It’s hard to believe, but Signifying Nothing turned a year old yesterday. From its humble roots, before it even had a real name of its own, through the Lottroversy and Little Ricky Santorum’s problems, and beyond, we’ve been carving out our own little niche of inanity and commentary on the web since November 14, 2002.

As always, the old posts we’re particularly proud of—a small sample from our 874 posts over the past year—are linked in the left sidebar from the front page under the “Best of Signifying Nothing” label. But the most interesting posts, I think, are yet to come—or else Brock and I would have given up on this enterprise a long time ago.

Special thanks to my partner in crime, Brock Sides, for his added insight, and to our readers and fellow bloggers who keep us on our toes and—for some inexplicable reason—keep coming back for more. We can only hope that the next year will be even better than this one has been!

My first losing record—heck, my first loss—on these picks was last Saturday. But, instead of quitting while I’m ahead, here are some more picks:

• TENNESSEE over Mississippi State (JP split). “Duh” pick of the week.
• Florida over SOUTH CAROLINA (JP split). Florida just has too much talent for the Gamecocks to handle.
• ARKANSAS over New Mexico State. A bit late for an out-of-conference game, n‘est-ce que pas?
• VANDERBILT over Kentucky. Coin-flip.
• GEORGIA over Auburn. Yes, Auburn’s won five straight in Athens, but it won’t be six, even against a depleted Georgia team.
• Louisiana State over ALABAMA. Some peoples’ upset special; I do expect a fairly close game for a while, but ultimately LSU is a superior team to the Crimson Tide.

The Rebels have a week off to prepare for the biggest football game ever from Oxford, one week from today at 2:30 pm on CBS.