Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Survival of the Fittest

Who ever can last in college football will be in the national championship game. Let's look at the rankings of the teams who have lost in the last two weeks...

2 USC
3 Oklahoma
4 Florida
5 West Virginia
5 Wisconsin
7 Texas
8 Kentucky
9 Florida
10 Rutgers
11 Oregon
12 Georgia
13 Clemson
21 Rutgers
22 Clemson
22 Alabama
24 Kansas St.
25 Nebraska

College Football has been crazy this year. I haven't really been paying that much attention to pro football because you know, then Colts and the Patriots are going to win every week, and there is a 90% chance they will end up in the AFC Championship and the winner has a 90% chance of winning the Super Bowl. College football on the other hand is crazy. Unlike the NFL, if your cable were to go out over the weekend and you couldn't watch any games or highlights, you would have no idea who was now in the hunt for the National Championship. There is nothing more unpredictable than college football... that's why I'm asking you to predict it!

Who is going to lose to who? Who will keep winning? Will anyone end up undefeated? What big games (and outcomes) will change the college football landscape? Who will win their Heisman? Which one loss teams will be on the outside looking in?

Here is my GUESS...

LSU Wins Out... They are in the Ship.

Cal is not used to being mentioned in National Championship talks. Their players are loving life right now and going hella dumb riding the short yellow bus in the Bay. Translation: They are enjoying the increase in groupie love. Translation: Their #2 ranking will go to their head and they will party a little too hard a slip up against a southern California school. Even if they beat them, the Big Game doesn't look like a cakewalk anymore. Stanford love even more to ruin Cal's season. Don't think it's not possible either. USC was #2 last year before UCLA beat them, that's why Florida ended up in the Championship.

Ohio State will be 9-0 but playing Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan will be too much for them. Best case scenario is they lose one game, but it's late in the season so they aren't in the national championship.

BC has a touch last 5 games plus an ACC championship. If Matt Ryan can continue to play like he has though and have a great game on national television, he's your Heisman.

South Florida is a good team... but Cinderella's slipper will fall off soon. Just ask George Mason hoops.

If Oklahoma can get past Missouri (which I will predict won't happen just so I can say I called it), they won't play a top 15 team the rest of the year. In the BCS Championship game they will either play Missouri again, get redemption against Colorado, the Nebraska White Shirts, or Kansas (WOW, Big 12 is horrible). This is my pick to play LSU in the Championship.

Even if South Carolina wins the rest of their games, they won't beat LSU in the Championship game. They're out. But for the time being, why aren't they the highest ranked 1 loss team? They lost to LSU, they #1 ranked team. Can we move them ahead of Oklahoma please? Thank you.

West Virginia would need everyone to besides LSU to lose 2 games for them to go to the ship. I don't see them winning out anyways. Slaton hasn't shown up in a big game in a while. Plus Pat White hasn't been healthy.

Oregon... first of all, why aren't they the second highest ranked 1 loss team, they came 6 inches away from going to overtime vs. they current #2 team. Can we fix that? Thank you. Either way though, they are going to lose either a tough game vs. Jack Locker (Washington), or when they host USC or ASU.

USC hates Booty. I hate Booty. We all hate Booty. He can kiss that (above) goodbye. They have never been in this situation and they don't have a leader of the offense to get them back on track. Road games at Oregon, Cal and Arizona St. before the UCLA game won't help either. Les Miles' preseason comments about USC having an easier road are completely false (not saying Stanford is good). There are two 1 loss teams in the SEC and they are Kentucky and South Carolina. Come on Les.

Other than that... I see the other teams all losing again so they are even further out of contention then they already are.

So it looks like I have LSU vs. Oklahoma (have to beat Mizzou probably twice for this to happen) in the championship. This is hard for me to type right now. I hate Oklahoma. They have been the biggest choke artists this decade. So i hate writing this because of the probability that it is wrong but also because I'd hate watching that championship game.

GIVE ME YOUR FORECAST FOR THE REST OF THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY PREDICTIONS?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Say Oklahoma wins out.

Say USC beats Cal.

Say Ohio State or Wisconsin end the year with one loss.

That means OKLA, USC, CAL, OSU/WISC all have one loss. Who deserves to go? Why?

Anonymous said...

Heres a question... First, i'm an sec guy, and think it is leaps and bounds better than any conf in football, so you gotta forgive me, but florida might get another shot at lsu if they run the table and win the east. So i could see lsu finishin with one loss. Still the best team in the country though. OSU may take advantage of the babyweak big 10 and bc could run it in the acc. If lsu has a loss and two bcs conf schools are undefeated and both significantly worse teams than lsu (and cal also picks up a loss to usc), who should play for the championship and why?

Truth/aka Harvard Killer said...

OKLAHOMA NEVER CHOKED....THEY ARE JUST BAD

Brandon said...

Wow what if it's USF vs. Boston College?

I'll boycott the game.

Anonymous said...

If LSU is only undefeated team at the end of the year, then we SHOULD look at the one loss teams from the best conferences.

Will there be any one loss teams from the SEC? NO

Will there be any one loss teams from the Pac-10? Probably

That's clearly the number one, and number two conferences this year. So the one loss team from the Pac-10 has to go to the championship.

If there are no one loss teams in the Pac-10... Big Ten, Big 12 come next. I really don't see Cal losing twice though. Or if USC beats Cal, I don't see them losing again.