last week with the Yoe? Despite losing the first two out of the gate, they believed they could do it – and I believed in them.

Bubbles (I love referring to myself in third person) picked Cameron by four and they won by one.

Pretty close if you ask me!

I wish this week we could be so confident.

On tap is a road trip to Lorena. The Leopards are also 1-2 and got their . . . tail handed to them by Franklin, 63-49 (and as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story is that was Franklin’s first win of the season).

Still, despite the spotty record (see what I did there), the Leopards are going to defend home field and give our Yeomen a long bus ride home. Hate to pick this, but take LHS by eight

Marlin at Hearne

The good news here is that somebody’s going to get their first win of the season. We’ve got 0-3 Marlin taking on 0-3 Hearne at Hearne.

Normally, I’d say home field counts for something, but not so fast my friends as one of the worst football coaches in history Lee Corso used to say. Although I stuck with Marlin last week and they let me down, I tell you what sports fans . . . I got to do it again. I’m going against all logic and picking the winless Bulldogs to overcome Hearne’s homefield advantage and take this one by at least 18.

Rosebud-Lott at Bosqueville

The exact opposite of Marlin-Hearne is at play here. Instead of someone getting their first win, one of these two is going to get tagged with their first loss. Yes sir, we’ve got two unbeaten squads at 3-0 going at it and there ain’t no room for ties in Texas!

Looking at their seasons so far, they have no common opponents, but they do have some pretty similar scores . . . or rather blowouts. It’s safe to say that neither team has really been tested yet.

That comes to an end Friday!

But instead of a midterm test or comprehensive exam, this will be more like a pop-up quiz for our Cougars who win by nine.

Gordon at Thorndale

I said the Thorndale Bulldogs would win by 30 last week and it looks like I underestimated them! Thorndale rolled to a 54-6 victory and won by, let me see, subtract the six, carry the one . . . 48 (hey, math was never my strong suit. Heck fire, SCHOOL was never my strong suit).

This week we have the Longhorns from Gordon rolling into town and I got to tell you, I’m a little worried about this one. To be sure, I’m going with the Bulldogs over the ‘Horns, but this here could be one of those trap games.

I’m counting on Coach Reed to keep the boys focused on the basics – and as long as that happens, it’s Thorndale by 15.