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Super Bowl Predictions

At the beginning of the NFL season, I compiled a list of 2006 predictions from experts and from a panel of bloggers.

None of those surveyed hit a home run but some did reasonably well.

  • Nobody picked a Bears-Colts matchup in the Super Bowl.
  • Nobody picked the Bears to appear in, much less win, the Super Bowl.
  • Several of us picked the Colts to win the Super Bowl: “Experts” Pat Kirwan, Gil Brandt, Michael Wilbon and Adam Schefter and bloggers Mark Hasty and myself. Steven Taylor picked the Colts to appear in the Super Bowl and lose to the Dallas Cowboys.

The worst preseason picks:

  • ESPN’s team of experts picked the Carolina Panthers to beat the Miami Dolphins in the Super Bowl. Neither team made the playoffs.
  • The worst blogger prognosticator was Bill Jempty, who had the Cincinnati Bengals beating the New York Giants. Again, neither team made the playoffs. The Panthers failed to make the playoffs and the Giants lost in the Wild Card round.
  • Honorable mention: NFL.com expert Vic Caruci also picked the Carolina Panthers, who (as I may have mentioned) didn’t make the playoffs, to win the Super Bowl. He did not name their opponent.

It seems that the amateurs are about as good as the experts in predicting the outcome of long NFL seasons.

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Colts win! Yeah!

Posted by Debbie | February 4, 2007 | 10:17 pm | Permalink
 

JJ, your Dallas mentality is kicking in again. The NYGiants not only made it to the playoffs, the made it one day past your Cowboys before being eliminated.

Posted by Fersboo | February 5, 2007 | 10:09 am | Permalink
 

I had forgotten that they were the other Wild Card, since the Giant’s late-season collapse was even worse than the Cowboys’. They were the 6th seed to the Cowboys 5th.

Posted by James Joyner | February 5, 2007 | 10:16 am | Permalink
 

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