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Pigskin Prognosticators

Seers Tab Notre Dame Over Purdue

After an opening weekend of
relatively easy picks the Sports
Staff had to get down to some
serious choosing, as 1968 college
football enters into it second big
Saturday of the season.

Last week's prognostication
went pretty much according to
form with the major exception of
the Duke-South Carolina fiasco
which reamed the staff en masse.
South Carolina, favored to win
easily over a have-not Duke squad,
fell to the Blue Devils by a 14-7
count.

It appears, however, that the
Blue Devils' performance was not
excessively impressive (or maybe
the staff is still disgruntled); for
Duke did garner nary a vote in
support for their clash with
Michigan.

Of course, early season's "BIG
GAME" is the Notre Dame-Purdue
battle in South Bend. The word
seems to be (with a 5-2 consensus)
that the Irish's super-offense is
going to be strong enough against
Purdue's Keyes & Co. to offset the
fact that Ara Parseghian
unexperienced defense is much
weaker than the Boilermaker
defenders, Got that?

For some odd reason, Clemson
by 4-3 is favored over Georgia
contrary to national opinion.

Naturally, the Cavaliers are
unanimously picked over the
Round, er, Burrheads from merry
Lexington in this weekend's Scott
Stadium brawl.