All Conference Champs and National Champ predictions

Now that's being original.

 

Big 12 - Texas A&M. I really think this is up for grabs next year and although Texas will probably be the best team- I see A&M winning the south with great games against UT & OU.

PAC 10 - Arizona St. I know USC is the easy choice and it cost me lots of money to bet against them last year, but I really, really don't want to see them win the joke of conference.

Big 10 - Iowa. Ohio St could grab this one though - might be another split. Michigan won't win it.

ACC - Miami, not because they have a great year but because the conference just doesn't have a particularly good year. Too many expectations are being put on little Vick for VTech.

SEC - LSU over Georgia in the SECCG. Tennessee ends up with 3 losses and Florida with 2 (including OOC). Georgia wins the East due to higher BCS ranking.

National Championship - IOWA vs LSU rematch. This time the wind won't blow quite so favorably. LSU wins by 12.

if LSU doesn't get it I think it will be IOWA vs MIAMI, with IOWA wiping the field with those thug U players.

 

Time to make my quarterly visit to TF.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not picking Texas to win the Big 12. I will predict OU to beat us until we can actually beat them, just like I was with Arkansas last year.

BUT...

Young's deep game is much, much better than his short game. I don't know where you came up with that statement. Whatever trouble you saw with Young from 10-15+ last year was most likely because of the receivers. Young's problem is throwing the short passes consistently.

Tejas...your post is like one of my dreams. I just don't see it happening, but damn, what a season that could be.

The Texas defense was a big improvement over what it has been in the past. Aaron Harris was underrated last year because of having Derrick Johnson on the field. Harris won't be able to fill DJ's shoes completely (nobody could), but he will do a good enough job. Not to mention the fact that almost all of the secondary comes back. The whole d-line also comes back with Crowder, Okam, Wright, Dibbles, and they add on Mike Williams, who was a force at DE back in 2003.

Plus, we got a new defensive coordinator. Chizik did win the Broyles Award last year.

I just don't see A&M going on the road and winning in Norman. For A&M to build on last year, they will need a consistent running attack. Courtney Lewis fell flat on his face last year. Their only running threat was from McNeal, and he was ineffective on the ground against good teams.


Oh yeah...a Texas/LSU matchup in Pasadena would kick ass.

 

you really think the BCS could be worse? Last season there were 4 undefeated teams going into bowl season. I don't think it could get any worse than that. Three of those teams were in major, powerhouse conferences(i know, the pac-10, but the media would have you think that way). I don't see that many teams going undefeated. But if there is a mess, and Oklahoma is considered to be a team that could go to the Rose Bowl, they won't! Being dominated two years in a row when another team could have played, and done better, in a NC game should not sit kindly with the voters.

 

Even so, I doubt you'll find a coach in the nation that will discount the talent that is still in Norman. I wouldn't doubt that at all if the AP still had the TV pundits and newspaper writers involved in the voting process.

 

This would be a wonderful thing...REDEMPTION!!! No last minute herroics except maybe this time...on the last play...Kuale forces Tater Tot to fumble (being behind by 25) and eat his own foot off at the ankle.:hihi:

 

ACC-- Miami Like someone said earlier, it's just too hard to imagine the Canes being "down" 3-years in-a-row.

Big LEast -- Louisville Can't see WVU having the season they had last year. Syracuse is still retooling. The darkhorse to contend with Louisville will be UConn.

Big Ten -- Ohio State Favorable schedule and as much as I'd like to say that their scandal(s) will hurt them on the field, the fact remains that it just hasn't happened yet. They also get the Hawkeyes in the Horseshoe, and that will decided the conference champ. I believe Iowa will finish 2nd in '05. The Hawkeyes are good--but until they find a more stable running game, it'll be hard to duplicate last season's success now that opponents have had a full year to see them, and will start concentrating on shutting down their passing game. (the Hawkeyes will be my VERY early favorite to win the Big Ten in '06--especially with their recent signing class).

Big XII -- Oklahoma Texas has Vince Young--but no Benson and no DJ Johnson. Those two loses will hurt the most. OU needs but find a servicable QB to just keep the defense honest, and shed some of the concentration on stopping Peterson.

PAC-10 -- USC No one is ready to challenge them yet. The Trojans don't go undefeated this year though-- Either ASU, UCLA or Cal will beat them.

SEC -- :lsup: / Florida -- LSU! :champs:

 

Big East - Louisville.. is anyone else worth a sh*t?
Big 10 - Ohio St... Iowa never impressed me. They beat and LSU team that was having a bad day and only beat them because of a freak play.
SEC - LSU.. can anyone say any different?
Pac 10 - USC... they lose to ASU in Tempe, but still win out.
ACC - Miami... but no one goes unscathed.. very SEC like of them, Miami wins with 2 ACC loses, tie-breaker with FSU
Big 12 - Nebraska.. my upset special. They steal roll the weak Big 12 Norris, then upset Texas A&M in the championship game.

 

It was tongue-in-cheek humor. Everytime some entity forms to try and settle the National Champion in football it gets mucked up and it doubt we'll ever get a playoff system in college football.

 

I am not sold on A&M because they looked so under-manned against OU and Texas it seemed.

Against OU, they need several trick plays just to stay in the game and eventually had to mount a big comeback to stay within a TD. That was at home as well.

Same goes for their game against Texas where they looked just so tired as the game went on.

Against UT, they got spanked.

I am not sold on their D and team as a whole being up to a whole BigXII season yet