Homecoming is this weekend in in my small town.  It's a time for all of the mums and celebrations to begin.  Friday night will be the big game.  Nothing says fall or homecoming like a high school football game.  Some former students will show up more to see one another than to watch the contest.  That is how it goes after graduation.  Our team is younger than usual.  We are still learning how to play at the varsity level.  Just because we are undefeated does not mean we have it all together yet.  I could not begin to predict how we will wind up when the season ends. 

We missed my usual attempt at predicting various outcomes in college or professional football.  Now the year is underway but we can make a late effort at suggesting who will prevail at the end.  College football looks awful like a repeat of last year.  Alabama is just that much better than most other teams currently.  Something could always happen to change that but it will be a serious upset should they lose a game.  Some experts say that LSU or Oregon will wind up in the final game with Alabama.  It is just going to be tough to knock off the defending champs.

No one may be able to predict the NFL this year with the replacement referees.  Their presence may lead to some unusual outcomes by the end of the season.  You cannot go back and undo any damage they caused so far.  Do not expect me to pick the Cowboys this year.  That just won't be happening.  Some teams like the Packers and Patriots already have marks against them due to the replacements.  Experience says there will probably be some unexpected team to rise up this year.  But let's stay close to last years choices of San Francisco and Baltimore playing in the Super Bowl.  One year you may discover I actually get my prediction right.

Just recall the point of all this foolishness is to remind us the predictions are only worth the effort to put them in print.  People in all areas of life make predictions.  Economists try to tell us the financial future.  Sports journalists use all of their tools to make predictions in sports. Even religious people keep trying to project the end events of time.  Some will write a book every few years to correct what they got wrong in the last one.   My best advice is to anchor your world to what is true without adding the stress of guessing what comes next.  We don't have to live knowing every single detail of the future.  God keeps trying to remind us all is under control.  That is the one truth we cannot afford to live without.

Bro. Trey