Before my game predictions, I’m going to make a Tennessee coaching prediction: Cincinnati’s Brian Kelly will be the man. I’m basing this purely on the notion Hamilton has a “type.” Like, when Hamilton was on the dating scene at Clemson, may be he went after girls who all kind of looked the same. (A friend of mine, and we’ll call him “Drew” because that’s his name, goes after nothing but thin blondes. He is an extremely poor man’s Hugh Hefner.) But maybe Hamilton was all over the place with his women. I don’t know. This kind of stuff just isn’t in the media guide.

Let’s take a look at the similarities between Kelly and Hamilton’s other major hire, Bruce Pearl.

— They are both from the Boston area.

— They both worked their way up from a smaller division instead of latching on as an assistant. Kelly won two Division II national championships at Grand Valley State before taking the Central Michigan job. Pearl won a Division II national championship at Southern Indiana before taking the Wisconsin-Milwaukee job.

— They are both renowned for their ability to work with the media and people in general (notice I didn’t count the media as people — thought you might appreciate that). I know a guy who used to help cover Cincinnati football, and he said Kelly is incredible with the media and is basically a football version of Pearl. Think that will excite Hamilton?

— They both appear OK with being disliked. Pearl has said he isn’t out to make friends among the SEC coaches. Kelly exchanged words with Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe before they played last week after Cincinnati, in Kragthorpe’s words, “Called their team up on the (Louisville) logo” during the Thursday walk-through. Kragthorpe continued: “It’s just not something I would do. I don’t know if it was malicious. I don’t know what the thought process was, I didn’t ask him.”

If Hamilton has a type (remember, he hired a baseball coach from a smaller school), then Kelly definitely fits it.

Anyway, like a lot of people, I was consistently sad to read that my very favorite website, firejoemorgan.com, was signing off. I will say, and you may counter they didn’t do a very good job, that FJM made me think much more about what I was writing. I never feared getting the FJM treatment, but I often thought, “Is this lazy writing?” “Does this make sense?” “Do numbers support this claim?” Oh, and the guys at FJM were really, really funny in their skewerings (not a word, just move on) of sports media.

In honor of the FJM crew, I’m going to predict each game as if it were a JoeChat. To the picks:

Tennessee (+3) at Vanderbilt: Tennessee’s doesn’t have consistency on their team outside of Eric Berry. If they had a talented quarterback and receivers, they would be higher in the standings right now. Vanderbilt doesn’t have a home run threat on offense, like a football version of Gary Sheffield, but they are more consistent than Tennessee. But who knows? That’s why they play the game. The game still has to be played.

Pick: You never know

Arkansas (-1.5) at Mississippi State: I really haven’t seen enough of either team to really say. When you have good players on offense, you always have a chance. It’s hard to say if Arkansas or Mississippi State can play consistently on offense. That said, I don’t know who will score more points.

Pick: Can’t predict the future

Ole Miss (+3.5) at LSU: I hear that LSU is one of the great teams because they’ve won two national titles. But to even be considered the best, they have to dominate a season from start to finish like the 1975 Reds. I have not seen a team dominate like the 1975 Reds. Dave Concepcion was a major part of that team and should be in the Hall of Fame.

Pick: Hard to say

Last week: 2-4 (Look, I knew after last year’s 55-29-1 record I was asking for a major correction this year, but I am basically the gambling equivalent of Tennessee’s offense right now.)

Season: 37-36-2

(Also, the real picks are: Vanderbilt, Arkansas and LSU)