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Article: Sorry, Cougars, you're doomed

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September 11, 2009
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Brace yourself, BYU fans. The Cougars are doomed.

Kirk Herbstreit has given them the kiss of death. The ESPN football "expert" (and I use that term loosely) not only voted BYU No. 5 in this week's AP poll, but he talked about the possibility they could end up playing in the national championship game.

Doomed, I tell you.

Herbstreit, of course, picked Oklahoma to beat BYU "big" on "College GameDay."

Not that I blame him. I thought the same thing.

But of the eight games Herbstreit picked on "GameDay," he got two right. Two. You'd do better flipping a coin.

Fellow ESPN "expert" Lee Corso went 3-6. (Herbstreit didn't make a pick on the Alabama-Virginia Tech because he worked that game later on ...

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