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Darrell Huckaby is a syndicated columnist and author of six books including two about Georgia football. Read Huck’s Wit and Wisdom every Wednesday and Sunday. Subscribe at darrellhuckaby.net.

11.21.25

Huck's Fearless Forecast

To quote the great Coach John Barnett, Boy Howdy. The college football season that we anticipated for so long is winding down way too fast and now we are looking at Senior Day Between the Hedges on Dooley Field. All I want to see in Athens is nobody get hurt. But it’s the weekend before Thanksgiving and the 62nd anniversary of the JFK assassination so, What the Huck! Let’s pick a few games.

Pittsburgh at Historic field formally known as Grant, on The Flats, near the projects, across the expressway from the Varsity. Georgia Tech fans are giddy because they have sold out their 51,000-seat stadium. If they could have sold 42,000 more tickets they would have matched the number Georgia sold for Saturday’s scrimmage with Charlotte. You know what I want to say. I want to say, I like Tech in this one and I like them to lose, but, in reality, the ACC is so awful that with it being Haynes King’s last game at Bobby Dodd it just will not happen. Pat Narduzzi’s carpetbaggers will find a way to let the Nerds win—making it even sweeter when we boat-race the bees in the Benz next week.

N.A.T.S. 31 Panthers 28

Missouri at Boomer Sooner. Eli Drinkwitz and his Mizzou Tigers will roll into Norman with an upset on their minds. They will leave Norman with their fourth loss of the season—which sounds about right for Eli Drinkwitz and his Mizzou Tigers.

Oklahoma 27 Tigers 21

Arkansas at Horns Down. Texas is fighting to keep her playoff hopes alive—barely. Arkansas is trying to get the season over with and get Bobby Petrino out of town without another “motorcycle accident.” Arch rebounds and gets his team ready to face the Aggies next week. I wonder if the winner still gets to go to the Chicken Ranch.

Longhorns 28 Razorbacks 24

Kentucky at Vandy. Little Game Mark Stoops has been as good as anybody at producing mediocre football teams over the past 13 years. If he had been at any other school in the SEC, he would have been shown the door long ago. But in Kentucky the fans just shrug and say, “It’s just football.” A win for the Commodores will help Georgia’s case for the SEC Championship. That’s just what we are going to get.

Dores 34 CATS 17

Tennessee at The Swamp. The Vowels have lost 10 straight games in Gainesville. Florida is in a state of flux as they wait to learn if they win the Lane Train Lottery—the only game in town where you get to SPEND over $130 million if you “win.” Florida has some really good ballplayers and could beat anybody on a given Saturday—but this isn’t going to be that Saturday. Straight up orange trumps orange and blue this week.

Volunteers 38 Gators 27

Charlotte Between the Hedges. The 49ers will get a much needed $1.9 million payday. The Dawgs will get their 10th win of the season and a chance to play a lot of people. Pray, pray, pray that none of those people get injured because we have, to quote the former enemy, Paul Johnson—“bigger fish to fry.” Dawgs on top.

Georgia 52 49ers Nothing

Look for me Saturday in Sanford Stadium. I’m gonna get to hear Brook Whitmire say, “It’s Saturday in Athens one more time!” Glory, glory!

Darrell Huckaby

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