College Football Top Ten

[DoyleRM]

What do you think the top ten College Football Teams will be by the end of the 2006 College Football season? My predicitons are listed below. I'm a Notre Dame fan, so keep that in mind while reading about my predicitons.

1) Notre Dame
2) USC
3) Ohio State
4) Alabama
5) Texas
6) Penn State
7) LSU
8) West Virginia
9) Georgia
10) Wisconsin

I realize that this topic is posted a little early, but I thought I'd see what people think. I realize that not everybody is a college football fan, but I figured I'd give this a try. I'm curious to read others' opinions on this matter.

 

[pjk]

I'd put UCLA, and take out USC

 

[mgwallisa]

1. The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame
2. West Virginia
3. tosu
4. Cal
5. LSU

6-10 FSU, Michigan, USC, Oklahoma, Texas in no order

Our Lady will win her 12th title and Brady Quinn will bring her an 8th Heisman Trophy. I can only imagine what sort of genius must be passing through Charlie's head at this moment. He now has a season of HC experience, I'm sure in this off-season he has re-invented the game like The Rock did with the forward pass. I know it will be exciting to watch, get ready for the 10 WR offense. I don't know, but expect AFL-like scores.

West Virginia will make it to the top of the polls the old fashioned way: cup cake scheduling. They can't help but go undefeated through the season. Today's Big East couldn't compete with the Mountain West. I'm serious, TCU would win this conference and we would no longer hear them crying how unfair it is for the Horned Frogs not to be in a BCS game. But I'll still be crying about the Big East having an automatic BCS bid.

I was tempted to put the Buckeyes at #2 to make the compelling BCS title game a rematch in Tempe, but the odds of Ohio State making it through the Big Ten undefeated and keeping enough players out of prison to field a team is just too unlikely. They open conference play with PSU and finish with scUM, I have to think they'll drop one of those two. But if they beat Texas, lose to PSU, then run the table the rest of the way, it will be a rematch in the title game against the Irish, even if WV is unbeaten.

Cal will be a top five team because they will win the Pac-10, and for some reason every writer and coach west of the Mississippi wants to convince me that the Pac-10 is a tough conference. It used to be, but other than USC the past four seasons, there hasn't been much else there. And by the way, USuCk is done for a while.

LSU will be strong if Russell comes back and stays healthy. I would love to see them playing in the National Championship game against Notre Dame. I would love even more seeing them cream the phony Urban Meyer's Gators for the SEC Championship.

The rest can fall anywhere to finish the ten. Florida State I'm iffy on. They were weak last season, but looked good against PSU in the Orange. But, I don't have PSU in here, instead I think Michigan will be a top ten team. I have the feeling PSU's success last season was as much a fluke as scUM's lack of success. Go figure, things will align correctly this year. USC will reload, but not enough to not notice two Heisman winnners missing. Texas as well. And Adrian Peterson will carry Oklahoma, and he'll be back in New York as the Heisman runner-up.

Pass Right,

Matt

 

[DoyleRM]

Greetings,

Wow! Thanks for the insight. I entirely agree that USC and Texas are going to be a lot weaker than they were the prior two seasons. I entirely agree on your Notre Dame theory of them going all the way, if not close to a BCS title.

As for the Heisman Trophy, I'd have to think Brady Quinn is the likely winner, unless injuries speak otherwise. Adrian Peterson is a likely candidate as are Chad Henne, Pat White, Jeff Samardzija, Ted Ginn Jr. and Troy Smith. All of these players are excellent in my mind, and could develop a special NFL team someday.

How do you feel about college football restructuring the BCS Bowl games? Obviously something needs to happen if FSU can sneak in with an 8-4 record. My guess on how to do it (that is...if we had a say) is as good as yours.

I guess we'll see how the season turns out. Are you going to participate in college football picks (picking the winner of each game each week) in the fall? I'm pretty sure Yahoo does something like this every year. I try to participate every year if I remember. I'm going to set up a league if that's at all possible. If you're interested in joining (Matt or anybody else), than I will come back on here and leave the league number and password so anyone can sign up in the same league as me. The more competition, the better.

Respectfully,
Ron