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 January 25, 2003 - 10:23 PM | chris
NFL Picks: Super Bowl Edition

Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, and that means the end of not getting any work done on Sundays. Which is good because Machine Learning looks like it's going to have quite the workload this semester, and Operating Systems doesn't exactly have the reputation of being a walk in the park.

Anyway, most football prognosticators have done one of the following: predict the Bucs because Jon Gruden coached the Raiders for the last few years, or predict the Raiders because their offense is superior to that of the Bucs, who are just one hit away from being quarterbacked by Rob Johnson or Shaun King.

If either of these walking corpses enters the game, then all bets are off, but I'm picking Bucs because frankly the Raiders haven't played very many decent defenses all year, and when they have they have lost. The Raiders' only loss since October? To the Dolphins, who sported the #1-ranked defense in the AFC. With an offense that relies on a slippery-fast running back and a lot of short slant patterns, the fast Bucs defense will shut them down just like the Dolphins did.

And the final score will be Bucs 23 - Raiders 13.