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31 August 2010
The long national wait is over. College Football begins this weekend and will fill our weekends until January. Sometimes, I wonder how I spend my weekends when there's no football. Then, I remember Keeneland, UK Basketball and all my friends that have pools. Life without football isn't so bad, but life with it is pretty damn good. In honor of the return of football, I thought I'd put some predictions on the internet for the world (4 people) to see. Feel free to remind me of these at the end of the season.
The SEC will not be represented in the National Championship Game. Yes, I know the four people who read my last post already know I think this. But, I feel like the SEC is going to be a bit down this year. There are a couple teams (Florida & Alabama) that are going to be very good, but I don't see any SEC teams as elite. They will all have one or two losses during brutal SEC play, and won't play in the title game for the first time since the USC/Texas thriller in January of 2006.- Randall Cobb will be WAY overhyped by UK fans. It started last week, when Mel Kiper said that he thought Cobb was the best player in college football. I thought Twitter might break in the state of Kentucky afterwards. UK fans must have forgotten that Kiper had Jimmy Clausen going 4th overall in April's NFL Draft (He was only about 40 picks off). There's a small chance Kiper is losing his eye for talent. Also, for any of you mouthbreathers who think Cobb is going to win the Heisman... They don't give the Heisman to guys who play on teams that go 7-5. Seriously, find me the last guy to do that.
- Rich Rodriguez will finally be fired by Michigan. Somehow, it's only RichRod's third year at UM. It feels like decades since he started ruining one of the greatest football universities in America. I thought Lloyd Carr was a walking corpse in his last few years at Michigan, but I'd help pay Lloyd's salary to bring him back over Rodriguez. RichRod's biggest sin is that he's a loser. He's won 8 games in two seasons at Michigan. The Michigan fanbase expects at least 10 wins... a season. Not only is he a loser, but Rodriguez is also a cheater. I really don't care about cheating in college athletics, seeing as everybody does it. But, you need to do two things if you're going to cheat: 1) Don't get caught. 2) Win some games when you are cheating. RichRod was able to do neither, so he'll be canned at the end of the year, which can't come a moment too soon.
- Boise State will not go undefeated. In fact, they'll lose on Monday night against Virginia Tech. Thankfully, that will end all the talk of them playing in the title game. Seriously, do you know anyone that wants to watch Boise State play in the National Championship game? No one would be excited if Northern Iowa played Southern Illinois in the Final Four, so why would anyone want to see Boise State play TCU in the BCS Championship? Who are these people trying to force us to like this mediocre football team from Idaho? When they join a real conference and play legitimate football teams every week, let me know.
- Conference Winners: ACC: Miami, Big East: Pittsburgh, Big Ten: Ohio State, Big Twelve: Texas, Pac 10: Oregon, SEC: Florida.
Joe Paterno will not have any idea where he is, or what he is doing. Can't someone put him out of his damn misery? He has no idea what he's talking about at press conferences, is doing little-to-zero actual coaching and is stunting any chance Penn State has of getting better. Hell, Bobby Bowden still sounds coherent and was let go at Florida State. Look at that picture to the right. I think someone just asked him what year it is and he's completely perplexed. Seriously though, does that guy give you confidence if he's running your football team? I didn't think so. Someone needs to step up at Penn State and do the right thing, get that geriatric out of there.- Garrett Gilbert will win the Heisman. I've got Texas going undefeated and I've got Gilbert as the best player on that team. The Heisman is no longer given to the best player in college football, it's simply the best player on the best team. It seems as if my logic here is airtight.
- Texas will beat Ohio State in the National Championship. In a year where everyone wants to tell you that traditional powers are down, I'll give you two traditional powers in the title game. Mack Brown wins another title and paves the way for another half-decade of SEC dominance.
