Oplinger and Rorabaugh chime in

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on September 13, 2009 2:27 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

They had their picks in before the games started, but we're posting late because we were in meetings...

Rorabaugh
NFC East: Giants
NFC North: Packers
NFC South: Saints
NFC West: Seahawks
NFC Wildcard: Bears, Eagles
NFC Title: Giants

AFC East: Patriots
AFC North: Steelers
AFC South: Colts
AFC West: Chargers
AFC Wildcard: Titans, Texans
AFC Title: Patriots

Super Bowl Champs: Patriots

As for the rest of the games: Miami 20, Atlanta 14; Baltimore 31, KC 13; Philly 23, Carolina 17; Denver 35, Cincinnati 27; Minnesota 21, Cleveland 14; Jets 20, Houston 16; Indy 34, Jacksonville 21; NO 38, Detroit 24; Dallas 20, TB 10; SF 28, Arizona 24; Giants 21, Washington 20; Seattle 31, St. Louis 21; Chicago 24, GB 20; NE 42, Buffalo 28; SD 34, Oakland 17.

For the Super Bowl, as much as I'd love to say my Eagles will put it together, I just don't see it happening with that offensive line and without Jim Johnson. I think the Giants improve on last season and claim the NFC's slot in the Super Bowl, while the Patriots bump off the Steelers in the AFC title game. In the Super Bowl XLII rematch, I think the Pats win in a true vengeance game, 17-14.

Oplinger
NFC East: Cowboys
NFC South: Saints
NFC North: Vikings
NFC West: Cardinals
AFC East: Patriots
AFC South: Colts
AFC North: Ravens
AFC West: Chiefs
Wild cards: Packers, Iggles, Chargers, Stillers

AFC Champ: Patriots
NFC Champ: Vikings
Super Bowl Champ: Vikings
MVP: Drew Brees

Steelers over Titans
Dolphins over Falcons
Ravens over Chiefs
Panthers over Eagles
Bengals over Broncos
Vikings over Browns
Texans over Jets

Colts over Jaguars
Saints over Lions
Cowboys over Bucs
Cardinals over 49ers
Redskins over Giants

Seahawks over Rams
Packers over Bears
Patriots over Bills
Oakland over Chargers

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Dave Miniaci is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports chief. He has previously been sports night chief and a sports copy editor. He has also covered men's rugby, men's track and field and field hockey. He is from New Jersey and is a big Devils fan and proud of both, and he doesn't care if you hold that against him.


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Adam Clark is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Daily Collegian's sports editor. He previously covered fraternity and sorority life, crime and courts and was the Collegian's summer 2009 news/sports editor. His favorite athlete died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 and his favorite football team is coming off the worst six-year stretch in NFL history. He does hold it against Dave Miniaci that he's from New Jersey.


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Dan Rorabaugh is a senior majoring in sports journalism and minoring in English. He is the sports copy desk chief, and was previously a reporter for the men's rugby, men's cross country, men's volleyball, women's soccer, women's basketball and men's lacrosse teams. Last year, the impossible dream happened - one of his favorite teams, the Phillies, won a championship. Now if only the Eagles could catch some of that magic, he might be able to actually find peace with sports.


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Michael Oplinger is a junior majoring in media studies and political science and the Collegian's assistant sports copy desk chief. He previously covered the men's tennis and men's volleyball teams. Even though he enjoyed the Phillies' World Series victory, he misses the days of Jose Mesa and David Bell.


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Eddie Gentile is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in history. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's tennis team, the Lady Icers and the Penn State baseball team. Gentile is your stereotypical Philly fan - he considers every game a loss until they actually win... and even then he'll probably still be moaning. Go birds.


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David Rung is a senior majoring in journalism and minoring in kinesiology. He works on the sports copy desk and previously has covered the women's swimming team and the men's rugby team. Rung isn't as die hard about pro sports as his sports staff brethren from Philly and Pittsburgh, but he does take pride in being a Red Sox fan before the bandwagon started.