The Weekly Word is GoldandBlack.com's weekly, obviously, column covering Purdue football, basketball and recruiting, as well as college sports issues, the true meaning of life, or whatever other topics might come to mind in a given week.

A lot of web sites have fearless predictions.

Not us.

Ours scare the hell out of us.

With that said, here are this year's Fearful Predictions for Purdue's 2019-2020.

We'll start with Matt Haarms, the Boilermaker center who'll be named either first- or second-team Big Ten this season. Why frame it that way? Because the preseason All-Big Ten team is 10 players and so is this, so I wanted to draw an equivalence with the preseason honor he didn't get.