Is something traditional if you've only done it for the last two years? If it isn't already, rest assured that predicting every game of the Champions League league phase and then re-predicting it at the halfway mark is about to become as much a staple of the CBS Sports content game as turkey is on your Thanksgiving table. I'm all in on this. There are simply too many opportunities to make myself look a fool.

For instance, you may recall this column's belief that the league phase was going to begin in quite disastrous fashion for Atletico Madrid, who had the look of yesterday's team going into this competition. Instead they're pottering in perfectly adequate fashion, six points from a tricky start to the competition. And what of the ignominious take that actually Pafos were going to do

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