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We here at SBC Outpost come to you with hard-hitting sports journalism in this post. That is because we are hard-hitting journalists. If you don’t believe us, just ask us. If you still don’t believe us, get in line. Anyone who questions our sports-journalistic credentials will be mocked and ridiculed. You heard it here. Take it to the bank.

Now, on with the hard-hitting college football predictions that are most humbly, yet most accurately offered for your consideration this week.

This is championship week. Well, that is for those conferences that have championships. The Big 10 doesn’t have or need a conference championship since they don’t really play tackle football in colleges up north, as we all know. The Pac-10 began the season with much promise, but here in the last week of their regular season it is still undetermined who will sit atop their conference heap. We will know once UCLA plays USC in a cross-town rivalry at 3:30PM CST and once Arizona tries to slay the devils of the sun in their intra-state rivalry at 7:00PM CST. Our pick for the Pac-10 is USC who will have the head-to-head tie breaker with Arizona State meaning it’s likely we’ll know the conference champion before the late game kicks off.

If you want to watch a more interesting and entertaining game at 7:00PM, tune your television to ABC and watch the Big XII championship game between Oklahoma and Missouri. No. 9 Oklahoma is the favorite against No. 1 Missouri. Yes, the words “No. 1 Missouri” sound as odd to our football ears as it does yours. But this team is good. Are they the best team in the country? Tomorrow night we’ll find out if they are the best team in the Big XII. While we bleed Sooner crimson - as all red-blooded humans do - we believe this game is too close to call. But since we are journalists we are compelled to call it anyway: Oklahoma 34, Missouri 31.

Backing up to 3:00PM CST the SEC championship game gets under way as the pastel orange boys of Tennessee square off against the (distracted?) LSU Tigers. Being the journalists that we are we know how other journalists think. The over-under on broadcast references to Les Miles and Michigan is five. If Tennessee gets any kind of significant lead we will definitely take the “over.” The over-under on references to Bo Pelini and Nebraska is three. If the LSU players watch these gambling lines with more dedication than they do game film Tennessee will walk away with this one. However, we do not give Tennessee that much hope. The Cats will send the Vols back to them thar hills with their coon-skin caps tucked between their legs. [UPDATE] WARNING LSU FANS: Les Miles is sounding almost exactly like he did when he was telling Oklahoma State fans that he was not, under any terms, going to leave Oklahoma State.

In other action, West Virginia will win the Big Least and Central Florida will win the….what’s that conference they play in?…. oh yeah… Conference-USA. We would like to see our local boys from Tulsa win this one, but Tulsa’s defense has been slightly better than only eight other Divison 1 football teams so we will have to give this one to the Knights.

That’s right, boys and girls. You won’t find this quality, objective, untainted journalism at BP. Heck, BP probably thinks debating Calvinism is a sport.

Nostradamus has given us his predictions and we have given you ours. Now it’s your turn. Fill up the comments or we may well go on a nine day strike!