Juice752
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Re: Rankings
eldermars Wrote:SpartaRick Wrote:Poor Eldermars. He always slips in his agenda.
First, what is my agenda? Second, how did I show it?
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I kind of changed things around as I went. I originally had the Big Ten at #1 because Ohio State is the #1 National Championship contender, but there's a drop-off after them. Penn State lost a lot, and Michigan was badly overrated last year. Northwestern's coach died, and Wisconsin/Minnesota lost their amazing running backs.
The SEC will play in the National Championship his year (unless Notre Dame slips in it). They have 4 very strong schools with Florida (my bet, beat Florida State 35-7), LSU (beat Miami 40-3), Auburn (slightly over-rated), and Georgia (beat Boise State by 35 but lost their quarterback). South Carolina is also very good, and Alabama's defense brings it (like in their win over Texas Tech last year).
BE- I was planning on putting them 6th before I focused at the very top. The Big east is VERY weak at the bottom (Cincinatti and Syracuse, and even way over-hyped Pitt), but is actually under-rated in the middle (South Florida, Rutgers- who went toe-to-toe with Arizona State, and UConn). West Virginia and Louisville could have a combined 1-loss between them this year. Their SOS will be weak (minus a win over Miami), but either could slip into the NC game if they are undefeated and one or none of the PowerFive are.
Again, I originally had the Big XII just above the PAC-10 because Texas beat USC (both lost their starting QB since then), but then again I see Baylor, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and Iowa State all losing to different non-BCS opponents this year. OU was overrated last season due to Adrien Peterson (they started Top 5 and ended with 4 losses). They will be the same this season. Nebraska is improving, but they aren't NC material. I think that Texas Tech will win the conference, and they may not even be better than TCU. Still, the media wants to hype these guys.
In the PAC-10, USC will reload faster than Texas thanks to their system (not some freak athlete). Cal is a great team with Marshawn Lynch as a Heisman candidate, and is a NC darkhorse. Arizona State has the offense to beat anyone in the nation. Oregon is a good team, and UCLA will see some drop-off. Their bowl results from last season will really hurt them when it comes to the media last year (USC lost to Texas, Oregon lost to Oklahoma).
And again, I just see the ACC taking two steps back this year. Florida State won with 4 losses last season, and very little offense to speak of. Miami replaces almost every assistant coach, and has very little offense to speak of. Boston College lost Blackmon and Kiwanuka. Virginia Tech lost Vick (they will suffer Texas-syndrome, but worse). Georgia Tech and Clemson are extremely over-rated. No team in the entire conference can win a scoring battle, though all play tough defense and the conference is very solid through-out.
The MWC has TCU, Utah, and BYU (the Baylor, Texas Tech, UCLA, Boise State, Arizona, Tulsa, and Boston College games are going to be a big deal for how our conference winds up). Those are 3 legit Top 25 teams. The WAC has Boise State (will beat Oregon State and Wyoming, needs to beat Utah to bust the BCS... set-up for a great year), Nevada (who has to beat Northwestern and Colorado State and will get killed by Arizona State), Fresno State (who will lose to Oregon, beat Washington, kill CSU, and get killed by LSU), and Hawaii (needs to play Alabama close and beat Purdue and Pitt). C-USA has Central Florida set to have a great year picking off bottom-rung Big east teams. Tulsa will be good again, and UTEP will be good again (big games for them against SDSU and New Mexico). Memphis could make some noise OOC. In the MAC, Miami(Ohio) plays 4 winnable games against the BCS, Toledo plays 3, and Akron could go 2-1 against the Big Boys. Miami(OH) and Toledo have a shot to bust the BCS if TCU, Boise State, Utah, BYU, and Central Florida don't make it.
The Sunbelt sucks.
You are out of your mind.
First Big Ten will be better than ever this year. Ohio State is the best team in the country (and that is hard for me to admit because outside of Tech, Michigan is my favorite school). With that said Penn State and Michigan are both also top 10 teams.
SEC will not be in the national championship game this year. How do I know? No team stands out as great. LSU is greatly overrated and they have the meltdown known as Les Miles as their coach. Florida would be the best bet because they actually have some hype for this year but that end of the season loss to Florida State is going to kill them. Still the top half as a whole is beter than B12 and ACC (whose top teams are better).
Big XII is still down. OU will be slightly better and Texas will be slightly worse but B12N still will hurt their conference rankings. However with all of that Big XII is still better than Big East.
ACC. Florida State. Miami. Need I say more? Florida State is my sleeper pick to appear in the national title game. If they get by Miami the first week then it should be easy pickings until Florida.
Pac 10 is still the USC show. Leinart, Bush, and White are gone but I hear they still have some pretty good recievers and will always have great recruiting classes. UCLA should play closer this year and might even beat them.
Big East. Really all they got is West Virginia and that is a very good team. But don't give into the hype of last year's Sugar Bowl. The Big East is still the worst BCS conference.
WAC. Boise State should finish the season ranked but they will still miss the BCS due to an early home loss to Tech (I might be calling this upset a year too early). The WAC will also pickup some great OOC wins against the BCS. Fresno beating LSU should be the most publicized victory.
MWC...please. TCU is the only school that has a chance to be ranked at the end of the season. BYU, Utah, whoever still are not good enough. The top half of the WAC is a lot better than the top half of MWC. Sooner or later you may get that.
Now I am about to take this a step further. Time to pick a national champ. We shall see how this works out. I called the national title game last year (even picking Texas to win it all). So for now I say it will be a rematch of last year's Fiesta Bowl. Ohio State over Notre Dame.
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