So, obviously, my prognosticating skills are not up to par.
I predicted that the Elon football team would defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels 28-27 last Saturday. I thought that Elon’s offensive skill and sharp defensive abilities would overwhelm the Tar Heels, who were fresh into a new system.
Well, by the midway point of the second quarter, I found out exactly how bad at predicting things I was. The Heels had picked up that 28th point, making my prediction immediately wrong.
My record this season may be 0-1. But that loss was a big one for me. It was a negative-63 point differential from what I predicted to what exactly happened. Andrew is 1-0 with a negative-55 point differential. Good for him. He’s got two legs up on my obviously spectacular prediction skills.
Neither of us could have guessed that the Elon offense would cross the 50-yard line just twice all game.
Neither of us could have guessed senior wide receiver Aaron Mellette would have just two catches for nine yards.
Neither of us could have guessed North Carolina would flourish immediately under new head coach Larry Fedora’s offensive scheme and put up eight touchdowns.
But that’s the danger of prediction. You actually have no idea what’s going to happen. Things can go completely opposite of what you think it’s going to be.
And that happened. Well, not completely opposite. But I can tell you that on the drive to Chapel Hill, I began to regret my bold prediction. Oh, well.
There’s always next week.
The Phoenix, obviously, got stomped. Senior quarterback Thomas Wilson could not get anything going on offense, and the defense was overmatched by a clearly superior North Carolina offensive attack of Bryn Renner and Giovani Bernard.
This post is almost over, so you don’t have to hear anymore of my pity party. I just wanted to admit that I’m dead wrong. Not that it matters, but anyways.
Elon will take on North Carolina Central University this Saturday. Andrew and I will tackle a preview for Friday. Hopefully, we’ll be a little more intelligent this time.