About WTLSA

Hey there guys,

I am a huge college football enthusiast. I grew up in the Southeastern United States so I know what it's like to wake up on Saturday and prepare for a game like it's the second coming of Jesus, then emotionally invest myself into 60 minutes of football more than all other relationships combined. Ever.

I have learned to subdue my emotions, a little bit, and focus on a more widespread vision of college football. Primarily the SEC.

I am a student at the University of Mississippi, and while sports will always be my first love, I am the News Editor at The Daily Mississippian, the student newspaper.

I am a numbers nerd. I have created my own database of statistics which I keep myself. I do my best to watch every SEC game, though I never sit through commercials, always having a backup game at the ready. I read through every official box score at the end of the game so that I can understand the game, the feel and the numbers, as best possible. I find those odd statistics that your regular football "experts" don't ever find.

For four years (began in '07) I posted preseason predictions of the major conferences (BCS). In 2011 I will only post the SEC, because I am narrowing my focus since I have a full-time job and am a full-time student.


This will be my fifth year to predict every game in college football week in and week out. I do it for fun, but I have been told on several occasions that I seem to be pretty good at it.

In '07, the only year that I did not use a calculation, I picked correctly 68% of the time. My preseason predictions would have finished fifth out of 15 magazines/websites, based off Stassen.com's point system.

In '08 I began to use a calculation, at the time it was based off of a simple power ranking where I subtracted their overall rank and adjusted for home/away. I was correct 78% of the time, finishing second for my preseason predictions. In '09 I began to use a very simple calculation that took a teams points per game on offense and defense in certain situations (Home/Away, Grass/Turf, vs. Conf/vs. Non-Conf, etc.) and compared that to their opponents. I was correct 76% of the time and posted the most accurate preseason predictions.

Based off that success I started up this website in January of 2010. My calculation evolved, adding more situations and more numbers. I went from predicting just a score to predicting a miniature box score, including passing and rushing yards. I had my most successful week-to-week predictions upping my success to 79%. My preseason predictions finished third.

As I have stated before, in 2011 my focus will shift to the SEC because of time constraints. However, I will still post week-to-week predictions. In the SEC I have evolved my main calculation into eight different calculations! For games involving top 25 teams I will use '10s calculation, and everyone else will use '09s. Therefore I may not be as accurate overall as I was in '10.

My plan for the future is to eventually publish a magazine that posts numbers and predictions that rival that of Phill Steele, who publishes the magazine which inspired me to begin writing about college football in the first place.