After three weeks I am beating all odds. I picked six game — 6! — correctly last week. My performance is so woefully bad that I doubt that any of you could do worse if you tried. That said, congratulations to you guys who are leading the field. I’m not giving up, and I will finish ahead of someone other than the people who don’t submit any picks.

Yeah? Really? Because I sure can’t. Without plans to make it to the game, and without TV coverage, and without a quality opponent, this whole affair will ultimately be little more than a box score and an injury report.

So here are my predictions for the game:

• Clemson trounces SC state
• The defense will give up 1.5x more yards than anyone thinks is reasonable
• The fans will complain about the vanilla offense
• An important player will get lost to injury
• You all will call me either Negative Nancy or Debbie Downer or some variant

PS - I was at UVA on Wednesday for their career fair. One guy who came by our table looked just like Rachel Dratch, kinda sounded like her, too — swear to God.

I listen to ESPN radio at work and about sick of hearing Colin Cowherd trashing the ACC. We get it, the conference is bad, but when every sound bite he produces is calling out the ACC and saying how bad it is, it gets old. A few tidbits from his land of knowledge.

Clemson will never live up to its expectations.

The ACC is bad, Clemson can’t even rush against Alabama and Maryland struggled against Maryland.

You know the ACC is horrid when Clemson is supposedly the best team.

Lovely

Get pumped boys and girls. The second installment of random batherings, which are pretty much meaningless, has finaly arrived. Some thoughts may be insightful, most are pointless. You be the judge.

- Harper has now thrown 33% of the interceptions he threw in all of last season. Hmm, there is room for improvement here.

- NC State guys have a rule, one must remove your shirt during game and appear to be drunk. This apparently an NC State fan standard, even when you are not in you own house.

- I did not see any NC State fans peeing in their seats. Good news for all.

- I have decided to purchase an orange Mini and put a system in it which will rival the sound system behind the scoreboard, it will be awesome.

-Ron Cherry hates Clemson…and Clemson hates Ron Cherry. I can not express to you how much Clemson hates Ron, the dictionary is lacking a word with this degree of descriptive power.

-I, along with many of you, still have my concerns about this team. NC State, going into this game, was ranked 116th in total offense in the NCAA. Is that ok they scored 9 against us?

-Who is this Maryland team? Where did they come from? Why are they coming to Clemson in two Weeks? Can we hang with them right now? I feel sick…

-NC State scored 9 points based on Harpers mistakes. Is it harsh to bring this up?

-Supposedly, on a send a text message and vote Alltel ad. Clemson fans like the all purple uniforms the best. Am I the only fan that thinks this is concerning?

- Did I mention Ron Cherry is the Devil?

-Props to Tommy and his staff. This weeks team looked better than last weeks team.

-Even thought we have won two games since Alabama, the hurt is still there.

-USC lost to UGA, that makes me feel better.

It’s a good thing that we get to drop one week’s results, because I flat out stunk it up last week. On the upside though, I’ll stay well ahead of the 3 people who aren’t making picks.

Make sure that you don’t forget to make your picks this week, and if you still want to join, the sign up information is available here.

Dagnabit! I don’t like the Jets. And after all the silliness this offseason, I was wishing ill upon Brett Favre. However, it’s worth forcing myself to root for them a bit.

Everyone probably knows that Justin Miller is still with the Jets. However, I didn’t realize until today that Chansi Stuckey is with the team. And what’s more, Stuckey caught a 22-yard touchdown pass yesterday from Favre in a 20-14 win over the Dolphins.

Way to go Chansi!

For those of you Tiger faithful which did not make the game this weekend, here are a few random thoughts on the game. Some are football related, others are not.

- The first game parking situation was much better than last year, maybe because there were 15,000 empty seats.

- It was military appreciation weekend. As always it was a moving halftime, but a very disappointing pre-game, there was no fly over…

- It was my first time in the upper deck, not too bad. It was also the first time I have ever jumped up and shown touchdown, all while CJ still had 30 yards to go and three defenders after him. You can really read the running angles up there.

- The upper deck is closer to the Sun, this is why we get so sunburned up there.

- Is it just me or is your tailgate now worthless if it is lacking a 30” LCD TV and Direct TV?

- Cornhole is apparently cool now. See thought above…

- I think IPTAY secretly installed 10 new subwoofers behind the scoreboard. I could feel my seat vibrating at one point in the game. Death Valley has never sounded that good.

-Students are still jumping around to Zombie Nation on kickoffs, I guess that’s ok.

-I miss Thunderstruck on kickoffs, sigh.

-Will the Rally Cats ever change there dance to the fight song at the start of the fourth quarter?

-Jamie Harper has made up for his fumble last week, end of discussion.

- Was this the same Citadel team that scored 31pts on a #7 Wisconsin team last year? If so, I guess we had a good showing.

- A lot of people hate IPTAY now because everyone thought they would have great seats if the gave more money this year.

- The O-Line still make me nervous.

- There were no black shirts or upside down Clemson flags to be seen.

Hope you enjoyed the first installment Walker’s random thoughts, until next week.

Reminder, we’ve set up a Pick’em League on Yahoo! Sports. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do. The group ID is 3063, the password is 12345. If you have signed up, remember to submit your picks before kickoff tomorrow.

Also, be aware that the rules are set up such that everyone gets to drop their worst week. So if you missed Week 1, don’t worry, you’re still in good shape. That also means, that since we’re only one week in, everyone is technically tied for the lead.