FWP (Fearless Weekend Predictions) is a (hopefully) weekly post that we used to run at our old site every Friday after college football season. It gives one of your favorite StadiumDrives writers a chance to look into the crystal ball, or the bottom of a beer bottle, to see what the forthcoming weekend holds. It's also another post that will utilize the efficiency of bullet points. As always, please take all picks as novelty and do not gamble your rent check on them, unless you feel really strongly about a certain one.

Remember FWP? Yeah, I hardly did either. I'm back in the FWP Captain's chair and it feels so good. I felt this weekend was as good as any to get this back up and going again, with it being one of the biggest weekends of the sports calendar and all. Yes, it is the weekend that the Florida Panthers head north (but not too north) to battle it out against the Atlanta Thrashers (I'm almost 50% positive they're the Thrashers) in wild NHL regular season action!!! If you can't get excited about hockey being played in the Southeast, you just don't like sports. Obviously, I'm joking. It's Super Bowl weekend. Thankfully, fourteen days of over-hyping will end Sunday night when the Colts and Saints actually play. Did you hear that Peyton Manning is from New Orleans and his dad played for the Saints for a long time? Is something wrong with Dwight Freeney's ankle? Does anyone know where Jerome Bettis is from??? Hopefully, we can get some answers to these questions before the game, but for now, let's do this.

• The Saints will win the Super Bowl. There, I went ahead and said it. The Sunday night of the Conference Championship games (about three months ago), I thought the Colts would win by double-digits. But, it just seems like God/Mitch/Buddha/fate/destiny (not the stripper)/whatever you believe in has the Saints winning this game. New Orleans needs this, or so I'm told. I'm too scared to ever go to Louisiana. If the Colts win, it's because the Saints have a parade already planned, no matter the result of Sunday's game. Um...why?
• Tennessee will lose to South Carolina and North Carolina will lose to Maryland. Yes, I'm pissing off some of my comrades here, but I call them like I see them. The Vols are playing less than 48 hours after knocking off LSU in what ended up being a closer-than-expected game. The Gamecocks will put the best guard on the floor and their big men, shockingly, actually play by the basket (I'm looking at you, Wayne Chism). North Carolina's struggles, and attempts to kill Kentucky's RPI, will continue against the Terps. Maryland is a tough place to play and no matter how bad this UNC team is, Terrapin fans will be as raucous as ever.
• Watching dogs run around will have Americans tuned in. Yes, there is apparently something called The Puppy Bowl as a precursor to the actual game. I don't know anything about this, but Grubby is a HUGE fan. Shoot him an email if you want to talk Puppy Bowl.
• Winter Olympic Fever will sweep the nation! Or not. I'd rather watch Todd McShay talk about Tim Tebow's throwing mechanics again than watch skiing/snowboarding/hockey/figure skating.
• The media will keeping making Lane Kiffin more famous. I can't quite figure out the media's obsession with Kiffin. They seem to have a disdain for everything he does, but they continue to keep his name in the news. While older people may not think he's the bees' knees, high school seniors seem to have an affinity for him. All the guy did was bring in two top-ten recruiting classes on Wednesday. The big news now is that he took a verbal commitment from a 7th grader. Um, he did the same thing last year at Tennessee. No one made such a big deal about it then. That right there should tell everyone that USC is a better job than UT.
• Amanda Seyfried will look sexy in Dear John. Hopefully, no one reading this will have to see it. Seyfried is super hot in Big Love, and I'm sure she'll be hot in this crappy movie, too. But, I won't be going to see it...(checking to see if there's a topless scene)...Nope, I won't be going to see it.
• White people will get in the game for UK against LSU. You know what that means, Kentucky will have to be up big. LSU is absolutely awful and can't win a game in a very mediocre SEC West. There were about 47 people in attendance last night to watch them get beat by UT. That can only mean there will be thousands of people decked out in blue and doing the John Wall Dance in Baton Rouge tomorrow. The Cats will get up big early and the Tigers will give up. The Cats will win big and you can expect a lot of Harrellson, Hood and maybe even a Krebs sighting.

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